My Top 5 Songs

We are chugging along, aren't we.  Autumn is not far away (YAY!). School has started - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am confused about a lot of things.  I have a good life, all things considered.  Why do I always feel as if I'm shortchanged?  Will this ever change. I don't want to dwell on that now. Mastodon missed going 3 for 5 because they had a song drop out, but it was replaced by the new entry "Halloween".  It is the chorus on that song that just grew on me - I don't like the intro much, and the guitars are OK, but not great.  That chorus is just beautiful, though. I don't think they are done yet with charting songs from "Once More 'Round the Sun", though! That weird little song which I THINK (but not sure) is about a split personality is at #1.  It's just infectious, and catchy.  The soulful background vocals are nice. So that's it - the top two spots are female-led songs, one being a club EDM typ...

There is a disconnect in my chart keeping - I stopped, for some reason, in March of 1998, then continued my charts in April 1999. This will drive me crazy in the future if I want to look up a song. OK, this is weird - Adele DEBUTS at #1, and knocks GODSMACk down a notch. I never expected this to happen. I NEVER like vocal performers. But hell, she has good songs; I usually don't enjoy a lot of vocalist performers, but she's definitely an exception. The "Someone Like You" performace at the Brit Awards (see video below) is phenomenal. It is so rich, so perfect, so deep. She was so beautiful and voluptuous. Her face was like a modern Mono Lisa, but twice as beautiful. What a great, but sad song. Why did it debut at $1? Well, I ended a relationship in early March. This will undoubtedly be the last one I ever have. I just can't imagine doing it again. It was a complicated thing - she lived over an hour away for starters. So I happened to come across Adele...