My Top 5 Songs

Adele is so cool. I am swept away with the two songs I know from her. One of those songs - well, see below! The other I only heard recently, and was so moved by it. I guess that I like her modesty. She's not arrogant, maybe a tad shy. I tend to not like vocalist performers, but Adele - wow, I never would have guessed how much I'm inter her right now. How y'all doing? I'm OK, I guess. Still chronically underemployed, and no closer to choosing a long term life path. There are things I'm getting into, like music and acting, but those things aren't worth mentioning until/unless they become viable, real things, and not just hobbies. Enough said about that...As always, it's fun to look at the charts from a decade ago. I actually wrote to Michele Crispin, telling her how interesting and cool her cover of "Rapture". She actually wrote back! That song by Linkin Park is the only one of theirs that has charted on my Top 5. I just don't like them that ...

Ahhhh, September. Chilly nights, tolerable day time temperatures. And...not a lot of time devoted to listening to music, or discovering new stuff. The chart had so little activity at all, like Congress trying to deal with the deficit and the debt. Remember "Every Time I Look Around"? What a great little song! I never knew anything about Jawbox, but remember well "Spoiler", a very raw, rocking song that sounds like it was LA punk-influenced (in my estimation). Some months I more enjoy reminiscing the old charts rather than the current stuff. SEPTEMBER 2010 1. "Good Day to Die", by Godsmack 1, 1, 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqcNgHbPRSg 2. "Crying Like a Bitch", by Godsmack 2, 1, 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb3_RR_N5Uo 3. "Letter from a Thief", by Chevelle 4, 3, 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YMc6P6UDMk 4. "1901", by Phoenix 3, 2, 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RulP4OXxFbM 5. "It's Your Decision", b...

It's so weird - you could never possibly know when someone or something new and exciting will walk into your life. When that happens, things change instantaneously - your mood, your taste in music, the way you take on the day. I'm happy, strangely enough. ha. Well, Godsmack hits #1! Alice in Chains took a beating, with one song dropping out, and the other being knocked from #1 after only a week there. "Crying Like a Bitch" was just too strong this past month. And in August, Godsmack's latest album (which is very, very good, I might add), may have one or two other songs making the almightly Top 5. Chevelle, again, gives a great song. It took a while to break in, since I was so consumed with AIC the last few months. And "Odd One" is a great song I hum to myself at work when I'm ready to kill a particular individual there who is a pain in the butt: "....it's gonna be OK...!" Has it been a YEAR since that great Silversun Pickups CD rocked...

Well, April is here. I can see the overcast on my spirits recede. Maybe actually seeing the sun has something to do with it. Warmer weather, all of that. Keeping busy helps. I have been incredibly busy with 3 jobs and doing some acting on the side as well. Now for my picky comments...! I had to look up the Metallica song. I honestly didn't remember it, and now I know why. Metallica is great, but that particular song wasn't that memorable - not bad, but not a killer song. It didn't last long, as I peeked ahead on what I recorded a decade ago! Alice in Chains hits #1! It has some strong competition, though, from Alberta Cross' song, and Chevelle's new single, which probably will storm my top 5 next month! But the very nice and almost mellow "It's Your Decision" breaks in. It's a thought-provoking song. Ah, nice to have AIC back. I raved about the Silversun Pickups last June or July - there are even a few more songs from their most recent album that a...