My Top 5 Songs

February already! The Super Bowl is in 2 days (this blog is about a week late), and let's hope the Steelers trounce Green Bay. I've been feeling better lately because of music. Music just affects my soul like nothing else. I like to saturate my head with just a single song, 'hearing' it in my memory all day long - that alone is better than having no music at all, from a radio, from streaming, or wherever else. OK, let's talk about the charts! Chevelle is #1 again, for only the second week, but has been in the Top 5 for EIGHT weeks. It's a catchy song, no doubt. "I Was a Teenage Anarchist" reminds me of "Freak of the Week", by Marvelous 3 for some reason. This song is fun indulgence. Its saving grace is the refrain. Here comes Godsmack again! This is the third song from the most recent album - sort of. "I Blame You" is not on the actual CD I bought, but its on the accompanying DVD, as is "Whiskey Hangover", a song that ...

A new year, a new decade. Can I be any less enthused? I simply hate my life right now. I am unemployed, bored, without any real friends, confused, aimless, oppressed, ugly, uninspired, unmotivated, and without lack of adjectives! Well, Alice got another top five song. I think from the new album, a third might show itself. Three top five songs from one CD is pretty good (as if this were all real - haha!). Anyway, thank you Jerry Cantrell for "Private Hell" - it is sweetly opiatic, soothing, and yet in that way some bands like AIC does, strokes the anxiety and inner torment that boils inside me like a fairy tale witch's cauldron. "life is short"....mine seems to drag on endlessly, mercilessly. Here are my top five songs for this month.... JANUARY 2010 1. "Jars", by Chevelle 4, 1, 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-L24ZaPrY 2. "Check My Brain", by Alice in Chains 3, 2, 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTQ7xlFFA8 3. "Never Gonna Give Your...

This month's list is almost three weeks late. I have been very preoccupied and kept putting this off. I am trying very hard to find some christmas spirit deep in the recesses of my dark, black soul... But anyway, looky here who is at #2!!! ***ALICE IN CHAINS*** The new CD is pretty good - not their best, but hardly a disappointment! By next month, another song from the new CD might enter the almighty Top 5! Also, "Jars" debuts, and its in very strong standing. It may catapult to #1 next month. I love the song - at this time, its my favorite current song. Here are my top five songs for December 2009, and the other lists from the past: DECEMBER 2009 1. "Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up", by Nirvana vs. Rick Astley, thriftshopxl 1, 1, 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k 2. "Check My Brain", by Alice in Chains -, 2, 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTQ7xlFFA8 3. "It's Nice to Know You Work Alone" by Silversun Pickups 2, 1, 5 ...

Lovin' the autumn! I don't have much to say this month. Yes, a VIDEO, and not a 'real' song, debuts at #1. Credit is given to the youtube user who, i presume, produced this mashup of the 1980s Rick Astley hit and the immortal "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I think that amazingly, it works well together. I actually prefer THIS version to the original "Smells".... "Use Somebody" is a nice song. I will probably tire of it, and it might be gone by the end of October, but for now it satisfies the glum and somber sense I've been carrying around for weeks. Anyway, numerous fans, here you go, my top 5 songs for October... OCTOBER 2009 1. "Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up", by Nirvana vs. Rick Astley, thriftshopxl -, 1, 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k 2. "It's Nice to Know You Work Alone" by Silversun Pickups 1, 1, 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bitgQxheo8 3. "The Royal We" by Silversun Pickups ...

Autumn! Cooler weather...ahhhh. It's nice to leave the house in the early morning and be tickled by the cool air, instead of being mugged by the wet, tropical humidity of August. Another song by the Silversun Pickups. They own the Top 5! "Panic Switch" was the early single from the album. It only grew on me after I got the CD, though. At first I didnt even like it that much. Or, it didn't grab me for some reason. Check out September 1999! GODSMACK. They pretty much dominated my charts for a few years. That is simply because they had great songs, one after another, on three successive releases. I saw them live a couple of years ago and I'm glad I paid all that cash for the ticket. It was wonderful. Sully Erna strives to entertain, that's for sure. Hope you all had a good summer. Historically, I usually travel after Labor Day. So this month, I will probably take a vacation. Nothing elaborate, of course, since I'm going on four months of unemployment at this...

It's been a rough summer on a number of levels. I've been unemployed for several months now. I'm working a pretty crappy temp job. My personal relationships are suffering because they just arent working out for me. I feel I'm taken advantage of, or in the least, not really valued by certain people. But alas, the world of music! It's my savior. Here it is, for August, 2009...also with the chart from a year ago, from a decade ago, and from 1996. I include 1996 because that is when I started doing this and I want to document it in a blog so I can trash the note cards I've kept for 13+ years! It's fascinating to me to see what I was really into so long ago! I mean - "psychic hearts" in 1996 - that brings back some memories of a girl I really liked. My life could be worse- I could have married that annoying wench! Last year I really enjoyed the legendary Bauhaus' last album. They are the grandfathers of goth, and one of my favorite bands. Som...

Been listening and enjoying almost every track from "Swoon", by the Silversun Pickups. It's wonderful. I imagine I may get sick of it. Nobody that I know that is my age can name one song from this amazing band. Next month just might see all five positions held by the Silversun Pickups and In Flames. If I actually buy a cd, chances are that band will get more opportunities to chart more songs in my coveted, world famous, trend-setting Top 5. The song title is followed by group name. The first digit is the previous ranking. The second one is the highest rank attained, and the third digit is the total number of weeks in the top 5. JULY 2009 1. "The Royal We", by Silversun Pickups 5, 1, 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wZhURS7X8 2. "Disconected" by In Flames 1, 1, 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWTRKlTG8KY 3. "The Hungry Ghost", by The Cure 2, 1, 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2_ohAWk6g 4. "Break Me Down", by Seether 3, 3, 3 htt...

This month's is late, sorry, all none of you! Not a lot happened, except for a new entry by the Silversun Pickups. I expect they will dominate my top 5 for the remainder of the year, because the new CD is full of good songs. I love the new CD. There is something about "Disconnected" that really grabbed me. I do enjoy some metal, particularly Killswitch Engage, and a host of old skool stuff (Dio, Sabbath, Priest), but the modern bands, not so much. This song by In Flames really speaks to me, though...Ahem, and I quote (and apologies for anyone who is offended by some language): "I feel like shit/but at least I feel something". OK, not exactly shakespeare, but its a clever quip nonetheless. A year ago I was heavy into "I Get It", by Chevelle. I love that song. The song title is followed by group name. The first digit is the previous ranking. The second one is the highest rank attained, and the third digit is the total number of weeks in the top 5. JU...