Drift Off To Dream...

Don't get me wrong, I love Tool.  They can be very meditative and deep, when they aren't singing songs about STDs.  They are an amazing band and some of their songs are perfect to fall asleep to.  Last year, when I was on a lot of opiate pain killers, Parabola rocked my world.  Now I settle for a little aromatherapy mix of Lavender, Clary Sage, and Frankincense to go with my Tool fix.  The dreams are still incredible, but you don't feel like you are going to be eaten by your own eyeballs and you don't wake up in a hot sweat with cottonmouth. 

Watch Yourself

The thought of me dancing is, well, not pleasant and I'm sorry that you are now thinking about it.  I do have some go to  dance music though, which would be anything by Sam Sparro or Lady Gaga.  I appreciate both for not trying to be deep, and for not trying to hide their crazy.  That's all I expect from dance music.

Gotta love this video too.  Reminds me of my babysitter from Las Vegas.

All The Words By Heart

This is one of the few (very few) songs I can sing and play at the same time.  Hence, I know all the words.  It reminds me of my brother too.  True To Life Fun Fact:  Mike Durnt, aka, Mike Pritchard, the base player is distantly related to me.  Not really anything to write home about.  Meeting Chris LeDoux at the Denny's in Cheyenne was as close to fame as I've ever gotten.

A Threefur

I've got a little catching up to do on my song list, I went to visit my in-laws in The Basin, and I haven't been around for a few days.

A song that reminds me of someone:  This song always reminds me of my dad.  I remember the first time I really heard it, I was very little, and he was singing along with it in his Semi and we were headed down the freeway in LA.  It's still awesome, and it still makes me smile.

A song that reminds me of someplace:  I have plenty of songs that remind me of someplace.  My life is like a never ending road trip.  I have one song that is like a time machine though, and it's this one.  It's a stupid song, but it takes me back to 1995 in Ephraim, UT just like it was yesterday.

A song that reminds me of an event:  This song will forever remind me of my high school graduation.  11 Years later, it rings true.

Sad Songs & Waltzes

I don't really have one go to song for sadness.  These three are melancholic in the most perfect ways though.

Je Regret...

This Blink video has to be in my top three videos of all time, and I'm not a huge Blink fan.  It's so beautifully shot, even Travis Barker looks hot.

If your album name is Sing the Sorrow, then you better bring the sorrow.  Love me some AFI.

The Hap-Happiest Song of All

There are some songs that make little or no sense, but when you hear them you can't help but be lifted from whatever minor funk you were in.  Most of Beck's songs are like that.  A close second would be this one:

I am no fan of New Country, but Dwight Yoakam is kind of like Alternative/Country.  Buck Owens was ahead of his time.  This song can improve my mood too.

However, the Hap-Happiest Song of all is this one:

Is it a good song.  NO.  Is it well written?  Absolutely not.  Do I break out in a fit of laughter every time it comes on?  YES!  It's terrifically bad, so bad, it has gone all the way around the circle back to good.  Kind of like Pulp Fiction.  So, no matter how crappy my day is, if this song comes on it can lift me from the deepest depression.

Songs Gone Horribly Wrong

Today, I'm supposed to post my least favorite song.  I can actually point you to my least favorite genre, and that would be New Country.  Let me make my case:

5.  Lady Antebellum, Need You Now.  Yes ladies and gents, this is a song about booty calling your ex.  Don't glorify it.  It's drunk dialing at it's finest.  You can lay it down as a haunting ballad, but it's still trashy and a little sad.

4.  Brad Paisley, Ticks.  I think that a song about checking people for parasites is a little yuck.  Not clever, just yuck.  This is from the mind that brought you "Get A Little Mud on The Tires," I'm hoping this is an homage to four wheeling and not what it sounds like.  Parasites and Mud references--eeeeewwww.

3.  Anything by Taylor Swift.  Not because Taylor Swift is a bad singer or song writer.  She's quite good.  It's her fans.  They make me want to scream and throw things.  A good song played every fifteen minutes, everyday, becomes a monster and must be staked through the heart.

2.  Kenny Chesney, remake Fishin In The Dark.  This one chapped my ass pretty hard.  In fact I had to leave the store I was shopping in before I had a come apart the first time I heard it.  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band did this right.  They made it fun, it's one of my favorites.  Kenny Chesney slutted it up and dumbed it down and made it awful.  He should be shot repeatedly in the crotch with a paintball gun at close range for what he did to this song.

1.  The song you've all been waiting for and quite possibly the most insipid thing on the radio today:

Sugarland, Stuck Like Glue:

When you become a successful country singer, and someone says to you "Hey, I think we need to do a Jamaican Style Rap in the middle of this song!"   Just say no.  It's wrong.  Stop doing it.  Fire your manager, change your label, whatever you have to do to get away from it.

There is something worse than Pop Music, and it's Country Pop Music.  Sure it's mostly inoffensive and catchy.  That's what makes it so awful.  When they play their top 40 you can actually feel yourself getting dumber.  There is good country out there, it just doesn't get played on the radio.  I'm sure it's all part of a conspiracy, because even King George has gotten crappy the last 10 years or so.  Don't even get me started on Reba MacEntire, she's never been great, but she's gotten really awful...

Anyway it's just my opinion.