(Now let me take a second to make note that the reason this is 2 days late is because life likes to force me to miss these things but that's besides the point)
Holy damn people I just made a realization that today after a little over 9 months of doing these damn things is my 200th post!! Now of course I’m aware that 200 isn’t really anything when you think about it but it seems special enough for me to actually make an attempt at having some fun here. So for today as late as it is I’m going to rather than posting a song of the day I’ve decided to instead to a post the kind of bands or songs that bring that special feeling to us all.
Now 200 post not being so special I decided to enlist my old buddy in crime and past contributor to this fine Blog of Mine one Dyllan Adams to help by writing about what I’m going to call your special song.
Now as cheesy as that sounds there’s a time in all of our life when we hear a song and for whatever reason it sticks with us, and for whatever reason that song always puts us in that special place. Now I being a bit of a square had decided to say fuck it and write about a song that makes life suck a little less, so what’s the criteria you might ask? Well a special song is as it sounds that song that gives us all that warm feeling of worth, that song that brings us to a time when life of course sucked a little less, the song that started this terrible addiction we have to any specific artist or band, and most importantly a song we feel our own. As I said this is going to be cheesy.
Now you see here Dyllan’s going to write about his favorite band, and since I’ve already covered that in my wonderful little 30 Day song Challenge and just about every song of theirs I’ve written about I’m going to instead write about a song that is very special to me, now I’m going to let you guys read his post while I write about the song I find to be noteworthy enough to write about in explicit detail so Dyllan here’s the floor:
I know, I suck.
We break bounds every day and don't know what people will say when we throw a bone into the boulevard that belongs to dogs. Portishead is one of those bands that make madness look like a work of art, you see the world (and the universe) with all its beauty and decayed diseased filth look like home sweet home. Western eyes does just that, I feel dead and beat to the point where no one can tell the starting point between me and the concrete. But Beth Gibbons draws me back like a siren does to sailors at sea. But let’s be honest, we all want to swim along them in oblivion. We want to lay back and revel in the waste of our own human filth and sin. Because “ i feel so cold, all hookers and gin. Just look at the mess we’re in” speaks it all. So sit back, relax and light up son. Because the world is gonna end with or without you
-Dyllan Adams
Trippy stuff My good friend Trippy Stuff it’s glad to see you’ve yet to lose your integrity as a human being. Now here are my thoughts:
I Do-Placebo
You know after writing about so many different songs in that Thirty day Song Challenge, and more recently having a whole mess of things on my mind I’ve made a realization that I don’t much care to talk about myself on here. Now there’s plenty of reasons behind that mostly the one’s involving me not wanting the whole world to be open to the various faults I possess, and also because I just frankly like to keep my shit to myself, but really there has been something on my mind these days and that would be that very special relationship we all have with that person we like to think of as our own.
Now this kind of relates about as much to my love of certain bands as it does the people I feel to be involved with, and here’s the thing people while I try my damndest to not associate people with bands, events, or songs because of some irrational fear that if things don’t work out then those bands, songs, and events shall forever be ruined I don’t often associate these specific artist, band, song, and such to these things. To be forever ruined by that individual is really something that I strongly dislike, and while I’ve dealt with a couple of losses here and there the one band that’s managed to survive a near fatal brush with this would happen to be Placebo.
Now before I get into this whole situation I’m just going to say that I’m not naming names and things aren’t really going to be talked about in explicit detail because for the most part I’m looking to discuss the band in question and more importantly why this particular song feels so damn special to me.
Placebo as I’ve written about before, are a band I heard about from a friend and fell in love with a single song. Now the thing about this band that no matter what my mental state is, they’ll always remind me of the only girl I have ever said, “I love you Too,” and for the longest time I did not like that because of course as so often is the case when we don’t like something, things didn’t quite work out for us, and because of that I almost stopped liking this band, but luckily enough I eventually came to acceptance with that whole situation and can now safely listen to this band without feeling like hell.
Now by this point I’m guessing you’re all wondering what in the holy hell this damn song has to do with any of that.
You see here if there was ever a song that I could best describe just what love felt like for me it’d be this one. For those who are actually listening to the song as your reading this you are probably thinking, “What the fuck?” and honestly I couldn’t blame you because I often think the same thing but let me attempt to explain it all. Whenever I felt that special feeling of actually caring for someone beyond the hey your cool let’s hang out stage it was a lot like this song a nervous yet exciting tale of wanting to be with that person that’s completely taken over your entire thought process, you want to constantly be with them, learn their little quirks, and even to an extent know what it’s like to be them. You have this feeling of being on top of the world and your looking down on the creation of a blooming relationship that you hope maybe could end in your own bitter quest of being alone to end vanishing. You want to say, “I Do,” just like the chorus and yes I felt that way at one time not to a point of wanting to marry the person but I wanted them and to be with them.
Now by some point in the various situations where I’ve been listening to my MP3 player and just letting the songs dictate my thoughts for whatever reason no matter what this song will always and forever reminds me of that person in question, and for the longest time I wasn’t too happy with that, but more recently as I’ve frankly grown the hell up and learned to deal with it all I have come to accept it and have found myself feeling many a butterfly in my stomach whenever I hear it come on my MP3 Player and honestly if that isn’t special then I don’t know what is.
There ya go people, what a special post about those special little songs that take us all back to a time and a place where we all love to go and can only really do so by listening to the music we love, thanks for reading these 200 post you crazy bastards let’s hope we can go for another 200.
-Sam’s Song of the Day
