Sam's Top 5 Love Songs: #3 somebody needs to wake me...

#3: Wake Me-Bleachers

A fairly new tune that I recall writing this list shortly after I gave their album a listen just before I got to see them for the first time this song in due time has managed to kind of stick around and maintain a sense of feeling kind of special really and when I think about it it’s kind of been there while I’ve been establishing a new venture which is kind of adorable but personal shenanigans aside there’s a lot to really say about this deeper cut.

What we have here is a case of a tune that’s a lot like your typical teenage romantic coming of age movie, tv show, or book in that it’s a very cute and kind of subtle sounding tune that showcases quite an exclamation of feelings that are carried by a very 80’s sounding light as air guitar line and kind of steady drum beat that’s very dreamy as it is steady and carried by lyrics that are fairly straightforward and give me the vibe that I’m listening to something that should be playing in the make-out scene of a John Hughes movie.

It’s repetition of the phrase, “I can’t believe I captured your heart,” for me perfectly sums up just how it feels to get what you wanted in terms of being with that one that you care for and it’s followed by plenty of lines that are showcasing just how the singer knows that the feeling is truly genuine and the fact that its’ a tune that equally expresses the joys of feeling love and being in love along with having a slight nervousness in its singing that is kind of how it feels being with the one  before just erupting in a screaming exclamation before just kind of suddenly stopping.

Sam's Top 20 of 2014: #3

3. Bleachers-I Wanna get Better

SO I truly don’t like talking about my personal life on here for a variety of reasons mostly being that there are things that need not be discussed because they’re greatly personal but I have to say 2014 was a fairly shitty and heavy year for me people.

I went through a series of terrible events that lead to me having to make decisions in putting myself in places that I never thought I’d be in and I almost did things to myself that are quite crazy to think about and amongst it all I kind of lost interest in the things I love and have had to re-examine my whole path and one of the moments were something small hit me was actually the first time I heard this song.

Earlier this year I kind of had a mental breakdown of the worst kind and had to seek serious help and I remember being in a hospital for a small period of time and I recall on the day I left I’d woken up really early that day and was wandering around the hall and noticed another patient watching AMTV video block and the video for this song came on and I honestly ignored it completely as a random forgettable song.

The funny thing about that is as soon as I kind of got back to normal life and things just went to shit all over again I found this song would just randomly come up and I paid attention more to its title and the lyrics being sang and just one day something hit me that was the truest expression of it all…

“Woke Up this morning Early before my family, from this dream were she was trying to show me, how a life could move from the darkness she said to get better, So I put a bullet where I should of put a helmet, and I crashed my car ‘cause I wanna get carried away, that’s why I’m standing on the overpass screaming to myself, HEY I WANNA GET BETTER!”

That line was more true than anything ever should be and I honestly did almost that one grandly fucked up expression of calling for help because I know I need to get better and seeing them sing that live was a bit of an eye opener that didn’t hit me oddly enough but every time I hear that line I really do think to myself that it’s a little to true for its own good.

I almost did a bad thing people and I have to live one day at a time and while I really hate were things are at times and feel a victim of my own vices and semi dead on the inside there are little rays of hope amongst all the fucking bull shit that leave me to say I wanna get better and  this blog, my story I’ve been writing, and the support of my family are what I honestly have because after two fucking shitty ass roommates fucking me over, kind of learning the hard way that friendship isn’t shit, and having the worst and lowest points of my life I guess that’s all I can really say….

Song of the Day 9/30/14

Damn that anniversary post was a trip to type up people with all my cursing, bitching, and calling people out it's kind of crazy to think about but I digress because I might as well try to get some of these posted while I'm not so depressingly bitchy.

I've been on a steady diet of getting my life in order and listening to a boat load of either funky kind of electronic heavy tunes with female leads or all the punk rock my little black hole of a heart can take but last night I had the oddest desire to blast a kind of semi obscure tune courtesy of one Bleachers called "Wake Me," which in all honesty is one of the loveliest tunes I've heard in quite some time.

This song is kind of like an 80's teenage romance flick with it's heavy synthesizers and very dreamy vocals that kind of fade off in a chorus that's light and to the point it's a special sounding number that seems like the moment of spark and interest between two lovers looking to prove just how special they are to one another. Really this song kind of brings in the feels for me and it's kind of odd because I don't really much care for anyone at this very moment, but hey that's irrelevant when a songs that good...

Sam's Top 25 of 2012:#10

We Are Young-Fun.

Yeah you are and you’ve also made the teenage anthem of the year with one of the more pleasantly surprising hits this year in one Fun’s, “We Are Young.”

There’s a lot that’s been said about this tune and while it’s been out for quite a while you really couldn’t escape its immense feeling of larger than life feelings of one drunken night on the town no matter what format of radio you were listening to and it really was the catapult for this band becoming something worth knowing and while I did prefer Some Nights more I couldn’t really help but rank this one higher for being the tune that started it all and I’m sure is going to be their set closer for years to come or until they feel like pretending their Radiohead.

Sam's Top 25 of 2012: #21

Some Nights-Fun

It’s nice to see that these guys have managed to follow up the epic that is, “We Are Young,” with a tune that honestly caused an even crazier fan reaction when I saw them live and a good showcasing of who were honestly the breakout act of the year.

This song is in one word epic it’s a larger than life rocker that just demands a stadium full of people singing along and every word to it tries it’s best to insinuate something more than it actually is and while I can totally dig that it’s its best strength and weakness in all honesty, although admittedly I do have to say that it’s not worn out like the tune that broke them out and I do love singing along but it’s less a breakout and more a trying to stay relevant if that makes any sense, but still one of the best of the year.