Anyways, my brother did a lil' post like this a while back(there will be similarities), and since I haven't had any full albums completely rock my gourd in some time, I'll focus on songs that have been quite important to me over the last year or two. Whether it's just a good jam, or something much more to me, here's the hits, y'all.
My Blue Supreme:
Eli showed me this song sometime last year. I love it. I don't care to listen to the rest of the album cause I'm pretty sure it won't be as dope as this tune is. The lil' guitar riff, the chorus melody, the small breaks in the beat. AH!
Meteorites:
I love everything about this song and this video. It's hard to find(what I deem as) good spoken word pieces in the world. But this nails it. Clemence Posey's face with a dude's glorious irish accent coming out of it is the best thing in the world. The words themselves are beautiful. When I first found this, I watched it 3 times in a row. It was during an odd time last summer where I was completely incapacitated by sexual longing for 2 weeks straight. This was so amazing to watch and absorb on some hot summer night in one of the loneliest times of my life. I almost want to go back and experience it again because it was beautiful to find this during that time.
Before:
I had been listening to this album for a few weeks before this song went even deeper than it already did for me. Upon my escape from The Badlands(ask me about that story in person sometime), this was the only song I wanted to listen to. So, driving through South Dakota, with my phone speaker jammed in my ear since I don't have an aux port in my car, I screamed this entire song in my car, completely elated, filled with joy and life. I still lose my mind a little when I listen to this song. "And I feel brand new, and not so whole, that's how I know". FUCK.
By My Side(Everlasting Life):
This song, this artist, and his two albums that can longer be found online, mean so so much to me. When you wake up completely faithless one morning, it's hard to know what to orient yourself around. Valley Maker was one of the things I found a tremendous amount of comfort in. I should probably write a whole post about it, but for now, here's one of the tunes that has stuck with me most. It's been my theme song since I've heard it. I can't describe the feeling I get when I listen to it. I listened to it at sunset on the roof with my best friend on the Summer Solstice. I listened to it in the car with 2 of my brothers in the mountains on the Winter Solstice. I listened to it by myself, drunk in my living room on New Year's Eve. Oh man. It's perfect.
Lost It To Trying:
I feel nothing but pure energy when I listen to this song. I start going nuts every time I hear it. I literally starting yelling and squealing whenever I listen to it. The vocals. That goddamn sax. Holy crap. Plus, redemption! Hope! "Give in and get out, we rise in the dying!" Christian connotation or not, that's the tops. Ryan Lott continually slays me with his lyrics.
Star:
Here's to the one song last year that very nearly brought me to tears. My friend suggested I listen to this album if I have some mental stuff to work through, and I basically always do. So I bought it, sat in my living room with a cup of coffee while it lightly snowed outside, and gave it a listen. The album is nothing very special. Pleasant, simple, but thoughtful tunes. This is the last song on the album, and as I came to some conclusions about a relationship that I had been clinging to these lines started to play: "I walk slow/ down to where we'd go/ where we've gone for so long/ Where you and I come from/ the stars in the sky/ they caught my eye/ I search but I'm not lost/ I cry but it's not wrong/ and I can see so much/ much more than before/ mmmm"
OHMYGOD
Ffunny Ffriends:
This riff is just too damn good. I listen to this song and album all the time in the shop. It's perfect for anytime of day. Six in the morning, middle of the rush, late afternoon, closing tunes. It works anywhere.
Hover I:
This song just has the most unbelievably intimate vibe to it for me. I think of my closest friends, and family, and something like home whenever I hear this. It's comfort. It's a soft bed. It's late night conversations. It's a huge dinner. It's sex. It's snowfall. It's whiskey by a fireplace. It's camping in the woods. It's starlight. It's a montage of everything beautiful playing out before my eyes.
That's all I can think of right now. My brain is probably missing some things, but I'll get around to that when I'm sober.
Goodnight,
Gabriel
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