ipod party mix

Bored at work. decided to hit "shuffle" on my ipod and talk about the songs that come up and why i love them or hate them and what they mean to me.

1.trouble loves me- morrissey- maladjusted
Morrissey has this ability to suck me in, where I will listen to one song and ultimately find myself poring over every album from the car to the house to work, and i listen and listen and think and talk about how amazing he is, not noticing that my outlook on life is slowly becoming more and more dark and depressed and I'm romanticizing unhappiness and smoking more cigarettes.
This song in particular reminds me of a boy I had a crush on once. He felt a particular affinity for it, and I agreed. Trouble did love him.

2.alison - elvis costello - my aim is true
Everyone will hate me for saying this, but I can't stand this song. The reason, is that my name happens to be Allison. I used to work at this restaurant where every single day when I came in to work this cook would sing it to me. And then, at almost every other job I've ever had, at least one person would sing that song to me. I can't stand it hear it ever again!!! Why can't they sing "allison's starting to happen" by the lemonheads? or the Pixie's "allison"? anything but this!!! I have to change it.

3. on a plain - nirvana - nevermind
On a recent roadtrip we put in nirvana and even though it had been years since i've listened to it I can sing every single word at the top of my lungs. nirvana changed my life. I was in the fourth grade, I saw smells like teen spirit on mtv, and i was forever different. my middle school years were full of anger and pain and learning what its like to be young and disallusioned. the words that kurt spoke then struck a chord in me that has forever echoed in the back of my mind, playing like the soundtrack to all of my opinions and feelings and loves and hates. this is not one of those bands that you get embarrassed to listen to 12 years later.

4. english girls approximately - ryan adams - love is hell
I only discovered Ryan Adams 2 years ago, and ever since I have loved him like an older brother that I never had, this untouchable idol, someone to look up to and constantly be amazed by. There isn't one album he's made that i can't identify with in some way. Love Is Hell had a hard time coming out, I think his record company dropped the cd or stopped it from coming out at first (correct me if i'm wrong) but its full of classic adams.. sad country love songs. Something about him resonates with me, and ultimately make me want to drink whiskey and smoke cigarettes. English girls.. isnt my favorite song on the album, I think that title would be reserved for "this house is not for sale" purely because it tells the exact story of beetlejuice (the movie) in a really sad way. I love beetlejuice.

5. dogs - haiku D' etat - coup de theatre
Haiku D'Etat is amazing. A group composed of hip hop greats Abstract Rude, Aceyalone and Micah 9. I was turned onto them recently by a friend and i really like the vocal melody of their rhymes. i like that the chorus goes "my dogs.. my dogs... my dogs.." A lot of their songs are really funny/silly but they still get down to business. The best track is "mike aaron & eddy" which is a whole song mostly full of them saying their first name and talking about themselves.

6. human interest - drive like jehu - yank crime
Drive Like Jehu makes me feel alive. I want to go fucking crazy, jump up and down, drink beer, smoke cigarettes watch bands go on road trips be young be happy vandalize start a revolution say fuck the man, etc. etc. I want to throw my computer across the room and get on a bicycle and get together with my friends and start fires. Summertime, being human, being young, being alive.

7. 18 wheels - murder city devils - r.i.p.
A live version of a great murder city devils song. This song talks about how being in a constantly touring band is like being a trucker, you leave your loved ones behind and ruin your life while you're trying to make it better by doing it. "i never wanted you to be a sailors girl, to be a truckers wife, to be left, to be left behind."
while dating a boy in a band I always thought of this song as being about me. The murder city devils is straight up drinking music. Their shows were always full of whiskey and punks dancing their (our) asses off and going crazy. beer was thrown, songs were sung outloud, had the time of my life.

that was fun. i'll do it again sometime :)