Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
- Lester Bangs
If you're a shaggy blonde, and looked directly into my eyes today, even for a microsecond, it must mean you are very sexually attracted to me, and want to bed me down! I wish SOMEBODY would sleep with me soon, this ol' queen's about to blow a gasket!
I couldn't let a St Patrick's Day go by without a mention of Damien Rice. The album 'O' was the soundtrack for a less than great year for me, and I am not sure I can imagine dealing with all of the the things that were going on there with that record.
This a special dedication to anyone out there who has ever had somebody leave their life, and even though it didn't seem like it at the time, you were much better off for it.
I am way late to the party on this one as usual. 'Bell X1' are a group of fine Irish men who used to play in an outfit with Damien Rice called Juniper. I believe this album was initially released in the UK in 2006, however wasn't released here in the states until this past February.
This set of songs is not nearly as quiet as the gorgeous music Damien Rice has gone on to make, but it is no less impressive. A great record, potent, powerful lyrics and the music to back it up.
Here are a couple of my favorite cuts. "Rocky Took A Lover" is just brilliant, and ANYONE who has ever attempted to write a song needs to listen to "My First Born For A Song"
...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.
And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.
I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.
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I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the east coast. Roughly twenty years old. Got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio. Of warm beer to the summer smoke. And the meat loaf to the billy joel. Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.
She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car. She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars. She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. B-1 is for the good girls. It's only the good die young. C-9 is for the making eyes. It's paradise by the dashboard light. D4 is for the lovers. B12 is for the speeders. And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. And they're playing it again. Ellen Foley gives us hope. Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.
I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes. Screwing in the surf and going out to shows. They get high and ride around in gtos. I guess you're old enough to know. CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS. - The Hold Steady
