My perfect playlist for life
1.
Don’t
Fear the Reaper- Blue Oyster Cult
I like to Begin at the end and at
the end we all die. Its important to acknowledge this while living otherwise
the end sneaks up on you. Some find this morbid; I find it motivational.
Regardless, I absolutely LOVE this song for a myriad of reasons. It needs more
cowbell though.
2.
The
Mighty Fall- Fall Out Boy & Big Sean
For some reason I’ve been super
into their recent album, Save Rock & Roll. This song in particular is one
of my favorites on the album as a whole though (which is saying something
because I like all of them quite a bit). The lyrics are a deceptive critique on
love and how it brings ruin in its wake. This message coupled with Fall Out
Boy’s style gets stuck in my head for weeks and is a valuable addition to my
playlist just the message is valuable in life.
3.
The
Pretender- Foo Fighters
Besides being kick ass, the pretender is
important. It condones being the pretender that’s out of place, the anomaly
that has its place. You don’t often find a song that confronts the listener
like this one does, which is sad because we all should pretend to be ourselves
more instead of pretending to be something we aren’t.
4.
Why’d You
Only Call Me When You’re High- Artic Monkeys
A
guy gets wasted and goes on a drunken Odyssey filled with monsters of the mind
in order to try and win back his “girl”. Needless to say that at 3 in the
morning it’s not a good idea to stumble to your ex’s house and beg for her
back. This tale of failure raises the idea of being inadequate in a
semi-comical manner. Its in no way laugh out loud material, but it lessens the
blow of its’ rough message with clownish characteristics. For example its title
is rapidly pronounceable and complex in a way that makes me giggle a little.
5.
Ghosts-
The Presets
Ok so I kinda lied. I also like to end at the
end as well as begin at the end. That’s what life is all about right; the
repetitive cycle of beginnings and ends? At least that’s what this beat heavy
song is about. It evolves from verse to verse detailing a man changed by time
as he conquests afar. Throughout his life he is haunted by ghosts, these ghosts
are his regrets. They haunt him so clearly because hindsight is always 20/20 and
because all we really have is our past. Our future is forever shortening, our
present is as ephemeral as passage of time itself, but our past is solid. Its
literally written in stone, forever solid and stable. It anchors us to the past
and haunts us to our own graves. That’s why there is a pressure to make our
past cherishable, everyone wants to look back on life and admire their handy
work, nobody wants to look back and see ghosts.
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