But a kiss ain't enough
Here is another classic from Double X. Man that station was the place to be from 1986 until 1988. Hard to believe it was only around for 2 years. "Heartbreak Beat" was The Psychodelic Furs biggest Top 40 radio hit, in the US. The song was the emo love song before emo love songs.
You don't have to feel like a waste of space, you're original, cannot be replaced
Yeah, I ain't going to apologize for this one, she did a Superbowl halftime show! I don't owe you people any justification!
As I have said previously, a good pop song can stand on it's own merit and that is how I feel about "Firework". The song is catchy, upbeat, delivers a positive message that is pretty much lacking in any other song I put on the tape. And to be perfectly honest with you, this song got me through some hard times.
Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego
Do I actually like Childish Gambino or have I been brainwashed by son into it. The answer lies in this post, because this is by no means one of Xander's favorite songs. So I guess Donald Glover really got that flow. Picking which Gambino track I was going to include on the list was hard. So many good options, so many hot rhymes. With that being said here are:
3 Unfortunate Gambino bars:
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies.
Green Day has been around for awhile and while Dookie may be the album that brough them into the zeitgeist, American Idiot is the absolute peak of their career arc. Published in the aftermath of 9/11 and the middle eastern wars that resulted American Idiot was Green Days attempt at a punk rock opera to capture the feelings of what they believed America had become, a pipeline to build a Walmart on every street corner of the world.
"Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams" are the two songs at the heart of this story. "Holiday" is about how the American dream has failed the youth and "Boulevard" is about how the youth has failed each other. Green Day later turned American Idiot into a stage musical, with songs of this quality it probally wasn't hard.
Turned away from it all like a blind man, Sat on a fence, but it don't work
This song is so damn good I am not sure what to even say about it. While outwardly about the homeless and those on the edge of society, the real take away is the breakdown towards the end where Bowie pleads with us to change the way we care about ourselves and others.
Another great running song. Another great song period. One of my great disappointments in life is I haven't seen The Foo Fighters live. I got tickets for my birthday but then the tragic passing of Taylor Hawkins cancelled the tour. So why "Monkey Wrench", why is this a song that I listened too every run? The breakdown at the end.
If there weren't so many words I would want this tattooed on the back of my right calf.
Its getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore
Fun fact: I am tone deaf. But even with that, I sure as hell know these guys can sing and harmonize. It is weird but CSN, a band which was frequently heard in my house growing up, doesn't take me back to my childhood but to my time in college, specifically my fraternity house. Why? When I rushed as a sophomore, there were two older brothers who once we all started really feeling it Friday or Saturday night, would turn off the party music and just start blasting the 70s. And no matter how the evening was going it would always work its way to "Wooden Ships", "Southern Cross" and the most god awful sing along of "Suite Judy Blue Eyes". It would clear most the party girls out, but it wasn't about them, it was about harmonizing with your brothers.
But a kiss ain't enough Here is another classic from Double X. Man that station was the place to be from 1986 until 1988. Hard to bel...