Have you ever sat down and talked with a person about music and realized that while you may have similar tastes in music… You kinda wanna reach across the table.. Or hooka… Or whatever your choice of centerpiece is… And smack the hell out of that person for liking the song Lollipop by Lil Wayne or Indestructable by Desturbed? Have you ever wanted to cut their face off and wear it as a mask cause they listen to songs by Britany Spears or Annotations of an Autopsy? Well then welcom, my son… Welcome to The Machine… Erm.. I mean… Welcome to DnJ’s Random Acts of Music.
In this blog you’ll find with every post, a theme. We all have theme songs… Wheather you’re in love and can’t stop listening to Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith… Or you’re stoned constantly and love whatever Bob Marley song that you have on loop probably because you forgot to take it off loop before you started smoking… We all have theme songs. And that applies to DnJ as well.
What we’re doing with this blog is posting our theme songs… Along with posting songs for a theme! Wanna know a good song to fuck to? Check it out, we’ll have it, i’m sure… Want to know a good song to eat a bologna sammich to? Well… We may or may not have that… But check up regularly and see whats up… Want to know a great “Song to die for”… Well here we go!
Top Ten Songs to Die For- This is our first theme so we wanted to go with something a little more serious and relatable. We all love songs that make us feel like shit. Why? We have no idea. Sometimes it just feels good to feel so bad, and know that other people might kind of understand. So, we’re going with songs that just make the tears flow or envoke that inner emo inside us all! Some can just kinda make you feel sad by reason of listening. Plus, we just think it’s funny to make people cry. Please enjoy our first theme!
JOINT:
The Scar: Justin Furstenfeld-
Anytime I think of a song that can evoke any kind of real sadness and feeling in me I tend to turn to Blue October. They are an amazing band that doesn’t get enough credit! Of course, that is just my opinion, but my opinion is all that matters in this little experiment!! If you’ve ever been through a break up that just killed you and made you feel like the whole damn world was ending, you can usually find a song from them that relates perfectly! This is a solo song from Justin that I discovered. The first time I heard it I really did almost cry. You just don’t find that kind of honesty in music these days. So, whip out the Kleenex bitches! This one is great!!
DIDDLE:
Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
This song was the perennial cry at home alone into your Robert Smith tapestry song. If you’re a male and you enjoy black fingernail polish and long cries then this is your song. Robert Smith of The Cure was the ultimate sensitive guy on the rock scene. He wasn’t afriad to admit that hiding behind his testicles (that still, many aren’t sure are existant) hides a huge bank of estrogen. And he managed to do so while writing nearly pop-like songs with an up tempo. This song will make you want to kill yourself WHILE dancing around your house not unlike Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club.
JOINT:
On My Own: The Used-
This is my emo shout out, which I imagine is more like a little girl with a scrapped knee. This song is just one of those songs that can make a motivational speaker want to plunge a dagger into their heart. I have drove around with friends listening to this and they actually got pissed later because I had depressed them. Gotta love forced misery!! I’m not a big fan of the whole emo scene or music in general, but this is a pretty decent song really. I discovered it on a mix CD my sister had and didn’t even know who the hell it was for months. Apparently I’m just too old to know everything that is going on in the world with depressed teens now days.. or it could be I just don’t give a shit!!! Prepare to feel like your puppy just got hit by a car!
DIDDLE:
18th Floor Balcony – Blue October
Ah yes, one of the best love songs on the earth! When a person is in love and listens to this song, it brings back all those feelings that one gets from laying next to the person they love and just soaking up all the great emotions that come with a moment like that. When you’re in love you can feel every single emotion on the face of the EARTH not to mention every emotion and every word contained in this song in a matter of seconds. It’s a great song to listen to when you’re madly in love and don’t want to forget that feeling.
Therein lies the problem. This song is the DEVIL for a person who’s lost that person they love so much. I’m serious, when a person who is no longer in that “mushy” state of mind hears this song, that person may actually picture this song itself (not the singer, or the person who they are in love with) wearing a red cape, horns protruding from it’s head, and holding a pitchfork. THE DEVIL. This song is great to listen to if you never want to forget how great the feeling is to be so in love… But when you’re trying to forget those feelings just wait until about halfway through the opening drone and try to not want to eat an entire box of broken glass! Just try it! Just plese don’t try it on web cam… That’s obnoxious.
JOINT:
All I Need (Scoth Mist Version): Radiohead-
So, with this being our first go I will warn you now: I am a huge Radiohead fan and I’m sure their work will show up in a lot of my posts. Just to warn you. This song has more of a personal meaning to me in terms of depressing and sad. It was one of those ex boyfriend songs but makes it so great. Just very ironic really. Great lyrics and a great studio version, which just goes to show why Radiohead is so damn great! (I warned you!!) Just can’t ignore the voice and beats of this one. The intro to the video is just great as well!!
DIDDLE:
Losing My Religion – REM
Feel alone? Feel like nobody understands you yet everyone is watching as you break down? Feel like doing a ton of drugs and having gay sex with Kurt Cobain? Well so does Michael Stipe! Okay, that last thing is just a rumor… But still, if you don’t feel like someone hit you in the gut when this song concludes then maybe you should go to the doctor and see if you were born without a gut. Or maybe you got a gut reduction surgery… And if that’s the case, send me an e-mail and let me know the specifics of that procedure, cause i’d like to learn more.
Stipe’s whiny voice and even whinier lyrics in this song are nearly overshadowed by the music, which can only be described as the musical manifestation of being forced to skin a puppy alive in front of it’s owner. In other words, this song is kinda depressing, so you should listen to it? I guess? Just do it… And let me know what you thought of the song after you’re done screaming to the heavens to take you now.
JOINT:
Closure: Chevelle
This is my whiny but oh so great pick. Seriously, who hasn’t felt this way at some point in their lives? A little heavier which always makes me a little more pissed off so that makes it great to me! All around good song; good lyrics, good voice, great guitar. It’s top material because it is so universal and everyone can relate to it. Even if you’re an uptight asshole or vain bitch you’ve felt like this once, even if you won’t admit it.
DIDDLE:
Teenager – Deftones
Oh man. Ooooooh man… Have you ever loved someone only to find out that you maybe didn’t really know them like you thought you did? Ever love someone only to find out that they aren’t the person you thought they were? Ever love someone only to have them turn a complete 180 and insist that they are the same person when you know you’re simply the only person who can see a total turn in behavior and attitude? Well I certainly have… And that’s why this song makes me want to turn my own skin inside out and swim in a pool filled with salt and butterfly tears… I assume butterfly tears are really painfull inside a wound of some kind, and if not then hell have you ever seen a butterfly cry? Has anyone ever told you about how sad it is to see a butterfly CRY?!? No they haven’t cause the only people on Earth who have seen that sight promptly killed themselves… Probably while listening to this damn song.
The penultimate sad lyrics hit in this song with the words
“I climbed your arms
then you pulled away
a new cavity moved into
my heart today
the more I scream
the more it seems
that now I’m through
with the new you”
My god, just reading that makes me want to bob for french fries in a deep fryer… Sheesh… I’m gonna go cry now.
A little happier dose of misery. Great song for anyone that has had a breakup that they just can’t get over. That really shitty one that you can’t get out of your head even though you know you should! Sucks, but I know I’m not the only one!! Huge fan of this band. They have some really good lyrics and still manage to get you to bounce your head and sing along even if you feel like crying! There weren’t that many great videos, so I guess you can just learn the lyrics! They are good to know anyways!
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die
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