The 10 Spot

Im really not too sure how many people actually read this are even really give a damn about my musical opinion, but it has been a while since ive written anything so i thought id go for a 10 spot. thats right folks...not 1..not 5....but 10. so here we go!
1. Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn and John
This song i love for the pure fact that like all songs that i see while im up at three am i thought that i was the first to hear it, and pretty sure i still am. but then mtv starts to play it after that all the time and then i get into my car and cant turn on the radio without hearing it three thousand more times. i think the cartoon video for, although it seems to have nothing to do with the song is rather awesome and original...and who else would think to start a song off with whistling?
2.Idioteque - Radiohead - Kid A
I laugh when i hear this song play at first because it brings back all the old memories of being by myself in so cal doing nothing but working and surfing. dont get me wrong i listened to this song regiliously before then, but for some reason (and im sure im not alone on this) my brain catagoizes memories with music that i love. one of those memories i have to say wass seeing radiohead on the hail to the thief tour and watching them perform that song live. it was then that i realized that some songs were better left undone live!
3.These Things - She Wants Revenge - Self Titled
This c.d. definately was not my favorite of all time, but what cemented my reasons for liking them was going to Edge fest and seeing them in the dead of heat perform most of the album. i really was not expecting these guys to be very good, but then again i missed half the show waiting to pick up my tickets at will call. to this day i cant listent to the entire album, but i pray to all thats holy that they dont become one hit wonders.
4. Go It Alone- Beck - Guero
There are not too many cds that i can listen to start to finish before my add goes off and i start skipping one or two songs, but not this album. if i could interview beck my first two questions would be 1. where did the inspiration come from to write an entire album (guero) singing parts in both spanish and english, and 2. did the song debra actually happen or is it just a song and howd you think of it! i think beck has to be a musical god among men, for there arent too many musicians that could pull off the kind of sound beck does!
5.Perhaps - Cake - Fashion Nugget
It makes me chuckle to think that i was in the 8th grade when this album came out and i used to listen to it religiously. so much so that i had the entire thing memorized word for word in just under three months. this used to be the album id put on while walking to and fro from middle school to home. sadly at that time that was really the only cd i owned, for i wasnt really making any money and i really didnt get out much! it makes me sad that a lot of people seem to think that theyre musical sellouts, but i have to disagree. i will say however over the better part or a decade their sound has not changed one bit. their latest cd still sounds like things that they did from fashion nugget.
6. Touch the Sky- Kanye West- Late Registration
Ha....theres not too much you can say about Kanye, you either love him or you dont. well i take that back cause i dont exactly love him. bit as far as his musci goes you either like it or you dont. i think i mostly like this video because i love the fact that he took it back to the 70's look and incorporated a Evil Keneval look and Lupe Fiasco makes a debut before his album came out.
7.Shoot Down the Stars- Gym Class Heroes- As Mean as School Children
I have to say that even thought i have not listened to this album all the way through, this has to be one of my favorites other than Clothes Off. it does make me sad that though that MTV finds it acceptable to play this song after promoting cupids chokehold which happenes to be on the second cd and not the first. it always confuses me when bands allow this to happen. you put out one cd and dont promote it one bit, but people buy it and love it. then you make a second one people like it as well, you promote the shit out of it, but then you start promoting the first again.. wtf
8. Battle of Who Could Care Less- Ben Folds 5 - Whatever and Ever Amen
This song made me fall in love with piano music. well i should really say that this it the first bf5 song i heard thanks to Sari, who when we were in highschool would listen to nothing but ben folds. at first i dodnt see what all the hype was about, but now i can cause this song in particular is just ine you could roll the windows down in your car and just blast all day.
9. Beyond the Gray Sky- 311 - Greatest Hits
Even though this is a super sad song, i do believe its one of the best hands down song that 311 ever wrote. thats really all im going to say about that. if you havent heard it, i suggest you do and youll know what im talking about!
And last but not least
10. Everyday is Exactly the Same- NIN - With Teeth
im rather surprised my shuffle picked this directly after 311. i have to agree with adam( who writes the monday morn. shuffle) i want to meet the guy who wrote the algorythm for itunes. but back to the song....its rather dark, but if youve listened to it then youll realize that the lyrics are speaking the truth.
and thats that
! Enjoy