Favorite Songs: 124-120

Please leave a comment if you're reading this. Just curious how many people actually are, since I only know of 2. Even if it's "your taste in music sucks and this list is a waste of time," that's fine. ha ha ha

124. "Call and Answer" by Barenaked Ladies (Stunt)
Another "serious" BNL song, and yet another single by them that never really got any air play. It's another of my favorite songs to sing at kareoke, even though I rarely ever sing it since it's so slow and sad. Plus the repetition of the word "rebuild" at the end gets annoying to an extent. Anyway, I just really dig on this song. I love how it just changes moods in the last little verse, going from defensive to an attack. This was also the last song performed by the band in their last show with Steven Page (the fat one) before he quit the band.
Line: "I think it's time to make this something that is more than only fair."



123. "Hello" by Evanescene (Fallen)
Of all the great songs on Fallen, this is by far my favorite. Just lets Any Lee's voice shine like it should. Wow. I totally sounded like a fag there.
Line: "Don't try to fix me I'm not broken."



122. "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" by U2 (How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)
If I were ever to write a song about my dad, well, it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as this, but this is the blueprint I would use for it. Hunt down the original video (fucking disabled embedding. Grr!) and this is what Bono wrote that is shown at the beginning of the video:
"My father Bob worked in the post office by day and sang opera by night. We lived on the north side of Dublin in a place called Cedarwood Road. He had a lot of attitude. He gave some to me - and a voice. I wish I'd known him better."
Sums it up better than I ever could.
Line: "I don't need to hear you say that if we weren't so alike you'd like me a whole lot more."



121. "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" by Chris Isaak (Forever Blue)
Just a bad bad bad ass tune. I've really become a Chris Isaak fan over the past 6 or 7 years. And if you never got a chance to see his show that he did on HBO a few years back, try to find it. It was friggin' hilarious.
Line: "You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two? I didn't think so."



120. "Please" by U2 (Pop)
I kind of remember reading at some point that this song was written about a suicide bomber. But that may have been "Wake Up Dead Man." Not sure anymore. Either way, this is a killer song. (And now, I'm thinking that it was indeed "Wake Up Dead Man" that was about a suicide bomber. Damn memory.) Think this one was more religious in nature. I don't know. Oh well.
Line: "You know I found it hard to receive 'cause you, my love, I could never believe."