Favorite Songs: 45 - 41

Hooray for not taking a week between posts! Ha.
This is probably the moodiest set of 5 songs on the list. At least so far, anyway. Think there will be a few even moodier groups coming up, if I'm not mistaken.
So I recall something about saying that I'd respond to comments from previous posts in the next post. So, to that end...
Young Matthew writes:
"MCR has always been one of my favorite lyrical bands. And Helena is right on the top of my list of MCR songs too!!"
Aye lad, I knew I liked you for a reason. "Helena" is not quite my favorite MCR song, though. It's my 2nd favorite. The first is about 3 songs away...

45. "Push" by The Cure (The Head On the Door)
If I were ever in a band, I would insist this song be in the play list. Are there more lyrically interesting songs out there? Absolutely. But musically, this just seems like it would be a fun song to perform live. All sorts of energy, great tempo, great changes. It's about 80% instrumental, the music acting more like verse and chorus than the vocals. Just a great tune. The video is from the video The Cure In Orange. No, they aren't "in orange" they are in Orange, France, in an old castle. One of my favorite concert videos ever, and right before Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me came out and "Just Like Heaven" actually made the band famous outside Europe. And one of the few periods of the band's history that Robert Smith doesn't have the tweaked out hair. Sorry 'bout the rambling, here's the song.
Line: "A smile to hide the fear away."



44. "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper (True Colors)
Seriously, do I even need to try to convince anyone how beautiful this song is? Never mind the millions of commercials it's been used in. We all gots ta make that money, right? I'll just stand back and let the awesomeness that is Cyndi Lauper shine.
Line: "Can't remember when I last saw you laughing."
(The time she whispers it, after the musical break. For whatever reason that's my favorite part of the song.)



43. "Cancer" by My Chemical Romance (The Black Parade)
This song, as awesome as it is, is kind of hard to listen to sometimes. One of my wife's very close friends, who was a bride's maid in our wedding, died of cancer right around the time we started listening to these guys in general and specifically this album. Grr... Can't even write about it right now.
Line: No single line suffices, thus the reason I picked a video that just shows the lyrics.



42. "If I Fell" by The Beatles (Something New)
Lennon and McCartney. Has there ever been such perfect harmonizing on a song these two didn't sing together? I don't think so. Many have tried, all have failed.
Line: "I must be sure from the very start that you will love me more than her."



41. "King Of Birds" by R.E.M. (Document)
Most of Document is kind of hard, to an extent, especially for R.E.M. Even "The One I Love" is pretty rough and edgy, really, but the real rock songs are "Oddfellows Local 151" or "Finest Worksong" or even "It's the End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". But then, near the end of the album, right before the aforementioned "Oddfellows Local 151", which itself is a bad ass song, just to satisfy your need for some classic R.E.M., there's "King Of Birds". It sounds like it's got a bit of a Middle Eastern influence, in a way, but not quite. Kind of hard to peg. The live version on the Tourfilm video is phenomenal, but there wasn't a version on YouTube with the awesome a capella intro or the sweet ass finishing section, so I'm just going with the album version with the horribly cheesy video. Enjoy.
Line: "I am the king of all I see - my kingdom for a voice."



As always, comments are appreciated.