Favorite Songs: 55 - 51

I'll be doing another quick little non-list related post between this one and the next one, kind of like the one I did before cracking the top 100. It'll be amusing, I hope, as long as it comes out like I have it in my head at the moment. So, yeah, look for that next week some time.

55. "Pillar Of Davidson" by Live (Throwing Copper)
This is a song about the death of a Pennsylvania town, basically. Live's hometown of York, PA, to be exact. It's talking about how the town became very poverty stricken when Caterpillar and Harley Davidson pulled their factories out of town, pretty much at the same time. Great tune from a great album.
Line: "Warm bodies, I said, are not machines that can only make money."



54. "Lullaby" by James (Laid)
Have I mentioned yet that I love this album? I mean hell, I have at least 4 songs from this album alone on this list. Anyway... Don't let the title fool you - this is as much of a lullaby as "Lullaby" by The Cure is - which is to say, not at all. It's basically about some person who needs to lie and talk shit about people to feel better about his/herself, and then gets to the point where he/she starts to actually believe their own bullshit. Good stuff.
Line: "Your memory's one-sided, the side that you're choosing feels nothing. Feels nothing at all."
Or
"You're an angel, you're a demon, you're just... human."



53. "Bouncing Around the Room" by Phish (Lawn Boy)
An energetic little ditty that kinda doesn't make sense but kinda does. The harmonies in this song are really great, and the music is really subdued, basically only there to keep time.
Line: "The woman was a dream I had, though rather hard to keep."



52. "Trying To Throw Your Arms Around the World" by U2 (Achtung Baby)
This album is simply awesome, by far my favorite U2 album. I've heard several different interpretations of what this song's about, but the two I tend to lean toward are some kind of religious awakening or the diatribe of a drunk man walking home to his woman. Elements of both in the song, so hard to decide which I lean toward more.
Line: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle when you're trying to throw your arms around the world."



51. "Am I Right?" by Erasure (Chorus)
This is just a really sad song. I can imagine him sitting there crying as he wrote it, longing for the guy he loves. Andy Bell has such a great voice, able to sound emotional without sounding like a bitch. Still love this band just as much as I did 20 years ago.
Line: "And life carries on as normal, although you're not around."