My Favorite Songs (Part One)

I love music, I hope you can tell. However I do have my favorite songs. These are a few of my favorite songs.
           

A numerous amount of my favorite songs are from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. As shown as above, the band has a lot of energy and unique music and style. 

   My absolute favorite album is "I'm With You". I love in that album the two songs "Meet Me at the Corner", and "The Adventures of Raindance Maggie".

The first song is very sad, because it illustrates a scene of losing someone and making mistakes that ultimately impact relationships. Waiting, nothing to do, for love to return after messing up and not being able to bear the image of someone you care for sitting alone on at the corner. Over the course of time the two were reunited and the song just follows the beautiful storyline. As for the second, you experience a vision of wanting the rain. Wanting whatever the rain may be in your case if life, facing challenge that ultimately results in happiness. I also love "Under the Bridge", "Did I Let you Know", "Dance,Dance,Dance", and so many other songs by this amazing group. 

       

 

Pearl Jam is so awesome.  The band includes so much music, that  I have just fallen in love with how fast and how much rock is involved in singing lyrics, that actually have meaning. For example, the song quite overplayed but never wrecked by the band,"The Fixer", which is so sick. 

The song discusses overcoming any situation with always something to overcome it with. Hence the title "The Fixer". The lyrics describe several issues constantly overcome and the song itself is so awakening to life ands its challenges and one of my favorites. 

However, I truly  love a slower song called, "Last Kiss". It tells the story of a terrible car accident where a man lost his love, and despite the accident with his dead lover next to him, questions why she left and yet promises to be good to reunite himself with her when he dies. Listening to the song, you feel the tears running down your face, and smell the rain and flames and it seems vivid.

   I also love in "Riot Act", the album's song  "Cropduster". Many songs explain events that are perfect and happy, but this song explains how we all connect, and the world itself is a mess and accepting it is alright. The lyrics say " This world is an accident.. This world is upside down." We are all really confused and we should embrace our mistakes and reality, and realize we really do not differ from the other. There is no point in making fun of anyone. "Eyes no eyes, every life looks within", is a dominant lyric in the song. Despite our obstacles, we both are trying to understand life, and it's alright to be confused.

I will continue with more of my favorite music but till then rock on.

Coldplay Disappointment

My second favorite group of musicians is Coldplay. For every album ever released the emotion, the feelings of loss and strength, love and anger, have all impressed me. The amount of love the band shows for the world and so many things is truly extraordinary. ( No offense to listeners of pop music, but lately there is not much depth in meaning), which I realized has over the course of time become what Coldplay has evolved to. Coldplay once was truly a great alternative rock band, but I fear due to their new album "A Head Full of Dreams" they are now more alternative pop.  I feel the one album released before this "Ghost Stories" represented the transition of their music. The ghost stories are tales of a dead, past, styles of the band. As the music is the same, there is less music, more machinery and technology as opposed to raw guitar and alternative vibes, that  have been sent to an earlier time. I am now upset to hear the new album and it's theme.

This is the style Coldplay originally had. A bunch of British alternative rock artists.

This is one of the most recent photos of the band. Seemingly enlightened by life, the original feels of the band have left. 

Despite the more optimistic side of the band, the music that represented them at the times of being more realistic and easier to relate to, in complex life obstacles, we all at some point find ourselves facing, was more dominant in my music taste. Because the past music had a more meaningful flow that would allow you to feel what the artists felt, the new album if Coldplay is in great contrast to that of the past. 

Sudden Deaths?

I have realized a sad pattern, at least that has been all over the media. Artists suddenly seem to be dying, becoming sick, or getting very old. We just lost the rock singer David Bowie and the guitarist of the band The Eagles, Glen Frey died as well. I was never a major dedicated fan to either, but I do know music from both, and for rock fans internationally they will be greatly missed.
    David Bowie was famous for songs such as "Space Oddity", "Changes", and "Moonage Daydream". You may be unfamiliar with him and his work, but David Bowie was also featured in several movies. He made an appearance in "Zoolander", with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as a judge of a fashion show. His most famous movie was called "The Labyrinth." His character was Jareth, the main antagonist of the movie who stole a young boy and separated the girl who was responsible for him in a complex maze.  On January 10, 2016 Bowie died in a battle with cancer.
He, his acting and music, will be very missed.

This is David Bowie.

His character Jareth sits with the orb in his hand.

As for The Eagles loss, Glen Frey, was the guitarist of a great group of musicians. The Eagles are most commonly recognized by their song "Hotel California". The band formed in 1971, right in Los Angeles, California. The sounds coming from his guitar supported the beauty of the band. On January 18,2016 the world lost Grey to pneumonia, arthritis, and other glowingly terrible health conditions.  The sounds of his guitar still haunt the minds and hearts of supporters globally. 

This is Glen Frey.

It is unfortunate that life flies by so very quickly, but both of these musicians will be very missed considering their impacts on the world, through the language of music which goes far beyond the ear, but to the depths of the soul.