Introducing The Blog!

This being my first blog entry, I suppose I ought to tell you about myself... and I suppose I would if I had an interesting tale to tell... but I don't. Or maybe I do... but I find it best to let it come out naturally...

I've always been about music. I remember back when I was a wee-lad (we're talking 25 years ago) and I'd sit in my room and listen to my "45" of "I can't Help Falling In Love With You" by Elvis Presley. I'd be lying on my back, staring up at the ceiling, and being almost reduced to tears everytime I'd play it.

25 years later, there are times when I find myself lying on my back, staring at the ceiling, and being ALMOST (boy's don't cry!) reduced to tears when I hear certain songs.

That being said, here are my Top 5 songs that kill me everytime.

Trembling Blue Stars: A Single Kiss

Ever just have an album that completely paralleled your life at a certain time in it? Well this was mine. Images of me sitting on the floor in my small Hollywood studio in the late nineties pining for "the girl that got away..."
"Tonight it's as though she was just some wonderful dream... to think she really happened to me."
That line still makes me sad.

Spearmint: Solace

So I've always been this hopeless romantic... blame it on Morrissey or something... I don't know. Spearmint released a relatively unheard album called "A Different Lifetime" that followed a relationship from beginning to end. Of course it had a sad ending (if it didn't, I probably wouldn't have liked it!). Anyhow, "Solace" is it's darkest moment with lyrics such as "Maybe one day I will wake up and you won't be the first thing that I think about" and the heart wrenching "And they say time will sweep these marks away but I say this past will stay preserved... frozen intact and perfect forever."

Just like the song.

Shed Seven: Cry For Help

Shed Seven was a band I couldn't listen to for a very long time because it evoked some really tragic memories. Now that i'm over it, they are never far from my CD player. "Cry For Help" is one of those songs that when I first heard the lyric: "Did I ever tell you that you brought me to my knees when all you did was be yourself?" I was like "Jesus Christ! This song was written about me!"

I still kinda think it was!

Blur: No Distance Left To Run

Damon and Justine... The Royal Family of Britpop. We followed their love affair like a soap. And then it was over. "No Distance Left To Run" is Damon's most painful song about having to let go of the girl he loves... and Graham had to write just about the saddest guitar line I've ever heard to go along with the lyric: "It's over... you don't need to tell me. I hope you're with someone who makes you feel safe when you sleep."

Fucking Blur.

My Life Story: I Love You like Gala (listen)

Quite possibly the saddest song I have ever heard. Found as a B-side on the out-of-print "King of Kissingdom" CD1 single, this 8-minute orchestral masterpiece follows one man's obsession with love. "I love you... and I'm scared of that love... It's TOO strong" is spoken over a bed of strings while a desperate "I love you like Gala" is sung in the background.

I've never heard another song like it.

Have you your own sad songlist? I want to know.

OKBYE!