Music
The sounds, the lyrics, the noise, the quiet, the stadium gigs, the basement gigs, the buskers, the voices, the instruments.
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Wait by M83
What’s a song you’d want to hear while stargazing? I’ve always been mildly fascinated with space, with the moon, with the wonder of the stars. I can’t recall where it started, or when, but as my life settled down I started to look up more and more often. One particular night, not long after my…
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My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit
What song makes you want to forgive someone? After my first divorce I entered what I call my discovery phase. I lived life hard, tried many different things in an effort to better understand who I was. I had a girlfriend, and then two —polyamory— and it was hard. It could’ve been easier if I’d…
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Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
What’s your favorite song about hope? You can picture the footage, hand held black and white shots of a teeming throng of young women, screaming, jumping up and down, hands in their hair, completely out of control and under the thrall of the new fangled rock music that was starting to impact the lives of,…
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Nobody by Mitski
Share a song that perfectly captures longing. The early days of relationships are wonderful things, all that new relationship energy in your system, spending as much time soaking up this new person, learning them, hearing them, feeling them, touching them, and all the time just wanting more and more and more. But life continues, jobs…
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Remastered 2019) by The Rolling Stones
What’s a song you associate with your biggest mistake? We’ve all been there. That sense of feeling stuck in a situation of our own making, of knowing that we need to change something but holding on to it with the hope of what you thought you had, what you thought you’d get. It’s easily my…
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Scattered Black And Whites by Elbow
What song makes you want to write poetry? Has to be Guy Garvey, a wonderful weaving wordsmith. And while there are many songs to choose, and while I already feel the tears creeping to my eyes, it has to be Scattered Black & Whites. Why? This is why: Been climbing trees I’ve skinned my knees…