Top Ten

Music is my escape from the bullshit in life ~ Anonymous~

Here are my top 10 songs for 2012.  This is not in any particular order and was much harder than I thought it was going to be.  I’m going to write down my favorite songs from the cd’s that I acquire going forward so it won’t be so painful next time.  Who knows, it just might turn into a Top 50 or 150. Heck let's go for 275 just to be different. 

 

 

Florence and the Machine:  What the Water Gave Me
Album: Ceremonials

I love this song and it gives me chills when I hear it.  I first discovered Florence and the Machine from their song Kiss with A Fist.  It was love at first listen, and a continued love.  She is brilliant and one of those artists that is just out of the mainstream enough to not get sick of hearing.

 

Lanie Lane: Betty Baby
Album: To the Horses

I stumbled across the album by sheer luck.  I was checking out another artist and went down to the “See what others like” section and there she was.  The search began and I was bummed when I found out that she was only available in Australia.  I was able to order it though and when it came in it was like an early Christmas.  Since Craig was so nice to go pick it up for me, he thought I was a little crazy when he handed it to me and the biggest Chesire Cat grin came across my face.  It was money well spent.

 

Steve Earle: Waitin’ on the Sky to Fall
Album: I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive

This album was one of my Dimple discoveries.  I was in one night browsing and they played a different song from this album, so I had to know who it was as I liked it so much.  Clearly I was not disappointed.  I adore this song and since it’s fitting for the 3 times we were supposed to blow up this year, it makes more sense.  “Chicken Little wasn't makin' nothin' but noise Waitin' on the sky to fall” pretty much sums this one up.

 

Zac Brown Band: Let It Go
Album: Uncaged

Zac Brown Band is just fun anyways.  Fun songs that you can sing along to and make for great road trip music.  It was very hard to pick just one, but I did it (aren’t you proud).  This song means a lot to me in so many ways and is so true.  “You keep your heart above your head and your eyes wide open
So this world can't find a way to leave you cold.  And know you're not the only ship out on the ocean

Save your strength for things that you can change.  Forgive the ones you can't.   You gotta let 'em go”  I listen to this repeatedly at work.

Fun: Some Nights
Album: Some Nights

Who doesn’t like a band named Fun.  This song always catches my attention when it comes on either the radio, iPod or the cd.  It’s just a great song to play loud and sing louder.

 

Metric: Youth without Youth
Album: Synthetica

This band is underrated in my opinion.  They are talented and have great songs.  Youth without Youth is violent if you pay attention to the lyrics.  It’s a twisted game of cat and mouse while being destructive.  But the music behind the lyrics is fantastic and is a favorite on my gym playlist and hard to not turn up and sing while on the treadmill.  So I just do it in the car.

 

 

Aerosmith : Out Go the Lights
Album: Music from Another Dimension

Do I really need to explain this one?  They are my boys, enough said.

 

 

Foxy Shazam:  Wasted Feelings
Album: Welcome to the Church of Rock-n-Roll

It’s been said that that the lead singer Eric is the new Freddie Mercury from Queen.  I almost have to agree with that.  When you listen to them you can hear the Queen influence as well as a few other bands. They are trying to bring back the brass into music as they say, brass is too cool to not include.  This one pretty much holds true that we waste feelings on a person that doesn’t deserve them.  BUT eventually we all find somebody that does deserve those feelings and returns them.

 

 

Halestorm: Call me a Bitch like it’s a Bad Thing
Album: The Strange Case of

Thanks to a lot of events in my life I’m pretty thick skinned.  Yes, there are days when stuff gets to you.  But anymore it rolls.  I’ve always taken being called a Bitch as compliment. People think it offends me but it doesn’t.  I have no room in my life for the fake, manipulative, ignorant and just plain mean people of this world.

 

 

The Gossip: Involved
Album: A Joyful Noise

I read a review about this band in one my many music magazines and had to laugh.  As the review went a little something like this “It’s a dance banger that will make you sweat your tits off”.  With a review like that, who wouldn’t want to check it out.  So I did and fell in love with Beth Ditto’s voice.  This particular song though was my anthem for a relationship that I was in.  As the lyrics go “I liked you so much I turn a blind eye You were on my mind 90% of the time The laws of attraction can be unkind Or too kind, a fine line I was spending my days forgetting the nights You were MIA and out of sight A bad mistake and that's putting it nice It's true right”  But we all have those relationships where we are not in love with the person, we are just involved with them in some way.  Even if it’s just one of convenience for the other person.