Music makes the world go round

By now all know of my love of books and reading. I will not go into that all over again (even though I will return to it some other day). I do have one other love however: music.
I love singing even though I am actually nice enough to do it when no one can hear it. I don't lite silence, my life needs a soundtrack, even though it gets tedious at work sometimes. That kind of music they play there is not the soundtrack my life needs.

Do I like all music? Dear god no, I can be terribly picky and I really really dislike being forced to listen to music I don't like. Music needs to have a soul, to have lyrics that get's to you. To have a melody that just gets to you no matter what else you are doing when you hear it. You know that feeling? You can have a long playlist of songs you never heard before and then one song comes up and you just know you love it and you know you want to listen to it again and again. That kind of music gives the same wonder that a long book can give you.

Right now, my drug is Placebo, I have listened to them before but then now I just fell head over heels in love with them and it's pretty much the only thing I listen to. Black Eyed just got to me, in a way no song have in quite some time, almost like it was about me (and how messed up isn't that? But yeah, it fits me.) Running up that hill also needs a mention, I am usually not one for covers but this one is better than the original in every way possible. It has so much feeling and soul to it that it's almost painful to listen to.

Depeche Mode are my musical gods. They got the sound, they got a singer who's voice gets to your heart every single time and they got lyrics to go with it all. It is hard to pick out special songs here because, well, it is DM. But one song needs to be mentioned, Everything Counts, this might just be the best song performed live in the history of ever. One of the few times I prefer the live version to the studio version.
I can't even put my finger on what it is that makes Depeche Mode so special, they just are. I have loved them for years and years and even though I don't listen to them all that often anymore, they still own my heart.

Here are a few snapshots from some song with lyrics that I just love:

"I was never faithful 
And I was never one to trust 
Borderlining schizo 
And guaranteed to cause a fuss." 
Black Eyed - Placebo

"I'm not going down on my knees,
Begging you to adore me.
Can't you see it's misery
And torture for me."
Shake the Disease - Depeche Mode

"The sun was born and so it shall die
So only shadows comfort me
I know in darkness I will find you giving up inside like me"
Further - VnV Nation

"It's a secret no one tells
One day it's heaven, one day it's hell.
It's no fairy tale
Take it from me
That's the way it's supposed to be"
Even Angels Fall - Jessica Riddle

"If I treated you bad, you bruise my face
Couldn't love you more, you got a beautiful taste"
Glycerine - Bush

"Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man"
Carry on wayward son - Kansas

Wow, uplifting songs eh? I guess the "boy meets girl and live happily ever after" kind of songs aren't my thing. Need the kind of songs where the writer gives him/herself out in the song.

Will end for now, did anyone actually have patience to read this far? If so, sorry for just rambling on but that's what I am all about. I write about things that matter to me, and I still hope it is more interesting than the millions of fashion blogs out there. But who knows...

Over and out