A moment of clarity and 200 solemn faces...

Silver Street
By Ben Folds

Or in this case, the moment of clarity.

I remember dling the original demo tape Ben Folds recorded before starting Ben Folds Five and this song blowing me away. I could never understand why this song never made it to an album. Sure, it eventually made it to the 'Ben Folds Live' album, but it totally doesn't count.

Anyway, up front it's a song about someone who is stuck in the same place. trying to justify his existence by securing his position year after year, accepting his short coming because 'thats just how it is'. But to me, this is a song about being too cocky... thinking you have everything under control but in reality, everything is just falling further and further into fantasy land. It's hard to maintain objectivity when you only have one point of view...

Deadwood
By Dirty Pretty Things

Ok.... So my 200 solemn faces are just songs I've been listening to alot lately, but I'm sure I can assess some meaning out of them. I mean... what is psychological assessment if you can't bust out a little pop-psychology every now and again.

So... according to my 'back-of-the-cereal-box-psychology-degree' assessment, this song is about my inability to let go of the past and focus on the more important aspects of my life. What they are at the moment, I have no idea. I'm no psychologist...

Razorblade
By The Strokes

Yeah... I dunno what this has to do with anything....

If anything, it's an indication of me putting too much importance in other peoples feelings, but at this time of night, it's too late and too cold to put any faith in my cognitive abilities.

The long and short of it is that all of these songs are good songs, and indeed, are all from extremely good albumst I'll have to share with you sometime. But for now, this is the best I can manage. Not that I mean this in a bad way, but I hope these songs get stuck in your head as much as they have been stuck in mine the past few weeks.