Hear You ME My Friends

So lets get the ball rolling

Morgan (lives across the hall from me, my roomates younger brother) messed up his ankle thursday night, and is currently taking 5 pain killers every 4 hours. which is a great source of entertainment.

I haven't worn pants since thurday night. its saturday afternoon.

i took a sabath yesturday. i ordered pizza cause apparently your not suppose to cook on the sabbath. is making porridge cooking?

My girlfriends gone on some geeky band trip. my theory was if i did absolutly nothing i wouldn't miss her. wow, don't try that kids!!!

i went to my good buddy Allisons Jazz concert, it was pretty amazing. Jazz is way more fun then orchestra. OF course, orchestra serves its purpose, like making me cry during the floating leaf scene of forest gump.

also...Braveheart is an amazing movie.

Skoch

In A Coma

When i was 11 years old i remember seeing the video for Rico and believing that my whole life could be summed up by "Everyone's gotta be something, me i'm garbage".
So if your Canadian and want to remember the glory days of your junior high years, i defintly recommend buying in a coma (matthew goods greatest hits). I was lucky enough to grab the special edition, complete with a DVD of all there videos!!!

So lets update my life.

School is going well, i slack off just as much as ever, but i feel i'm doing well never the less.

I have a Beautiful girlfriend, she's just as crazy as me (and has the best fashion sense ever, one day shes a goth, the next shes a hippy, everyday is an adventure!!!)
But God has definetly blessed our relationship already.

I'm still a stuborn muscian with hopes of one day bringing my distortion pedal to church. what a glorious day that will be.

i swim with the fish cuz the fish are alright
oh my my just to get you to bite
Carole was a gambler
came into the city
she died when she was 21
cause big city life is fun

Skoch

14-1

14. The Old Apartment - The Barenaked Ladies (Born On A Pirate Ship - 1996)

I always liked to view this as the way a Christian acts once he leaves his pre-Christ life and enters his with-Christ life, that lust to return to the way things once were. forgetting how bad things were in the process.

13. Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - 1995)

I like to think of this song,(being only the second track on their 2 hour + album) as billy corgan's way of saying, "i'm gonna sing about a whole lot of torment, but remember that if you give your life to Christ RIGHT NOW the torment won't be so bad"

12. Live Forever - Oasis (Definitly Maybe - 1994)

Written after the death of his girlfriend in a car crash, the songs shows the fear of stepping bodly into the future. The guitar solo reminds me of Neil Young, and is one of the most inspiring solos i've ever heard.


11. Dumb - Nirvana (In Utero - 1994)

Everytime it gets to the end of this song i always wondered why Kurt Cobain didn't scream "I think i'm dumb". I always come to the same conclusion, i think he means it.

10. Tuesday's Gone - Lynryd Skynryd (Pronouced Leh'-nerd Skin-erd-1972)

Me and Alex Dube (typo for reason) have watched Dazed and Confused more times to count. This song almost makes me wish my girlfriend left me on a train.

9. Comfortable Numb - Pink Floyd (The Wall - 1979)

Everytime i feel like the walls of society are towering over me and its to much too handle, Pink Floyd always comes through. This contains my NUMBER 1 ALL TIME FAVOURITE guitar solo. ever. You can give David Gilmour a ukelele and he'll make it sound like a stratocastor.

8. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin (Untitled - 1971)

When i was a kid i used to tell myself that the reason i believe in God was because of this song. I stopped telling myself that, but the doesn't necessairly mean its not true. This was the first rock song i fell in love with, when i was about 11 years old i memorized all the words. Its safe to say i was cool from the beginning.

7. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix (Axis: Bold As Love - 1967)

Jimi Hendrix's most beautiful composition, and coming in at just over 2 minutes. The song is about those people that come into your life, give you love (not sexual love, if thats what your thinking) and then they're out of your life forever. I like to think i've built my life upon the reliance of people like that.

6. Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral - 1994)

As much as the johnny cash version is wonderfull and all that, i say that it takes one sick twisted motherf*cker to put something that sorrowfull on to paper. "i will let you down, i will make you hurt" is not something any human being should ever think of himself. What makes this song for me is the one line "if i could start again". It is this brief moment of hope that gives me the feeling that even the person that has been wallowing in hell for his whole has a hope for heaven.

5. Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam (Jeremy CD Single - 1992)

I'm not sure if open the eyes of my heart is a rip off of this song, or the other way around. Defintly the most famous B side of the past 20 years, and coincidentaly contains the 92 greatest guitar solo of all time. The fact that it was done in one take and Eddie vedder made the lyrics on the spot make me smile, cuz its rather emotional, and rather meaningless. Kind of like my personl view on worship music. but thats a whole nother can of beans.

4. Apparitions - Matthew Good Band (Underdogs - 1998)

The fact that they edited out the guitar solo for radio adds a sad sense of irony to a song devoted to the conformities in a brain. We will eat what they feed us and never ask questions. Theres a rat in my brain.

3. Today - Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream - 1993)

Today is the greatest day i've ever known, can't live for tomorrow, tomorrows much too long. You can't help but feel sorry for Billy Corgan as he sings his very own suicide note, thank God he never actually killed himself.

2. Where Is My Mind? - Pixies (Surfer Rosa - 1988)

When i was 15 years old me and Austin watched fight club. At the end of that movie when the buildings fall down and the male penis flashes on the screen this song is playing. I'm proud to say i heard it live, and hearing 15 hundred people singing along to this song was crazy awesome.

1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here - 1975)

Well here it is. I believe that wish you were here is amongst the most beautiful things you can say to someone. Of all the things you could wish for, your merely wishing for someones presence. The first song i ever learned on guitar, and a beautiful ode to insanity. Shine on you crazy diamond indeed.

Skoch

27-15

27. Bulls On Parade - Rage Against The Machine (Evil Empire - 1996)

Even now when i listen to Rage i feel like i should be arrested for even thinking some of the thoughts these guys are singing. and on no other track do they more violently urge you to stand up for whats right, no matter who is in the way.

26. Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dreams - 1993)

Theres a slight sense of beauty when he sings i'll send this smile over to you. This song is about the jump from childhood to adolesence and the desire to flip everyone the bird. We all have the same capacity to hurt one another. All Billy corgan is saying is send a smile instead.

25. Tired Of Sex - Weezer (Pinkerton - 1996)

Pinkerton is by far the most honest album made in the past ten years. This song is about the overindulgence in sex with the absence of love. I know, i'll go, i'm a sinner but i can't say no.

24. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden (Down On The Upside - 1996)

I'm pretty sure this song is about either killing your girlfriend or killing yourself. Never the less in involves everything a soundgarden song should, insane down tuning, Chris Cornell screaming, and a mention of a snake in reference to satan.

23. Middle Class Gangsters - Matthew Good Band (Underdogs - 1998)

All i have to say: Put on british steal, cause today i'm how your feeling, when everybody up and down my block, it used to matter when we used to rock

22. Above - Finger Eleven (Tip - 1998)

Everytime i meet someone who knows this song i ask them if its pro a God or against?
Its about 50-50. I guess its a personal thing, this is finger eleven at there best, I remember hearing it live and being blown away.

21. November Rain - Guns N' Roses (Use Your Illusions I - 1991)

When i was 9 years old i can recal the video where slash walks outside the church and to the end of the field and plays his guitar solo as if he just drank poison and he was moments away from meeting God. and that is what inspires me to play guitar

20. My My, Hey Hey - Neil Young (Rust Never Sleeps - 1979)

Wonderfull tribute to johnny rotten (the king is gone but not forgotten). I belive Mr. Young sumed up the feelings of every rock and roller:

"Hey Hey, My My, rock and roll will never die
There is more to the picture then meets the eye"

19. You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC (Back In Black - 1980)

We all wish we could be as cool as Angus Young. Or at least look that good in a school uniform.

18. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - 1995)

When i bought this album i expected to hear some insane guitar pounding riffs that would splatter my brains against the back of my skull. Instead i got this, an instrumental piano piece that pretty much contrast the better part of the rest of the album.

17. Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magix - 1991)

Sure singing about your drug addiction has been done, but this song made it cool. I still can't get over how john frusciante made his guitar sound like that.

16. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica (Metallica - 1991)

Metallica at there best is there 8 minute songs. hands down. Rarly will you find a true metallica find that will disagree with that. This was a song that tens of thousands of teenagers needed to hear. When they played this song live and everyone was singing along so passiontly i felt this wierd sensation come over me. It was like church in a way.

15. Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd (Dark Side Of The Moon - 1972)

Due to the fact i know nothing about singing i'm not sure how hard it is to sing this, but the passion that is behind clare torry's voice while she literarly screams into your ear fills me with a strange sense of glory.

Tune in next time for 14-2!

39-28

39. Dream On - Aerosmith (Aerosmith - 1973)

the first time i heard this i turned my mini radio on full blast and start rocking out (i was about 14, before i had touched a guitar) and my dad came home early from work and yelled at me to shut it off. From that moment on it was true love.

38. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (A Night At The Opera - 1975)

The guitar solo in this is one of the few more complex pieces of music i can actually play. and like most people i first heard this while watching wayne's world.

37. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 (War - 1983)

when i heard the title i had no clue it refered to an actually event, i just thought they had something against church. The way edge can change completely what he is playing during the verses and still make it sound cool blows my mind.

36. Thirty-Three - Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - 1995)

The smashing pumpkins ode to the second last day of jesus' life. and you can make it last forever.

35. Brian Wilson - The Barenaked Ladies (Rock Spectacle - 1998)

the live version is far superior to the album version, mainly because the live version has all the intensity and dirt that comes with playing live. i truly enjoy the rip off of secret angent man at the end of each chorus.

34. Fake Plastic Tree - Radiohead (The Bends - 1995)

I've always felt when it comes to love i could totally relate to this song, my fake plastic love but i can't help this feeling, i could blow through the ceiling. Me and my buddy Gord used to always sum up christianity with the last phrase of that song, and if i could be who you wanted all the time

33. Moonage Daydream - David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - 1972)

That first shot is what does it for me. i've heard covers where they enter into the song softly, but that just won't do it for me.I guess any song talking about alien love and has a saxaphone in it will do the trick.

32. Closer To The Heart - Rush (A Farewell To Kings - 1977)

if anybody can tell me what it means to be closer to the heart, you win a prize. The live version is far superior with the big jam session at the end.

31. Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine - 1989)

I like to think he is singing this song to satan. that or God. probably a girl though. "your everywhere i go, you're all i see ; just a fading f"cking reminder of who i used to be" you decide.

30. Sun Up...Running For Home - Matthew Good Band (Beautiful Midnight - 1999)

this song is full of metaphors i have yet to figure out, but for some reason it just fits into the song. Like i saw your face before in rough, you should wait around a while, your body's bound to show up. I like the idea of Jesus singing "its gets tight in there (your heart) sometimes, looking for those defects, talking like its a reflex.

29. Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication - 1999)

beautiful piece of guitar, a true ode to unrequited love. with the birds i'll share this lonely view.

28. Corduroy - Pearl Jam (Live On Two Legs - 1998)

If eddie vedder didn't mumble throughout this song i'd declare it sad, but alas, instead its fully of wierd quotes like "can't buy what i want because its free". The guitar solo at the end is so random, i like it alot.

tune it next time for 27-15