As many of my friends and family know I have a few musicians that I love and I listen to often. Right now some of their songs are stuck in my head. I hope that some of you actually listen to and watch these videos...especially if you aren't familiar with the songs and their lyrics. They are all great.
1. First off Brandon Flowers...I love The Killers but I really think his best music is in his new solo album Flamingo. He is one of the most poetic lyricists I've ever enjoyed listening to. This is his new single from his new album. Only The Young.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiEADQhTtIA&ob=av2n
2. I've really been listening to Coldplay more and more, and I personally think that their song Fix You is the most beautiful love song. It's honest. It recognizes the shakiness in love and how you have to have the strength to get through those patches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeEEFKeGcTc&feature=related
3. And what the hell kind of list would this be if I didn't put U2 on it. Where the Streets Have No Name. I'm not the type of person that is easily touched by music. It takes something really special for my life to change after hearing a song...and I think this is the only song that has ever really changed me and I'll tell you how. This is a song that preaches love in all of its glorious abstraction. From the one on one to the collective mass of mankind. I've been to A LOT of concerts and seen many many bands...there are very few that you can really tell enjoy what they are doing and actually know that they have something to teach you. When you go to a concert lots of things can get you aggravated: traffic, people crowding you, people on top of you, how hot things can get, how expensive shit is...When this song plays live all of these anxieties that I have go away because it is so hard for me to not feel compassion for the person next to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKC5qKTeJ9k&feature=fvst
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