17 - I Can't Forget You, But I Can't Remember

It is October 8th.  My favorite day of the year.  Mainly because October is my favorite month, and 8 is my favorite number.  So in tribute to all my favorites, today's song is one of my all time favorite songs.  Period.

It is a song that struck me the very first time I heard it.  I don't remember where exactly that was, but it was the summer of '99.  A really odd song to stick with me in the year of things such as, The Matrix, Phantom Menace, and Disney's Tarzan.  But it's true.  In a summer full of action and adventure, a mellow alternative track captures my attention.

It would be a year later that it really took root in my mind.  It was the inspiration for an entire novel.  It was to be a grand love story, with tragic twists and turns.  Thinking about that plot now, over 10 years later, I'm glad it's just a file with a few random pages of notes.  It was not going to be very good.  It was full of angst.  Well, I guess I might have been able to make that work had I introduced sparkly vampires.

Song 17/Day17

"Turn My Head," by LĪVE on the album, Secret Samadhi.

It's a gut wrenching song.  I'm not quite sure what it's really about.  The lyrics don't really match up to the visuals in my head.  But that's okay.  Songs can mean different things to everybody.  The story I was writing was to be titled, "Beyond October."  Hence my strong association to this song and Autumn.

I'll just let this song speak for itself.

"Turn My Head" by LĪVE on their album, Secret Samadhi.

Enjoy!
-Jesse

06 - Just a Step Amongst the Stairs

So here's the idea.  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me.  It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

Today's song is a bit of a mood changer.  Especially considering the subject matter it brings to mind when I hear it.


 Song 06/Day 06

Today's Song:  "Overcome," off the album V, by the amazing band LĪVE.


Live had become one of my favorite bands a few years before V hit the market.  A lot of their music has that Autumnal feel to it.  Like most music I "discover," I come across it from movies/trailers/or tv.  I think this may be one of the earliest accounts of it.  I heard the song "Lightning Crashes," used on a trailer for the Sandra Bullock flick, "Hope Floats," in the spring of '98 (end of Freshman year at Evangel University.)  I don't think I ever saw the movie.  But it turned me onto this band that I soon found out was from my same county in PA.

Soon after I had raided the local used CD stores and picked up, "Throwing Copper," and "Secret Samadhi."  The latter would bring me to one of my all time favorite songs, which will appear on this list on October 8th.  The album V debuted on September 18th, 2001.

A week after 9/11.

This song struck me when I first heard it, and I connected it to the events.  I guess a lot of people felt that way.  Months later a music video of this song would air featuring footage of the aftermath.  It was powerful.  It cemented that event with this song in my mind.  I remember listening to it and it became like a prayer of sorts.  There were tears at times.

Music can be powerful and potent.  I think every person reacts differently.  For me this song will forever be mournful and in honor of those who died in the attacks, and those who worked tirelessly to save as many as they could.  It makes me long for the unity our nation had in the weeks following those horrible events.

I am particularly struck by the lyrics:

Beautiful drowning
This beautiful drowning
This holy water
This holy water, is in my lungs

I'll let the song speak for itself.

Day 06/Song 06 - Overcome by Live.

-jesse