Songs?

[subversive]

I know many of the people who posts here are what can only be describe as audiophiles. So in your vast depths of musical libraries which song best defines you as a person?

Not which two songs define you or the album that reminds you most of yourself which SONG, singular.

Such a vast, soul searching type question and limited to but TWO homages?? I would have to think on it for a bit and get back to you.

EDIT:
OK, off the top of my head...

Poles Apart by Floyd

Did you know...it was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was all going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes

Hey you...did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes

The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know...

I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes

Night of the Long Knives by AC/DC

Who's your leader, who's your man?
Who will help you fill your hand?
Who's your friend and who's your foe?
Who's your Judas, you don't know?

Night of the long knives

Where's that saviour, where's that light
When you're praying for your life?
Who's that fighting back to back?
Who's defending whose attack?

Night of the long knives

(Stick 'em in the back woods)

Night of the long knives

[themusicsheep]

I know it's a bit far-out but I'd say...

Something Corporate - Konstantine

It conjures ideas and fantasies of a trek across America I've always dreamed of. It's all about that moment on some sunny summer evening when you're travelling somewhere by train, with the girl of your dreams asleep on your shoulder... you look around you to see all your closest friends either asleep or nearabouts, and you see the sun setting in the distance - and you realise that things are finally going your way. When life doesn't seem too bad after all. That 'anything's possible' moment.

I seem to remember there was a Coca Cola advert that sort've went along the same lines as that, about 2-3 years ago.

[jesse]

"Gloves of Metal" by Manowar (later coverved by Anal Cunt)

Hear the pounding army of the night
The call of metal summons us tonight
And gather we on this site
To behold the power and the might
We wear leather, we wear spikes, we rule the night
Off with the lights, hear the screams
See the banging heads awaken to their dreams.
The sound of metal so loud it cracks the beams
Played by warriors called the Metal Kings.
A hero's welcome for those who heed the call.
We are together, we are all.
With hands high fists fill the air
Against the world we stand.
Hands high forever we'll be there,
Gloves of Metal rule tonight. Yea
A hero's welcome for those who heed the call.
We are together, we are all.
With hands high fists fill the air
Against the world we stand.
Hands high forever we'll be there,
Gloves of Metal rule tonight. Yea
Leather, Metal, Spikes and Chains
Gloves of Metal raised to show the brave.
Into the darkness march the armies of the night.
Bound by metal we live the fight.
We wear leather, we wear spikes, we rule the night
With hands high fists fill the air
Against the world we stand.
Hands high forever we'll be there,
Gloves of Metal rule tonight. Yea

[IcEbLAze]

I suppose I should add one more of my all time favorites- Slayer: Dead Skin Mask-

[(spoken:)
How I’ve waited for you to come
I’ve been here all alone
Now that you’ve arrived
Please stay a while
And I promise I won’t keep you long
I’ll keep you forever]

Graze the skin with my finger tips
The brush of dead cold flesh pacifies [sings ’appease’] the means
Provoking images delicate features so smooth
A pleasant fragrance in the light of the moon

Dance with the dead in my dreams
Listen to their hallowed screams
The dead have taken my soul
Temptation’s lost all control

Simple smiles elude psychotic eyes
Lose all mind control rationale declines
Empty eyes enslave the creations
Of placid faces and lifeless pageants

In the depths of a mind insane
Fantasy and reality are the same

Graze the skin with my finger tips
The brush of dead warm flesh pacifies the means
Incised members ornaments on my being
Adulating the skin before me

Simple smiles elude psychotic eyes
Lose all mind control rationale declines
Empty eyes enslave the creations
Of placid faces and lifeless pageants

Dance with the dead in my dreams [hello? hello mr gein? ]
Listen to their hollowed screams [mr gein? ]
The dead have taken my soul [lemme out of here mr gein]
Temptation’s lost all control [mr gein? I don’t wanna play anymore
Mr gein]
[dance with the dead in my dreams [mr gein, it’s not any fun anymore,]
Listen to their hollowed screams [i don’t want to play anymore mr gein]
The dead have taken my soul [mr gein? lemme out of here mr gein]
Temptation’s lost all control] [lemme out, lemmmmeee oouuuuuuttt!!]

[highwizard]

I suppose I should add one more of my all time favorites-

You already have a song listed! One song does not mean, One + other songs.


NEXT!

[kickstand]

Easy enough...

Pantera Walk

Can’t you see I’m easily bothered by persistence
One step from lashing out at you...
You want in to get under my skin
And call yourself a friend
I’ve got more friends like you
What do I do?

(pre) is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I’ve been
Belong
You can’t be something you’re not
Be yourself, by yourself
Stay away from me
A lesson learned in life
Known from the dawn of time

(chorus) respect, walk

Run your mouth when I’m not around
It’s easy to achieve
You cry to weak friends that sympathize
Can you hear the violins playing you song?
Those same friends tell me your every word

(pre)

(chorus)

Are you talking to me?
No way punk

[TheCotMan]

It is old, but due to control issues I still have not resolved, it seems to still be true:

God money, I'll do anything for you
God money, just tell me what you want me to
God money, nail me up against the wall
God money, don't want everything, he wants it all
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die than give you control
....

But that is the point isn't it? Security is about not giving up control.

[laurelinsleaves]

Jethro Tull - Aqua Lung
Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash - Track 3. Untitled

eww thats gross

"Aqualung"

Sitting on a park bench --
eyeing ittle girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose --
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck --
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

Sun streaking cold --
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end --
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.

Feeling alone --
the army's up the rode
salvation a la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend --
don't start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze --
when the ice that


that describes u???
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.

that describes you?

[skroo]

eww thats gross

Well, here's one of my favourites, Therapy?'s Diane. Not really much better. Does it describe me, though? Well, in that I've never raped and killed anyone, no. Does it describe me? Maybe, in that I'm a person who confronts Bad Things head-on.

Hell, if were were going for plain old descriptions I'd have to go with B-Movie's Nowhere Girl - partly for the way it sounds, partly for the lyrics, and partly because people I've known for even only very short periods of time tend to tell me they tend to associate that song with me.

Lyrics aren't the only reason why you associate a song with yourself. There's an emotional response that an involving piece of music imparts that goes way, way beyond just the words alone. If that weren't true, I could never like music such as Pachelbel's Canon, Bach's Tocatta and Fugue, or Depeche Mode's Nothing to Fear. The same applies to Diane.

Shit, one of the most vivid memories of any piece of music I have is Metallica's Nothing Else Matters played on a pipe organ as a processional hymn when I was in school.

[kree]

Lyrics aren't the only reason why you associate a song with yourself. There's an emotional response that an involving piece of music imparts that goes way, way beyond just the words alone. .

I agree too. Just because a song has to do with rape or stalking dosent mean that that is what it implies. I remember in grade school we did song assosiation, where we basicly disected a song and wrote what we felt the song meant( the 60's was a good era for this, or atleast that is what we mainly focused on.). Look beyond the lyrics or deeper into them.

[kree]

You already have a song listed! One song does not mean, One + other songs.


NEXT!

Can I trade my original song for a new one?!

[KinoEye]

Schaft - Cold Light

in your cold light I make this gun my lawful wife
in your cold light I come alive with a stanley knife
in your cold light I can see right through my life
take me my maker
got the noose got the neck
if only I could break her hate her save her
if only I could break her hate her save her
from you

in your cold light I walk into tinseltown
in your cold light these sheets are lit with broken hearts
in your cold light I will soon surrender
here comes success
with your fear with your fist and a flick of the wrist

here comes a candle to light you to bed
here comes a chopper to chop off your head
here comes a candle to light you to bed
here comes a chopper to chop
chop
chop off your head

I'm coming on success
with your fear with your fist and a flick of the wrist
SURRENDER! SURRENDER! SURRENDER! SURRENDER!
SURRENDER! SURRENDER! SURRENDER!
SURRENDER!

[tagg]

Mines gotta b Eminem: Criminal :p

[jesse]

if someone makes a good song about why all white rappers, especially eminem, should be killed, that'll be my new fave song.

[TheCotMan]

if someone makes a good song about why all white rappers, especially eminem, should be killed, that'll be my new fave song.

Would that include The Beastie Boys?