OT: Music Survey

Songs that makes you feel happy: “Don’t Stop Believin” by Journey, “Hotel California” by The Eagles.

Songs you listen to when you’re sad: “Zombie” by the Cranberries, “Forever” by Vertical Horizon.

Songs you listen to when you’re angry: “Egmont Overture” by Beethoven, “Tired of Being Blonde” by Carly Simon.

Songs that makes you laugh: “No One Is To Blame” by Howard Jones, “Constantinople” by They Might Be Giants.

Songs you listen to, to calm down: “Only Time” by Enya, “Ase’s Death” by Edvard Grieg.

Songs you listen to, that get you pumped up: “Harden My Heart” by Quarterflash, “We Are” by Vertical Horizon.

Song that makes you feel happy: “Energy” Apples in Stereo
Song you listen to when you’re sad. “Waiting for Superman” Flaming Lips
Song you listen to when you’re angry. “I See Sound” Moth
Song that makes you laugh. “Drunk by Noon” The Handsome Family
Song you listen to, to CALM DOWN. “Take Care” Beach House
Song you listen to, that gets you pumped up. “Boys, You Won’t” The Wrens

Sunny Days – Jars of Clay
Most of the Time – Bob Dylan
dont listen to music when i’m angry
Cocaine Habit – Old Crow Medicine Show
River Constantine – Jars of Clay
This Town – OAR

I won’t do the “Top 5” stuff because the best songs/bands are the ones I don’t like.

Anyway, I wanted to ask if there was a fanpost or fanshot where people were exchanging songs for a 2010 Giants playlist?

Happy: Summertime Clothes – Animal Collective
Sad: Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Angry: Tame – Pixies
Laugh: Method Man – Wu-Tang or any cheesy 80’s rock, that’s the best.
CALM DOWN: Collapse the Light Into Earth – Porcupine Tree
Pumped Up: Electric Feel – MGMT
Top 5 80’s

1- Hey – Pixies
2- I Know It’s Over – The Smiths
3- Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads
4- Lovesong – The Cure
5- Bangs the Drums – Stone Roses

Top 5 90’s

1- Sometimes – My Bloody Valentine
2- Let Down – Radiohead
3- Oh Comely – Neutral Milk Hotel
4- Seeing Other People – Belle & Sebastian
5- All I Need – Air

Top 5 2000’s

1- Chicago – Sufjan Stevens
2- Cato as a Pun – of Montreal
3- First Breath After Coma – Explosions in the Sky
4- Bluish – Animal Collective
5- Someday – The Strokes

Overrated Bands

1- Guns N’ Roses
2- AC/DC
3- Blink 182
4- Eagles
5- Green Day
6 – Linkin Park

5 Underrated Bands

1- Pavement
2- Talking Heads
3- Joy Division
4- Velvet Underground
5- Yo La Tengo

I also never got the Beatles love.

Song that makes you feel happy: “Take a Picture” – Filter
Song you listen to when you’re sad: “So Long Goodbye” – Sum 41
Song you listen to when you’re angry: “Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)” – Chevelle
Song that makes you laugh: “Get Lower” – Chris Rock
Song you listen to, to CALM DOWN: “Wish You Were Here” – Incubus
Song you listen to, that gets you pumped up: “The Hollow” – A Perfect Circle

Top 5 songs from 3 different decades (ie 80’s/90’s/00’s)
1980s (it’s not my fault, I wasn’t alive during this decade):
1. Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo
2. Close to Me – The Cure
3. Blue Monday – New Order
4. Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
5. I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues – Elton John

1990s:
1. No Rain – Blind Melon
2. The Kids Aren’t Alright – The Offspring
3. The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson
4. Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis
5. Brain Stew – Green Day

2000s (condensed 1500 songs into 10, couldn’t cut more):
1. 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2) – Tool
2. Lateralus – Tool
3. Hate Me – Blue October
4. Re-Education (Through Labor) – Rise Against
5. Southern Belles in London Sing – The Faint
6. Fine Again – Seether
7. Orestes – A Perfect Circle
8. Forgotten – Linkin Park
9. Passenger – Deftones
10. Indigo Children – Puscifer

5 Overrated bands
1. Coldplay
2. U2
3. Muse
4. Weezer
5. Green Day

5 Underrated bands
1. Tool
2. The Faint
3. Rise Against
4. Cage The Elephant
5. Blue October

Happy- Happy by the Stones

Sad- Anything by Townes Van Zandt, or Love Hurts, by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, many songs by the Louvin Brothers

Angry- Killing in the name of (I think that’s the title) Rage Against the Machine

Laugh- Happy Boy by the Beat Farmers

Calm- Beethoven-Pathetique Sonata, 2nd movement

Pumped- Lyin’ Ass Bitch- Fishbone

60’s
Hey Jude
Across the Universe
You’ve got to hide your love away
God Only Knows-Beach Boys
Waterloo Sunset- The Kinks

70s

Couldn’t I Just tell you-Todd Rundgren
Muswell Hillbilly- The Kinks
Chest Fever- The Band
The Losin’ End- Neil Young- although that might be 1969, damn.
For All We Know- Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack
(for those who don’t know Donny Hathaway, he was the greatest singer ever. My friend’s dad produced this record, and Donny learned the song that day, then nailed it on the first take. I recently played a solo piano version at my friend’s memorial. I’ve got tears just thinking about it)

90s

Anything from OK Computer by Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve
Secret Squirrel- Marcy Playground
Chiaroscurro- Paula Cole
Sex And Candy

Overrated

Bruce Springsteen
U2
Celine Dion
Creed
Smashing Pumpkins

Underrated

Fishbone
The Kinks
Marcy Playground
Big Star
The Left Banke

Song that makes you feel happy: Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Song you listen to when you’re sad.: Never Tear Us Apart – INXS

Song you listen to when you’re angry.: Master of Puppets – Metallica

Song that makes you laugh.: Intermission – Tool

Song you listen to, to CALM DOWN Rainbow Connection – Kermit the Frog

Song you listen to, that gets you pumped up.: The Trooper – Iron Maiden