Softsurv
12-20-2007, 07:09 AM
My list is mostly of people who inspired me to play guitar growing up or that I'd sing walking through school. Yeah, yeah, there's a Linkin Park song, but I remember them being catchy like the plague. Besides, I'd like to see some more 2000-present songs
"Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
"Bleed American" - Jimmy Eat World (I think the title got changed to "Salt Sweat Sugar" post 9/11)
"This Is It" - Ryan Adams
"My Own Summer (Shuv It)" - Deftones
"The Pretender" or "Big Me" - Foo Fighters (or anything off The Colour and the Shape)
"Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" - The Killers
"Good Idea at the Time" - OK Go
"Somewhere a Clock is Ticking" - Snow Patrol
"Yellow Ledbetter" or "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam
"Cemetery" - Silverchair
"Pushing Me Away" (or the reworked version) - Linkin Park
"Livin' On a Prayer" - Bon Jovi
"We Are the Champions" - Queen
"They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece that You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids" - Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
"Mekong" or "Banditos" - The Refreshments
"Hope" - Alien Ant Farm
"A Movie Script Ending" - Death Cab For Cutie
"Dashboard" - Modest Mouse
"The Way We Get By" or "Don't Make Me a Target" - Spoon
"Point #1" or "Mia" - Chevelle
"Priests and Paramedics" or "Options" - Pedro the Lion/David Bazan
"Let Down" - Radiohead
They might not all be amazingly technical or brilliant pieces of work, but they were some modern artists that kept my drive to be a musician when I was eating Ramen for the fourth straight month so I could get a PRS, or when the crowd wasn't receptive to my newest song. I'd love to play them when I'm tired of playing them on guitar.
"Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
"Bleed American" - Jimmy Eat World (I think the title got changed to "Salt Sweat Sugar" post 9/11)
"This Is It" - Ryan Adams
"My Own Summer (Shuv It)" - Deftones
"The Pretender" or "Big Me" - Foo Fighters (or anything off The Colour and the Shape)
"Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" - The Killers
"Good Idea at the Time" - OK Go
"Somewhere a Clock is Ticking" - Snow Patrol
"Yellow Ledbetter" or "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam
"Cemetery" - Silverchair
"Pushing Me Away" (or the reworked version) - Linkin Park
"Livin' On a Prayer" - Bon Jovi
"We Are the Champions" - Queen
"They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece that You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids" - Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
"Mekong" or "Banditos" - The Refreshments
"Hope" - Alien Ant Farm
"A Movie Script Ending" - Death Cab For Cutie
"Dashboard" - Modest Mouse
"The Way We Get By" or "Don't Make Me a Target" - Spoon
"Point #1" or "Mia" - Chevelle
"Priests and Paramedics" or "Options" - Pedro the Lion/David Bazan
"Let Down" - Radiohead
They might not all be amazingly technical or brilliant pieces of work, but they were some modern artists that kept my drive to be a musician when I was eating Ramen for the fourth straight month so I could get a PRS, or when the crowd wasn't receptive to my newest song. I'd love to play them when I'm tired of playing them on guitar.
