| Wilco – Casino Queen Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This was the song that really got me into Wilco. It's just an all-around fun song to sing at the top of your lungs. Especially when you're at a Wilco concert, 5 feet from Tweedy and John Stirratt. | |
| Wilco – Via Chicago Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is the song that I listen to when I just want to stare off at the sunset. There's just some beautiful, tingly imagery in here: "the crush of veils and starlight" "pillowy star/cracked door moon" "a notebook full of white dry pages" Tweedy's got such a knack for making words tactile. |
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| The Beatles – Taxman Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I would have love to have heard "Taxman" sung at the Republican National Convention. | |
| The Beatles – Within You Without You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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A beautiful song by George. I used bits and pieces of the lyrics as an extended metaphor in a memoir piece i wrote a few years back. It's quite touching and rather inspiring. |
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| The Beatles – And Your Bird Can Sing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I definitely agree with themachine. This is definitely a classic Beatles tune.. great guitar riffs, great vocal harmony, great lyrics, and a catchy melody. I could listen to it all day and not tire of it. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – Dinner at Eight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm surprised no one has commented on this gorgeous song. He wrote it about his father and an argument they got in over a Rolling Stone photo shoot over dinner one night, which led him to thoughts of how he was abandoned by his father earlier in life. To me, it's probably the most (straightforwardly) honest and personal song he's written so far. It's beautifully written, with the musical climax hitting right at the fighting imagery ("put up your fists/and I'll put up mine"). It's so brutal, yet so loving. One of the defining songs that makes Rufus one of the best new songwriters of the past decade. |
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