Intermeme: Letter Songs

[packbat]

This is a twist on the Letter Meme. Instead of coming up with ten items for a certain letter, you come up with five song titles for a certain letter and explain why you picked them. If interested then leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. You post this blurb in your journal along with your list.

I got a G from annechen67, so let's crank up the iTunes and pull up some tunes!

1. "Get Out of This House" – Shawn Colvin. Shawn Colvin is an adaptable artist – I first heard her do the modern-folk-song style in "Never Saw Blue Like That" on the Runaway Bride soundtrack, but "Get Out of This House" is a harsher sound, is rock, more like (though not much like) Suzanne Vega. It is similar to both of those, however, in its lyrics – they're clever and unexpected, like Joni Mitchell's "The Gallery", or "Chelsea Morning". The whole album ("A Few Small Repairs") is excellent – considered by some* to be her best.
   
   
2. "Give a Little Bit" – Supertramp. I just like this one – I smile when it comes up on the radio. It's got a bit of jazz influence to it, and good lyrics. I don't like "easy listening" soft rock, but the soft rock with something going on in it works magnificently for me.
   
   
3. "Going Under" – Evanescence. Like a lot of people, I came to the album with this one ("Fallen") by way of "Bring Me To Life". (Sidenote: they play a different version of that other song on the radio – I prefer the "Fallen" one.) Sometimes I want to hear harshness, and Evanescence is relatively literate, with a good dynamic range, and just generally clicks.
   
   
4. "Good Company" – Martha Berner. Don't tell anyone I still have this track in my iTunes – I don't actually own it**.... But seriously, superb. I have a serious fondness for the folk side of rock, and "Good Company" has a splendid guitar line and a tranquil style that's quite appealing. And, of course, deft lyrics – in this case, quite uplifting too.
   
   
5. "Graceland" – Paul Simon. This album, specifically, is one of the first I remember actually putting on, on my parents' CD player, hooked through the harman/kardon into our speakers. (The other I remember specifically is Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms".) Paul Simon was my first favorite artist, and "Graceland" – song and album – was a part of that. Poetic, vivid lyrics is a huge part of it, but I like his sound on that CD. "Graceland" in particular is a lively little piece, with beautiful little hints of a larger world in its lyrics.
   

* "Some", in this case, being whoever wrote the blurb on allmusic.com.
** Note how I cleverly insert the implication that I own the rest of these. "Graceland" is my parents', and "Going Under" nanakikun's

Comments

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun; I'll bite. Letter?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

May as well be obvious; how does "R", for Redtail, sound?

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Done (http://baxil.livejournal.com/155464.html).