The beauty of this song lies in its sub­tlety and irony. The guy seems to think that the girl is really out of his league. And even if the girl flirts back, he still couldn’t believe that the girl likes him at all…

Mr. Jones was writ­ten by lead singer Adam Duritz and gui­tarist David Bryson.
In an episode of VH1’s Sto­ry­tellers, Adam explained: “It’s really a song about my friend Marty (Jones, of the band The Himalayans) and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Fla­menco gui­tar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Fran­cisco in the mis­sion play­ing with his old Fla­menco troupe. And after the gig we all went to this bar called the New Ams­ter­dam in San Francisco …

Sinead O’Connor’s one of the most bril­liant artists when I was grow­ing up. She’s the Lady Gaga of my generation–pure bril­liant genius minus the crazy stunts.

Noth­ing Com­pares To You has been called by VH1 as one of the Top 100 Songs of 90’s, for good rea­son. It’s one of the best made songs lyri­cally and musi­cally. It’s music is haunt­ing, almost pained, and you could feel the pas­sion behind the lyrics. It talks of an expe­ri­ence we’re all famil­iar with–the painful mem­ory of good­bye, the love that could have been per­fect, and the tragedy of the one that got away.

Because we love, we are never the same again. We are for­ever scarred. We will always remember.

This is six min­utes of amazing.

The video was intro­duced to me by Fr. Jet Vil­larin in the rec­ol­lec­tion I attended just before my birth­day. The day before, I saw AVATAR, and was reminded of the movie when I saw this video. I just had to down­load it myself and look for the lyrics of the song.

I think this is one of the most beau­ti­ful songs around. The melody is haunt­ing, the lyrics is the best, and Cristo­pher Cross just blows your mind.