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Blast from The Recent Past: Out of My League
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…
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Blast from the Recent Past: Mr. Jones
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 …
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Blast from the Recent Past: Nothing Compares To You
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.
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Blast from the Recent Past: Africa
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.
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Think of Laura
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.
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