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Everyone Copes With Music… Right? 🎧
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items Well maybe not everyone, but it can’t just be me coping with music… Right?
Anyways here are all of the most recent songs I have been listening to on repeat.
I love researching songs, reading their lyrics, and watching their music videos (when appl...
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Favorite Music Streaming Platforms
Need some recommendations for music streaming platforms? Here are some of my favorite music streaming platforms I use pretty much everyday.
If you love listening to music on the radio, well SiriusXM is for you! I recently learned that if you have a subscription in your car, you automatically have access to their app subscription as well. So now I can listen to my favorite stations while ...
SiriusXM
Apple Music has been my music streaming platform since 2018 and I have never looked back. I know it may not be seen as cool as other music streaming platforms, but I do appreciate my monthly listening statistics, music milestones each month, and end ...
Apple Music
YouTube & YouTube Music can be great not only to find new songs, but also watch music videos. I love watching music videos, especially ones created in the 80s & 90s to see their editing styles and use of early motion graphics.
YouTube
Songs on Repeat 🔁
These are all the songs I have been listening to consistently on my playlist.
Why is there a song about an orange flavored drink? Well this song is actually an anti-war song with “Orange Crush” referring to Agent Orange, a chemical herbicide used during the Vietnam War period.
R.E.M. - Orange Crush (Official Music Video)
I know I can’t be the only one who experiences sensory overload on a regular basis and this song mirrors the struggle of feeling of your senses pushing themselves to their limit perfectly.
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
“Here Comes The Rain Again” that brings you in and out of the melancholy, showing the downward spiral of depression. While also bringing you up out of the depression. Presenting you with a downward spiral of impending doom, allowing you to reflect on...
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again (Music Video)
“Personal Jesus” starts out with the line “reach out and touch faith”. With the story of someone who is being given care and hope from someone who is their own ‘Jesus’ in a sense. Though the song could also be interpreted as believing in false idols ...
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The song “Birdhouse In Your Soul” is about a night light, the “blue canary in the outlet by the light switch”, that is pleading not to be forgotten. It wants to be your center thought or the “only bee in your bonnet”.
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (Official Music Video)
Just as the song’s title suggests, “Paranoid Android” is a song about confusion and paranoia. It shows the dissatisfaction of an unstable and turbulent world with the feeling of alienation on full display.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (Official Music Video)
“The Politics of Dancing” is a song that when taken at face value is about a scenario where all the politicians have stopped legislating and have become DJs, playing music. Though at a deeper level the song gives critique to how politicians are not h...
Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing
“Invisible Sun” is a song that showcases what was happening in Northern Ireland during the early 80s. A lyric that always speaks to me is “I don’t ever want to play the part, of a statistic on a government chart”.
The Police - Invisible Sun (Official Music Video)
Illustrating the ways in which the freedoms of citizens are controlled by their government, which shows through lyrics such as “Big brother's watching, we watch him back. We see right through his disguise. He tries to scare us, with angry words. But ...
Oingo Boingo - Wake Up (It's 1984)
“Burn The Witch” is a song that opposes going with the crowd and critiques authority. It calls out discrimination through showcasing how social paranoia and group thinking can cause hysteria leading to the ostracization of individuals seen as ‘differ...
Radiohead - Burn The Witch
“Talkin’ About A Revolution” at its heart is a song about political and social change. It showcases the struggle of the poor taking about their frustrations as well as class warfare and the struggles of marginalized communities.
Tracy Chapman - Talkin' About A Revolution (Official Music Video)
The tone and overall composition of the song allures me, making it one of my repeat listens lately. The live version of at Rainbow, London, UK from 12/1979 is also a great listen as well.
Dire Straits - Six Blade Knife
“People are People” is a song about overcoming the intolerance and hatred within our society. Calling for people to unite and put aside their differences. Which is perfectly encapsulated in lyrics such as “I can't understand what makes a man, hate an...
Depeche Mode - People Are People (Official Music Video)
Set in a dystopian future, “Life During Wartime” defines a time where caution would be needed to walk through the streets you once called home and be skeptical of even our closest friends. We follow the protagonist through the song as he becomes more...
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
An anti-war and violence anthem, “Zombie” is a heavier and powerful song about the turmoil in Northern Ireland at the time. But the song also provides a look at the impact of conflict on innocent people and the destructive nature of war.
The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video)
“Grey Matter” takes a look at the nature of people following the crowd and people not thinking for themselves. With commentary on unchecked power and themes of brainwashed control and delusion showing how people can lose one’s self. With lyrics sayin...
Oingo Boingo - Grey Matter
From one of my favorite albums, “The Logical Song” describes how when children are being taught how to be responsible adults, their wonder and innocence can quickly turn into cynicism and worry. Showing how passion and creativity can be restricted fr...
Supertramp - The Logical Song (Official Video)
“How Soon is Now?” showcases anxiety and the frustrations of situations when trying to find where you belong and connect with others around you.
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Official Music Video)
Quite literally a song about vampires, “Bloodletting” is an eerie song in the gothic rock genre.
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) (Official Music Video)
Despite being released under Danny Elfman’s name, “So-Lo” is an Oingo Boingo album through and through. “Gratitude” is a song about appreciating everything in life that comes your way, whether it is the positive or the negative, even in the face of a...
Danny Elfman - Gratitude (Official Music Video)