in lieu of choir: music!

[fahye]

WHY STRIKE NOW, RANDOM SICKNESS? WHY NOW?

Grrr. We're doing Handel's Messiah at the moment and I don't particularly want to miss rehearsal, but even less do I want to turn up with a headache and a sore throat and cough all over the soprano section.

I think I'll make peach tea and have a nap. But first! Nobody actually tagged me for the musicmeme, I just felt like picking a letter and bestowing music upon you all. Behold:



Harbour - Vienna Teng

Fear is the brightest of signs
The shape of the boundary you leave behind
So sing all your questions to sleep
The answers are out there in the drowning deep

Pure Vienna, with fast cheerful piano and a romantic sentiment that never gets old.

Heaven On Their Minds - JC Superstar

And all the good you've done
Will soon get swept away.
You've begun to matter more
Than the things you say.

This song can always, always stop me in my tracks with how perfect it is. It's uncomfortable and wrenching and, in my mind, one of Lloyd Webber's best songs. Period.

Hurricane - Something Corporate

Stand up don't make a sound
Your ears might bleed
There are sweet fluorescent enemies
That live inside of me

I haven't posted any SC in a while, but I STILL LOVE THEM. And this has always been one of my favourite songs of theirs.

Hate Every Beautiful Day - Sugarcult

Faces in the crowd, fake smiles for miles
My imitation's wrong of them again
Trapped inside this cheap hotel
Bored as hell, turning the channels round

I only have two Sugarcult songs, but they're both exactly the kind of angry melodic male rock that I unfailingly fall for. This is a fantastic bitter-at-the-world song.

Heartbeat To A Gunshot - Angelo Badalamenti

Setting aside the fact that this is from the soundtrack to A Very Long Engagement, one of my favourite films, and that it has my favourite title of any piece of music ever...this is a beautiful, beautiful instrumental piece.

Hint Of Madness - Hancock Basement

I'll be your red light window fan
I'll be your man, I'll be your man
I'll see your sweat against the glass
Open your window and let me pass

Everyone has to download this one, because this is a Canberra band, their name is an ANU injoke about the lowest level of the science library, and one of my best friends is dating the lead singer. And I went to their EP launch last week. And they have a MySpace *pimps faithfully*. Their sound is a little heavier than I like when played live, but I have developed a startling addiction to this song here.

Honey And The Moon - Joseph Arthur

But right now
Everything is turning blue
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon

Joseph Arthur is a me-and-Ji artist. Um. I don't know, I have a list of them somewhere in my head. This is a subtle, lovely, drowning song. It feels like honey, and it feels like moonlight.

How To Save A Life - The Fray

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks - you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through

I am lukewarm fond of The Fray, but I really like this song. It was used in a ridiculously, endearingly literal manner on the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack (which has a habit of using songs endearingly literally) and...I like it. The end.

Hymne - Era

Senzo mio avento re ave
Senzo maletti a vare male
Senzo divano mentire
Senzo in veritati a vale

It isn't a musicpost from me without choral music with a synthesised backing! Whoo! I don't even know what language that is. It looks like the bastard child of Latin and Italian. It probably IS. The lyrics aren't important, anyway.

Heaven - Live

Darling, I believe, Oh Lord
Sometimes it's hard to breathe, Lord
At the bottom of the sea, yeah yeah
I'll believe it when I see it for myself

I should probably talk about how Live is one of my favourite bands and I own all of their albums except one (6 out of 7, including the Best Of) and I would sell a kidney to see them in concert, but...you can have this song instead. It's probably one of their better-known ones. If you are ever in doubt as to what style of music is Fahye's Type: this. This is it.

Actually, taken together, these ten songs probably give you a pretty good idea of what I like :)

Comments

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

*GLARES*

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Do you not CHECK your email?

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

HAVE NOW. AAAAAAAAAHAHAHA.

I swear it wasn't there before!

[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have loved Honey and the Moon for like, three years. That song is so amazing.

[lone-lilly.livejournal.com]

How to Save a Life is so my comfort song right now. And I can't pinpoint what I like so much about it (and I'm not so impressed with the rest of the Fray's music), but yeah. That song's working for me right now.

Also: taking all the rest.

[corialis.livejournal.com]

Sugarcult! I went through an obsessive intense Sugarcult-love phase, like, 5 years ago ish? and still listen to them and the 5 billion mp3s I stole from friends with more extensive music collections than my 13-year-old self. What songs do you already have?

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

<-- also didn't go to rehearsal

<-- also not feeling 100% but not that bad, just being careful

<-- IT'S FRIDAY!!!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

HURRAH FRIDAY!

Remind me: I need to come over some time and make you watch Angels in America.