- "Tonight you arrested my mind, when you came to my defense, with a knife in the shape of your mouth, in the form of your body with the wrath of a god, oh you stood by me, belief." Gavin DeGraw hit the big time in 2003 with the album "Chariot" which gave us hits like "Follow Through" and the mega smash "I Don't Want To Be". The album also featured a few gorgeous ballads including "Belief". "Chariot" would be re-released a year later with a "stripped" version of each song from the album with much less production. If you have a special someone, "Chariot- Stripped" is a good listen as you get to know that someone better in the biblical sense. This particular version of "Belief" comes from the iTunes exclusive 9 song "Live from Soho" album. "Live from Soho" finds DeGraw behind the piano and acoustic guitar performing songs from his 1st two albums in good form. "Chariot Stripped" and "Live from Soho" are the best representations of his music- Gavin sounds best minus the studio gloss.
- "I was living for a dream, loving for a moment, taking on the world, that was just my style, now I look into your eyes, I can see forever, the search is over you were with me all the while." Every now and again the iPod gives me a pure gem to talk about. Does it get any better than "The Search is Over"? I can remember hearing this song in a restaurant in Baltimore about 4 years ago and thinking "how is this song not in my collection?" I remedied that situation quickly. Survivor is the same group who sang "Eye of the Tiger" which was used in the film "Rocky III". That song rocks, and if you are from the Delaware Valley hearing the the opening guitar riff may give you the sudden urge to enroll at Pennco Tech. "The Search is Over" shows us the softer side of Survivor...a much softer side. In the pantheon of cheesy 80's power ballads this has to be towards the top. My favorite lyric is "so if you ever loved me, show me that you give a damn." He's serious. This is not a game.
3. Somebody Told Me- The Killers
- "Well somebody told me, you had a boyfriend, who looked like a girlfriend, that I had in February of last year, it's not confidential, I've got potential, a rushin' a rushin' around." Aside from "All These Things That I've Done" (which is genius) I'm not sure what the hot fuss is about The Killers. That being said "Somebody Told Me" is a fun song. If you like a combination of electric guitars, synth pop and tales of androgyny I can't imagine a better song for you. Plus who doesn't love a hard riff and a back beat? The Killers call Las Vegas home and I can see how their music fits the Vegas high energy party vibe. My only issue with "Somebody Told Me" is that it's hard for me to accept that "heaven ain't close in a place like this" when thanks to Warrant I grew up believing that "heaven isn't too far away."
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