Songs I love - Whir - Smashing Pumpkins w/lyrics and earphoria mayonaise

the Smashing Pumpkins were everything to me for a while, and this was my favourite song of all for that time.

It's still beautiful, and sweet and sad, and restrained. A delight.

I've wasted all my years
Been chasin' all my fears
For another
Brighter than you

I gave in long ago
To make it to the show
It's not easy
When you're alone

All your prayers
In my ears
Don't you care

Whir yourself around
Just to fall back down
Whir yourself around

My honey, little girl
C'mon let's go for a whirl
It's still early
Sun is sleeping

She says she wants to marry me
She says she wants a baby
It's not easy
When you're scared

Whir yourself around
Just to fall back down
Whir yourself around

All your prayers
In my ears
Don't you care

Mayonaise - live accoustic version from earphoria, a little treat for scrolling

Songs I love - About a girl unplugged - Nirvana

A perfect version

Songs I love - I've just seen a face - Jim Sturgess v Pearl Jam

You can thank the Beatles of course, but you won't need to look far to find their versions, and these are my favourite anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS31XNJOdpU

I've just seen a face,
I can't forget the time or place
That we'd just met, she's just the girl for me
And I want all the world to see we've met
Na na na na na na

Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
But I had never been aware
And as it is I dream of her tonight
Na na na na na na

Songs I love - Darren Hanlon - Happines is a chemical

Because love is just a lazy generalisation that we use for 100 different feelings and as many situations going through each others pockets is not like us and flattery should get you somewhere and your happiness is just a chemical

Songs I love - Heavy Heart - TZU vs You am I

More Triple J like a version briliance, again covering the masterful You am I, and again taking it in a very different direction.

I talk a lot about football
And girls I kissed in Grade 4
I piss off my friends
I'm digging a hole just staring at the floor
Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain
I'm loving cigarettes again
I know every tune about guys and girls
and hurts and hearts and moans

I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning's when it starts
I don't look so sharp
Now I got a heavy heart
 

Songs I love - Berlin Chair - Holly Throsby vs You am I

From the often magnificient Triple J Like a version sessions, the tremendously talented Holly Throsby does the tremendously fantastic You am I song, Berlin Chair
And the original, for good measure (and because it will rock your mother ucking socks off)

Songs I love - Gillian - The Waifs (and Spotlight, and Take it in)

Josh from The Waifs wrote this song, and there is just a certain something about a man who loves his mother.  In any other context this would be creepy "Gillian if you weren't my mother I would make you my wife", but it totally works.

I'm also going to go for Spotlight, and Take it in. It's London Still that I do at karaoke, but you can google that your self. Take it in reminds me so much of being in Nepal and feeling like the entire universe was spread out ahead of me for the taking.

The versions I have linked to are all from their live double album and it is oustanding, make it yours and you will not regret it.  



Spotlight

 Twenty something and the fog has all but disappeared
With each day passed I learn something more
At all rate I'm thinking here I must know it all
Love, death, a little pain have passed through these walls

Situations still arrive where I can see
The way I behave it's unjustified
These are the times I look inside
And I see I'm a child after all


Take it in