Switchfoot @ MindSay

This is a busy, stressful week, but we had some unseasonably warm weather earlier in the week, and I have Girl Scout cookies now, so it's ok.  I've also got some incredible new music that I've been listening to.  I've had these for nearly two weeks now, so I feel confident in my view.

Let me get one thing straight right up front: I'm not a big Switchfoot fan.  At least not anymore.  I really liked (and still do like) their old stuff, but they've gotten way too "mainstream" for my tastes... their sound has changed considerably on the last couple of albums, and it just doesn't do it for me anymore, so when I found out that their lead singer, Jon Foreman, was going to be releasing some solo stuff, I wasn't immediately excited.  Until I heard it.  Jon is doing four 6 track EPs titled "Fall", "Winter", "Spring" and "Summer".  "Fall" and "Winter" have already been released, the other two seasons come later this year.  My roommate lent it to me, and I was pretty much blown away.  Purchased my own copies before I had even finished listening to all of it.  This is NOT Switchfoot.  This music is acoustic, pensive, spiritual, searching, haunting... all of the things that draw me to a new artist.  I feel like I should write more about it, but I think the easiest thing would be to let you hear it yourself (I know that a couple of you are going to love this), so I put together my favorite "musical moments" from each EP:



I can't wait for "Spring" and "Summer"!

1. So Emotional-Christina Aguilera
2. Love for All Seasons-Christina Aguilera
3. When You Put Your Hands on Me-Christina Aguilera
4. Candyman-Christina Aguilera
5. Meant to Live-Switchfoot
6. Dare you To Move-Switchfoot
7. Let Love In-Goo Goo Dolls
8. Before It's Too Late-Goo Goo Dolls
9. Wanna Be-Nine Days
10. Cross My Heart- A*Teens
11. Summer Love-Justin Timberlake
12. So I Thought-Flyleaf
13. Last Rose of Summer-Celtic Women


I might add more..i might not..i guess it all depends..?

 I love this song.  It so reminds me of the early 80s punk sound.  Below the lyrics is the video, check it out ;)

"Oh! Gravity."

There's a fracture in the color bar
In the backseat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the streetlight
Keep you company 'til the next night

In the same town, there's the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway, where the headlight
Keep her company 'til the next night

Oh! Gravity.
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies,
Why can't we seem to keep it together?

In the back room of the Pentagon
There's a thin man with a line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night

Why this tragedy?
Why can't we seem to keep it together?

In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won't get you through
We're connected, connected
I meant it, the hype won't get you through

great band~ two awesome songs!

 

talk about angst...thats one angry garage band!

 

lighter now, less anger lol

 

so that's switchfoot and how they turned from a crazy bunch of youngstas into a softer light rock band!

Maybe I've been the problem
Maybe I'm the one to blame
But even when I turn it off and blame myself
The outcome feels the same

I've been thinkin' maybe I've been partly cloudy
Maybe I'm the chance of rain
And maybe I'm overcast and maybe
All my luck's washed down the drain

I've been thinkin' 'bout everyone, everyone you look so lonely
But when I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars
I see someone else
When I look at the stars, the stars
I feel like myself

Stars looking at our planet,
Watching entropy and pain
And maybe startin' to wonder
How the chaos in our lives could pass as sane

I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance
Of a hope beyond our own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent
Began to look like home

I've been thinkin' 'bout everyone, everyone you look so empty
But when I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars
I see someone else
When I look at the stars, the stars
I feel like myself

Everyone, everyone you feel so lonely
Everyone, ya everyone you feel so empty
When I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars
I feel like myself
When I look at the stars, the stars
I see someone

 

There you go andreux ...

 

 

So I went to the music rooms today to practice the piano and it would seem that it would offer nothing but one interruption after another...I would start playing and then some music student would have to put his/her instrument away...so once I started getting really into the song I was playing I hadn't noticed but one of the music professors was standing in the doorway...

 

As soon as I finished he said very nice...I don't see you around here much. To which I replied "Well I'm not a music student, I just play for fun"...He seemed rather astonished that a non music major would play for fun. So he asked me if I would sign up for the recital they have every year...but I told him I couldn't because it's on December 19th...However I did enjoy the offer :)

 

I'm so excited I got the music video on my page hehehe...