Last Class= Great Class

I’m sure I am not alone when I say that I really enjoyed last class. The opportunity to listen to each others ideas of what a perfect song is and what these songs mean to another was quite an opportunity. I am a huge music fan with a very wide range in tastes, basically anything, so this was great exposure. I tried to narrow down what I thought were my three favorite selection and explain why. I also did not get a chance to present my song as there were enough people eager to present and well, my favorite song seems to make me cry everytime so I was’nt sure I really wanted to do that in front of the class. This song is titled”Simple Man” by Shinedown and I’ll explain my attachment to the song a little later.

The Jeff Buckley version of Lenard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is an absolutely beutiful song.  It’s such a shame that Buckley had to die young because he was such an amazing artist and good person. His comments about nuclear weapons at the beginning of this posted live video are wise and important.

[  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLQUdHMFpBQ ]

The Verve Pipe’s “Freshman” was also another of my favorites. It’s such a powerful and emotional song with beutiful vocals and instrumentation. Basically a perfect song. The Verve Pipes lead singer wrote the song in 1991 about the guilt he felt from his ex-girlfriend having an abortion,  as he says in the first verse, “stopped a baby’s breath and a shoe full of rice.” His girlfriend had an abortion, and they never got married. She did not actually kill herself though it sound like it in the song. This is song is so powerful largely because it is so real, based on the vast range of human emotions associated with abortion and suicide. Here is a clip of the song sung live.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n1lyaHxYH0 ]

My third favorite song was Montgomery Gentry’s “Some People Change”. I’m not that big a country fan but I just though that the message was so hopeful for the world. Basically there’s so many things wrong with the world but we have to believe that things can change and sometimes they truly too. It gives me hope that tommorrow truely is a new day to do something different with your life.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtrnR060bM ]

Lastly, this is my personal favorite song that I was a little reluctant to present given how emotional it can be for myself. Before you watch the video you only really need to know a couple things to understand where I’m coming from. I grew up very close to my mother and was the only son amongst four sisters, the messages in the song are eerily close to what my mother believed, and thirdly, she recently passed away.

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fmSF4chL2I&mode=related&search ]