I must confess, a few of my favorite songs are by bands that fall into the "You can't be serious" category - usually because the lyrics say something . . . or something. These songs never make it to the radio, though, so maybe that counts for a few anti-industry coolness points. Sometimes those silly emotions just won't be rational.

She grabs her magazines
She packs up her things, and she goes
She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall
She burns all her notes and she knows
She's been here too few years to feel this old
And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday
but there's nothing here to make things change
                             Hang - Matchbox 20

For some reason I can't quite pin down, a lot of my favorites also happen to be the closing track of a tape side or CD. Most of these never seem to make it to the radio either.

Life By The Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Endless Farewell - Soul Asylum
Reincarnation Song - Toad The Wet Sprocket
Release - Pearl Jam
One in a Million - Guns & Roses
When You Say Nothing at All - Alison Krauss
The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
A Murder of One - Counting Crows
Dyers Eve - Metallica
Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Hook in Mouth - Megadeth
Street Spirit - Radiohead
White, Discussion - Live
Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakam
Would? - Alice in Chains
Purple Rain - Prince
Let It Flow - Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
I Will Not Take These Things For Granted - Toad The Wet Sprocket