“Falling Down” - Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul: I found the task of picking a single song to represent this album damn near impossible. Gem Archer's “To Be Where There's Life” and Andy Bell's “The Nature of Reality” (both sung by Liam Gallagher) are both huge, massive, brilliant towers of songs but I'm hopelessly in the Noel camp. You can pretty well bet I'll take Noel's best every time out and that's what I've done here. This might be the best full band song Noel has ever recorded and released on an Oasis album. The ruminative side of Noel is often kept for acoustic B-sides and is therefore one of Oasis' best-kept secrets. “Falling Down” could have been one of those but is instead adorned with effects and otherworldly sounds, giving it additional mystique and helping it feel at home with the rest of the album.
“The Journey Home” - Phil Keaggy, Phantasmagorical: The Master & The Musician II: This song is special to me because I feel like I can actually hear the narrative in the notes. This is as beautiful a melody as the masterful Keaggy has ever written. His lyrical touch and the superb flow of this song yearns to tell a story without words. It's impossibly beautiful.
“Fix It” - Ryan Adams, Cardinology: I hate to say it, but Cardinology really didn't get it done for me as an album, but man, did I love this song. I listened to it 10 million times, at least. In this great little number, love is a game and our boyo Ryan isn't looking to play fair. He wants to fix the game. Love as game has been used countless times in music, but I like the idea of fixing the fight.
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