We all have them, songs that touch a secret place in your soul – sometimes secret even from you. They can grow and occasionally fester in you like an open wound, or they can heal you, fill you up and inspire you. Sometimes they don't even reflect your musical tastes. They can be shameful secrets that you keep from family and friends. You feel like a drug addict craving your next fix. At times like those you thank the powers that be for MP3 players - the syringe of those suffering with this affliction.
This is my second instalment of songs that touch my soul. It’s a form of therapy, showing the world my inner neuroticism, my secret inner lunacy. I want the world to join me in my musical schizophrenia.
"Canon In D Major" - Johann Pachelbel
This may seem right out of left field for a punk/goth/indie loving rock chick but I adore chamber music. Most chamber music in fact - of which this is one of the most well-known examples. And the only place this touches me is deep in my romantic heart. It sounds, to me, like falling in love feels. I make no apologies for this one.
"I Feel Love" - Donna Summer
Now this touches me deeply, in a very wet place. This is sex on the dance floor. It reminds me of snogging (that's the British term for making out) and gyrating on the dance floor while pressed as close to a man's body as I can get. And it still makes me feel love. Well, something I’m willing to mistake for love for - the night anyway.
"Giana" - Bangkok Five
Not a well-known song, but a goody! I reviewed Bangkok Five's CD Who's Gonna Take Us Alive. Where I wrote: "Frost's sexy, throaty, and highly emotive vocals combined with a muted guitar and bass, really let that fabulous, smooth, rich voice wrap around you and make you feel warm and delicious."
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Article comments
1 - Scott Butki
Good piece.
This reminds me I wanted to tell you that a band at my local coffee house the other day played a cover of Blister in the Sun. One guy on acoustic guitar and one on the fiddle. And as crazy as that sounds they made it work.
2 - A.L. Harper
Thanks Scott! Although I don't think it's a good as the first one.
Blister in the Sun on acoustic guitar and fiddle? Sounds really cool actually! I wish I could have been there to hear it.
3 - Savannah Skye
Inject the Music
Inject the Music
Inject the Music
Into my soul
Music is my drug
A fuel injection
Into my soul
Slide the needle
Into my groove
All systems go
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
Through my veins
Music is my addiction
My perfect drug
That shoots up my spine
Blows me out of my mind
Inject the music
Inject the music
Inject the music
Into my soul
Music is my drug
All valves open
All veins ready
Inject it straight
Into my soul
All systems go
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythim is pulsing
Through my veins
Music is my addiction
My perfect drug
That shoots up my spine
Blows me out of my mind
Inject the music
Inject the music
Inject the music
Into my soul
Music is my drug
Tap a vein
Pull the plunger
Slide the needle
Into my groove
All systems go
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
Through my veins
Music is my addiction
My perfect drug
That shoots up my spine
Blows me out of my mind
Inject the music
Inject the music
Inject the music
Into my soul
Music is my drug
Swimming in my veins
Straight up my spine
Right into my mind
Ecstasy I find
All systems go
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
The rhythm is pulsing
Through my veins
Music is my addiction
My perfect drug
That shoots up my spine
Blows me out of my mind
Inject the music
Inject the music
Inject the music
Into my soul
... Savvy1007 (c) Lunar to Solar ...
4 - A.L. Harper
Very cool! I would like to hear the music that go with these lyrics.
5 - Savvy1007
Music will be put to those lyrics by me!!!