Alive and Kickin' by Mr. Big

How to great an awesome and timeless rock song? Start out with a bluesy riff.... then just rock out the remaining 5minutes!

Never having the opportunity to listen to Mr. Big's 1st 2 albums during the 90's, it's only recently that i had the chance to appreciate one of the band's anthemic songs.

Alive and Kickin' never fails to start-me up on days when i feel down. We have a purpose when we wake up each day and I hope i do achieve something significant and connect to people.

Seeing Richie Koetzen perform a loyal version of this song and carrying Paul Gilbert's mantle is no easy feat! It's also fun to to Billy Sheehan's bass line, catching up to and complementing Paul's licks. You'll better appreciate Sheehan's contribution to Mr. Big's music once you see him perform songs live, he's a showboat if there's one with his huge neck bends and attempts at bass guitar feedback!

Richie's and Billy's show chemistry is a lot better though. Paul Gilbert just didn't like Billy that much I guess. Ego's bumping and Mr. Big disintegrating :(

Black top blazin', hometown fadin'
Out of sight in the rear view mirror
Stevie Ray blasting on the radio
As I slam it into higher gear

My baby's by my side, tears in her eyes
Writing a goodbye letter
Sayin' Johny and me are running' wild and runnin' free
Just like you did momma

Don't know where we're goin'
But when we get there we'll know
We're gonna follow the code of the road

Jump into the fire
Keep our love alive and kickin'
Down the dorr, it's what we're livin' for
Rockin' side by side
Keep your love alive and kickin'

We got everything we own in the trunk and on the roof
And she's got baby sitting money in her pocket
We're drivin' fast, ain't no looking back
We're flyin' through the desert like a rocket

White line widin' up interstate five
The road goes on forever
And it does't matter where it's gonna take us
As long as we're together

We're talkin' our chances
Gonna do it our way
Pedal to the metal shooting down the highway

Jump into the fire
Keep our love alive and kickin'
Down the walls, that's when
Freedom calls
Rockin' side by side
Keep your love alive and kickin'

When Did Your Heart Go Missing? by Rooney

Main reason why I try to gamble on unfamiliar artists is because I just love the feeling of being surprised when encountering good catchy songs such as this. I have a copy of Rooney's first album but it never really grew on me and it didn't have any song that I would consider as somewhat significant (at least in this life of mine)

But lo and behold, I grabbed a copy of Paste Magazine from Bookstore for 130 pesos (it's quite hefty as they can go for as low as 50 pesos) and had a chance of listening to this song.

It has somewhat of an 80's feel (where they using synths?!?). I have an allegiance with this kind of love songs, wherein it's somewhat melancholic, not sad. It doesn't have the feeling of surrender rather confidence that everything after this song is rocked out.

Solid bass line, steady drum parts, great danceable funky guitar riff and a story to tell that's the recipe.

Love don't come so easily
This doesn't have to end in tragedy
I have you and you have me
We're one in a million
Why can't you see?

I'm waiting, waiting for nothing
You're leaving, leaving me hanging
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing, yeah?

I meant every word I said
I never was lying when we tucked in bed
I'm retracing every step in my head
What did I miss back then?
I was so, so misled

I'm waiting, waiting for nothing
You're leaving, leaving me hanging
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?

I don't understand
How could you forget what we had,
It's so wrong

I'm waiting, waiting for nothing
You're leaving, leaving me hanging
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?
I treat you like a princess
But your life is just one big mess
When did your heart go missing?
When did your heart go missing?

Yeah!

Things were so good
We had a little dream
A little dream together
Buy a house, settle down, do our thing
But you disappeared on me
And your heart, your heart went missin'
I don't know how to find it
I don't know where it is
I don't know where your heart went
It was here just the other day
Now it's gone
I'm gonna call the police
Call the investigator, the heart investigator

Highwire by Gin Blossoms

This is not one of Gin Blossom's famous songs. I was listening to the Congratulations... I'm Sorry album when my liking for this song just flashed! The intro had a great combination of drum fills, guitar riffs and nicely timed bass presence.

The song is simply laid out though honestly i can't figure what this song's all about, but it's really rocking and would like to play this song with a band sometime!

I wanna take you so far
But they don't want to let us out
But they do, they do, they do

I don't wanna walk on that highwire
They ain't gonna let us down
But they do, they do, they do

What I could never believe in
I was never really even
And I forgot about the cost
And then I got lost, I got lost, I got lost, I got lost

Didn't really wanna live it over
Or even wanna live it down
But I do, I do, I do

What I could never believe in
I was never really even
And I forgot about the cost
And then I got lost, I got lost, I got lost, I got lost

Didn't really wanna live it over
Or even wanna live it down
But I do, I do, I do...

HATE by Rivermaya

I was revisiting some of the old Rivermaya albums particularly the self-titled debut and Tuloy Ang Ligaya, which featured a revamped lineup. Funny i just now realized that both are the only albums by Rivermaya wherein there were five members, with Rico Blanco and Mark Escueta the only hold overs.

With strong singles such as 214, Ulan, Awit ng Kabataan and Bring Me Down, I was curious to take a plunge to old Rivermaya music to take a listen to some of the lesser known songs. I was surprised to hear Halik sa Araw, the heaviest song in the lot (with an interesting intro to boot) and HATE.

HATE is a love song which i can fully relate to. Hopeful, full of ironies, hints of hesitation and mixed emotions.

Well, if you're happy then then I'm blue
Cause I'm not so far but not with you
And I can't see why we can't see each other
I telephone but you're sleeping forever

I hate you for the things you do but i love you
And curse you for your beauty
that makes me some poetry about love

And I don't think you even think about me
If only you were smiling,
And if I was your reason, tomorrow i could die

I can only pray my absence will change you
Pretend that you're the one who needs my love
But you celebrate cause, yes, why should you miss me
When you know darn well I'd die just to bring us together

And this is not a love song... Don't even think it's your song!

Sinta by Sugarfree

This is the very song that introduced me to Sugarfree. I've heard of the songs like Mariposa and Burnout but Sinta made me a fan. Watching TV one lazy morning and I crossed upon the video....Arggh!!! It must really feel good to have that someone.

Simplistic lyrics and honest songwriting at its finest!

ako'y
isang malungkot na bata
palakad lakad lang
wala rin namang mapupuntahan
madalas, madulas
at nung parang ayoko na

buti na lang nanjan ka
buti na lang nanjan ka
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
pano na lang ako…

minsan
ako'y naligaw ng daan
tinalikuran ng kaibigan at
biglang napagiwanan
at madalas, ako'y madulas
at nung parang ayoko na

buti na lang nanjan ka
buti na lang nanjan ka
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
sinta
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
ohh ohh uhh ohh...

ako'y
isang malungkot na bata
pano kung ligaya ko'y bigla na lang
mawala?
at sabi mo malayo pang bukas, tapos
na ang kahapon
ang mahalaga'y ngayon
nandito ka ngayon

oh, sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
sinta
pano na lang ako kung wala ka?
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
pano na lang ako…
kung wala ka...

Tag-Araw by AfterImage

Tag-Ulan, Tag-Araw is one of the classic albums I heard during my grade school years. It was an OPM blast when this was released... E-heads, Rivermaya, Introvoys, Yano!, The Youth, FrancisM... great OPM music was everywhere.

I was just impressed with the feel good songs that this album carried. It was composed of a solid selection, although some of them might be considered cheesy now adays. I realized how good this album was, when i was listened to it during one of the usual flooded days on our house, when i was already in high school. This album is just plain awesome, and I'm choosing the song Tag-Araw to represent me today, as it reflects how I feel

Ikot ng mundo, tila ay bumabagal
Ngunit alam kong di na rin magtatagal
Ang aking hinihintay ay makakamit
Pagkat bughaw na ang kulay ng ating langit
Pilitin man ay di mo na mapipigil
Ang kanyang pag-ahon, ang kanyang pag-gising

Ikaw lamang ang nais kong kapiling
Kung darating ang tag-araw
Lagi na lamang aking nasa sa isip
Ang pagsapit ng tag-araw

Sana ang init mo'y aking maramdaman
Araw na nagdaan ay di ko mabilang
Sa 'king paghihintay ako'y nasasabik
Pinapanalangin na ang iyong pagbabalik
Wag mo na sana sa akin ipagkait
Ang tanging hangarin na ika'y makapiling

Hanggang kailan kaya ako maghihintay
Upang ang tag-araw sa akin ay kusa nang ibigay

1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins

I just really can't put into words how this song makes me feel. It has this very calming guitar riff that i just can't shake off my head when i first time i heard it. There's also charming about the video... teenagers spending some care free time under the sun, with Billy Corgan at the back seat of some ones car, singing this song!

Every time i ride a taxi or someones car and there's sun glimmering thru the windows i can't help but remember 1979.

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see

That we don't even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see

That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

Street Walker by Michael Jackson

This song is really BAD! The Baddest Michael Jackson song ever... this is so bad that it's badder than Bad. With us being dancing maniacs during our early ages (our parents held impromptu dance parties for us, turning off the TV and playing or old stereo systems with Michael Jackson songs and other "in" music at that time, with our neighbors as guests), Augy bought a Special Edition copy of Bad wherein this song appears. You would really have an idea how good MJ was at that time, as this song was taken out of the Original Bad press as they already don't have enough room to cram other songs for it.

I read an article comparing two icons from the 80's... Prince and Michael Jackson. Although Michael Jackson doesn't play any music instruments as compared to the virtuoso Prince, he still finds ways to produce his own music and have his vision be executed by talented musicians behind him. Look for a video of MJ beat boxing the beat of this song just to get a grasp of how good he really is in terms of music.

Why don't you give me some time)
(Won't you give me some time)

Pretty baby
Kisses for your loving
I really get it when you're
Next to me yeah yeah
I'm so excited how you
Give me all your loving
I got it coming and it's ecstasy

Street walking baby

Cause everyday I watch you
Paint the town so pretty
I see you coming in and off
On my thought yeah yeah
You don't believe me then
You can ask my brother
Cause everyday at six
Home alone

Because
Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I want you
Baby come love me
Baby I need you
You're so satisfying

I hear you walking
Cause your body's talking to me
I chase you every step of the way yeah yeah
An invitation to some
Faraway hot island
If I can show you baby
Home with me

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

Street walking baby

(Why don't you give me some time)
(Won't you give me some time)
(Why don't you give me some time)
(Won't you give me some time)

I have to tell you
That you give me strong hot fever
My every thought is you
And that's a fact yeah yeah
I'd like to take you places
How about New York City
Or Paris, France
What do you think of that

Because
Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I want you
Baby come love me
Baby I need you
You're so satisfying

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

Street walking baby
I got it coming baby

Baby I love you
Baby I love you
Baby I want you
Baby come love me
Love me baby
Got to have some loving
Got to make you mine
Got to give some loving
Gonna give you loving
Make you mine
Got to get your love
Got to give some love
Got to make somebody
I told you
I told you

You see I never met a girl
Just like you
Come so easy
Don't you break my heart
Cause I love you

Street walking baby

Something About the Way You Look Tonight by Elton John

I remember the most beautiful person I've met when ever I hear this song. No it's not Princess Diana or Marilyn Monroe or a girl that I was infatuated with. Her name was Dionisia and she was my Lola. As usual, my brother Augy bought a copy of this single and we listened to it with her on our living room (which is also Augy's bedroom).

It would be within the year when she would leave us. She's the most generous person I know! No kind words would be able to give justice really. I remember a time wherein I was very afraid of seeing ghosts that she even offered a space in her bed for me to sleep in. That's the kind of grandma she was. Ask my brother Augy, he would know.

There was a time
I was everything and nothing all in one
When you found me
I was feeling like a cloud across the sun

I need to tell you
How you light up every second of the day
But in the moonlight
You just shine like a beacon on the bay

And I can't explain
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
It's that feeling I get about you, deep inside
And I can't describe
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
The way you look tonight

With a smile
You pull the deepest secrets from my heart
In all honesty
I'm speechless and I don't know where to start

Bold As Love by John Mayer

Bold As Love is a Jimi Hendrix original and is one of the song's I've never really heard of. It was just only the title that chases me, similar to other Hendrix songs such as Little Wing, All Along the Watchtower, Foxy Lady. The title itself speaks for itself I guess and most critics tout them as great in matters of guitar playing.

I've appreciated other Hendrix songs although they came to me in different forms. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) was used by Hollywood Hulk Hogan as his intro song, Red House was performed by the Satriani, Vai, Johnson version of G3. Machine Gun was everywhere... name dropped by other guitar great as one of the greatest guitar performances ever recorded.

The day came to appreciate Bold As Love. I even thought that the correct title was "Axis:Bold as Love" although upon research i found out that this is the title of the album which the song came from. I guess the appreciation was easier because of John Mayer's voice, which can be easily understood unlike Hendrix's slurs and because it was recommended by JonRay, the best unsigned guitarist in the Philippines! We were on our way to a place were other's wouldn't dare to thread on. But that didn't matter, we listened to the song and I found another one to place in my songlist :)

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on

But they’re all, they're bold as love,
Yeah, they’re all, they're bold as love, love, love
they’re all, they're bold as love
Just ask the axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
and Ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But its very unsteady for the first go round

My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I’m trying to say it’s frightened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you

But, I’m, I'm bold, I’m bold as love,
Yeah I’m bold, I'm bold as love, love, love, yea..
I’m bold, Im bold as love
Just ask the axis
He knows, he knows, he knows,
He knows everything.....

I'm bold, I’m bold as love,
I'm bold, I’m bold as love... ooh..
Hear me talking to you..
I'm bold, I’m bold as love.

Note: That night, we ended up dancing to the incessant prodding of Side A's Joey G. Damn you Joey G. Damn you!!!!

Hi! by Truefaith

Truefaith was never really a favorite band of mine. But throughout their career they have been churning out tunes that are original and distinctly OPM.

Hi! is a personal favorite. There's a thing about bumping into someone unexpectedly and swapping life stories just amazes me without end. Especially when that someone is very close to your heart and being.

The park is empty, my beer's already warm
And the shoppers have all gone home
Drunken and weary, I almost thought I forgot
About that someone who hit that spot

Love was a thing you wanted to know
And so with one wish, I did gave a show
Now that you're back with a half-baked smile
Just skip the bull, let's talk for a while

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

When you want to be free
It's so funny how you should hurt someone
And that someone was me
I'm just a man, not much with plans
But I do believe in what I stand

Love was a thing you wanted to know
And so with one wish, I did gave a show
Now that you're back with a half-baked smile
Just skip the bull, let's talk for a while

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Love will tear us apart again, and again, and again

Hello, don't say good-bye, don't say good-bye
Just say hello, just say hello
Don't say good-bye, don't say good-bye
Just say hello, just say

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, how have you been
Who've you been seeing this past few weekends
I know it's not me
I know that it's you I'd love to be with

Hello, hoh hoh, hoh hoh
Hello, hoh hoh, hoh hoh hoh

Bent by Matchbox Twenty

I was not much of a fan of this song... but wow... I was really impressed when they performed this on VH1 Story Tellers. Maybe because around that time i was pretty much listening to Nu Metal/Rap stuff that I denied in my head that Matchbox 20 is an impressive band. I can't also deny the visual factor of seeing them on a live setting.

I bought the Mad Season album at a sale for 100 pesos. I was familiar with the band's singles but i never expected the album to be that good. Matchbox Twenty's definitely one of those bands that you should not settle for a greatest hits album as they have a solid discography.

If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk

If I need some other love
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot

I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just phoning it in
Just breaking the skin

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Start bending me
It's never enough
I feel all your pieces

Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

One of These Days by Michelle Branch

One of my favorite Michelle Branch songs. I admire it's simplicity and the technicality of the programming sounds created by John Shanks. The combination of piano notes and programmed music really struck me.

I included this song on the compilation CD I specifically made for this girl (the only girl I ever made a mixtape of). I remember hearing this song on a bus ride and thinking that "F@CK! they released it as a single". I was hoping that they don't release it as a single as I wanted it to be those songs that are not that available to the masses, making my mixtape "Baduy".

I didn't notice
But I didn't care
I tried being honest
But that left me nowhere

I watched the station
Saw the bus pulling through
And I don't mind saying
A part of me left with you

So one of these days
I won't be afraid of staying with you
I hope and I pray
Waiting to find a way back to you
'Cause that's where I'm home…oh

Did I make you nervous?
Did I ask for too much?
Was I not deserving one second of your touch?

And one of these days
I won't be afraid of staying with you
I hope and I pray
Waiting to find a way back to you
'Cause that's where I'm home… oh

What would you do if I could have you?
oh if I could
I'd let you feel everything I'm thinking
Wouldn't that be nice?

And one of these days
I won't be afraid of staying with you

Note: The girl i gave the CD to may not have listened to the said compilation.I wouldn't blame her... i was really weird. If you want a copy just give me a hit.

She's the One by Robbie Williams

I was never a big fan of Robbie Williams, dismissing him for an attention-craving former member of the UK Boy Band Take That.

When I saw a copy of his Greatest Hits album and checking out the tracks, I begin realize that he has had a string of good songs to his credit, some of which was somehow memorable to me. The music video for Rock DJ was showing on one of the screens of a music store in Ever Gotesco Mall in CM Recto during one of my visits (probably to accompany Dris in one of his shoe shopping forays)... my memory of "Strong" is linked to one of my best friends Roman.

"She's the One" is probably my favorite Robbie Williams single, as I tend to side with the romantic. The music video also shows Robbie Williams as an ice skater.

Searching for the the wikipedia entry for this song, I found out that this is actually not a Robbie Williams original.... Better get a move on trying to search for the original version. :)

I was her she was me
We were one we were free
And if there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

We were young we were wrong
We were fine all along
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
When you get to where you wanna go
And you know the things you wanna know
You're smiling
When you said what you wanna say
And you know the way you wanna play
You'll be so high you'll be flying

Though the sea will be strong
I know we'll carry on
Cause if there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

When you get to where you wanna go
And you know the things you wanna know
You're smiling

When you said what you wanna say
And you know the way you wanna say it
You'll be so high you'll be flying

I was her she was me
We were one we were free
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
Yeah she's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one
She's the one

If there's somebody calling me on
She's the one

Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow

I really enjoyed Sheryl Crow's C'mon C'mon album. This is one one of the girl-albums I enjoyed without thinking of how cute the girl is... hey i'm beginning to musically grow-up and Soak Up the Sun was the lead-off single.

Soak Up The Sun has the 'beach vibe' going. It sounds simple enough that you can play it on an acoustic guitar but it also has complicated parts as well. I love the weird sounds that comes before the song's main riff and the searing siren like sound (try to listen very hard)

The song was co-written and co-produced with long time collaborator Jeff Trott. I've always been curious how are the dynamics when song-writing partners work.

Liz Phair also does backing vocals as mentioned in the liner notes :)

My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching TV

I don't have digital
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got


I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun


I've got a crummy job
It don't pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe i am crazy too

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun


I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me
Don't have no master suite
I'm still the king of me
You have a fancy ride, but baby
I'm the one who has the key
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe I am crazy too


I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Got my 45 on
So I can rock on.

Jealous Again by the Black Crowes

Hearing Jealous Again was like a kick in the face... seriously! Starting with a bluesy riff then hitting off with synchronize intro of drum beats and piano notes this song expanded my music horizon like no other, opening my mind to blues (like what Kenny Wayne Shepherd did) and southern rock.

The song has a cocky vibe to it... some sense of bravado... why i don't know. That's just how i see it.

Cheat the odds that made you
Brave to try to gamble at times
Well I feelin' dirty laundry
Sending sickness on down the line

Tell you why!

Cause Im jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, Im jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Always drunk on sunday
Try'n to feel like I'm coming home
Smell the gasoline burning
Boys out feeling nervous and cold

Cause Im jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, Im jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of ever losing faith in you

Never felt like smiling
Sugar wanna kill me yet
Find me loose lipped and laughing
Singing songs ain't got no regrets

Cause Im jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, Im jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of ever losing faith in you

Don't you think I want to
Don't you think I would
Don't you think Id tell you baby
If I only could
Am I acting crazy
Am I just too proud
Am I just plain lazy
Am i, am i, am i, ever

Preacher's Daughter by The Refreshments

Well i had a hard pressed as to what song I should write about this band, The Refreshments. Coming from Arizona, USA, the same breeding ground for the Gin Blossoms (you would actually hear some similarities between the two) my encounter with the band started buying from a MCA CD music sale at Ortigas. There was a section marked as "library copies" and they we're rather priced cheap, 100pesos, and I was in a mood of trying out music I was unfamiliar with.

I was able to grab a promotional copy of the Bottle & Fresh Horses. I was not familiar with the music and i took the chance of buying the album based on the band's name and the cover art. This turned out to be the best steals of my life.

Preacher's Daughter is very Gin Blossomy. It also has an angry edge in it with the vocalist's (Roger Clyne) emotion poured in! Damnit! This song's just off the hook! The guitar let's the drum beats breathe... and also has a great build-up to the guitar solo!

The album inspired me to take risks at the unknown... if only i could apply that in other parts of my so-called life.

I was born in the thirsty eath
Showed up in Tuscon, fresh out of Leavenworth
Did my time on stale bread and dirty water
Nobody told me that the lady was preacher's daughter

Yeah how her arms would hold me
When we kissed, she never told me
Lamb for a slaughter
Yeah, she's my preacher's daughter

Cut loose from my incarceration
Paid a visit to her Daddy's congregation
Welcome home she said, your lookin' good too
Meet my new husband, he's the sheriff who arrested you

Yeah how her arms would holds me
When we kissed, she never told me
Lamb for a slaughter
'Cause She's my preacher's daughter

YEAH

So I said my congratulations
Before I lost myself to my infatuations
I stole a kiss or two just havin' fun again
Sheriff don't like it
Now I'm back on the run again

How her arms would hold me
When we kissed, she never told me
Lamb for a slaughter
Like the desert needs its water
Give me back my preacher's daughter
Preacher's daughter
Preacher's daughter
Preacher's daughter
YEAH

Beautiful by Marvelous 3

Fronted by Butch Walker, Marvelous 3 was never a huge success but it they surely rock! Any easy listening rocker would appreciate their music. Combining distorted guitars, melodic hooks and lyrics confessing self-pity... they're just my kind of band... singing songs that can be used for partying and similar to the music that I would like to write for myself.

This song is right up my alley. It follows the classic theme of boy loves girl, girl loves some baddie and boy can't do nothing about it, well he has this song to show for it.

Another unrequited-love love song to add in my library.

I don't know, I don't care
If I see you, everywhere
It's gonna hurt, either way
When he looks at other girls when you look away

Don't wash your hair, it's too early
Don't wash your mind if it's dirty
I wouldn't change a thing about you cause

You look like you, and that's just beautiful,
you smell like you and that's just beautiful
You feel like you and that feels beautiful
The only ugly thing about it, is that you're not mine

Its all the same, he's one of those
He doesn't like your madonna nose
A little cut, no one will tell
I really wish you'd tell him he should go to hell

You look like you, and that's just beautiful,
you smell like you and that's just beautiful
You feel like you and that feels beautiful
The only ugly thing about it, is that you're not mine

I know you can't take it, you try so hard to fake it
You're never gonna leave it alone