2000 #2000 « playlist Propellerheads "Spybreak" Amel Larrieux "Get Up" Allure "You're the Only One for Me" Bic Runga "Sway" Foo Fighters "Everlong" Dave Matthews Band "Let You Down" Mikel Erentxun "Esta Luz Nunca Se Apagara"</li> The Cure "Maybe Someday" Dido "Here With Me" Lucy Pearl featuring Snoop Dogg & Q-Tip "You" Evan and Jaron "Crazy for This Girl" Barenaked Ladies "Pinch Me" 'N Sync "This I Promise You" Son By Four "Purest of Pain" Lenny Kravitz "Again" Mango Pirates "Comet" Radiohead "Idioteque" U2 "Beautiful Day" </ol> </nav> « playlist Propellerheads "Spybreak" This is the song from the "The Matrix" where Keanu Reeves and Catherine Anne Moss shootup the lobby of a building. This song was chosen is in honor of the collective obsession me and my friends at CMS have with this movie. In April 2000, our school had a semi-formal dance and we were somehow convinced to come along. We were pretty certain the event was going to be an exercise in futility so we decided to have a little fun with it and dressed up in long overcoats (which wasn't that out of place since it was February) and sunglasses. Who says med students never have any free time? Amel Larrieux "Get Up" Amel's new album was introduced to me by my AB's girlfriend, HP. You just might remember Amel as the vocalist for the group Groove Theory, which released a single way back in 1996 (my sophomore year in college). A whole bunch of people were supposed to watch her at the House of Blues in September, but everyone ended up bailing so it was just me and Arnel on a school night, with both of us having to wake up at 8 a.m. the next morning. But it was worth it. ♪ lyrics tagged: lightη Allure "You're the Only One for Me" This song reminds me of the first time I visited my sister at UCSD, back in February. She had just been recently introduced to in-room dedicated Internet access and the wonder that is Napster and she had started the habit of having the computer play mp3s ad nauseam while she slept, and this is one of the songs that seems to have permeated into my neocortex. The lyrics of the song don't really have any significance. ♪ lyrics Bic Runga "Sway" Apparently, I have a lot of memories from February. My sister also played this a lot while I visited her, but mostly I remember this from when I was a Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, and the video was playing at one of the stores, and I just found myself transfixed. For some reason I haven't analyzed closely, I really like the lyrics to this song. ♪ lyrics Foo Fighters "Everlong" This is a pretty old song, stirring up memories of 1998 and the daily grind of actually having a job, but for some reason they played this particular acoustic version a lot on KROQ in the Summer (which is a story unto itself that I'm certainly not ready to write down yet). I've had a particular fixation on acoustic guitar lately. ♪ lyrics Favorite Lines: If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again tagged: rhyme Dave Matthews Band "Let You Down" I think this is how my summer started off. My cousin Mark was trying to get me to go with him to a guitar recital, because a couple of his friends were playing in it, but I declined because my mom was actually off work and we were going on a family outing—all five of us for once, which has become exceedingly rare these days. When I get home, I get a phone call. Of course, it is Mark, and he tells, "Here's someone you should talk to." And he hands his cell phone to [redacted], who had also played at the recital. This is the song she played. ♪ lyrics tagged: rhyme Mikel Erentxun "Esta Luz Nunca Se Apagara" This is a cover of "There's Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by the Smiths, in Spanish. I was standing around in Musicland at the Eagle Rock Plaza (which has got to be, by far, the worst mall ever) when this song came on, and I freaked out, because it certainly sounded familiar. I just had to ask the girl at the register who the hell this was. I think I've told E this before—I'm going to marry a girl who finds this song romantic. Mikel Erentxun also does a cover of "Everyday Is Like Sunday" also by the Smiths. ♪ lyrics (Spanish) ♪ lyrics (English) Favorite Lines: (well, from the English version) And if a double-decker bus crashes into us To die by your side Such a heavenly way to die And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us to die by your side The pleasure, the privilege is mine. The Cure "Maybe Someday" Ah, The Cure. I've always wanted to be Robert Smith. It's kind of funny how you can actually celebrate being depressed. I feel like I'm going back to my high school days, when I first discovered The Cure, The Smiths, U2. ♪ lyrics tagged: beloved Dido "Here With Me" I wonder why she named herself after the doomed queen of Carthage? This reminds me of my summer visit to the Bay Area and the camping trip, which was pretty cool, except for Eugene getting his flashlight stolen. We've got to do this again. The version I picked is off of this year's Star Lounge CD, which has live studio performances, and is kind of like the Alice CD. ♪ lyrics Lucy Pearl featuring Snoop Dogg & Q-Tip</i> - You I think this is the first R&B album I had listened to in a long while. I makes me think of L.A. For many reasons. ♪ lyrics Favorite Lines: "Is it just my imagination killing me?" tagged: rhyme Evan and Jaron "Crazy For This Girl" I remember wanting to hear a song that would cheer me up the first time I heard this, and for some reason, it did. And apparently it was both on my mind and Ben's mind at the same time, like some cosmic connection or something. ♪ lyrics tagged: marikit payapa Barenaked Ladies "Pinch Me" I had to put a Barenaked Ladies song on there, as it reminded me of the time Ben and Jen visited me here in Chicago. It was between this and "Told You So," but I decided on this because it got more air-time and because, as suggested by Ben, it fits the "rotting in North Chicago" segment of my Summer. ♪ lyrics Favorite Lines: On an evening such as this It's hard to tell if I exist tagged: marikit payapa 'N Sync "This I Promise You" In the summer, my sister gave me the distinct pleasure of being able to hunt down and kill each member of 'N Sync. We were playing this game called "Worms" where your characters are a bunch of worms armed with bazookas, machine guns, grenades, and exploding sheep, and you try to take each other out. My sister's team was 'N Sync, of course, and my team consisted of my favorite characters from the Matrix (Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, Cypher, and Tank). I can't describe to you the pleasure of tossing a banana bomb into Justin Timberlake's wormy face. In any case, I chose this song because I thought I'd spread the misery—this song may just very well drive me over the edge. Thank God Britney admitted her relationship with Justin. Their doom is definitely at hand. Although I may just have to commit seppuku. I'm ashamed that I know this much about NSync at all. I wanted to include the dance mix version of this song because it totally made me think of the Bay Area, but this will have to do. ♪ lyrics Son By Four "Purest of Pain" This song reminds me of driving up from San Diego to L.A. during my October break. I can't believe how much I drove then. ♪ lyrics tagged: beloved Lenny Kravitz "Again" I always seem to have memories of snow falling when ever I go to the supermarket. It was towards the end of November, right after Thanksgiving, I think, and it had been cold, and we had had some flurries, but nothing really big. So I went grocery shopping by myself at the Jewel in Libertyville, IL, and when I was done, the sky was pretty much falling. It's kind of funny how you forget what falling snow is like after just nine months (just like how you forget how cold it gets), but for some reason, snowfall always cheers me up. The snow covered the ground that night, but it all melted by the morning. Anyway, this was the song that I remember was playing at the time. ♪ lyrics tagged: rhyme Mango Pirates "Comet" My sister just played this for me when I got back to L.A. for Christmas Break. The riff from this song kind of reminds me of something from The Cure, or maybe Rivermaya, or some weird combination of the two, and the lead singer (Melisa Morgan) kind of sounds like Gwen Stefani from No Doubt. But that's just my limited imagination, unable to articulate what it is that makes them unique. They're pretty cool. A Filipino alternative band from SoCal, representing. Here's to all the misguided Filipino-Americans who think that Hip-Hop is the only solution. Although I have to admit, I'm still hooked on Des :) ♪ lyrics Favorite Lines: If you would let me be your friend then I can do more than just pretend it's you. Radiohead "Idioteque" I have to admit that the Election fiasco has sent me on an emotional tizzy, and now that what's-his-face will be running the show, I'm starting to have flashbacks of my childhood nightmares regarding Ronald Reagan and the Cold War. (I'm not the only kid who feared nuclear annihilation, am I?) This song is certainly anxiety inciting, with imagery of war and insinuations of a nuclear winter (I'm sure I'm reading too closely.) But I think the title says it all: Idioteque. Perhaps we are entering the Age of Idiots, of widespread ignorance coupled to advanced technology. An explosive combination for sure. ♪ lyrics Favorite Lines: I've seen too much I haven't seen enough You haven't seen enough I'll laugh until my head comes off tagged: moonchild </li> U2 "Beautiful Day" I think this maybe the only unequivocally happy song in this entire playlist. For some reason, it always cheers me up. It also makes me think of L.A., too, for some reason, particularly the lines that goes "You love this town even if that doesn't ring true/You've been all over and it's been all over you." and the one talking about "The traffic is stuck…" It's interesting, though, there's a comment that this song is about losing everything and being happy with it. Kind of a recurring theme for me this year, best articulated in the movies "Fight Club" and "Castaway". ♪ lyrics Favorite lines: What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow. </ol> « playlist