October 22, 2007

The words that title songs

A favorite music blog of mine (The Late Greats) often puts up homonym posts, listing songs with the same title or that have the same word in the title or singer's name. It's inspiring to hear these songs that sound exactly the same in title but differ so greatly in music and lyrics. Very much the way two (or three or four) people might have the same name, but have personalities as different as say, iron and wine, incidentally a band that appears on the playlist of homonymic songs I created this afternoon.

It began when I was looking for Sia's "Breathe Me." I typed "Breathe" in the search bar and found five songs with the word "breathe" in their titles. After that I went a little crazy and began typing random words that popped into my head just to see what songs my library would chuck at me. It was nice enough to find a handful of songs for each word and then put them into a playlist, but I soon noticed that the words I chose started to sound like a strange poem when I lined them up.

breathe gravity drive sway bird lonely everything broken gone crash arms save grace superman words lost goodbye afternoon secret away

Words (and numbers) I'll try later: garden, living, daughter, eyes, tonight, call, tomorrow (I'm sure a number of "Annie" songs are going to turn up in this search), 95, 100

Posted by Monoceros at October 22, 2007 8:57 PM
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Did you manage to get Sia's 'Breathe Me'? If you didn't, let me know by email 'cos I can send it to you!

Posted by: dimsumdolly at October 24, 2007 6:46 PM
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