The Analog Kid

• All the Things She Said – Simple Minds : "Little darling close your eyes/There'll be no compromising"
  

• All the Time – Jeremy Camp : "I'll never understand it until i live with you in eternity"
  

• All the Way – Frank Sinatra

• All the Way – Triumph : "Power and glory and fortune and fame/There is a price you must pay"
  

• All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star) – R.E.M. : "Now sweeter/You're so sugar sweet/You may as well have 'kick me'/Fastened on your sleeve"
  

• All Things In Life – Toad the Wet Sprocket

• All Those Yesterdays – Pearl Jam : "Oh, don't you think you've got enough?"
  

• All We Are – Matt Nathanson : "All we are we are/And every day is a start of something beautiful, something real". What a great outlook. Reminiscent of U2's "Beautiful Day". This song's a real pick-me-up.
  

• All We Are – OneRepublic

• All You Have to Do – Jet

It sounds to me like Jet tries really hard to sound like The Beatles, even though they look more like The Ramones.

• All You Need Is Love – The Beatles

Speaking of The Beatles…
Artists Who Sound Like The Beatles (in reverse order of similarity):
Ringo Starr (only on the list because he was a Beatle)
John Lennon
Fastball
The Traveling Wilburys
Paul McCartney (Of all the Beatles, he maintained the same sort of sound, especially with "Band On the Run", "Hands Across the Water", and "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey")
Hard Night’s Day (Dallas-based Beatles tribute band. I used to work with a guy who was in the band - a conveniently left-handed bassist with a mod haircut.)
ELO
George Harrison
Jet
Smithereens (Their original work often sounded like an 80s update of The Beatles. Recently, they've taken to remaking full Beatles albums.)

• Allied Forces – Triumph : "Denim armies moving/Consolidate the might/Wargames, maneuvers/Rehearsals in the night/Allied forces". What if all the armies in the world were replaced by rock bands?
  

• Allison Road – Gin Blossoms

• Alone + Easy Target – Foo Fighters

• Alpha Beta Parking Lot – Cake

• Altamont – Fastball

• Aluminum – The White Stripes : “Ahh. Ahh.”

Yep, those are all the lyrics. Who let them put this out? The White Stripes intersperse brilliance with complete crap on their releases. Over time, the ratio of the two has consistently declined: On “White Blood Cells”, it was 75% brilliant and 25% drivel; on “Elephant” it was more like 60%-40% awesome to awful; for “Get Behind Me Satan” it dropped to 20%-80% good to godawful. Not being impressed with the trend, I haven’t bought anything else of theirs. My theory is that Jack gets so worn out with Meg’s lack of drumming ability and her insistence on singing in her best imitation of Yoko Ono that he just gives up and tries to get the whole process over with as quickly as possible. That would also explain his work with Loretta Lynn and the formation of The Raconteurs.

• Always Running Home – Paloalto

• Amateur Lovers – Switchfoot

• Amazing Grace – Wintley Phipps

I used to think it was just my wife, but if you look around at church, many people cry every time they hear this song. God’s love is great and overwhelming.

• Amber – 311 : "Whoa, amber is the color of your energy/Whoa, shades of gold displayed naturally". What a great song! These guys are usually down & dirty, but this song has such an ethereal feeling.
  

• American Dream – Switchfoot : "When success is equated with excess/The ambition for excess wrecks us". Anti-materialism anthem.
  

• American Girl – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

• American Girls – Triumph

• Ammunition – Switchfoot

• Amnesia – Toad the Wet Sprocket : "Here, I need your help/Deliver me from myself/Take me where I'm wanted/Or make me someone else"
  

• Amsterdam – Coldplay

• Amy’s Song – Switchfoot : "Amy's gone and time rolls on/How far? How fast? How long?"

• The Analog Kid – Rush : "The boy lies in the grass with one blade stuck between his teeth...The fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs dances on the edge of his dream". Doesn't that do a great job of evoking images of a warm summer day when you were young?
  

A minor theme running through Rush’s catalog is the comparison of the cold, impersonal, and tech elements of the modern world with the personal and human characteristics of the past. Some of that is spot on, some is a bit of good old days syndrome. On this album (Signals) they had “The Analog Kid” to contrast with “Digital Man” and “New World Man”. They had “Subdivisions” and “Countdown” to contrast with “Losing It”. This goes back to “2112”, an Ayn Rand-esque glimpse into what the modern world could devolve into. Other examples of humanity: “Closer to the Heart”, “Natural Science”, “Witch Hunt” (OK that goes against the theme a bit), “Animate”, and “Armor and Sword”. Other songs about the modern world or technology: “Cygnus X-1”, “Tom Sawyer”, “Limelight”, “Vital Signs”, and “The Body Electric”.

• Anchor – Cave In : "Whatever makes you tired your rest is sure to fail/Cause every place you lay yourself's a bed of nails/Whatever you exhale, I breathe it in the air/You offer me a seat in your electric chair". I saw them open for Foo Fighters and they were excellent. They used to be hardcore metal, but softened their sound.
  

• And Can It Be? – Wintley Phipps

• And Fools Shine On – Brother Cane

• And I Love Her – The Beatles : Idealized song of love.

• And Your Bird Can Sing – The Beatles

This is the second time we’ve hit back-to-back songs from the same artist, and the second time that the artist has been The Beatles.

• Aneurysm – Nirvana : "Love you so much it makes me sick...Beat me out of me...She keeps a puppet string to my heart". Quite a contrast to “And I Love Her” this is the exact opposite of an idealized love.

• Angel – Jack Johnson

• Angel of Harlem – U2

• Angels of the Silences – Counting Crows

• Animal – R.E.M.

• Animate – Rush : "Compensate me/Animate me/Complicate me/Elevate me"
  

• Anna Begins – Counting Crows : "And every time she sneezes, I believe it's love/And oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing". Even though it's about having an affair (I think), it's an excellent song. The lyrics are quite profound, actually.
  

• Anna Molly – Incubus : "I picture your face in the back of my eyes/A fire in the attic, a proof of the prize/Anna Molly (or anomaly)"
  

• Another Girl – The Beatles

• Another Hole in the Head – Nickelback : "I need you probably as bad as I need another hole in the head/I need you car keys in your hand, I believe that you would leave me for dead"
  

Summary:
44 songs listened to. 4 skipped ("American Dream" acoustic, "The Analog Kid" live, "Animate" live, "Anna Molly" acoustic).

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