Another Love Song

• Another Horsedreamer's Blues - Counting Crows
• Another Life - Iron Maiden
• Another Love Song - Queens of the Stone Age

Since it's Valentine's Day, I'd better list my favorite love songs, or at least my favorite that are on my iPod:

1. Let It Rain - Eric Clapton
2. Take My Breath Away - Berlin (this was our wedding song & it still gives me goosebumps)
3. Something - The Beatles
4. Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis
5. In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
6. Dig - Incubus
7. Entre Nous - Rush
8. Love Song - 311 (somehow I don't own any music by The Cure, even this)
   
9. Just You 'n Me - Chicago
10. Sweetest Goodbye - Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers

• Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
• Another Rainy Day in New York City - Chicago : "So suddenly serene/The air is fresh and clean/Another rainy day in New York city"
  
• Another Round - Foo Fighters : "Room full of photographs/Box full of letters/Come on and make it last/Nothing else matters right now"
  
• Anthem - Rush : "Well, I know they've always told you selfishness was wrong/
  Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song"

Rush lyricist Neil Peart has often shown an affinity for Ayn Rand. These lyrics echo one of Rand's works on Objectivism - "The Virtue of Selfishness".

• Anthem For the Underdog - 12 Stones
• Anthem of Our Discovery - Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
• Any Time at All - The Beatles : "If the sun has faded away, I'll try to make it shine"
  
• Anytime - Journey : "I'm standing here with my arms a mile wide, I'm hoping and praying for you"
  
• The Apologist - R.E.M.
• Apologize - OneRepublic
• Apple Candy - Ben Lee
• April Suits - Taproot
• Aqueous Transmission - Incubus : "I’m in this boat alone/Floating down a river named emotion"
  
• Arco Arena - Cake
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet

Excellent, energetic song. It's probably best known for being featured in one of the first iPod commercials.

• Are You In? - Incubus
• Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
• Are You Ready For the Fallout? - Fastball : "Do you spit at the face staring back in the mirror?/Do you have any self respect?"
  
• Are You Ready? - Creed
• Armor and Sword - Rush : "Sometimes the damage is too great or the will is too weak/What should have been our armor becomes a sharp and burning sword"
  

This song doesn't really have a chorus, so to speak, but there is an oft-repeated line: "No one gets to their heaven without a fight." This was certainly true of Jacob in the Old Testament - U2, writes of him "Jacob wrestled the angel, and the angel was overcome." After this wrestling match, the angel gave Jacob the new name of Israel, meaning "he struggles with God". The apostle Paul was originally Saul of Tarsus. He made a living of persecuting Christians, until God struck him blind as he walked to Damascus. Obviously he had a fight before getting to heaven. Many modern Christians fight battles everyday - battles within themselves about being worthy, battles with a secular world pulling them away from God, battles with other faiths.

• Arms of a Stranger - 12 Stones
• Army Ants - Stone Temple Pilots
• Around the Bend - Pearl Jam
• Art In Me - Jars of Clay
• As Long As It Matters - Gin Blossoms
• At Last - Etta James
• At My Most Beautiful - R.E.M. : "I save your messages just to hear your voice...You always say your name, like I wouldn't know it's you".

What I've found is that I have less time to blog than I do to listen. My last post was way too long. I'm trying to shorten them up. I'm not sure how I'll resolve this. I guess the first thing I'll try is to keep listening and just comment on fewer songs. At the current pace, it's going to take me about 2 years to complete this project. That should be more than enough time to say what I want to.

Summary:
Listened to 31 songs. Skipped 2 ("Another Round" live and an alternate version of "Apologize".)
All 5 songs that start with "Are", also start "Are You".