Come Original - Not that this has anything to do with 311, but my wife, daughter, and I got to see a show called "Montage" by Cirque Imagination the other night. (Thanks to my buddy Roy.) Apparently the cast are former members of Cirque de Soleil. It was incredibly entertaining, and original. It's really hard to believe that people can be that strong and flexible. Act after act performed short pieces - climbing up and down poles, dancing, juggling, contorting, and performing all sorts of acrobatics. It was amazing stuff that you shouldn't miss if you have the opportunity.
Come Sail Away - Styx was the first rock band I really got into. Well, Styx or Kiss, and since I don't have any Kiss on my iPod, let's say it was Styx. When I was in 6th grade, we lived in a small town called Ironton in the "tri-state" area of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The largest city in the area was Huntington, WV, with about 40,000 residents. Radio choices were severely limited, so we mostly listened to a Top 40 station. At that time (late 70s) that meant we heard a lot of Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and all the disco hits. (Pretty insipid stuff, actually.) I had a good friend, Chris Parsons, who I played football and basketball with and generally hung out with a lot. For one thing, his family had an in-ground pool - pretty much unheard of in that part of Ohio. Anyway, he had "Grand Illusion" by Styx. When I heard it, it was like nothing else I'd listened to before - soaring keyboards, power chords, multiple lead singers. I badgered my parents into getting me the album. I found out that they had a newer release, "Pieces of Eight", so I had to get that one, too. For a few years, I got a Styx album for Christmas or my birthday - "Crystal Ball", "Cornerstone", "Paradise Theater". Styx is an interesting band. It seems like they were always having a struggle between Dennis DeYoung's desires to make operatic, almost-Broadway musical type spectacles, James Young's power guitar rock, and Tommy Shaw's melodic, introspective pop rock. When DeYoung won that battle, resulting in consecutive concept albums, "Paradise Theater" (very much on the Broadway-end of the spectrum) and "Kilroy Was Here", the tour for which included staging, costumes, and characterization that would fit in any opera house, the band pretty much lost its appeal with me. In fact, when they headlined the Texas Jam (an awesome annual rock festival) they were pretty much booed off the stage. I've been listening to their stuff from the 70s quite a bit lately - it holds up really well.
Cronulla Breakdown - "We try so hard to make the worst of a bad situation" : OK, it's pretty likely you haven't heard of The Pernice Brothers, which is a shame. They're an excellent band. I was introduced to them by another childhood friend from Ironton, Brad Markins. Anyway, Joe Pernice has a unique ability to combine poppy, ethereal, piano-based music with some very dark lyrics, producing listenable but thought-provoking music that delivers over and over again. Must be time for a list - my favorite artists that are unheard of or at least less popular than they should be:
10. King's X
9. Idlewild
8. Cave-In
7. Eisley
6. Matt Nathanson
5. Paloalto
4. Dave Barnes
3. Ben Lee
2. The Pernice Brothers
1. Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
- Come Alive - Foo Fighters
- Come Around Again - Jet
- Come As You Are - Nirvana : "Take your time/Hurry up" - Reminds me of the contradictory lines in "Oh, Susanna".
- Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
- Come Back - Foo Fighters
- Come Back to Bed - John Mayer
- Come Clean - Eisley
- Come Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Come Home - OneRepublic
- Come On Come On - Jet
- Come On Get Higher - Matt Nathanson
- Come Original - 311
- Come Sail Away - Styx
- Come to Life - Alter Bridge
- Come Together - The Beatles
- Come Undone - Duran Duran
- Come Ye - India.Arie
- Comedown - Bush
- A Comet Appears - The Shins
- Comfort Eagle - Cake : "We are building a religion/We are making a brand/We're the only ones to turn to when you're castles turn to sand" - Speaking of original, Cake is probably the most original band I listen to regularly. (If there are actually degrees of originality.)
- Comfortable - John Mayer
- Coming Home - Alter Bridge
- Commissioning a Symphony in C - Cake : See what I mean. Who else would write a song called this?
- Communication - INXS
- Company Car - Switchfoot
- Concede - Sister Hazel : "Concede and believe me, I won't give up, I won't give out on you"
- Concrete Girl - Switchfoot
- Constellations - Jack Johnson
- Cookie Jar - Jack Johnson
- Cool Blue Reason - Cake
- Cool Down - Triumph : This really sounds like it could be a Led Zeppelin song. From Triumph's underrated "Thunder Seven", which holds up really well 20+ years later.
- Corduroy - Pearl Jam : "Can't buy what I want because it's free"
- Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley
- Countdown - Rush
- Country Feedback - R.E.M.
- Cowboys from Hell - Pantera : "We're taking over this town" - Masters of metal from Dallas.
- Coyote - Better Than Ezra
- Cradle of Love - Billy Idol
- Crazy - Patsy Cline
- Crazy Life - Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
- Crazyboutya - Dave Barnes
- Creatures (For a While) - 311
- Creeps Like Me - Lyle Lovett
- Cronulla Breakdown - The Pernice Brothers
- A Crow Left of the Murder - Incubus : "Unlearn me" (love that); "From here on it's instinctual/Even straight roads meander/Every piece contains a map of it all"
- Crowing - Toad the Wet Sprocket
- Crumblin' Down - John Mellencamp
- Crumbs from Your Table - U2
Listened to 49 songs (well, 48 since my copy of Come Undone apparently is scratched - it skipped all over the place on my iPod), skipped 2 (Live versions of Come As You Are and Country Feedback)
18 songs start with the word "Come", 2 Cool, 4 Crazy, 2 Crows (neither of them counting)
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