First, let’s start with Blue October.  I had the absolute pleasure of seeing them for the millionth time a few weeks ago and well, like the nine hundred and ninety ninth time they rocked!  So, please excuse the list if it’s a little B.O. heavy.

1. Blue October – Jump Rope.  How can this song not bring a smile to your face.

2. City and Colour – Body in a Box.  A man’s best party happens when he dies.

3. The Avett Brothers – If It’s the Beaches.  What is it with me and songs with answering machines, see #4.

4. Blue October – Hate Me.  See #3, also see recursive. :)

5. Band of Horses – Islands on the Coast.  They are touring with Pearl Jam, need I say more?

6. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices.  Hello, it’s jetpacks, The Rocketeer rocked.

7. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know. Embrace the nerd within.

8. Lighthouse Family – Ain’t no Sunshine.  Yes, a cover.  Yes, it rocks.

9. Mana – Ana.  :(

10. Blue October

There is just something so happy about this song, can’t get enough of it and I love it when it comes on the iPod while running.  Happy happy happy song!

we cut the legs off of our pants
threw our shoes into the ocean
sit back and wave through the daylight
sit back and wave through the daylight

slip and slide on subway grates
these shoes are poor mans ice skates
fall through like change in the daylight
fall through like change in the daylight

i miss yellow lines in my roads
some color on monochrome
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself
maybe i’ll paint them in myself

these sidewalks liquid then stone
building walls and an old pay phone
it rings like all through the daylight
it rings like all through the daylight

and in the daylight we can hitchhike to Maine
i hope that someday i’ll see without these frames
and in the daylight i don’t pick up my phone
cause in the daylight anywhere feels like home

I have five clocks in my life
and only one has the time right
i’ll just unplug it for today
ill just unplug it for today

open hydrant rolled down windows
this car might make a good old boat
and float down grand street in daylight
and float down grand street in daylight
and float down grand street in daylight
and float down grand street in daylight
and float down grand street in daylight
and float down grand street in daylight

and with just half of a sunburn
new yellow lines that i earned
step back and here comes the night time
step back and here comes the night time

and in the daylight we can hitchhike to Maine
i hope that someday i’ll see without these frames
and in the daylight i don’t pick up my phone
cause in the daylight anywhere feels like home

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This is a shame, perhaps it’s time to get back to listening to the radio more often.

david

Regardless, this song speaks about a guy who met a great girl, but he was not done with his partying ways and through it all he still thinks of her all the time. Good stuff!

What a night for a dance
You know I’m a dancing machine.
With the fire in my bones
And the sweet taste of kerosene.
I get lost in the night
So high I don’t wanna come down.
To face the loss
Of the good thing that I have found.

Woo hoo hoooo
Woo hoo hoooo

In the dark of the night
I can hear you calling my name.
With the hardest of hearts
I still feel full of pain.
So I drink and I smoke
And I ask If you’re ever around.
Even though it was me
Who drove us right in the ground.

See the time we shared
It was precious to me
But all the while
I was dreaming of revelry.

Gonna run baby run
Like a stream down a mountainside.
With the wind in my back
I wont ever even bat an eye.
Just know it was you all along
That had a hold of my heart
But the demon and me
Were the best of friends from the start.

So the time we shared it
Was precious to me
All the while
I was dreaming of revelry.

Dreaming of revelry.

And I told myself,
Oh the way you go.
It rained so hard,
It felt like snow.
Everything came tumbling down on me.
In the back of the woods,
It was dark as night
Palest pale,
Of the old moonlight
Everything just felt so incomplete.

Dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry

Ultimately, I would call it a love song, perhaps from a lonely fellow reaching out to someone who doesn’t see him as a prospect.

~dmacias

I’ve been roaming around
always looking down at all I see
painted faces fill the places I can’t reach.

You know that i could use somebody.
You know that i could use somebody,
someone like you.

And all you know and how you speak,
countless lovers undercover of the street.

You know that I could use somebody.
You know that I could use somebody,
someone like you.

Off in the night,
while you live it up, I’m off to sleep.
Waging war to shake the poet and the beat.

I hope it’s gonna make you notice.
I hope it’s gonna make you notice,
someone like me.
Someone like me.
Someone like me.

Go and let it out.
Someone like you.
Somebody.
Someone like you.
Somebody.
Someone like you.
Somebody.

I’ve been roaming around
always looking down at all I see.

On a side note, I truly hope that Blue October gets the popularity it deserves. They are popular, but not as popular as I think they should be. Outside of Texas you rarely hear their stuff. Perhaps the fact that their lyrics are usually pretty dark is preventing them from turning to mega stars… so if that’s the case then I hope that doesn’t happen.

~david

~david

~david

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from ‘A’ to where you’d be
It’s only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I’d find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I’ve found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We’d set the fire to the third bar
We’d share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can’t keep in

I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

I’m miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

Some pics from the show.

Ben Folds Rocking the Piano

~dmacias