mixtape challenge: shut up, I've been busy

Mixtape Challenge: Lauren

Ok, I came up with the following list based on what I'm listening to right now & what just randomly popped into my head (since most of my favorites were STOLEN by my ALLEGED FRIENDS). Here's what I got. (I would make it all pretty & formatted & insert album covers, but I'm at work & therefore gotta make it quick.)

1. "A Message" - Coldplay
This song is so sweet, great to sing, and it breaks my fuckin HEART when he wails "I looooove you, PLEEEASE come hooome!" at the end.

2. "My Love for You is Real" - Ryan Adams
This plays on Starbucks right now, and I hadn't previously heard it (he's so sneaky about letting you think you know all his music and then BAM, outta left field, he's put one out in some genre you didn't even know about, and it's The Greatest Thing You've Heard Since You Last Discovered One of His Albums). Anyway, if you can get over the recent Mandy Moore Engagement WTF-ness, you will fall in love with this song. Fave lyric: "It's river-long/ rock-strong/ true & wild as hell./ Honey now/ my love/ for you/ is real."
(Actually, the lyrics-look-up-sites are in dispute about the "true & wild as hell" part, but that's what I think he's saying and I love it.)

3. "Linger" - the Cranberries
Come on, I don't have to explain this. "You know I'm such a fool for you."

4. "Keep On Lovin You" - REO Speedwagon
This song makes me fist-pump harder than any other 80's ballad. I love it. I think my favorite line is "Instead you lay still in the grass/ all coiled up and hissin" because he uses the correct conjugation of "lie," which I don't even do. Props.

5. "Madly" - Tristan Prettyman *I had it misspelled earlier
This is another one I learned of through Starbucks, and it's really fun & catchy. Also, it's about knowing you should be over someone but not being able to let them go. Which I can relate to right now. (Shut up.) And my favorite thing about it is not a specific lyric, but the claps/rhythmic guitar pattern in the verses.

BAM!