day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry

I mainly came to like this band after doing a lot of their songs on Rock Band, and they remind me of the Smiths, and I think I like them for the same reason. The Smiths had very mopey, sad songs that sounded very cheerful. Really- if you didn't speak English you wouldn't necessarily realize that a lot of their songs were sad- unlike, say, early Pink Floyd, which I have a hard time with ("It's like those bloody Psalms, they're so depressing.") But yeah, these guys write a lot of angry songs that are pretty bouncy and catchy- as opposed to Metallica, and I've hinted elsewhere that I only do Metallica when I'm really, really seething with anger. This is more of a frustrated, bad-day-at-the-office sort of pissed. ( Read more... )