Music matters

Listening to Adele and feeling extremely woozy right now. Quite a few songs make me smile and take me to a different level. A senior with whom I shared my entire music collection told me that it took him all of an hour to figure out what kind of a person I was. Music apparently is a reflection of one's personality. In school I enjoyed a fair share of Britney and Westlife. During our college years I updated my status to that of a rebel with all the alternative music I was listening to while my friends crooned and swayed to pop songs. Till date I like party numbers when I am at the discotheque but won't listen to them otherwise. Currently I have been listening to a lot of Indie pop and ballads so my senior guessed I was a sad person as my music almost brought him down to tears. The other day I was asking my boyfriend and cousins about their top five singers/bands of all time and when the same was reverted to me, I didn't have an answer. There is such good music surrounding us in our everyday lives that picking five artists seems like an impossible task, therefore I am dividing them into separate categories. I am sure there is a hell lot more waiting to be discovered but for now this is my list.

Favourite songs of all time (In no particular order):

Rock-

1. Walk on - U2

2. Dare you to move - Switchfoot

3. Any Oasis song

4. What it takes - Aerosmith

5. Through her eyes - Dreamtheater

Love-

1. Terrified - Katherine Mcphee

2. On bended knees - Boyz II Men

3. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

4. The way I am - Ingrid Michaelson

5. Skinny love - Bon Iver 
6. The bell and the anchor - Catherine Feeny
7. Trouble - Ray LaMontagne

Punk-

1. Best deceptions - Dashboard Confessionals

2. I miss you - Blink 182

3. Pieces - Sum 41

4. Untitled - Simple Plan

5. When we die - Bowling for Soup

Soundtrack-

1. Closer to you - The Wallflowers (Ost The OC)

2. Shine on - Jet (Ost Brothers & Sisters)

3. Breathe - Anna Nalick (Ost Greys Anatomy)

4. The scientist - Coldplay (Ost Wickerpark)

5. One blood - Terence Jay (Ost Green street hooligans)

6. Flowers in December - Mazzy star (Ost Wickepark)

7. Sympathy - Goo Goo Dolls (Ost A Cinderella story)

Ballads-

1. The shape you're in - Catherine Feeny

2. Closest thing to crazy - Katie Melua

3. Almost lover - A Fine Frenzy

4. Don't you remember - Adele

5. River (Joni Mitchell cover) - Angus Stone/Sarah Mclachlan

6. Apologies - Grace potter and The Nocturnals

7. The treehouse song - Anne Brun

My happy songs- 

1. You and I - Ingrid Michaelson

2. Everything - Michael Buble

3. I'll come running back to you - Sam Cooke

4. Stupid for you - Marie Digby

5. Queen - Ost Delightful girl (Korean music :D)

Lyrics that resonate with me-

1. Big yellow taxi - Counting Crows feat. Vanessa Carlton

2. I'll follow you into the dark - Death Cab for Cutie

3. Human - The Killers

4. No one at all - Firehouse

5. Chances - Five for Fighting

6. Hear you me - Jimmy Eat World

7. Spider's web - Katie Melua

8. The future - Simon Lynge 

Artists/Bands I respect-

1. U2

2. Oasis

3. Switchfoot

4. Michael Buble

5. Matchbox Twenty

6. Katie Melua

7. Ingrid Michaelson

8. Adele 

Artists/Bands you'll never catch me listening to-

1. Taylor Swift
2. Rascal Flatts
3. Nickelback
4. Air Supply
5. Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Wow! This was tough and I never spent so much time writing a single entry. I think I might have missed out on quite a few but this is my list at the moment. Will update this post as and when I remember some favourites. Being a musician, doing what you love and forever making others smile through it sounds like an ideal profession. At the end of the day music is ageless and gives us an opportunity to express feelings in the best possible way so cheers to good music, cheers to life!