Create my own '31 Songs'

I ain’t got the bullshit, and I ain’t got the lies

I ain’t got the memories of tears in your eyes

If Only

This is a bt of a depressing one and never fails to make me feel pretty damn awful. But at the same time, his voice is so beautiful and his words are so poignant you can’t help but love it, for all it’s pain. Me and the friend that introduced me to it listen to it and cry…It’s just simple acoustic guitar and his singig but that’s what makes it so haunting, in all it’s simplicity. This man is a legend anyway.

You got a new man, and he sounds great

I got a new girl who treats me right

If Only

I’d be right on the train, first one out

Up to town to take you out

Again

I remembered how much I love this song when I heard it in a club the other night, and was just in awe/jumping around and singing. I’s just such an anthem, it reminds me of year 11 and finally I love being able to shout

Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook

The northern accents make me smile as well :) Happy times.

Hey there Delilah

Don’t you worry about the distance

I’m right there if you get lonely

Give this song another listen

Yes I know its probably the most overplayed song in history but I still love it. It kept me going through a difficult 4 months in France when I was missing most people like hell but someone in particular sprang to mind whenever I heard this. And it’s just so darn pretty!

A thousand miles seems pretty far

But they’ve got planes and trains and cars

I’d walk to you if I had no other way

I had to think long and hard about which Beatles song I would include but I really love this one. It’s not got the anthemic nature of some of their stuff or the seriousness of their later albums but it encompasses for me what the Beatles should sound like. Happy, carefree, simply good music. The kind of Beatles I grew up to as a kid and learnt all the lyrics to, so this reminds me of happy times, not to mention being played in between support acts at a Guillemots gig. Cheered me right up. I danced and everything :D

I first heard this song on a coach in Greece, going through some generic countryside. But we were dead tired and comfortably quiet, and this song fitted the mood perfectly. And it’s taken on much more meaning for me since then, not to mention the video. I think the video sealed it onto this list, it’s strangely beautiful. Check it.

This is the lead singer from Stereophonics doing a one off solo album, and it is entirely beautiful. Lyrics, music, everything. I’ve only had this album a couple of months but this song really sounded like the title, completely embodied it. Long, hot, lazy, blissful days. Tinge of sadness about it depending on your mood as well. Just fucking great.

Gliding birds wings

Watch them fly

Diving down and

Climbing high

Shooting stars fly

Through my sky

Ripe black cherries

Taste like wine

Then I feel like lying down so still

Making shapes from clouds in the sky with you

Water drops from hoeny dew

Decreasing circles

From stones I threw

Greasy skin shines in the sun

Today’s the day

And you’re the one

And when the sun has gone away

And I feel I wanna stay

I taste a raindrop in my mouth

I pick you up and the sky comes down

Then I feel like lying down so still

Making shapes from clouds in the sky with you

A friend once talked me through the story of his unrequited love for a girl he knew, and shortly afterwards gave me this CD. He told me it got him through his worst times and I can’t help but think of him when I hear it, the lyrics just ring so true. It makes my stomach tie in knots just thinking about it now tbh. The beautiful lyrics and melody just makes it worse.

So lets face it, this was never what you wanted

But I know that its fun to pretend

Our blank stares and empty threats

Are all I have…

They’re all I have…

So drown me.. if you can

Or we could just have conversation

and I fall, I fall, I faulter.

I found you before I drift away

Now you still speak of day old hate

Though your whole world has gone up into flames

And isn’t it great to find that you’re really worth nothing

And how safe it is to feel safe

So drown me and if you can

Or we could just have conversation

And I fall, I fall, I faulter.

But I found you before I drift away

The things we do just to stay alive

The things we do just to stay alive

The things we do just to stay alive

No its not because of the name. Although it is quite apt. Twas the first song that got me into this band and i remember daning around my room one morning when it came on the radio and how it made me late for school that day. I remember thinking what an amazing sound they had, the name just spooked me a bit. Fantastic track which never fails to make me smile.

Sounds bad but reminds me of maths lessons – my teacher had this as his ringtone and it went off one lesson, which made us laugh as we first heard this coming from his jacket pocket…

Fellas, I’m ready to get up and do my thing (yeah go ahead!)

I wanta get into it, man, you know (go ahead!)

Like a, like a sex machine, man, (yeah go ahead!)

Movin’ and doin’ it, you know

Can I count it off? (Go ahead)

One, two, three, four!

hee hee he thought he was a sex machine. Silly Mr Wegg :)Happy times and a good dance number, love it.

It really does make you feel good! I know it’s a cover but it’s the song that first got me into Muse, when I was 14. You want to turn it up to full volume, so that the quiet bit at the beginning sounds ok but then it kicks in and blows your ears out. Excellent :D

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life, for me

And I’m feeling good