Maybe a quiet haze drifts in your dorm as you worry about upcoming exams and patchy friendships. Maybe your heart just got flattened by a runaway relationship and the knots in your stomach are twisting and burning. Or maybe you’re trekking cross-country with a backpack and a dream and are suddenly sucker-punched with a jabby stab of loneliness.
When you’re pumped up, pumped down, shaken sideways or rattled around, it’s always comforting to share a moment with a song or lyric that perfectly reflects your mood. Sometimes it seems like they’re singing right to you.
So come on and smile along, nod quietly to the song, and push ahead, plow forward, and soldier right on.
AWESOME!
57 Comments
November 23, 2009 at 12:16 am
Naturally awesome.
November 23, 2009 at 12:55 am
This happens to me for many songs.
November 23, 2009 at 1:45 am
Did you watch last night’s American Dad episode, too? that was pretty much the plot, where Stan becomes obsessed with My Morning Jacket and believes that all of their songs were written just for him.
Awesome nonetheless.
November 23, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hahah, I was thinking the same exact thing!
November 23, 2009 at 1:54 am
ooooh yeah i know how that feels! as immature as it sounds but 5 years ago, hilary duff’s “so yesterday” got me through a tough break up. i felt that was MY song at the time! hehehe
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November 23, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Hilary Duff is cool.. But ‘m at awe! Everyday theres a new awesome thing. But Neil missed a few!!! Ahhh!
November 23, 2009 at 3:19 am
yah i no! I love that feeling!
that was a great post, you said it really good.
When your all down, then suddenly in the radio a song comes up that completely changes your mood.
November 23, 2009 at 4:53 am
Gaaah so true man!
I love this.
There is always a perfect song for every situation in your life.
:]
November 23, 2009 at 5:32 am
That’s definitely AWESOME! Maybe it’s my favourite one… Thank you!
November 23, 2009 at 6:55 am
John Mayer’s “Perfect Lonely” are my life. Amazing.
November 23, 2009 at 7:49 am
usually only happens with sad songs, which isnt that awesome :(
November 23, 2009 at 7:52 am
Look at the stars..see how they shine for you…
Ehehe, sorry.
May 2, 2010 at 1:51 am
And all the things you do. Yeah they were all yellow =)
November 23, 2009 at 10:18 am
That’s so awesome they’ve even written songs about it.
“Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words…”
November 23, 2009 at 10:39 am
That’s so weird….right now, I happen to be in Tijuana, eating BBQ’s iguana.
#onawavelengthfarfromhome
November 23, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I always pegged you as identifying more with “White and Nerdy”…
November 23, 2009 at 11:43 am
it can be awesome indeed.
not so much when it reminds you of painful things you’d rather forget… that’s what ruined my weekend…
November 23, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Yes, I would say someone definitely watched American Dad last night…:)
November 23, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Awesome …
… all I can say is, “if you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts would tell”….
November 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm
GORD!!!
November 23, 2009 at 3:09 pm
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November 23, 2009 at 3:51 pm
This is by far my favorite post EVER!!! I swear that is the BEST feeling in the world!
November 23, 2009 at 3:58 pm
That’s probably one of my favorite things ever.
November 23, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Hunter S. Thompson had a reputation for being “THE” connoisseur of alkaloids and all things psychoactive. In an interview by High Times Magazine in the late 70′s he was asked to name his favorite drug. He thought about it and replied “There is nothing better than a Big Ole Nixon.” When pressed for details – he just smiled and said, you know, a Big Ole Nixon!
Within days, the offices of High Times were deluged with requests for where they could score some Big Ole Nixon. Some thought it was a new form of acid, maybe some six-way blotter. Still others thought it had to be something out of Colorado … possibly the legendary puffball fungus that when ingested provided exclusively auditory hallucinations. A group of chemical anthropologists working with Andrew Weil suggested that the reference to “Nixon” had to mean this substance got you incredibly buzzed leaving you with no memory of the event afterward and set off for South America.
High Times could not help these intrepid explorers of wetware. But they writer of the story recontacted HST and pleaded for clarification. In the next month’s issue there it was right up front under errata and clarifications: A Big Ole Nixon is nothing more than a gigantic morning dump.
~Awesome~
Carpe Eximo, Campers!
November 23, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I love the way this is written. Props. Made me feel like singing along!
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November 23, 2009 at 8:51 pm
It’s also awesome when you check up on your favorite blog and they wrote a post that’s seemingly aimed towards you.
I’ve had such a bad day, and I look forward to listening to those soothing songs.
December 5, 2009 at 1:03 pm
yah wat u say is orlet .
November 23, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I’m two thousand miles from home, been gone a year, miss the wife, boys and grandsons. Won’t be home for another eight months at least (medical issues)….I need a good ol’ heartbreaking country song from Lady Antebellum. I know they wrote it for this sad sack.
……It’s a quarter after one…I’m all alone & I need you now…..sadly Awesome
November 23, 2009 at 10:50 pm
def awesome.
December 5, 2009 at 1:05 pm
then u must not survive at this time….so good bye
November 24, 2009 at 1:14 am
i love coming across songs that fit perfectly with situations in my life…and then frantically trying to figure out what its called before it is over
November 24, 2009 at 2:35 am
YAY ! :D
November 24, 2009 at 3:16 am
Sadly i realise all the songs that felt like it was for me are sad songs. @.@
But this is a great post. Awesome. :)
Bring back memories.
November 24, 2009 at 9:12 am
Ditto! I ban country music a few years ago (following a 15 year marriage ending). I knew how sad and lonely I was feeling (at that time – things have gotten so MUCH better with time) and did not need a country song to remind me. A friend recently invited me over to dinner (she neglected to mention she was watching the CMA’s). I sat in front of the TV having a nice bowl of soup and crying when I heard a country song that hit several nerves within me. I actually went home and found the song on YouTube and found much healing and a sense of normalcy in listening to it. I listened to it over and over for a day, figured out I was normal and moved on. I am still not HIP on country music, however, I don’t run the other direction or cover my ears any longer. Great Post.
Peace and Love, B
November 24, 2009 at 9:26 am
There are tons of songs that feel like they were written just for me! This is perfect!
November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am
Awesome. Going to go find a song for my current mood today.
November 24, 2009 at 10:22 am
this is my favorite awesome thing thus far. I have a song for everything, every break up, every big life moment, and even a lot of small life moments that are more easily remembered by a song.
Thank you, music.
November 25, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Ana Ng by They Might Be Giants, every.single.time. Awesome.
November 26, 2009 at 5:11 am
most amazing song!!! wow thank you for this: i feel like no one knows TMBG
and yes this is a wonderful feeling :)
December 1, 2009 at 4:24 pm
It’s a rarity but it happens and I love it, especially when they seem to match up with what’s happening in your life at that moment.
December 5, 2009 at 1:08 pm
realllyyyyy ahhh
December 2, 2009 at 8:22 am
emo/very weird, but especially the ones that make you cry!
December 3, 2009 at 4:16 am
ahh, broken relationships. That song, “Leggy blonde” – i’ve listened to it first time when i’ve boarded to plane from Moscow, leaving behind all that summer-long, love-filled, beautifull relationships with one of my blonde co-workers. Damn, that song was almost word-by-word describing what was going on in my life for past three months! I’ve listened to it like 30 times on a way to hideaway island (where we were supposed to fly together).
Good bye, Leggy Blonde!
December 14, 2009 at 5:46 am
I could really relate to this one!
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December 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Life Less Ordinary by Carbon Leaf is about my relationship. There’s no doubt in my mind that Barry Privett was stalking me when she and I got together.
December 21, 2009 at 4:41 pm
This is such a good post I’ve been with this blog from day 1, like literally from #1000. My song at the moment would definitely be “Plain White T’s – 1234″
December 23, 2009 at 1:23 pm
YES. Yes. Yessss!
I cannot emphasize just how awesome this is.
I’m so glad I’m addicted to music. It really pulls me through.
December 23, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I’d also like to add that the song, Dark Blue by Jack’s Mannequin, really changed my life. It can apply to so many things. All the metaphors mean something different to me. :)
January 6, 2010 at 10:31 pm
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February 26, 2010 at 10:36 am
Great post, but it ain’t no colon… Keep up the amazing work neil!!!
April 21, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Standing in the front row
Makin’ sure that I can see
Pointin’ at the set list sayin’,
“That one’s about me”
–Mary Prankster, “Whistle Stop”
April 21, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I was running once when I was dealing with stress from a friend. And I heard there words “Let it go / Let it roll right off your shoulder / Don’t you know / The hardest part is over / Let it in”. That was an AWESOME run.
April 29, 2010 at 10:29 am
Picked up an aging hippie somewhere in SoCal and drove him all the way back to his home in Eureka. His wife had kicked him out a year or two earlier, and he’d been literally living on the beach, and occasionally mooching from some sugar-mama. But in a recent, tearful, and forgiving phone call his wife had told him its “time to come home now”. He’d been on the road hitching for 5-6 days when I found him. I popped in a cassette: “Train Song” by Tom Waits. He got very weepy, broke down a bit, looked up at me with wet eyes and said “This song is about ME!”
So awesome, I wrote a song about him.
August 25, 2010 at 2:39 pm
i was on vecation in venuzuela last summer, we went far into the jungle. we slept in hammocs besides a river. i woke up in the middle of the night when the river was full of fireflies flying slowly downwards the river. i couldt sleep for an hour because of the beauty. a couple of weeks later the most downloaded song was named “fireflies” and that was very similar towhat happened to me,
August 25, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Amazing! I was listening to the song and thinking that’s written just for me when I suddenly looked at the link to #629 awesome thing. Now I’m really sure, the lyrics were written just for me :). B