Song on my mind... "Night Drive" by The All-American Rejects
Take me
Break me
Every mile further there’s a part of me that slips away
One day
You'll see
Even if you got down on your knees you couldn't make me stay
Drive all night
Never gonna get me
Night by night
To get away from it all
Fight fight fight
All you wanna do is hurt me
You wrecked my life
So I'm gonna have to drive all night
Last week, I began shaking the music from their new album through my audio sieves to separate out the songs into ones I loathe, tolerate, like and love. Like your typical soil sieve, it took some time and a number of passes to achieve proper gradation. I have this nasty tendency of loving everything I hear the first few times. That leaning is probably due to the underlying hope that I paid good money for good music. I try not to dismiss anything as tolerable or loathsome without giving it a fair shake.
Anyway, "Night Drive" came out as one of the songs I love. The lyrics are laughable, but they express the way I've felt on certain days. The melody is rather monotonous, but the energy and beat are exhilarating. It's in standard time with a long-long-short-short-long drum rhythm. They throw in handclaps during the intro and bridge to give the jam a rally song feel. It reminded me of "Crash and Burn" by The Bangles or the beginning of "I So Hate Consequences" by Relient K.
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Sounds to me like that "nasty tendency" is really a blessing. You get more enjoyment out of the album than most people, and are less likely to dismiss a song out-of-hand, thus giving it a chance to grow on you (like mold). That makes you more likely to recognize and enjoy gems that others overlook.
Or am I just stating the obvious? I have a tendency to do that.
Hmm... you were leaning dangerously close to stating the obvious, but then you came up with the visual of songs growing on me like mold and saved yourself. :D