2003
- Kate Bush “Cloudbusting” • 2003 Aug 21 • This is the song that was sampled for “Something Good is Gonna Happen” by Utah Saints, which is a song that I remember from high school
- Utah Saints “Something Good is Gonna Happen” • 2003 Aug 21 • See above
- Radiohead “Kid A” • 2003 Aug 22 • A memory of parking in the dirt lot kitty corner from Cook County Hospital, and working in pediatrics.
- Dream Academy “Life in a Northern Town” • 2003 Aug 22 • While sitting at the McD’s somewhere in Lake County, Illinois, I finally catch enough of the lyrics to this song to actually google it.
- Dario G “Sunchyme” • 2003 Aug 22 • See above
- Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” • 2003 Aug 24 • Bits and pieces of my childhood and my young adulthood come back to me in my dreams. My brain likes to rearrange geography and geometry, and I find places that I’ve never seen before familiar, while places that I’ve known like the back of my hand seem strange.
- Radiohead “The Bends” • 2003 Aug 25 • The eponymous track from the great, underrated album
- Coldplay “Clocks” • 2003 Aug 28 • I can’t be saved.
- Cyndi Lauper “Time after Time” • 2003 Aug 28 • Cursing missed opportunities.
- Red House Painters “All Mixed Up” • 2003 Sep 1 • A cover of The Cars on the “Excess Baggage” soundtrack.
- A7 “Piece of Heaven (Central Seven Remix)” • 2003 Sep 3 • A song that makes me think of Robotech.
- The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” • 2003 Sep 3 • Thinking back to those days playing Wing Commander II.
- Soft Cell “Sex Dwarf” • 2003 Sep 3 • See above.
- Gorillaz “M1 A1” • 2003 Sep 14 • Zombie attack!
- Nine Inch Nails “Piggy” • 2003 Sep 14 • I played this song on repeat more than 80 times.
- The Police “Message in a Bottle” • 2003 Sep 14 • Hope, not love.
- Outkast “Hey Ya” • 2003 Sep 15 • Shake it like a Polaroid picture!
- Indigo Girls “Galileo” • 2003 Sep 23 • The Galileo space probe meets its end in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
- The Cure “Jupiter Crash” • 2003 Sep 23 • Reminiscent of an autumn from long ago, when my dreams finally died.
- The Cure “The Last Day of Summer” • 2003 Sep 23 • The last days of summer always leave me cold.
- Common “Time Travelin’” • 2003 Sep 30 • Sifting through memories encased in amber.