BAND NAMES.....

Hey there guys… have been cut away from the virtual world for quite some time now…have been quite busy, running around for classes that were hitherto non existant…and have now started in full swing…. N then the stupid class tests which account for 2.5 marks outta 100.… *yeah …how does ANYONE beat that???* occasional orkutting from the college lab helped a bit…but anyway… here is the post I have been promising my friends for a long time.
Some time back, I was goin through my song list and realized what some of the bands out there have some really great *and some really weird* names. I decided to do a lil bit of research to find out what their names mean and here is all the trivia I could find… in alphabetical order…
Its quite long…so skip everyone else n go to ur fav bands,… and if u happen to have any trivia …. Do write in…. enjoi….

ABBA - *”Dancing Queen” is one of my all time fav…*Abba is "father" in Hebrew but the band claims that to be unintentional - rather it is an acronym for the first names of the band members: Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid (Frida).

AC/DC - It is said that one of the band member saw the words written on a sewing machine and thought it had something to do with power. (It does mean "alternating current / direct current".) The band used it not realizing it was also slang for a bisexual- the band claims NOT to be bisexual.

AEROSMITH : Drummer, Joey Kramer used to write "aerosmith" on his high school notebooks because he thought it sounded cool. When he proposed the name to the group, the rest of them said "What? Like that book they make you read in high school?" (the 1925 book, 'Arrowsmith' by Sinclair Lewis) Kramer responded "No. A-e-r-o smith..."
Now since I listen to a lot of their songs… here’s more trivia….
* It took the entire band 17 years to get clean and sober of drugs and alcohol. They accomplished this feat during the recording of 1987's Permanent Vacation album. The band gathered in 1970. Tom Hamilton was officially the last member to get sober.
*What Steven wants on his tombstone… Here Lies Tyler, The demon of screaming, who never woke up from the dream he was dreaming, untill one day he drank some magic potion, now all that's left is some sweet emotion
*The most unusual place Steven has had sex is in a confessional booth *wtf?*
*The first song Aerosmith wrote was Movin' Out
*Steven's real last name is Tallarico
*If Steven could no longer be a musician, he would want to be either a gigolo, a gourmet chef or a park ranger.
*Steven was 15 when he lost his virginity... to a hooker, none the less.
*Evidentially, Steven always insists his hotel room has nine pillows.

BACKSTREET BOYS - The Backstreet Market was a store in Florida where the guys used to hang out. *don’t scoff…even you listened to them in school…*

THE BEATLES - original member Stuart Sutcliffe came up with THE BEETLES , as a play on Buddy Holly's group THE CRICKETS who they loved. They were using the name THE QUARRYMEN and sometimes THE SILVER BEETLES - later it became THE BEATLES emphasizing the BEAT aspect of music (and poetry?). John Lennon is generally credited with combining Beetles and Beat to come up with THE BEATLES spelling.

BEE GEES - the 60's soft-rockers now best known for disco. Some say the BG comes from "Brothers Gibb" since they were brothers named Gibb... however an article on the group suggests that they used the names of 2 friends that helped them get started: Bill Goode and a DJ named Bill Gates...

BLINK 182 - Blink 182 supposedly has NO meaning at all but the band fosters stories on origins. They used to be just "Blink" but was threatened by a lawsuit from a little known Irish band with the same name, so they added the 182 which is the number of times the f-word was said in one of the members favorite movies. *hahaha….*

U2 - Three possibilities: 1) A type of spy plane used by the United States in the 1960's -
made famous when Gary Powers' U2 plane was shot down over Russia and he was taken as a prisoner during the Cold War. 2) U2 as in "you too" referring to the audience and its role in the musical experience 3) a U2 is an unemployment form in Ireland (see UB40)
BONO - U2's lead singer, Paul Hewson was inspired by a hearing aid store in Dublin, Ireland called 'Bono Vox'.

UB40 - Code number of a form people in Britain have to fill out to receive public assistance or welfare. Known in the UK as a signing-off form when you get a job. Hence the title of their first album Signing Off

BOB DYLAN - His real name is Robert Zimmerman - he liked the poet Dylan Thomas.

BON JOVI - from the New Jersey bandleader Jon Bon Jovi, whose real name is John Bongiovi, Jr. *I thought bon jovi was jus one guy. didn’t know it classified as a band*

CHUMBAWAMBA - In a band member's dream, he didn't know which door to use in a public toilet because the signs said "Chumba" and "Wamba" instead of "Men" and "Women" *I definitely DO NOT believe this ridiculous story…*

COLDPLAY : Chris Martin and his mates, originally called Starfish, were friends with a band called Coldplay. When that band gave up the name, Starfish asked if they could use it. The original Coldplay took the name from a book of poetry. *imagine the divine hits being from a band called STARFISH…Ewwwww*
Trivia :
The song "Clocks", which is from the album "A Rush of Blood to the Head". Despite the title, this song only contains the word "Clocks" once!
'Speed of Sound' was actually Coldplay's highest charting single ever on the US charts.

COUNTING CROWS - Comes from old English nursery rhyme which had to do with predicting the future from the numbers of birds seen. Originally the rhyme was about magpies, but as people came over to America, crows were used instead. one of the versions of the rhyme goes "one for sorrow, two for joy, three for girls, four for boys, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told..." Adam Duritz liked the rhyme...

THE CRANBERRIES -With original lead singer Niol Quinn the band was called “ The Cranberry Saw Us” ( a joke on Cranberries SAUCE) they changed it to the shorter form later. When Dolores O'Riordan replaced him, she had the name shortened to "The Cranberry" and the band's demo tapes were labeled "The Cranberry's". The first one was returned addressed to "The Cranberries" and they decided to keep the name

CREED - This popular Florida band was named after former bassist Brian Marshall's earlier band Mattox Creed.

DEF LEPPARD - Joe Elliot, lead singer, wanted to use the idea provided by the band Led Zeppelin's logo and made a drawing of something that looked like a deaf leopard…. So there it was … a brand new band name…def leppard. *thank god they dropped the “e”*

DEEP PURPLE - Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's grandmother liked the Bing Crosby song "Deep Purple".

DIRE STRAITS -Their name describes the financial situation they were in when forming the band. *unbelievable …. But true… haha*

THE DOORS - Jim Morrison read poet William Blake who said "if the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite. "He was also influenced by author Aldous Huxley who referred to the same line when he titled his book on drug experimentation The Doors of Perception. "There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors"

DURAN DURAN - named after a character in the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.

THE EAGLES - originally called TEEN KING AND THE EMERGENCIES , they liked the American sound of Eagles and the way it was aligned with THE BYRDS who had a great influence on them. *omg… imagine “Hotel California being sung by TEEN KING AND THE EMERGENCIES… omg”* and while we are on the subject of Hotel California…. Heres what I came up with :
On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, "everyone wants to know what this song means." Henley replied: "I know, it's so boring. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about." Don Henley: "We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest. Hotel California was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.
à "Colitas," in the line "Warm smell of colitas," is often interpreted as a flower or a sexual reference. It is a Spanish word translated to Henley by the Eagles Mexican-American road manager meaning "Little Buds," and is a reference to marijuana.
à The line "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to Steely Dan. The bands shared the same manager and had a friendly rivalry. The year before, Steely Dan included the line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" on their song "Everything You Did."
à An alternative interpretation of the meaning of the lyrics is that the song is a description of the journey from Need to Love and Marriage to Divorce and ultimately to the impossibility of regaining the life and happiness of the pre-divorce state.Initially the traveler is feeling the need of a relationship ("My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night"). The traveler meets his love and gets married ("There she stood in the doorway. I heard the mission bell"). A marriage commitment opens up the possibility of happiness but also the traveler is aware and vulnerable to the possibility of intense unhappiness ("And I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell") Unfortunately the marriage dissolves and his love becomes obsessed with money ("Her mind is Tiffany-twisted") where Tiffany" refers to the very expensive jewelry store, Tiffany & Co. With the divorce there is the division of property - she got the Mercedes Benz. After the breakup when he sees her with any guys she reassures him that the pretty, pretty boys" are just friends." In this new world of being single the other singles he meets do their dance in the courtyard" of life. They generally fall into two groups: There are those who can't stop talking about their Ex ("Some dance to remember") and there are those who don't what to say anything at all about their past marriage ("some dance to forget").Now in this world of being divorced he longs to return the pre-divorced state of happiness ("So I called up the captain, please bring me my wine"), but he finds that his happiness is now irrevocably in the past ("We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"). Deep into the post-divorce single's scene with "mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice" he is reminded that "we are all just prisoners here, of our own device." He and others want this divorce nightmare to be over, yet - "they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast." Now frustrated, he panics and is "running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before" But he is brought up short when the night man informs him that "You can checkout any time you like (commit suicide), but you can never leave" (become pre-divorced).There are two choruses in the song and each mention the "Hotel California." Around the time the song was written, California was experiencing the highest divorce rate in the nation. Each chorus has lines that remember his past marriage ("Such a lovely place") and his past lover ("Such a lovely face"). The first chorus indicates that there can always be more divorces ("Plenty of room at the Hotel California, any time of year, you can find it here"). The second chorus points out that as a part of divorce you will always "bring your alibis."
*good interpretation (or misinterpretation)*

ELTON JOHN - Real name: Reginald Dwight. Created from two other British musicians: Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.

EMINEM - from his real name Marshall Mathers he took M&M and rewrote it phonetically as Eminem. *no matter wht they say… I love the guy…*

FOO FIGHTERS - a term used by World War II pilots to describe strange flying fireballs they sometimes saw.

GOO GOO DOLLS - Originally, the band was called "The Sex Maggots". *try to imagine…* When a club owner in the band's hometown of Buffalo, New York balked at putting the band on stage with that name, and the local newspapers wouldn’t print their name, they were pressed to find a new one just minutes before they were set to perform. Flipping through a True Detective magazine, the band members spotted an ad for a goo goo doll, and they thought it would be funny and ironic for a trash-punk-rock band to have that name. And so it stuck.
*this ones my fav story… I mean imagine the writers of my fav song Iris being called sex maggots…ewwww*

GREEN DAY - A story is that when they dropped out of school to be musicians, their principal said "It'll be a green day in hell before you make anything of yourselves". Some say that in drug slang - if you smoked pot and goofed off all day, it was a "Green Day."
Green day was earlier called Sweet Children.
Billie Joe wrote his first song when he was five called Looking for Love. The first song he wrote that was recorded was Why Do You Want Him at age twelve.
Billie Joe and Mike formed their band Sweet Children when they were in fifth grade
In the second grade two girls beat up Billie Joe so that he would date them. This might have led to the song, Pulling Teeth.
Mike once kicked his teacher when he was in kindergarten because she told him to do something he didn't want to do.
Mike, Tre, and Billie have an 'EBPM' tattoo which stands for East Bay Punk Mafia.

GUNS 'N' ROSES - originally two bands L.A. GUNNS and HOLLYWOOD ROSES. Hollywood Roses was headed by Axl Rose, Tracii Guns headed the other band which also featured Slash. The two frequented clubs and played there and were friends.
About “November Rain” :
November Rain" has been called an epic rock ballad, in the tradition of "Stairway to Heaven" or "Hotel California". Officially, it is eight minutes and 57 seconds long. Many radio stations shorten it down to about six minutes.
"November Rain" also holds the record for the longest guitar solo in a Top 10 hit. Slash's axe work on this song was ranked number 6 in "Guitar World"'s "100 Greatest Guitar Solos
The platinum hit “November rain” was written by front man Axl Rose and the video features his wedding. Which was annulled a year later.
There's a neat bit of irony in the music video: there is a gun store (called Guns) next to a florist's shop (called Roses).
“Sweet Child of Mine”
The music video for "Sweet Child O' Mine" is set in an abandoned theatre and shows the band rehearsing for a show. A few of the band members' girlfriends were featured in the video as well as stage crew members. The video was pretty successful on MTV and greatly contributed to the mainstream success of not only the band, but the song as well.

KISS - According to Paul Stanley, Kiss just sounded dangerous (kiss of death) and sexy at the same time. Kiss denies the rumors that the name stands for "Kids In Service of Satan" or the saying "Keep It Simple Stupid."

LED ZEPPELIN - Jimmy Page was drinking with Moon and Entwhistle, who were bitching about their band mates Daltrey and Townshend. They joked about the two of them starting a band with Jimmy, and one of them said "Yeah, that will go over like a lead balloon". When Jimmy formed his own band, he remembered this and thought "Lead Zeppelin" would be good, both from that conversation and the heavy/light contradiction similar to the band named IRON BUTTERFLY. They decided to drop the "a" so Americans wouldn't mispronounce it.

LINKIN PARK : Earlier known as Xero, then changed it to Hybrid Theory, and then finally Linkin Park, to pay homage to Lincoln park , SF.

LIMP BIZKIT - Got the idea from Fred Durst's dog Biscuit who has a limp.

LL COOL J - for "Ladies Love Cool James".

LOS LOBOS - Spanish for "The Wolves"

LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Named after Leonard Skinner, an annoying gym teacher/coach some of the members had in high school. Leonard is said to have moved on to sell real estate in Jacksonville, Florida. *don’t know thm much…. Just the song “sweet home alabama”…*

MAROON 5 : Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick were friends since Junior High School and decided to form a band. known as Kara’s Flowers. but with a new drummer and a new sound, they changed their name to Maroon 5. They refuse to say what it means though…

MATCHBOX TWENTY :Paul Doucette came up with the name. The band came up with the name Matchbox Twenty when Paul was a waiter in a diner and saw a guy with a number 20 softball shirt. It was covered with patches and the only word they could read was matchbox. Paul thought it would be a good name for a clothes line - Rob hated it! Rob wanted to name the band “Larry” cuz he thought ppl saying “Hey Larry‘s playing” sounded cool. *they sure don’t have brains… but wtf…they make cool music…*

MEGADETH - Dave Mustane was inspired by a government pamphlet he saw after leaving METALLICA. A Megadeath is a military term for one million dead (making World War II an 80 Megadeath)

METALLICA - Lars Ulrich was helping a friend think of a name for a metal fanzine. The choices were Metal Mania and Metallica. Metal Mania was chosen for the magazine & he used Metallica for his band.

NIRVANA - As Kurt Cobain said (yes, this is a quote): "Nirvana means complete and total bliss. That is what punk rock means to me." Nirvana had many punk influences that were very evident in their music. Nirvana is a state of nothingness, complete contentment, not needing or wanting anything, no emotions.

'NSYNC- Justin's mother came up with the name. N is the last letter in Justin, S is the last letter in Chris, Y is the last letter in Joey. N is actually from James Lance Bass because Chris gave him the nickname 'Lansten'. Since Lance doesn't end with a N, they used his nick name, Lansten. C is from J.C. That's how they came up with 'NSYNC. The whole thing is, of course, a play on In Sync - a term which comes from the movie industry - meaning when the picture & soundtrack are properly aligned or synchronized.

NO DOUBT - a favorite phrase of John Spence, it became the name of the band prior to his suicide.

OASIS - local British origins: a Manchester cab company, a chain of women's clothing stores,
a local Indian restaurant and more likely a local club that The Beatles played in during their early years (the band are avowed Beatles fans)

PEARL JAM - Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of pioneering grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success but disbanded in 1987. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing with Malfunkshun (another band) vocalist Andrew Wood, eventually organizing the band Mother Love Bone. In 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest and their debut album, Apple, was released in July 1990, four months after Wood died of a heroin overdose.
Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Gossard spent his time afterwards writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously. After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band Shadow had broken up; McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with Ament. After practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band and to distribute the demo to anyone he felt might fit the lead vocal position. Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his basketball buddy, San Diego singer Eddie Vedder. Vedder was the lead vocalist for a San Diego band, Bad Radio, and worked part time at a gas station. He listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him. There he recorded the vocals to three of the songs ("Alive", "Once", and "Footsteps") in what Vedder would later describe as a "mini-opera" he entitled "Mamasan". He sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were so impressed that they had Vedder fly to Seattle. Within a week, Vedder had joined the band. With the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, the band took the name Mookie Blaylock, in reference to the then-active All-Star basketball player. However, concerns about trademark issues necessitated a name change; the band's name became "Pearl Jam". In an early promotional interview, Vedder said that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to his great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for peyote-laced (hallucinogenic… like LSD, Cocaine etc..) jam. In a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story however, Vedder admitted that this story was "total bullshit" (even though he indeed had a great-grandma named Pearl). Ament came up with "pearl", and that the band later settled on "Pearl Jam" after “Jamming” which meant stretching up songs as improvisations of 15-20 minutes in length.

PINK FLOYD - taken from the names of two Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd
Council - from the early days when the band saw itself as a blues band.

THE REPLACEMENTS - Legend has it that they were given a gig after another band failed to show - when asked who they were they replied "We're the Replacements".

THE ROLLING STONES - from the Howlin' Wolf blues song "Rolling Stone" - Keith Richards was a fan of the version recorded by Muddy Waters.

SAVAGE GARDEN - Darren is a huge fan of Anne Rice's vampire novels and that is where the name of the band came . Anne Rice is known mostly for the Vampire Chronicles but writes other things that have to do with ancient history, folk-lore, mythology and dark, DARK mysteries. "Savage Garden" shows up in the second book called "The Vampire Lestat", where the vampire Lestat and others of his kind describe the world as a savage garden. Darren and Daniel both agreed to this name because it has a deeper meaning behind it

STEELY DAN - taken from William Burrough's book Naked Lunch. In it Steely Dan is the nickname given to a giant steam-powered dildo (see cover photo on their first album) *can anything get weirder than this???*

SWITCHFOOT : An American alternative rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman (vocals, guitar), Tim Foreman (bass guitar, backing vocals), Chad Butler (drums, percussion), Jerome Fontamillas (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), and Drew Shirley (guitar).
Switchfoot first gained mainstream recognition after the inclusion of four of their songs in the 2002 movie A Walk to Remember. This recognition led to their major label debut, The Beautiful Letdown, which was released in 2003. It went on to sell over 2.6 million copies and produced the band's best-known singles, "Meant to Live" and "Dare You to Move".
According to Jon Foreman, the name "Switchfoot" is a surfing term. "We all love to surf and have been surfing all our lives so to us, the name made sense. To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music".

TRAIN : Rob thought of it: In an interview with Echo & the Bunnymen, they said there was nothing left in the US that was romantic. Rob disagreed and thought that the most romantic thing about the US was the train.

VAN HALEN - after Alex and Eddie Van Halen - suggested by David Lee Roth as being better than their original name "Mammoth." They might have been called 'Daddy Longlegs' if Gene Simmons of KISS had gotten his way - he partially financed and produced one of their original demo records and suggested names and artwork.

VELVET UNDERGROUND - 60's experimental band associated with pop artist Andy Warhol, they took their name from a paperback book they found on the street - the book was about sex in America.

GonNa Get a TaTToO...

hey there... have been thinking abt this for a long time... i have always loved the idea of doing something crazy and wild *all my friends are testimony to that...*. once i was out shopping wid frnds and saw this plain looking grl comin outta a shop wearing high heels... and she had some sorta charm bracelet on her ankle... it was a tattoo. ever since then, i have completely fallen in love with the idea of gettin one myself..

i have delibrated with quite a few options. i started out thinking i dont want a butterfly or roses or any of those things that grls normally get. i wanted something in writing. some profound words... *hehe* i wanted a phrase or something, and NOT in plain english. some other language. at first i toyed with the idea of spanish or latin... n then i saw all these japanese symbols. I knew i wanted them. i want 5 of them on my ankle maybe. Charm, Goodluck, Mystery, Peace and Eternity are on my list...

and then some days ago, i chanced upon a DIVINE tattoo... its an ambigram... Life and Death... shows itself depending on whch way u see it. so i m sure im gonna get this one on my arm.. the moment i saw it i knew it represents ME...

bbye. tc.

Annie.

It Doesnt Take a loT to Make heR haPpY...

Smell her hair…
Kiss her in the rain…
Hold her hand when she walk beside you…
Tell her u love her when she’s least expecting it…
Look at her during a movie…
When she’s sad, hold her tight…
Send her flowers in the middle of the day…
Call her first thing in the morning…
Once in a while, ask her out like it’s the 1st time…
Look at her like she’s the only girl you see…
Play with her hair…
Let her play with your hair…
Kiss her nose…
Make her real mad at you…
And then make funny faces to make her forget her anger…
Kiss her forehead often…
Tell her stupid jokes…
You might hurt her sometimes…
But don’t ever leave it that way…
Make up to her…
Cuz she’s the best thing that ever happened to you…
Smile a lot when you talk to her…
When she’s upset with you…take her hand and kiss her fingertips
And say real slow to her “baby, I love you”…
Dance with her on her favorite romantic number…
She may freak out over the teeniest things…
And go AWWWW over a million things…
At the end of the day, she’s just a girl…
Who has given you her heart… and expects you to take care of it
Always be the same person she fell in love with…
At the end when she is all tired and weary…
Listen to her…
And give her a massage when she’s all sore..
And then tuck her to bed like a baby…
Be gentle with her…
Be loving and caring…
Go shopping with her and carry all the bags…
Buy the things she chooses for you, even if you hate them…
When she falls ill, fuss over her…
Tap her to sleep in your arms… cuz that’s where she belongs…
Tell her she looks beautiful…
Write her a love letter and post it to her…
Leave little notes in her back pack, her books, her pencil case…
Which say that you love her…
Always keep reminding her why she fell in love with you…
without even saying a word…
&… By never letting her go…

P.S :
(¨`·.·´¨)* A gurl is much more
`·.¸(¨`·.·´¨)*Than she seems
`·.¸.·´*Not a toy by any means
(¨`·.·´¨) *Underneath the make-up and hair
`·.¸(¨`·.·´¨)* There Is a sign saying
`·.¸.·´* HANDLE WITH CARE !

Rain...

Well, I'm listening to the pitter-patter of the rain..

Alone in the middle of my way..

My ol' heart begins to feel the pain..

Of missing you with all my might..

But your not here to share my love..

So I'll just face this pain alone...

And listen to the rain falling from above

And face the fact that you are gone,

Rain falling from above...

Rain falling for my love...

~Anon.

P.S : A little low .... n I guess the rain just makes me melancholy...

...The Long Drive List....

Breakaway - KELLY CLARKSON
Behind those eyes - 3 DOORS DOWN *nothing beats this song*
Fearless - BRYAN ADAMS
Linger - CRANBERRIES
Angel - AEROSMITH
Secret Garden - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Unwell - MATCHBOX TWENTY
Your body is a wonderland - JOHN MAYER *makeout song actually*
Californication - RHCP
Call me when your sober - EVANESCENCE
Broken - EVANESCENCE
When your gone- AVRIL LAVINGE
All that I want - BRYAN ADAMS
You have lost that loving feeling - OLDIES
Iris - GOO GOO DOLLS
Sweet home Alabama - LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Black Pearl - BRYAN ADAMS
Cuts like a knife - BRYAN ADAMS
On top of you - ENRIQUE *also a makeout song…but nice for a drive…*
Angels - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
On a day like today - BRYAN ADAMS
So far away - STAINED
A bad dream - KEANE
When your gone - BRYAN ADAMS
Gone - SWITCHFOOT
Someday we’ll know - MANDY MOORE
Only hope - SWITCHFOOT / MANDY MOORE
Learning to breathe - SWITCHFOOT *fav*
I dare you to move - SWITCHFOOT
Kiss me - SIX PENCE NONE THE RICHER
Sing for the moment - EMINEM
November Rain - GNR
Sweet child of mine - GNR
Harder to breathe - MAROON FIVE *less known… but one of my fav*
Best of me - BRYAN ADAMS
Boulevard of broken dreams - GREENDAY
Are we the waiting - GREENDAY
Wake me up when September ends - GREENDAY
Bad day - DANIEL POWTER
Clarity - JOHN MAYER
To the moon and back - SAVAGE GARDEN
City of blinding lights - U2
The scientist - COLDPLAY
Yellow - COLDPLAY
Clocks - COLDPLAY
A thousand miles - VANEESA CARLTON
Here is gone - GOO GOO DOLLS
You - SWITCHFOOT
Leaving on a jet plane - AEROSMITH
Pink - AEROSMITH * the song makes no sense but still… *
California - PHANTOM PLANET *OC soundtrack*

*Awww.....isnt she the cutest little princess you have ever seen???*

SouNdTracK Of mY LifE.....

Memories… Maybe I am crazy but there’s this thing about me that both the best and the worst thing about me… I cling to memories. Why? Because someone once said memories are the only things that do not change when everything else does…And that is the truth..

Have you ever heard a song from so long ago with so many memories tied to it that it got a lump to your throat that you can’t swallow? And didn't you wish that you could go back into time when everything seemed so much simpler and carefree? Those are songs that are the soundtrack of our lives... the ones that bring back childhood memories, best friends, school memories, memories of your first love, first heartbreak...

Seasons of the Sun / No Matter What (WESTLIFE): Both these songs were played at our school farewell amidst a whole assembly full of us holding candles… that day felt like the perfect fitting ending to a glorious 10 years of life in my school. My school days were the days were the ones I had the most fun-filled days, made the truest friends, cried the most, and laughed the hardest…

Iris (GOO GOO DOLLS): Don’t quite remember when I listened to this song for the first time… but you know how some songs just become a part of our lives as soon as the first strings reach our heart… this is like one of those songs… the words are so true for my life… “when everything feels like the movies…yeah, you bleed just to know you are alive”… takes a real cutter to know what that means…

Colorblind (DARIUS): 10th board exams… staying up till late in the night studying… I didn’t have the privilege of owning a cell phone or a music player, so I took a break from my studying while listening to FM… and that’s where I heard this song for the first time… Everytime I listen to this song…ummm…coffee at 2 and dozing off at 5 with the civics textbook on my head… :)

I want it that way (BSB): I made my mom tear out her hair in frustration when I used to run back home everyday from school to call up Channel Oxygen ( yeah, remember that channel where you call up on the channel and they played their fav songs) Every single time my song was the same…I want it that way… I was simply TOO much in love with Nick carter… my first crush, I was fida over his chocolate-boy looks… and ever since then I have always been drawn to innocent looking hunks…;)

Sutta: The engineering anthem, just have to listen to this song and close my eyes and drift back to the find memories of my 1st year… sittin in class, completing assignments, talking, studying… having all the fun in the world…. Where did time fly past so soon???

Tanha dil tanha safar (SHAAN): my first singing performance, 10th std, with the KASPAR’s in Mahabaleshwar… still can hear the cheers of the crowds… the waning days of school life…filled with warm nostalgia…

You have lost that loving feeling (TOPGUN OST): Tom cruise... bikes... n planes *faints with excitement*... this is one beautiful song that never fails to get a smile to my lips...*smiling foolishly*

*i'll keep adding to the list as the memories come by...*

....Wait...

*one of my favorite poems... read it in my school magazine a long long time ago..*

Life, thy name is wait
At each stage, at each crossroad
At each moment, wait…

Wait, wait and just wait,
As an infant – hungry
I had to wait to be fed
Wet – I had to wait to be changed
I didn’t speak and walk early…
Wait, said mother, she’ll do it soon enough,

As a child I wanted to be at the teens
Wait until you grow up, was the answer…

Got married to a stranger
It was a long wait till he became a dear
We waited for our first kid…
We waited for his first smile , we waited for his first word…
And waited for his first step into the world…

We waited for him to grow up
And then we waited to get him married…

We then waited for our first grand child
Grand parents, now, we waited for
Retirement & mellowing old age
And now we are old and wise
Mellow & content, we still wait…

Wait for that most peaceful of all stages – Death…
Wait…eternal wait… is the essence of life…

Life is just a wait…

50 Reasons why I love you.

I love how you smile when I see you.
I love how you hold me.
I love how you say "Pata hai?? Bachcha is looking cutie".
I love how you look at me all funny when I say something stupid.
I love how you make cute faces to say you are sorry.
I love how you laugh when I say something random, or stupid.
I love the face you make when I sneeze.
I love how you make me smile even when you are far away.
I love how you tell me I look cutie in my new dress.
I love how you LOVE my hot pants.
I love how you talk about anything and everything for hours.
I love how you say sweet things to me.
I love how you whisper in my ear when it’s time to say "Good Night".
I love how you squeeze me so hard… so perfect… when I hug you.
I love how I can talk to you about whatever I am feeling.
I love how we message each other as soon as we wake up.
I love how you sound when I wake you up.
I love how you want to spend every day with me.
I love how you squeeze my hand.
I love how you rub my back, and kiss my neck.
I love how you sit next to me, and tell me that everything’s perfect.
I love how everything is perfect.
I love how you see the person I really am.
I love how you say we are perfect for each other.
I love how you make me cry, but not because I’m upset or sad, or you hurt me, but…because you made me the happiest person ever.
I love how I wake up in the morning for you.
I love how I anticipate seeing you.
I love how you kiss me.
I love how I look at the empty space in my bed, and wish you were filling it.
I love how you feed me when we go out to eat.
I love how you worry about me, and take care of me.
I love how you pay for me when we go places.
I love how you insist everything will be alright, and make me feel at ease.
I love how you keep me warm when I’m cold.
I love how you give me weird looks at awkward moments.
I love how you stop everything for me.
I love how I’m important to you.
I love how I like to do little things to make you happy.
I love how you make me happy.
I love how you make sure I stay in line and my "red stuff" remain hidden.
I love how I only want to be with you.
I love how you think I have cute feet.
I love how I only think about you.
I love how "our songs" makes me smile when I listen to them when I am away.
I love how you get jealous.
I love how I can see myself with you forever.
I love how we talk about being together forever.
I love how you get mad when someone says something to upset me.
I love how I ask for a snuggly anytime I want.
I love everything about you.

P.S: allright, I see a lot of visitors coming on this post.. so I'll put a msg here .. "Welcome.. read all u want.. But please dont copy. ok? lolz :P :D"

Do It Anyway...

"Do It Anyway"

…People are often unreasonable, illogical, self-centered…
forgive them anyway.

…if you are kind to people, they may accuse of ulterior motives…
be kind anyway.

… if you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies…
Succeed anyway.

…if you are honest & frank people may cheat you…
Be honest & frank anyway.

…what you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight…
Build anyway.

…if you are good to people today…they may forget tomorrow…
Be good to people anyway.

…you give the world your best, it may never be enough…
Give the world your best anyway.

…so you see… in the final analysis…
...It was between you & God…

It was never between you & them anyway