Eire Duck's Music

Music is a big part of my life.  Not as big a part as it is in, say, Stina's life, but large enough.  I'm working on music of my own, which is an endeavor greater than I ever figured it might be.  The problem being that I have always considered good music to be "poetry which happens to have music", rather than the typical view where the music is more essential to the finished product.  So, I've got complete working lyrics on a few songs, listed below, which I might send you if you send me a really nice e-mail (eireduck@hotmail.com) explaining why you want to see them.  

Dis Order
Closure. by Default
My Mile
The Meaning of Life
The Same Old Frontiers
Anti-Revolution
Timebomb
Hypothermia
L.M.B.Y.S.G.
Call Me a Human
Mean to Me

Otherwise, we'll have to rely upon...

Other People's Music

Here's a section of this page that was going to have in-depth analysis of all sorts of good albums, but that never materialized.  At this point, I'm just going to throw out a table of some of my favorite albums of all-time & the songs that make them so good.  What follows is a rough sketch of my top THIRTY albums (at this point - always subject to change), organized by release date.  For the purposes of this experiment, I took only major release albums, excluding "greatest hits" compilations.  Here's the results...

	Bob Dylan	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963	1. Blowin' in the Wind 2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 3. Masters of War 4. Talking World War III Blues 5. Bob Dylan's Dream
	Bob Dylan	Another Side of Bob Dylan	1964	1. I Shall Be Free No. 10 2. My Back Pages 3. It Ain't Me Babe 4. Motorpsycho Nitemare 5. All I Really Want to Do
	Simon & Garfunkel	Sounds of Silence	1966	1. I Am a Rock 2. The Sounds of Silence 3. Leaves That Are Green 4. April Come She Will 5. Kathy's Song
	Beatles	Revolver	1966	1. Eleanor Rigby 2. She Said She Said 3. Yellow Submarine 4. For No One 5. Taxman
	Simon & Garfunkel	Parsley, Sage, Romsemary and Thyme	1966	1. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall 2. A Poem on the Underground Wall 3. 59th Street Bridge Song 4. Homeward Bound 5. Patterns
	Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967	1. With a Little Help from My Friends 2. Getting Better 3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 4. A Day in the Life 5. Good Morning Good Morning
	Moody Blues	Days of Future Passed	1967	1. Nights in White Satin 2. Tuesday Afternoon 3. Evening Time to Get Away 4. Another Morning 5. Twilight Time
	Simon & Garfunkel	Bookends	1968	1. America 2. A Hazy Shade of Winter 3. Overs 4. Bookends Theme 5. Fakin' It
	Cat Stevens	Mona Bone Jakon	1970	1. Fill My Eyes 2. I Wish, I Wish 3. Maybe You're Right 4. Lilywhite 5. Trouble
	Cat Stevens	Tea for the Tillerman	1970	1. Father and Son 2. Sad Lisa 3. Wild World 4. Miles from Nowhere 5. Into White
	Cat Stevens	Teaser and the Firecat	1971	1. Peace Train 2. Moonshadow 3. The Wind 4. Tuesday's Dead 5. Changes IV
	Bob Dylan	Blood On the Tracks	1975	1. Shelter from the Storm 2. Tangled Up in Blue 3. Idiot Wind 4. If You See Her, Say Hello 5. Simple Twist of Fate
	Paul Simon	Graceland	1986	1. Gumboots 2. You Can Call Me Al 3. Myth of Fingerprints 4. Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes 5. Graceland
	Gin Blossoms	New Miserable Experience	1992	1. Pieces of the Night 2. Found Out About You 3. Hey Jealousy 4. Lost Horizons 5. Allison Road
	Dave Matthews Band	Remember Two Things	1993	1. Christmas Song 2. Seek Up 3. I'll Back You Up 4. Ants Marching 5. One Sweet World
	Counting Crows	August and Everything After	1993	1. A Murder of One 2. Anna Begins 3. Mr. Jones 4. Round Here 5. Omaha
	Ben Harper	Welcome to the Cruel World	1994	1. Forever 2. Walk Away 3. How Many Miles Must We March 4. Waiting On an Angel 5. Breakin' Down
	Hootie & the Blowfish	Cracked Rear View	1994	1. Time 2. Hold My Hand 3. I'm Goin' Home 4. Running from an Angel 5. Hannah Jane
	Dave Matthews Band	Under the Table and Dreaming	1994	1. Ants Marching 2. Typical Situation 3. The Best of What's Around 4. Warehouse 5. What Would You Say
	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Wildflowers	1994	1. Time to Move On 2. Crawling Back to You 3. To Find a Friend 4. You Don't Know How it Feels 5. Wildflowers
	Jewel	Pieces of You	1995	1. You Were Meant for Me 2. Who Will Save Your Soul 3. I'm Sensitive 4. Little Sister 5. Near You Always
	Gin Blossoms	Congratulations I'm Sorry	1996	1. Not Only Numb 2. Follow You Down 3. Competition Smile 4. Perfectly Still 5. Whitewash
	Hootie & the Blowfish	Fairweather Johnson	1996	1. Earth Stopped Cold at Dawn 2. She Crawls Away 3. When I'm Lonely 4. Old Man and Me 5. So Strange
	Wallflowers	Bringing Down the Horse	1996	1. Three Marlenas 2. Invisible City 3. Bleeders 4. Josephine 5. One Headlight
	Matchbox 20	Yourself or Someone Like You	1996	1. 3 AM 2. Hang 3. Shame 4. Real World 5. Back 2 Good
	Counting Crows	Recovering the Satellites	1996	1. Angels of the Silences 2. Recovering the Satellites 3. Have You Seen Me Lately? 4. Monkey 5. Mercury
	Barenaked Ladies	Rock Spectacle	1996	1. When I Fall 2. Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank 3. The Old Apartment 4. If I Had $1000000 5. What a Good Boy
	Goo Goo Dolls	Dizzy Up the Girl	1998	1. Acoustic #3 2. Iris 3. Slide 4. Black Balloon 5. Broadway
	Counting Crows	This Desert Life	1999	1. Mrs. Potter's Lullaby 2. St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream 3. High Life 4. Speedway 5. Hanginaround
	Tracy Chapman	Telling Stories	2000	1. Paper and Ink 2. Devotion 3. Telling Stories 4. Less Than Strangers 5. The Only One

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