What do you listen to?

[Raditzu]

Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
No real story for this one. I like Green Day, so I bought this album (Dookie).

Give It Up - Captain Jack
Heh. So, I played in a pep band (trombone, btw) my freshmen year in college (I also played all through high school, but that's neither here nor there). One of the songs we played was "Centerfold." The arrangement we played was great, but it had been ages since I had heard the original. So I jumped on to iTunes to see if I could download it there. What I found was not the original version of "Centerfold" but rather a remix by Captain Jack -- known for his contributions to the "Dance Dance Revolution" soundtracks. So I just bought the whole album. This is one of the songs from it.

Stalker - The Pillows
My roommate and I both like watching anime. Well, we went through this huge FLCL phase and were determined to figure the series out. In the process of doing so, my roommate decided he really liked the ending theme of that series: "Ride on Shooting Star" by The Pillows. He downloaded a couple albums by them trying to get that song. This was on one of the album. btw, the pillows ftw.

Shing Jea Monastery - Jeremy Soule
This is one of the background themes from the game Guild Wars: Faction. The soundtrack came free with a pre-order of the game. Great music for a game, but pretty boring to just listen to.

History of a Boring Town - Less Than Jake
Oh hell yes. This is, in all seriousness, my favorite song ever written. I was introduced to Less Than Jake by a friend of mine (who is also the roommate I talked about under "Stalker") during eighth grade. I bought the album this is on -- Hello Rockview -- when I was up in Spokane (the only good thing to come out of that fucking piece of shit city, by the way) but never actually listened to it. Afterwards, wanting absolutely nothing to do with anything that had anything to do with Spokane, I tossed this CD into the back of my closet and moved on to Border and Boundaries (another LTJ album). I completely forgot about it until my friend asked me if I had ever heard of Hello Rockview one day at school. When I got home, I dug it out of my closet and cried tears of joy when this song started playing. People talk about things that help them get through tough times... this song did that for me. Seriously, it has never failed to bring a smile to my face, and I have no idea why.