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February 7th 2011 Post has 1 notes.
30 bands in 30 days The Strokes Music

Day 30: The Strokes

Band: The Strokes
Favourite Song(s): Is This It?, You Only Live Once, Alone Together, 12:51, Reptilia, Take It or Leave It, Under Cover of Darkness, Taken For a Fool.
First Song I Ever Heard: 12:51. A good old friend slipped it on one of his mixes that he gave to me. I’m forever thankful to him for introducing this band to me.
Favourite Album: Is This It?
Favourite Lyrics: “The world is over but I don’t care, cause I’m with you.” “Kiss me now that I’m older, I won’t try to control you.” “I want to steal your innocence.” “Men don’t notice what they got. Women think of that a lot.” “The room is on fire as she’s fixing her hair.” “And I don’t need anyone with me right now. Monday, Tuesday is my weekend.
Seen them live? Nope

Day 29: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Band: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Favourite Song(s): Higher Than The Stars, This Love is Fucking Right, Come Saturday, Say No To Love, A Teenager in Love.
First Song I Ever Heard: Come Saturday, if I’m not mistaken. 
Favourite Album: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Favourite Lyrics: “Come Saturday you’ll come to stay, you’ll come to sway in my arms.” “You can’t think straight, because you’re not straight.” “A teenager in love with Christ and heroin.“ 
Seen them live? Nope

Day 28: The National

Band: The National
Favourite Song(s): Baby We’ll Be Fine, Start a War, England, Mr. November, Fake Empire, So Far Around The Bend, About Today, The Perfect Song.
First Song I Ever Heard: Baby, We’ll Be Fine. From a random mixtape I heard on 8tracks.
Favourite Album: High Violet
Favourite Lyrics: “I don’t have the drugs to sort it out.” “Stay out super late tonight, picking apples making pies.” “How close am I to losing you.” “Car was warm and we had wine, but I couldn’t find the perfect song.
Seen them live? Yess!

Day 27: Kasabian

Band: Kasabian
Favourite Song(s): LSF, Club Foot, Vlad The Impaler, Switchblade Smiles, Empire, Re-wired.
First Song I Ever Heard: LSF. 
Favourite Album: Velociraptor!
Favourite Lyrics: “Come on it, electronic. A polyphonic prostitute, the motors, on fire. Messiah for the animals.” “You can’t miss me, I’m still alive.”
Seen them live? Yess!

Day 26: The xx

Band: The xx
Favourite Song(s): Heart Skipped a Beat, Islands, Crystalised
First Song I Ever Heard: Crystalised.
Favourite Album: The XX
Favourite Lyrics: “Please don’t say we’re done when I’m not finished. I could give you so much more.” “Don’t think that I’m pushing you away, when you’re the one that I’ve kept closest.” “Where would I be if this were to go under? That’s a risk I’d take.
Seen them live? Nope

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30 bands in 30 days Death Cab for Cutie Music

Day 25: Death Cab for Cutie

Band: Death Cab for Cutie
Favourite Song(s): Transatlanticism, I Was Once a Loyal Lover, No Sunlight, Tiny Vessels, You Can Do Better Than Me.
First Song I Ever Heard: I Will Follow You Into The Dark.
Favourite Album: Narrow Stairs
Favourite Lyrics: “It disappeared at the same speed as the idealistic things I believed. The optimist died inside of me.” “The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row. I need you so much closer.” “You’re so cute when you’re slurring your speech, but they’re closing the bar and they want us to leave.” “I have to face the truth that no one could ever look at me like you do. Like I’m something worth holding on to.
Seen them live? Nope

Day 24: Two Door Cinema Club

Band: Two Door Cinema Club
Favourite Song(s): Cigarettes in The Theatre, Undercover Martyn, I Can Talk, What You Know
First Song I Ever Heard: Cigarettes in The Theatre.
Favourite Album: Tourist History
Favourite Lyrics: “I can tell just what you want, you don’t want to be alone.” “She spoke word that would melt in your hands.
Seen them live? Nope

Day 23: Babyshambles

Band: Babyshambles
Favourite Song(s): Beg Steal or Borrow, Fuck Forever, La Belle et La Bete, Lost Art of Murder, You Talk, Delivery, Albion.
First Song I Ever Heard: Fuck Forever.
Favourite Album: Shotter’s Nation
Favourite Lyrics: “You call yourself a killer but the only thing you’re killing is your time.” “In a world where ice turns to stars, what a life on Mars.” “Never surrender to flattery.” “Because I’m clever, but clever ain’t wise.” “I was a troubled teen, untroubled only in my daydreams.” “If you love her, tell her you love her, and you’ll be kissing her soon.
Seen them live? Nope