What Music Means to Me

This first song is called "Road to Nowhere" and is the first song I can remember knowing the lyrics to. It was released in 2005 and this was a time in my life when a lot changed, moving schools and parents breaking up. During that time the album this song was from was played a lot around me and for some reason this song was the one I picked up on the most, perhaps picking out on the meaning of song's lyrics for the first time, as opposed to just mindlessly listening to the melody.

This second song is "American Idiot" by Greenday and although it came out earlier even before my first song, it only became a song that I listened to properly years later. This was the first song I began to learn when I got a guitar and so it has quite a lot of significance to me in terms of music.

The much more recent song that I feel a particular attachment to is "Seasons Die One After Another" by Amarazashi. This is a Japanese song and really the first foreign song that I would listen to on a regular basis. In a sense this is the song that helped me appreciate music for more than just the words and melody I heard in passing.