- (idea courtesy of Music Listography/High Fidelity)
Advice songs are tricky. You don't want to be preached at - who are these privileged rock stars telling us what to do? - but when you turn to music in moments of doubt, you look for something, for a sign of what to do with your life. Also, because of the essential nature of advice, they are very personal. One person's sage words of wisdom are another's crackpot philosophy. Here are mine, anyway.
'If you always get up late, you'll never be on time'
Broken Social Scene - Swimmers
'You must stick up for yourself son! Never mind what anybody else done.'
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
'We've got a lot to learn from each other, we have got to stick together'
Ra Ra Riot - Oh, La
'Sometimes there's gonna be days like this, sometimes there's gonna be rain like this, sometimes you're gonna feel pain like this, sometimes you gotta work hard for it'
Amerie - Gotta Work
'Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were. The Beatles... were just a band.'
Dans Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
'You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
(PS - Forget what I said before, I hate Glee for this)
{Photo courtesy of locket479 on flickr - there's a great story behind it, check it out!}
