Need individualstic, no-lovesick music
September 13, 2009 8:08 AM Subscribe
In search of individualistic, no-romance-involved, me-and-my dreams music.
Some of Bob Dylan's songs fit along these lines, but I'm sick of hearing heartsick-longing music, and I'm going through a good "I need to work through my own goals/dreams and take care of myself" phase, so I was looking in particular for artists who tend to write along these lines.
Male artists preferred, bonus points for a genre of rock. Also, it can't really reference the opposite sex at all--I don't want the "I'm being myself in the face of you being a complete idiot" (ala, while great songs, "Can't Hold Us Down", "It Ain't Me Babe", "Love Song"). I was thinking something along the lines of Jackson Browne's "Farther On". I love JB's music, but most of it is lovesick-yearning and I'm tired of hearing that.
It doesn't need to be peppy or upbeat--just needs to focus on the individual, search for meaning, dreams, goals, without any romantic overtures whatsoever.
Some of Bob Dylan's songs fit along these lines, but I'm sick of hearing heartsick-longing music, and I'm going through a good "I need to work through my own goals/dreams and take care of myself" phase, so I was looking in particular for artists who tend to write along these lines.
Male artists preferred, bonus points for a genre of rock. Also, it can't really reference the opposite sex at all--I don't want the "I'm being myself in the face of you being a complete idiot" (ala, while great songs, "Can't Hold Us Down", "It Ain't Me Babe", "Love Song"). I was thinking something along the lines of Jackson Browne's "Farther On". I love JB's music, but most of it is lovesick-yearning and I'm tired of hearing that.
It doesn't need to be peppy or upbeat--just needs to focus on the individual, search for meaning, dreams, goals, without any romantic overtures whatsoever.
Joni Mitchell -- most of the songs on her album, Hejira.
posted by rhartong at 8:26 AM on September 13, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by rhartong at 8:26 AM on September 13, 2009 [3 favorites]
Josh Rose - Directions
Cat Stevens - The Wind
Social Distortion - Reach for the Sky
Talib Kweli - Get By
posted by raztaj at 8:27 AM on September 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
Cat Stevens - The Wind
Social Distortion - Reach for the Sky
Talib Kweli - Get By
posted by raztaj at 8:27 AM on September 13, 2009 [1 favorite]
Running Down A Dream - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
posted by torquemaniac at 10:23 AM on September 13, 2009
posted by torquemaniac at 10:23 AM on September 13, 2009
Akron/Family's self-titled album.
posted by oinopaponton at 10:52 AM on September 13, 2009
posted by oinopaponton at 10:52 AM on September 13, 2009
Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror.
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:57 AM on September 13, 2009
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:57 AM on September 13, 2009
maynard james keenan - forty six & two, lateralus
posted by (lambda (x) x) at 11:16 AM on September 13, 2009
posted by (lambda (x) x) at 11:16 AM on September 13, 2009
Aerosmith - Dream On
Tom Petty - Runnin down a dream
posted by BusyBusyBusy at 1:10 PM on September 13, 2009
Tom Petty - Runnin down a dream
posted by BusyBusyBusy at 1:10 PM on September 13, 2009
Maybe a little obvious, but... Dreams by Van Halen.
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:13 PM on September 13, 2009
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:13 PM on September 13, 2009
The Impossible Dream is a classic and fits your description perfectly. Lyrics here.
posted by amyms at 1:54 PM on September 13, 2009
posted by amyms at 1:54 PM on September 13, 2009
Mercy Mercy Mercy by Cannonball Adderly
posted by rileyray3000 at 6:18 PM on September 13, 2009
posted by rileyray3000 at 6:18 PM on September 13, 2009
I'm also partial to Hungry Heart by Springsteen. That opening line is a man who's decided to do something despite the cost.
I got a wife and kids in Baltimore jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and just kept goin
That line has defined why I've done more of my life the way I've done it than...well, than most schools of philosophy.
posted by rileyray3000 at 6:21 PM on September 13, 2009
I got a wife and kids in Baltimore jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and just kept goin
That line has defined why I've done more of my life the way I've done it than...well, than most schools of philosophy.
posted by rileyray3000 at 6:21 PM on September 13, 2009
Neither of them are rock artists, but I think a lot of Kanye and Jay-Z's work falls into this category. I specifically recommend:
Jay-Z - American Dreamin'
Kanye West - We Don't Care
Kanye West - Touch the Sky
The song that Touch the Sky samples, Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" would also fit the bill.
posted by C^3 at 7:17 PM on September 13, 2009
Jay-Z - American Dreamin'
Kanye West - We Don't Care
Kanye West - Touch the Sky
The song that Touch the Sky samples, Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" would also fit the bill.
posted by C^3 at 7:17 PM on September 13, 2009
Todd Rundgren!
Drive! (lyrics)
Just One Victory! (lyrics)
Blue Orpheus! (lyrics)
Mountaintop! (lyrics)
Healer! (lyrics)
Can't Stop Running! (lyrics)
Love Science! (lyrics)
...and a bonus track, in the form of a Utopia bonus track:
Man Of Action! (lyrics)
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Our Hero has got you covered. Draw a bead on that sucker, Dukat.
posted by mintcake! at 10:08 PM on September 13, 2009
Drive! (lyrics)
Just One Victory! (lyrics)
Blue Orpheus! (lyrics)
Mountaintop! (lyrics)
Healer! (lyrics)
Can't Stop Running! (lyrics)
Love Science! (lyrics)
...and a bonus track, in the form of a Utopia bonus track:
Man Of Action! (lyrics)
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Our Hero has got you covered. Draw a bead on that sucker, Dukat.
posted by mintcake! at 10:08 PM on September 13, 2009
Old favorite--"I Am What I Am," Adrian Belew with the Prophet Omega, from Young Lions.
posted by dlugoczaj at 6:21 AM on September 14, 2009
posted by dlugoczaj at 6:21 AM on September 14, 2009
As the resident Styx fan, I must mention "Fooling Yourself." You are, after all, the one they can't beat - and you know it.
And mintcake! - you give a great list of Todd songs, and you leave off "Change Myself"? Sheesh. I am hereby recommending "Change Myself." AND "Second Wind," for that matter.
posted by kristi at 9:45 PM on September 14, 2009
And mintcake! - you give a great list of Todd songs, and you leave off "Change Myself"? Sheesh. I am hereby recommending "Change Myself." AND "Second Wind," for that matter.
posted by kristi at 9:45 PM on September 14, 2009
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Diana Ross - It's My Turn
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