It's been a while since I last posted but with the stress of my job and with little going on besides school, there has been nothing to talk about until now. There are many songs that I like; my tastes are quite varied. However there are a few songs that have really impacted or touched my life in such a way that if I did not know about them, I would be a greatly different person today. There are five songs/tracks on my list that have really been impactful in my life.
1. Snow: Informer- Now, if you listen to the song, there's nothing really impactful about it. It's just about Snow and his run-in with the law over a stabbing (at least I think so, he raps extremely fast). However, when I played the song for one class at Erskine Academy it impacted two of my students enough that when they made a goodbye video for me, they used the song. Now every time I hear Informer I think of my two students. :)
2. Taylor Mali: What Teachers Make- Anybody who is as passionate about teaching or the profession of teaching will understand why Taylor Mali would rank so high on my list. His poem is so powerful that it makes me proud to be a teacher and nothing has more affirmed my decision that this poem.
3. Bad Religion: No Control (album)- This entire album was very moving in my opinion. At this point I had not found music that really explained what I was thinking about and put life into perspective. I own all but one or two of their 15+ CDs now.
4. Tool: Die Eier Von Satan- This is the first song I ever heard in German and started my fascination with the German language. German Rock is one of my favorite genres and two of my five favorite bands are German.
5. Rise Against: Hero of War- This song is moving to anybody that has lost somebody to a war or to anyone who is a pacifist. The song talks about a young man's journey from being recruited to join the army to coming back home after his tour.
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