This is a thing that's been making the rounds. Old news, but I'm using it to get some more content on this here blog. Thirty days, thirty songs, each day with a different song theme. Here we go.
day 01 - your favorite song
Foo Fighters - Breakout
I find Foo Fighters super likeable. They're the kind of band where no song, no matter how often I hear it, pisses me off. There's never an "ugh, this fucking song/those fucking guys" reaction; I may change the dial, but there's always going be another time where I leave that same song on and dig it.
That feels like I'm damning with faint praise, but I'm sincere: I always at least like, if not love, any given Foo Fighters song. That's kind of amazing for a band with as much material as they have.
As for why this song:
Breakout is everything I want out of a rock song. It has fast bits and chiller bits, heavy bits and soft bits, clever bits ("little frayed around the ends" may as well be my quintessential character description) and shoutable bits, and it’s romantic in a “look, I’m basically a crazy person, but on an unrelated note, I love you” way that I can relate to more than cock rock's "I'm going to fuck the dogshit out of that bitch" or indie rock's "girls who won't talk to me are the most beautiful girls of all".
And all that aside, I just never get sick of the song. That's enough for me to call it a favorite.
Second Runner Up: Art Brut - Emily Kane. "I hope this song/finds you fame/I want schoolkids on buses singing your name" remains the most romantic lyric I've ever heard.
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