Imagine you’ve been stranded on a Desert Island and you’re doomed to be there for all of eternity. But wait! What if you got to choose 5 songs to listen to for that long, lonely time. What would you choose? If I was stranded on a Desert Island for all of eternity and had to choose five songs I would have to go with the following: “Mesopotamia” by Black Light Burns; “Someone’s In The Wolf” by Queens of the Stone Age; “Zero-Sum” by Nine Inch Nails, “Nobody Loves Me and Neither Do I” by Them Crooked Vultures; and “Videotape” by Radiohead.
My first songs choice is Mesopotamia by Black Light Burns.This song is off of the BLB debut album, “Cruel Melody” which came out in the year of 2007. If you don’t know, Black Light Burns is the other band of Limp Bizkit guitarist, Wes Borland. Borland(Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard) composed this masterpiece along with Josh Freese (Drums), Josh Eustice (Programming, Sound Design) and Danny Lohner (Producer). The reason I chose this song is because it is a wacky, party song. If I’m going to be all by myself on an island for eternity, I need something to groove to. The lyrics, which were inspired by a nightmare that Borland had, are a masterpiece all by itself. My favorite lines are: “Face down in the bottom of the river/Swimming with the dead makes me wanna shiver/If you really wanna know I’d rather just drown alone” and “Clay fingers reaching for the ceiling/Once numb, now tingling with feeling/You’ll see in the end that nothing really gets away”. Honestly, I could see myself hallucinating about partying with a group of groovy skeletons singing the chorus: “Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia, you really give me the creeps, you really give me the creeps”. The song has a steady, hard drum beat, fuzzy-sounding distorted guitars, cool keyboard noises, and a unique voice Perhaps the reason I have such a strong connection with this song is because Borland has a semi-deep voice that almost matches the deepness of mine. This allows me to sing it...