Schizoid Playlist

I wouldn't recommend listening to this band, as they're known to incite existential despair (I hate that). I think they're either schizoid, antisocial, or just depressed nihilists. It's hard to say these days.

Cire - Every one of their songs is approximated by the following.

Choreography

Choreography. Paint by numbers.
Exchange hollow greetings with someone who'll do the same.
Smile appropriately for the right kinds of people,
with the right kinds of capital, financial or social.

Craft your character, rehearse your performance.
See which you sells the best and reinforce habits.
Walk to the altar, read from the prompter,
smile for your picture, and clap like a seal.

Is everyone looking at me?
Are they nodding their heads in approval?
Does this convince you? It never convinced me... it never convinced me.

Years don't teach anything if you're not listening...
or plugging your ears with bargain priced fantasies that are cheap to adopt,
but will surely break down right when you need a real understanding.

Choreography. Don't think critically.
It's all been figured out for you, and nothing means anything.

Lill Lindfors -- Jag tycker inte om dig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb6el4bwFKM

EDIT:
It suddenly occurred to me that some people on the forum may be linguistically challenged, so here is a rough translation of the relevant parts:

Considering everything that I've been told about this thing called "love", I've come up with a version of my own:

I don't like you, I'm not fond of you, but there is ... sympathy.

If you don't believe me when I whisper "I love you", you're quite correct. I do nothing of the sort.

I don't like you, I'm not fond of you, but there is ... sympathy.

A while ago I didn't listen to music, whatsoever. It is one of those things that allows people to label you with a certain stereotype depending on what type of music you listen too. After the advent of the ipod, music became much less a public display and more of something I could enjoy without others making asinine comments about my taste.
It also didn't help that before the advent of easily preview-able/downloadable music I didn't hear any music beyond what the radio played most times, (which is mostly boring, uncreative and about 90% inane love songs - which I don't really enjoy) and I didn't have friends to introduce me new music.

I would say that the music that I listen to does sometimes reflect my inner thoughts, so it is obviously something I don't reveal to anyone IRL.

lilnumber9 wrote:I think Simon and Garfunkel were schizoid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRoln5_jmk
&
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5JLrpXpkE

They should speak for themselves...
I'm just a temporally displaced, asocial hippie. What can I say?
I've found quite a few more in the prog. metal vein, particularly, but I haven't had my coffee yet.

I had a feeling that 'I am a Rock' would be brought up sooner or later. It has been in the past on this forum for it's appropriate lyrics.

coldplayer wrote:Switchfoot (ironically a "christian" band )- "More Than Fine"

I think this is simple. I want to experience more than contentment.

One of my favorite bands. Their lyrics are more vague, poetic and contemplative than preachy, but it is often clear where they are coming from. ... Although it helps that I am a christian.
They cover that lyrical theme a fair amount. Their big hit song 'Meant to Live' is an example of that, as well as the songs 'Afterlife' and 'Thrive' from their most recent album.

In Thrive the singer manages to come off as depersonalized/dissociative.

Switchfoot wrote:Thrive
Been fighting things that I can't see
Like voices coming from the inside of me
Like doing things I find hard to believe in
Am I myself or am I dreaming?

I've been awake for an hour or so
Checking for a pulse but I just don't know
Am I a man if I feel like a ghost?
The stranger in the mirror is wearing my clothes

No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel doesn't mean you can drive
A warm body doesn't mean I'm alive

No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive

coldplayer wrote:Coldplay -Things I Don't Understand

Your forum name is indicative of your musical taste, who woulda thunk.

DarkRiver wrote:I had a feeling that 'I am a Rock' would be brought up sooner or later. It has been in the past on this forum for it's appropriate lyrics.

A most peculiar man.

DarkRiver wrote:A while ago I didn't listen to music, whatsoever. It is one of those things that allows people to label you with a certain stereotype depending on what type of music you listen too. After the advent of the ipod, music became much less a public display and more of something I could enjoy without others making asinine comments about my taste.

I used to have the same problem with people. I would ask them if they were familiar with a group and right away it's, "what are you a white girl stuck in a black girl's body?" or "OMG how do you listen to that!?". I did become wayyy more fond of music once I left HS and I didn't have the fear of judgement and the lack of avenues in which to find music. I listen to everything too and I don't understand why being unbiased to music is considered weird.

DarkRiver wrote:It also didn't help that before the advent of easily preview-able/downloadable music I didn't hear any music beyond what the radio played most times, (which is mostly boring, uncreative and about 90% inane love songs - which I don't really enjoy) and I didn't have friends to introduce me new music.

I would say that the music that I listen to does sometimes reflect my inner thoughts, so it is obviously something I don't reveal to anyone IRL.

coldplayer wrote:Coldplay -Things I Don't Understand

Your forum name is indicative of your musical taste, who woulda thunk.

LOL @ the Coldplay realization.

Re: Simon & Garfunkel:

The "peculiar man" could very well be schizoid, but I don't think "I am a Rock" is written from a schizoid perspective. Clearly it's just a guy overreacting to the end of a love affair. Not really indicative of any particular PD or personality type.

Had the guy been schizoid in the first place he probably wouldn't have cared enough to turn his whole world upside down when the relationship ended, or write a mopey song about it. Nor would he have gotten so deeply involved with her in the first place that he would have ended up getting hurt so much.

I can see that.

On a slightly related topic, I do have to wonder about Ian Anderson, sometimes... A song about watching people watching him watch while other people watch trains?

DarkRiver wrote:

coldplayer wrote: Switchfoot (ironically a "christian" band )- "More Than Fine"

I think this is simple. I want to experience more than contentment.

One of my favorite bands. Their lyrics are more vague, poetic and contemplative than preachy, but it is often clear where they are coming from. ... Although it helps that I am a christian.
They cover that lyrical theme a fair amount. Their big hit song 'Meant to Live' is an example of that, as well as the songs 'Afterlife' and 'Thrive' from their most recent album.

In Thrive the singer manages to come off as depersonalized/dissociative.

Switchfoot wrote:Thrive
Been fighting things that I can't see
Like voices coming from the inside of me
Like doing things I find hard to believe in
Am I myself or am I dreaming?

I've been awake for an hour or so
Checking for a pulse but I just don't know
Am I a man if I feel like a ghost?
The stranger in the mirror is wearing my clothes

No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel doesn't mean you can drive
A warm body doesn't mean I'm alive

No, I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I wanna thrive not just survive

coldplayer wrote:Coldplay -Things I Don't Understand

Your forum name is indicative of your musical taste, who woulda thunk.

You're a genius!

I love Switchfoot though! They were my first music love many years ago when "Nothing Is Sound" came out. I love Afterlife! I was going to add that. That is my fave from the last album. Ill add "Hapy is A Yuppie Word" too. Love the lyrics.

More Songs

Linkin Park - Numb

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

Crossfade - Cold
Looking back at me I see that
I never really got it right
I never stopped to think of you,
I'm always wrapped up in things I cannot win
You are the antidote that gets me by,
Something strong like a drug that gets me high

What I really meant to say
Is I'm sorry for the way I am
I never meant to be so cold
Never meant to be so

Cold to you, I'm sorry about all the lies,
Maybe in a different light,
You can see me stand on my own again
Cause now I can see
You are the antidote that got me by,
Something strong like a drug that got me high

What I really meant to say
Is I'm sorry for the way I am
I never meant to be so cold
Never meant to be so cold

I never meant to be, so cold

I never really wanted you to see
The screwed-up side of me
That I keep locked inside of me so deep,
It always seems to get to me
I never really wanted you to go
So many things you should have known
I guess for me there's just no hope;
I never meant to be so cold

What I really meant to say
Is I'm sorry for the way I am (Is I'm sorry for the way)
I never meant to be so cold
Never meant to be so cold

I actually cant relate to that song, but Im sure some schizoid can. I love it. I honestly wish I could.


Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtW5WTb0qE

i walked outside
i could not cry
i don't know why

^ That is literally the whole song [Its looped] The music is so ethereal and beautiful though. I feel like im trippin on drugs listening to it

Les Rythmes digitales

Sometimes
When I wake at night
I feel that nothing on earth could ever heard me
Sometimes
When I'm on my mind
I feel that nothing I say could ever deserve me

I'm stood on the tab of my own tongue
I'm caught in the space between the concept and the execution
I'm stuck in the back of my own fruit
I'm lost in the void between the instinct and the institution

It's more than vocabulary
Takes more than a dictionary

Sometimes
When I wake at night
I feel that nothing on earth could ever heard me
Sometimes
When I'm on my mind
I feel that nothing I say could ever deserve me

I'm stood on the tab of my own tongue
I'm caught in the space between the concept and the execution
I'm stuck in the back of my own fruit
I'm lost in the void between the instinct and the institution


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5l6Yz5QyV4

Im listening to an old album of an indie grouped called Atlas Sound right now.
The album is called: Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

Quarantined
The few lyrics in the song:
Quarantined and kept so far away from my friends.
I am waiting to be changed.

I know its just two lines, but the melodies are great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSY0WRjxv4s