Songs that resonate with you AS-wise

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I was just listening to this song which I absolutely love and it occurred to me that it doesn't necessarily just reflect the experience of growing up, but that it might resonate with many on the spectrum too (certain parts anyway). So I decided to resurrect this thread again and share it. Hope you enjoy.

http://youtu.be/woyEmY8-5Ew

"On the Turning Away" by Pink Floyd-- as long as it's understood that the turning away in question isn't society turning from me, but the other way 'round.

"Quiet Man" by John Prine.

"No Rain," by Blind Melon.

"Iris," by Goo Goo Dolls.

The one that goes, "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell..." by a band I never could remember the name of. No actually that's more of a depression/meltdown song.

Cliched but true-- "Hurt" and "Something I Can Never Have," both by Nine Inch Nails.

Lately my kids have been into the Disney version of Pocahontas. The song "Savages" resonates in terms of stigma and backlash and stuff-- and sadly that's not just an AS thing. That's on so many levels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiWocxb8bIQ

A lot of Fort Minor's and Zox's songs really resonate.

Line In The Sand by Zox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT4lu84DOQw
This one describes how I felt once I kind of put all the pieces together and found out who I am.

Right Now by Fort Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4g0kFlS9lM
Just kind of how my mind works on a day to day basis. I just get so far removed from everything after a while...

Believe Me by Fort Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1y7aNM2BWU
"On the right track, But I was on the wrong train"
"In your brain like a maze you can never escape the rain, Every damn day is the same shade of grey"
"Back then, I thought you were just like me, Somebody who could see all the pain I see
But you proved to me unintentionally, That you would self-destruct eventually"

Slip out the back by Fort Minor (more for depression than AS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGiiiB7wpY
Kind of relates with "Right Now". Everyone's just kind of focused on their own thing. Makes you feel invisible.


Good Charlotte's always been one of my favorites.

Little Things by Good Charlotte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4oCDAXQC34
Speaks for itself I think. Pretty much how I felt my entire life.

My Bloody Valentine by Good Charlotte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxovPeqNsZ8
This one's a bit different. Like the song, I'm never quite sure if what I'm doing is right or wrong. I just do what I think is right. I've developed my own kind of system, that I don't think anyone understands.
"I don't know much at all
I don't know wrong from right
All I know is that I love you tonight "

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-HPOHu8mY
A nice reminder that you shouldn't have to worry about what's going through everyone else's mind.

so... many.... ack... >.<

where to begin....

Dave Matthews Band - You Never Know

The song "Dream Stuff" from that classic movie The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

written in the stars.. elton John

this resonates with my search for love..


I am here to tell you we can never meet again
Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then
A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when
You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell
The someone you once loved so long ago so well

Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by
You don't have to ask me and I need not reply
Every moment of my life from now until I die
I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand

Is it written in the stars
Are we paying for some crime
Is that all that we are good for
Just a stretch of mortal time

Is this God's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day

Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
What it is to be in love and have that love returned

"How soon is now?" and "Iris" have already been mentioned. Tori Amos seems to capture AS quite well (though not intentionally). "Flavor", "Daisy Dead Petals" and "Cornflake Girl" are good examples.

I used to have a giant Tori Amos poster on my bedroom door in 7th grade. Cornflake girl does make a lot of sense.

I also think Joanna Newsom had a few that I really relate to...

"En Gallop" by Joanna Newsom

This place is damp and ghostly
I am already gone.
And the halls were lined with the disembodied
and dustly wings, which fell from flesh
gasplessly.

And I go where the trees go,
and I walk from a higher education
(for now, for hire)

And it beats me, but I do not know.

Palaces and stormclouds
the rough, straggly sage, and the smoke
and the way it will all come together
(in quietness, in time)

And you laws of property
you free economy
you unending afterthoughts,
you could've told me before -

Never get so attached to a poem
you forget truth that lacks lyricism;
never draw so close to the heat
that you forget that you must eat.

I love The Smiths! How nice to see them mentioned on the first page. I also like Rush's song "Subdivisions," which has also been mentioned, and of COURSE Gary Numan. I used to have his lyrics as my chat status message on a rotating basis.

I think Morrissey has a lot of songs that resonate with me because of mutual social deficits. There are so many songs on his album Vauxhall and I that feel like are "my" song."

TV On The Radio's song "Wolf Like Me" is ostensibly about a werewolf telling how he is different, but it also seems to make sense in the context of neurological difference and/or a BDSM relationship.

The song "I Bleed" by the Pixies resonates with me, especially the line, "Behind my smile, it shakes my teeth."

Like others have said, The Smiths and Morrissey really resonate with me. Joy Division as well. I really like their songs, in terms of Aspie resonation, Disorder, Atmosphere, Something Must Break, Ice Age, Ceremony, and a bunch of others. New Order songs very well resonate too - Bizarre Love Triangle, Your Silent Face, Leave Me Alone, All Day Long, Temptation, etc.

Radiohead's song Creep.

For some reason, Kraftwerk songs really do it for me too - more so their pre-Computer World stuff. I think it's their philosophy regarding the modern world. In a way, I feel like they "get it" too.

A lot of prog rock too - like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and pre-80s Yes. A lot of Rush's music does it - for similar reasons to Kraftwerk. It might be too because Neil Peart is such an intellectual and smart song-writer, while many rock musicians aren't.

Some more contemporary artists are Interpol and Sigur Ros.

Hmm, I know there's more that I can't think of at the moment.

I like songs from my youth in the 80's. A great decade for music in my opinion. Anything by OMD, the cure, ABBA, Concrete blonde, Ultravox, The Police: that sort of music.

Hmm.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
Mad World (Gary Jules)
Unwell (Matchbox 20)
Minority (Green Day)
Nobody's Home (Avril Lavigne)
Take Me Away (Avril Lavigne)
Break (Three Days Grace)
Everybody Hurts (R.E.M)

That's all for now

I agree with a lot of the choices above and throughout the thread.

Unwell by Matchbox Twenty.
Break by Three Days Grace (Not so much about AS as how I deal with it lol.)
By Myself by Linkin Park.
Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park.
Given Up by Linkin Park.
Lying From You by Linkin Park.
Don't Stay by Linkin Park.
Faint by Linkin Park.
Hate Me by Blue October (but that's probably again more my depression than AS, I think it works either way though..)
Talking To Myself by Eminem.
Beautiful by Eminem.
The Way I Am by Eminem.
Fear by Disturbed.
Behind Blue Eyes by Staind.
It's Been A While by Staind.
Crawling In The Dark by Hoobastank.
Hollowman by Trapt.
Bleed Like Me by Trapt.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Genesis: Land of confusion

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