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Psychlone
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Ok, I think the thread title sums up what this thread is about nicely. Now, there may very well be a thread on this subject somewhere but I don't feel like digging, and besides, it is time for something new. So anyway, I invite you all to list songs you think are on or about asperger's, or something you think an Aspie can relate to. Lesser known songs by lesser known artists are also invited, in fact encouraged. This thread will help us discover songs we can relate to... Feel free also to post lyrics of songs so we know why they are aspie in nature.
As this thread gets longer I will periodically update this first post to compile a more definitive list.
The ever growing list of Aspie Songs:
The Doors - People are Strange
Blind Melon - No Rain
XTC - Playground
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl
Generation X - Dancing With Myself
Cake - No Phone
Gary Numan - Remind Me To Smile
Weezer - The Sweater Song
They Might Be Giants - Whistleing in the Dark
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul
Simon & Garfunkel - I Am a Rock
Simon & Garfunkel - Dangling Conversation
Tom Lehrer - The Elements
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Blacksabbath - Paranoid
John Linnell - New Hampshire
The Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Dream Theater - Solitary Shell
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
John Kander and Fred Ebb - Mister Cellophane
Cold - Don't Belong
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song
Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
Great Big Sea - Consequence Free
Radiohead - Creep
Green Day - Extraordinary Girl
The Firm - Star Trekkin'
Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster
Jason Mraz - Too Much Food
Reel Big Fish - Somebody Hates Me
Great Big Sea - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Green Day - Burnout
The Who - I'm One
Enigma - Silence Must Be Heard
Avril Lavigne - How does it feel
Nirvana - Dumb
John Rzeznik - I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)
The Moody Blues - Watching and Waiting
John Lennon - Watching the Wheels
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Tom
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| I think Radiohead's OK Computer album is kind of an aspie album. |
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Apparently Thom Yorke has AS, but I don't know what evidence there is of it.
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| I read that too. |
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The lead singer of The Vines also has it. He's a cool guy.
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| 'Strange Little Girl' by The Stranglers. Judging by the demographic of aspies you could say that 'Dancing With Myself' by Generation X could be an aspie anthem. That dog/man in the daft punk video is probably on the spectrum as well. |
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Cake - No Phone
No phone, no phone, I just want to be alone today!
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| "Remind Me to Smile" by Gary Numan (another diagnosed Aspie). |
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Weezer- The Sweater Song
Pretty much anything by They Might Be Giants, but especially : Whisteling in the Dark and Birdhouse in your Soul...which is in my mind the ofical song of WP. |
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Well, on my Simon and Garfunkel CD, "I Am a Rock" and "Dangling Conversation" kind of remind me of my brain and social situation...
Does anyone listen to that type of music these days? |
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Psychlone
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Okay, I updated the list to include all the songs you guys have suggested. Note: I didn't include any albums you guys may have suggested because this list is more about specific songs than albums. If there are specific songs on those albums then go ahead and list them. 
Keep the recommendations coming!  |
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vetivert
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a leeeeetle obscure, perhaps, but what about Tom Lehrer's "the elements"? this song is just a list of all the elements in the periodic table, set to the tune of "modern major general" by gilbert and sullivan. just the sort of thing an aspie might like, i reckon. well, i like it, anyway...  |
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| radiohead - paranoid android |
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EvilWalks
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Glasskitten wrote: | Well, on my Simon and Garfunkel CD, "I Am a Rock" and "Dangling Conversation" kind of remind me of my brain and social situation...
Does anyone listen to that type of music these days? |
Yep. Simon and Garfunkel music is cool. I got a boxset of their 5 albums.
Yeah, I Am A Rock is a very good find, I was thinking along the same lines. It kind of does have to do with Asperger's.
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Psychlone
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| Blacksabbath - Paranoid |
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