Assignment 23: the perfect playlist; Walt Finch- Riding the Bench

The perfect playlist for when you are driving home after a frustrating game of riding the bench

1.       Guilty All The Same (feat. Rakim) – Linkin Park: The harsh sounds of the guitar to start this song just perfectly meet the anger and frustration you are feeling after this experience.  It goes for a while, so it matches the fast and aggressive driving that most likely will be happening.  And the words go with the frustration you are feeling towards your coaches for not giving you opportunities to prove yourself no matter how well you play in practice, at yourself for not being good enough, at teachers for feeling like if you had less school work you could practice and work out enough to play, and then just knowing that its all on you to get playing time, no one is going to help you.

2.       Cuz They Get It – Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard: This song has somewhat of an upbeat tempo, and a lot of yelling, which helps to carry over the angry feelings you are feeling.  Those feelings of however hard you work it doesn’t matter and people don’t understand how you feel.  The don’t understand how frustrating it is so the best way to let it out is just to work harder.  This song doesn’t have near as many lyrics, or as deep and thoughtful, it is more for you to think, to calm down, and just focus on what you have to do next.

3.       Breath Of Air – Grieves: The slow ending from the previous song perfectly transition into this song, which is a little slower, to go with the fact that you are calm now, and that pensive yet frustrated mood.  It is a little deeper, but still angry.  It is about how that goal is right there, it is so attainable.  It’s how you know it is right there, but it just feels like it can’t be done, you need something to let up for you to do it but nobody is going to let up so you have to force yourself to do it.

4.       Warriors – Imagine Dragons: The last song has made you think a little bit about why you want to achieve that.  It seems like no one else is pushing that hard, every one else is out partying or chilling and having fun.  But you always have stuff to do it seems like.  This song relates to me, maybe not other people in the academy because I know they are incredibly afraid of conflict, but I want to go into the military.  I want to protect everybody who is incapable of protecting themselves for whatever reason, and this connects with that goal to me.  I want to be the best, so that I can effectively be that guy.  Even if this sounds retarder, idk, it’s what I want to do, its what I think I’d be good at.

5.       Be Somebody – Thousand Foot Krutch: At this point you aren’t really mad anymore.  You’re just thinking about how you want to be the best and you want to be a significant person, whatever that goal is.  This song talks about how you want to be the best, so you are working hard to do what it is you want to do, and it seems like nobody understands, maybe just one person.  It feels like that goal is so far away, sometimes you can see it off in the distance, other times you can’t, but it is out there.  Maybe there is that one person that helps to keep you motivated, or that one person in your life presently or maybe you just met one time, that captures why you want to do what it is, and motivates you.  For me it was a ranger in the Army Reserves who was a camp counselor when I was 13 that inspired me.  For others it might have been a doctor that helped them or saved somebody in their families life.  Maybe it was a cop who stopped somebody from mugging them.  Whatever it is, whatever it is that motivates you, keep that in your mind when that goal seems unattainable.

I know it was a little more than what was called for but I got carried away.  Sorry.

Also I don't have a Spotify account so I'm not putting a playlist of it but I'm pretty sure all of these songs should be on there.