Best Song Ever: All My Friends

Sometimes the stars align. There's so many factors that can hit right to make a song "good" or even "great." Rhythm, melody, instrumentation, lyrical meaning, relatability, nostalgia, etc. etc. etc. Each of these factors gives the listener their own personal experience when they listen to a song and they experience can be positive, negative or anywhere in-between. I can understand that for others "All my Friends" may not hit all the right notes. But for me, everything went right.

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Full Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDRLW748j68
Music Video(edited): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2V_ZT-nyOs

"You spend the first five years trying to get with the plan, and the next five years trying to be with your friends again"

This is the elevator pitch for us 20-somethings. It's all about transitions right now and the future is uncertain. We want to maintain those friendships we've been kindling our whole lives but we still write "willing to relocate" on our resumes. What's the balance? It's easy to put friendships aside as we flesh out the rest of our lives but I'm not convinced it's necessarily right.

"I wouldn't trade one stupid decision
for another five years of live"

University is a pretty good time to make mistakes and I definitely took advantage of that. The three dumbest things I've ever done linger in my mind with what-ifs surrounding them. But it's nearly a sin to complain about the college experience when it's such a unique and fantastic time in life. I can't say I wouldn't take anything back, but it wouldn't be much.

"We set controls for the heart of the sun"

Now, we're moving at lightning paces. In college, I often joked about becoming a "real person" post graduation. Well here we are living in our real house, paying real bills, going to our real jobs with our real responsibilities. This is about as real as it gets. The difference for us "young professionals" is that in a couple months it could all go out the window. It's something to appreciate, though. This sort of instability will only last so long and we should enjoy it, frightening though it may be. The top of the roller coaster is the best part after all.

"It comes apart, the way it does in bad films"

Things go wrong. Not just day to day problems, but the real shit. Where you want to be, who you want to be with, what you want to do, all that stuff can fall apart at the seams as you watch. It's good to have a plan, but it's also good to know your plan can fail magnificently.

"If I could see all my friends tonight"

I can't even begin to articulate what my friends mean to me (friends=you guys). I'm the busiest I've ever been and each day is critical in it's own way, but there isn't a day I wouldn't drop it all to see all my friends. Hell, even one person would be enough. And I believe my priorities are 100% correct here. Jobs come and go and so do people, but real friends are hard to come by. The Poker Nights and Hamham/Packpack times make up so many of the best moments in my life.


I could write a paragraph about every single lyric in this song but I'll spare you that. I feel the song's flexible enough that each person should be applying it to their own lives in different ways anyways. You can appreciate the actual musicality for yourself too, I can only pretend I know something about that stuff for 127 songs.

Thanks for reading bros