Day two: A new hope

So I lay in bed last night analyzing different possibilities: Were all the songs off of live albums, EP's, singles or foreign releases? No. Was there any correlation between the years of the albums' release? No. All of the band names appear on the album covers, but that's so weak a connection, you might as well say that they all had music in them.

And so I just popped in the CD this morning and tried to relax on the way to work. And then it came to me. The one thing that all the songs have in common. Well kind of. I'd say about half of them explicitly say this word, and the other half just talk about something similar or related. Shall I explain, or wait until tomorrow?

Aw, what the hell. The idea came to me while rocking out to Yann Tiersen's "L'absente," then a few minutes later to Sad Sad World by Sheryl Crow = "It's a sad, sad world without you in it..." and I thought to myself, hey, self, there's something. Both of these songs talk about people not being somewhere. I wonder if other songs have that as well. Sure enough, "Emaline" by Ben Folds talks about not being able to bear life without said girl; "Take me out" by Franz Ferdinand talks about "I know I won't be leaving here without you."

The question is whether or not the theory holds for all the songs. "I bombed Korea" by Cake, "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead and "My Love" by Justin Timberlake seem only to fall loosely into this category. They don't talk about being without someone, but there's definitely something missing in each one. Perhaps after a bit of refinement and fine tuning I can crack this.

End Transmission.