Music that Inspires…

Here is a list of music that has helped me get through the good times and the bad. While listening to some of these songs, I can bring myself to a certain moment in my life. Each band marks a milestone in my life. I have put the album in parenthesis after each song.

Jimmy Eat World

This is one of my favorite bands. My favorite songs by them are endless. Here are a few to get you started.

• Lucky Denver Mint (Clarity)
• Firefight (video below)

• Pain (Futures)
• Night Drive (Futures)
• Action Needs an Audience (Invented)
• Over (Stay on My Side Tonight)
• Sweetness (Bleed American)

The Killers

• On Top (Hot Fuss)
• Somebody Told Me (video below)

• Jenny Was a Friend of Mine (Hot Fuss)
• When You Were Young (Sam’s Town)
• Sam’s Town-Abbey Road Version (Sawdust)

The Gaslight Anthem

• Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? (The Senor and the Queen)
• Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts (video below)

• The Navesink Banks (Sink or Swim)
• Red at Night (Sink or Swim)
• The 59 Sound (The 59 Sound)
• Old White Lincoln (The 59 Sound)
• Miles Davis and the Cool (The 59 Sound)
• The Backseat (The 59 Sound)

Third Eye Blind

• Graduate (Self Titled)
• Jumper (video below)

• Slow Motion (Blue)
• Deep Inside of You (Blue)
• 10 Days Late (Blue)
• Crystal Baller (Out of the Vein)
• Misfits (Out of the Vein)
• Motorcycle Drive By (Self Titled)
• Bonfire (Ursa Major)
• Sharp Knife (Ursa Major)
• Water Landing (Ursa Major)

Lifehouse

• Hanging by a Moment (No Name Face)
• Everything (video below)

• All in All (Self Titled)
• Trying (No Name Face)
• Somewhere in Between (No Name Face)
• All That I’m Asking For (Smoke and Mirrors)
• Take Me Away (Stanley Climbfall)
• Whatever it Takes (Who We Are)
• Broken (Who We Are)
• Storm (Who We Are)

This list could go on forever… but I think I have narrowed it down to some of my favorite inspirational songs. I have one more song that I could not leave off this list… My Hero by the Foofighters.