Madina Lake recently ripped it up on the Warped Tour in the US before opening on the main stage at Reading and Leeds. Their latest single, Let’s Get Out Of Here, hit digital stores on August 3.
Muse / Stockholm Syndrome
This track revitalized my love for music. It has this constant build that blows my mind. Even as it changes in dynamic from verse to chorus to verse to bridge, the entire thing builds and gets heavier and heavier throughout. The ultimate pay-off.
Bob Marley / Buffalo Soldier
It’s a song that can put anyone in a good mood at any moment. It immediately brings me to a tropical vacation spot and makes me feel like I’m sipping fruity ass drinks on the beach, yet the lyrics are super dark and brilliant. I find it hilarious that frat boys around the country listen to it and sing it having no clue that it’s about their ancestors stealing Africans and forcing them into slavery. It’s a beautiful song.
Rage Against the Machine / Killing in the Name Of
There was a time when being in a band meant something, stood for something. Nowadays there are more songs about dancing than there are about any sort of political or socially significant issues. Rage was one of those bands that set out to expose things that were, and are ,wrong with the world and they did it with the most raw, powerful and brilliant music. This track has one of the best riffs I’ve ever heard, and when it comes in, there isn’t anyone I know who doesn’t feel it like a freight train. That’s my favourite thing about music.
Guns N Roses / Welcome to the Jungle
Guns N Roses was one of those bands that represented a lifestyle. The whole Hollywood, heroin stripper scene was massive in the 80s, and Guns N Roses were able to capture it all sonically. When this song kicks in you kind of want to go find a needle and some hookers and party your face off. LOL. So, shall we?
The Eagles / Hotel California
I know, I know, it’s as cliché as they come, but when I was a kid and heard this song for the first time, I literally felt like was I was on a dark desert highway going to some haunted hotel. It scared the shit out of me. Apparently it’s about the Hollywood dream and how it can be so alluring but then chew you up and spit you out in two seconds. But it’s so buried in metaphoric genius that it can be interpreted a million different ways. Lyrically, it’s as compelling as they come, and melodically, it’s beautiful. Again, when a song can change your frame of mind as soon as it comes on, you’ve got a winner.
Nine Inch Nails / Hurt
Another one of my favourite bands. Hurt is the most honest and passionate song I’ve ever heard. Listening to it makes me feel like I’m withdrawing from some hardcore drug. It also uses space brilliantly which is another gift Trent has.
Bob Marley / Redemption Song
Yet another classic, supposedly written after acquiring cancer and refusing modern medicine according to his Rastafarian beliefs. It sums up his entire career and what he has meant to so many millions of people. To me, it just represents how powerful music can be. It can literally change the world as it gave hope to so many from his native Jamaica and beyond.
Smashing Pumpkins / Mayonnaise
Smashing Pumpkins are one of my favorite bands of all time. Their use of dynamics within songs is incredible. Mayonnaise takes you through a mystical dream world and then hammers you over the head.
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