When I visited my childhood home last year, I brought back a binder filled with guitar tab printouts of songs I played throughout my teen years:
- Iron & Wine – “The Trapeze Swinger”
- The Beatles – “Here Comes the Sun”
- David Bowie – “Starman”
- Jon Brion – “Knock Yourself Out”
- Belle & Sebastian – “Dirty Dream Number Two”
- The Smiths – “Girlfriend in a Coma”
- Pink Floyd – “Mother”
- The Beatles – “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
- The Smiths – “There is a Light That Never Goes Out”
- Blur – “Song 2”
- Minor Threat – “In My Eyes”
- Elliott Smith – “Some Song”
- Pink Floyd – “Wish You Were Here”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “Today”
- Weezer – “Say It Ain’t So”
- Coldplay – “Green Eyes”
- The Velvet Underground – “Sunday Morning”
- Don McLean – “Vincent”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “Disarm”
- The Velvet Underground – “After Hours”
- Jack Johnson – “Flake”
- Coldplay – “Yellow”
- Radiohead – “Creep”
- Weezer – “Photograph”
- Led Zeppelin – “Over the Hills and Far Away”
- Pink Floyd – “Comfortably Numb”
- Elliott Smith – “The Biggest Lie”
- Radiohead – “Karma Police”
- Pixies – “Velouria”
- Weezer – “Say It Ain’t So”
- Elliott Smith – “No Name #3”
- Nirvana – “Tourette’s”
- The Beatles – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
- Tom Petty – “Free Fallin’”
- The Smiths – “Ask”
- Elliott Smith – “Rose Parade”
- The Velvet Underground – “Pale Blue Eyes”
- Modern English – “I Melt With You”
- Van Morrison – “Brown Eyed Girl”
- The Shins – “New Slang”
- Sufjan Stevens – “The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts”
- Sufjan Stevens – “Casimir Pulaski Day”
- Sufjan Stevens – “Romulus”
- Sufjan Stevens – “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.”
- Sufjan Stevens – “Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us”
- The Beatles – “Michelle”
- The Postal Service – “Nothing Better”
- Belle & Sebastian – “I’m a Cuckoo”
- Sufjan Stevens – “The Mistress Witch from McClure”
- Belle & Sebastian – “Me and the Major”
- Belle & Sebastian – “I Don’t Love Anyone”
- Belle & Sebastian – “My Wandering Days Are Over”
- Neutral Milk Hotel – “The King of Carrot Flowers”
- Neutral Milk Hotel – “The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three”
- The Smiths – “The Boy with the Thorn in His Side”
- The Smiths – “Boys Don’t Cry”
- Bright Eyes – “First Day of My Life”
- Bright Eyes – “Something Vague”
- Bob Dylan – “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
- The Beatles – “Julia”
- Belle & Sebastian – “Piazza, New York Catcher”
- Belle & Sebastian – “Fox in the Snow”
- The Shins – “Kissing the Lipless”
- Sufjan Stevens – “The Avalanche”
- Iron & Wine – “Such Great Heights”
- Neutral Milk Hotel – “Communist Daughter”
- Weezer – “Butterfly”
- The Beatles – “Norwegian Wood”
- Bright Eyes – “Movement of a Hand”
- Elliott Smith – “Say Yes”
- Beck – “Girl”
- Belle & Sebastian – “The State I Am In”
- Iron & Wine – “Such Great Heights”
- Belle & Sebastian – “Expectations”
- Belle & Sebastian – “I Love My Car”
- Belle & Sebastian – “The Rollercoaster Ride”
- Apples in Stereo – “Signal in the Sky”
We did some spring cleaning this weekend, so I moved the physical printouts to a digital archive. I spent a rare couple of hours to myself in the afternoon with a guitar and played through them again for old times’ sake.
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