Growing Up
A friend sent this link to me. Thought you would appreciate it, especially if you are more of a newcomer to the music. Feel free to comment on your fav’s. I am starting rehearsals, so I could brush up on the songs for you.
Have the best weekend!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
What don’t I love from you dude? Haha!
Seriously, my favorites are The Scientists Canvas, Ghost From December, and Orpheus from the 2004 Stage EP. Hearing those live at least once would be really cool!
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I can’t choose my personal favs but i agree orpheus from the stage EP is awesome.
Good list for any newcomers who don’t know much of the music.
Keep writing music that rocks!
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 am
Any song with your voice in it becomes instantly brilliant. For me. Back of Your Car will always be special because after hearing you perform it on R.S. Supernova, minutes afterwards I was ordering SFTEOTE. I fell inlove with the whole thing and was blown away by Losing your Memory, the intense ending moved me to tears. Waiting for Love, again made me a tad emotional
I love the music you did with Stage as well. The World Has Come Between Us is a fav, of many.
But anyway, you throw yourself into each song you do and the passion you convey gives me chills…
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 am
Here son - POWERFUL
Somebody’s Son - POWERFUL
Back of your car - Great
O - I LOVE THIS ONE!
anything off of sfteoae is great but I also love your rocking side too. I can NOT wait to hear what you have in store for us next!
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 am
Oh Yeah
Psycho Suicidal Girl is awesome
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 am
My Nubby Sweater
Flag
So Ordinary
The Fairy Tale
Shaman
Take a Ride with Me - because I can here the squeal of your fingers on the strings
I’m excluded any ‘new’ stuff. Can I update my list next month? Hint Hint.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Hey, I have a top ten list too. It changes daily though. Waiting for Love is definitely high up on that list every day though, as well as The First Time. That song brings out a difference in your voice than the others do.
So Ordinary is easily one of the best songs ever. I’ve already requested that the song be played at my funeral (I know, that is really morbid, sorry).
Flag is an intense song and when you sang it in Seattle, I thought I was going to faint.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 am
Oh there is no way I could choose a top 10 because I would feel like I was leaving the others out! So, I go to the boards (my itunes) and see which 10 have the most plays (for the purpose of this experiment, I will disqualify the new stuff thay I only have live recordings of)
1. Sink or Swim
2. O
3. So Ordinary
4. Take a Ride With Me
5. Everything I Wanted to Be (Stage)
6. The One You Know
7. We Might Fall
8. Back of Your Car
9. Chaos in the Park (Stage)
10. Flag (Stage)
see. I feel bad leaving the others out so I wish to keep going
11. An Angel Screams from Outer Space (Stage)
12 I Will be Something (Stage)
13. Dance With You (hehehe you said dick hehehe)
14. Lake Morrey Inn (Stage) ((please tell me the words to the chorus!))
15. Waiting for Love
16. Losing Your Memory
17. Psycho Suicidal Girl
18. Wake Up (Stage)
19. Saw You in Heaven
20. Perfect (btw- I prefer the slower arrangement)
21 . Orpheus 2004 (Stage)
22. The World Has Come Between Us
23. Live Happy Live With Anorexia (Stage)
24. Famous Yet
25. Ghost From December (Stage)
Ok, I’ll stop at 25. But for anyone reading who is new to the music, I could go on for 25 more, there is a lot of music out there to be discovered!
There you have it. If frequency of plays was the measure, that would be it. But as far as I’m concerened thats 25 songs tied for #2 Why #2? Because if I had not disqualified the new stuff … Breathe won by a landslide. Thank you so mauch for writing that song.!
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Losing Your Memory and The Scientist’s Canvas are my absolute favourites.
Honourable mentions:
Sink or Swim, Dance With You, Perfect (SFTEOAE version), The World Has Come Between Us, Live Happy, Live With Anorexia, Jesus Was a Test Tube Baby, The Frog Prince, Wake Up, I Want the Old Days Back, Soaring, Sorry for the Sound it Makes, Demon Chaser, Way Down There…
Ok, I’ll stop now. I’m positive there’s still more I can think of, though! haha.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
There are many fav’s but So Ordinary has serious rankings in my little world….
“And I’m dying to be,
What you’re seeing in me”
makes me pause, stop, and my blood pressure lowers when I remember to just be me again.
thanks, Ryan, can’t wait to see you “live” singing/playing your ass off! I may have to aeroplane to the states from Japan. But you’re worth the attention bro’
M/
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 am
Okay, let me just say Song From the Eye of the Elephant is the all time number one CD I have EVER purchased. I could listen to it for days…and I have! That being said the following are some of my all time favorites. I am limiting myself because this is just too hard! ONE DAY I WILL see you live! I am sure not in Idaho, but somewhere!!
*Losing Your Memory
*So Ordianary
*We Might Fall
*Psycho Suicidal Girls
*Last Train Home
*Cover of In The Air Tonight from Rockstar
*Cover of Losing My Religion from Rockstar (I never liked this song till I heard you sing it)
Of course there are other favorites, but I will leave it at that. Can’t wait for the next album!!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Oh yes, Ryan. Shall we massage your ego? j/k
In no particular order:
Perfect - such a wonderfully universal song. Prefer the solo version
Sink or Swim - I wish the older rock version was more available because I ADORE it
An Angel Scream From Outer Space - As a survivor of sexual assault, I am oddly drawn to this song. It is powerfully unique.
Flag - I am so lucky to have experienced this song live. Amazing songwriting
The World Has Come Between Us - this song shows off your voice amazingly (and it was the first song I heard of yours thanks to the band, Creed. Go figure)
Losing My Religion -cover- I was overseas for much of the CBS run and watching this performance in the university library had my mouth on the floor
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
oh I should add Here Son in my list. It is up there will Flag in the songwriting dept. but I haven’t heard it live yet. -wink-wink-
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Oh no… you aren’t going to make me choose, are you?
I don’t have one favorite, I have a set of songs that are “mine” because no matter where my head is I always connect to them. More of them come from you than from any other artist at the moment.
“The Scientists Canvas” is just amazing on so many levels. Can that song even be performed in concert? Because I’d love to hear it sometime.
“So Ordinary” is the song that helped me remember who I am. (You may hear that story one day if you happen to be around when I’m in full share mode.)
“Waiting for Love” wasn’t that important to me until you performed it live at the Rockwood and we all sang the choruses with you. Then it suddenly made sense and now I adore it.
“the Same When I’m Alone” is a lovely little gem that triggered the genesis of the novel that is bouncing around in my brain and coming out in dribs and drabs.
“Flag” is hands-down the best anti war song I’ve heard in a very long time.
“Last Train Home” made me cry the first time I heard you play it in L.A., and it grabbed my heart again in it’s fully produced version. Keep playing it.
“11:59″ - I told you what I thought of that one the first time I heard you play it in Sacramento when you asked us if it was a keeper. It still is.
“Losing Your Memory” Wow! You wrote a song about my life. Also, that’s the song of yours that made my husband take notice and admit that you could possibly be as good as I think you are.
“Dance With You” Yeah. That one grabs me too.
OK I left off about twenty songs, but I have to clean my car before leaving town for the weekend so that’s what you get from me for now. That and my fervent hope that you’ll feel called to practice in front of an audience sometime during the week I’m in New York.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I cannot and will not choose favorites!
I have absolutely adored your music since I saw Stage perform in 2003. It took me a year to find the Stage CD, I couldn’t find it in any store in Illinois. I finally tracked down the last copy in an Indie music store in Florida of all places. Luckily, SFTEOTE was available online and was mailed.
I can’t wait for the new record, and hopefully I won’t have to travel to FL to get it….but I will if I have to!!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Ryan,
Good write up-it had to have been hard to narrow down your awesome song list to just 10. The songs I sincerely love with everything in me are O-love the rawness of emotion, Saw You In Heaven-love the sigh in the middle, Famous Love, Take a Ride With Me, Last Train Home and mostly Lullaby Suicide-I wish I could get a chance to sing that with you someday**sigh** : ) along with We Might Fall-when I hear it I picture the magic that could happen in a chance meeting with that certain someone… And whenever I hear So Ordinary I just want to quit my crap job and make a difference in the world. At any rate…Eye of An Elephant is a CD that I absolutely love listening to from start to finish-somedays it’s my lifeline-your awesome raw voice matched with the elegant piano or strummin’ guitar-AMAZING!!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
oh man, I don’t know how I could have totally forgotten to mention Losing my Religion from Rockstar…I have played this so many times-gives me chills even after hearing it a hundred times. and I forgot The World Has Come Between Us and Flag…
okay, now I’m done!
May 24th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Just wanted to mention also..Thank God for Youtube. I wasn’t able to catch all your performances on RockStar Supernova…Youtube was there for me to see the ones I missed. Again, thank you for going on that show to introduce yourself to some of us that didn’t know your music before then
May 24th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Great article, thanks for sharing with us!
Like many who posted above me, its extremely difficult to narrow down my favorite songs. As you know, your music is so versatile that depending on my moor or place at the moment I have a different song to connect to. But I’ll try so here goes.
“Orpheus” and “Everything I Wanted to Be” are incredible rock songs. I can only imagine what these sound like live. I could listen to them over and over.
“Back of Your Car” and “Famous Love” are the first of your songs that grabbed my attention. I am lucky to have heard them live.
Of your new songs, “Somebody’s Son” has been a favorite from the first listen and from the youtube clip of “This Could Be the Year” I even had a strong emotional reaction to it, its one I’m looking forward to hearing more of the most.
But, if I had to pick one song to request for future shows it would have to be “I Don’t Know”. So hard to describe, emotional, gorgeous, transcending, perfect!
May 24th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Thunderstorm version… ‘I Know Where you are’
‘Wake Up’
‘Somebody’s Son’ new
The Frog Prince’
************ ‘Flag’ ********
‘Orphans’
‘Pro-Q’
‘Way Down There’ for the love of beings that change our lives without saying a word.
… THE NEW ALBUM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 25th, 2008 at 5:25 am
^ that just made me hella excited for the new album.
my top ten changes all the time
but here are some of the ones that i LOVE LOVE LOVE:
losing your memory
crazy when she cries
wake up
dance with you
soaring
i know where you are
flag
the first time
in a moment
lullaby suicide
somebody’s son
perfect
famous love
drive
live happy live with anorexia
the scientists canvas
i don’t know
ok. that’s a lot.
your songs are amazing. i will hold many of them very close to my heart for a long long long time, ryan star.
thank you for your magic.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Glad to see Here Son in the top 5, I Don’t Know should’ve been higher though. The World Has Come Between Us should’ve been top 5 imo. I agree though it’s hard to narrow down a top 10.
May 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Read the article, and I must say that though I found your music in December of last year, I am a rarely new fan to your music, but since then I’ve downloaded every song I could possibly get my hands on. I am a writer and artist, and music is my escape from reality. There are only a few musical artists that I actually latch onto all of their songs. Yours however have been a constant in my cd player and ipod ever since. I was having a conversation with my sister the other day about music, and I added to her that your album SFTEOAE iis one that sets my mind and soul at ease. Every song is precious and it flows through me like the blood that runs through my veins. I don’t know how to describe it other than that. Thanks for your magic. Keep up the great work and i cannot wait until your next album comes out.
May 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
you know I love “First time.” That one just holds a special little place in my heart. “Losing your memory” is also my favorite because it reminds me of my daddy, who I lost 3 years ago. I love “live happy…” and would love to hear it live sometime. hint, hint, hint. “sink or swim…”…”the one you love…” Hmm. hard to choose a top 10.
and who knows…if I ever hear the new album, I might have to revise my favorites.
do you have time to read these comments? Just wondering so I know that I’m not talking to myself
One of the beauties of you and your music is you appeal to all ages, all colors, all sizes and whatever else is different about people. I think that is pretty golly-gee-darn-cool.
Hope you are taking care of yourself.
d
May 25th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I have to agree in that It would outrageous for me to think I could pick a top ten list of your songs when I love each one in there own special way. If I had to mention some of my top favorites I would have to say:
the one you know
here son
the same when Im alone
famous love
Flag
I will be something
country bleeding
11:59
The article definately is a good starting point for a new listener and to make someone want more R.Star
Rehearsing = excitement is building, which hopefully means more ryan star live soon
~hugs
May 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I’m glad I stopped by. congrats ryan for a lovely website and interesting blogs :). Since I’m a new fan to your music, I wont narrow to top 10 … but these are my top favs from what I already know and love:
-Here son- the first song I heard of yours, and my favorite so far. Brilliant melody
-Losing your memory- Very intense, singing at it’s best. It’s almost hard for me to listen to, but in a good, surprising way.
-Last train home - Beautiful
-Go to hell- Best cover, your great vocals skills fits like a glove with this style
I can’t put a tag on your music, or label it, and that’s what I like about it.It just don’t sound like anything else, what is hard to say about most artists. Keep it coming :). ~Kaia
May 26th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hey…!
Stage is fairly too addictin’;
R.Star rox on covers and solo;
Great multi instrumentalist;
Oh, sweet voice, of course
So and so… you’ll understand why the ass-kissing by the ending of the message, lol
Can’t think about a fav. list, it would end up gathering all songs…
I’m glad to see that your number 1 is “Losing Your Memory” though.
Guess this one is my favourite, it’s so brilliantly intense!
I could say everything i think about the lyrics, the melodies…
But to just take a listen, shows it all.
“I Don’t Know” doesn’t deserve the last position… lol.
Anyways, wish i could see you playing live this and many others…
You should come here to my country really soon.
That would make an awesome weekend for many!
Maybe a whole vacation, how about that, Ryan!?
*persuasion attempt*
Love ya, take care
May 26th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
i’m with a lot of you.
choosing favorites makes me feel bad for the other ones i left out.
no top ten list for me. save that for letterman.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I agree with Danielle… all your songs are favourites. I really love “I know where you are” though. I’d love to hear you sing that one again.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Well I SO wish I could write my top 10 Ryan Star songs, BUT I havent even Heard 10 SONGS !!!
See I live in Sweden , and over here we aint “blessed” to have Ryans Cd´s released (yet)
and I´ve been looking everywhere on the net to buy it with no luck
So Ryan if U See this! Send me a CD Damnit !! LOL
Keep up the good work Ryan ! U are the best !
Best Regards / Stefan