Ha ha I'm now ahead of you mike...Here's my #96 song to check out

Artist: Vienna Teng

Album: Dreamig through the Noise

Song: City Hall

Why: Ok another great album. It was definetally overlooked and I think unfairly clumped in with similar girl singer songwritters of the time. I bought, yes bought, this album after I heard an interview with Teng on NPR...pretentious indie kid alert. It struck me as a sort of relaxing piano led female vocal album. After a couple of listens I found it to be a lot more then that. There's some phenominal lyrics, great piano and beautiful melodies.

I picked City hall because of it's complex message of modern love. Essentially this song is about a lesbian couple in love going to city hall to get their marriage license. There's a crowd there so you get the feeling this is happening the day that a city, say San Fran where gay marriage is finally made legal. They've been waiting for years to commit to each other and finally they get the news they can and they drive 500 miles to city hall where it can be done...(i would walk 500 miles and i would walk 500 more just to be the man who'd walk oe thousand miles to be with you). There's just this great sense of happiness in the crowd. Everyone is going to finally be given the rights they want. What really hits home is the final few lyrics:

Ten years waiting for this moment of fate,

when we say the words and sign our names,

if they take it away again some day,

this beautiful thing won't change.

Man that's just tearjerking.This song obviouslly has a big impact nowadays with that ridiculous prop 8 assing in san fran and all those lovely happy couples getting their love marginalised. I could rant and rave about prop 8, but this is about music so I won't. The point is this: Love is love no matter who it's between. This song could easily hit your local top 40 radio stations and people wouldn't see it more then just a love song and that's what i think adds such a punch to it.

So way to go ms. Mrs. Miss Vienna Teng. A great love song full of joy and happiness with a very political shade of grey to it. That's why I pick this song as one to check out. Yeahy.