(thing) by pholiday Mon Dec 17 2001 at 21:06:31
I've got no reason for the things I fear • You look so good it hurts sometimes • It's easy enough to be great... easy enough to be wise • Even heroes have a right to bleed • She's the leader of her own world order... a goddess of her own religion • she remembers bridges, burns 'em to the ground • she talks like summer and listens like june • no, I don't listen good and I'm always in need • she just wants that something to hold on to • When I'm gone, you'll need love to light the shadows on you face • Forgetting all I'm lacking, completely incomplete • You tell me you don't wanna fight, you're just here to see if I'm doing alright • Fly, fly away so high that you never come back down • Let me be lonely tonight.

These are lyrics exerpted from the fourth edition of a compilation CD put together by Birmingham, AL radio station WRAX "Birmingham's Rock Alternative" (107.7 FM). The CD contains songs played acoustic, and live, by various groups. Typically when WRAX brings a band to town to play a concert they'll do a special "invite only" (read: The X gives away tickets) show. From all of those shows WRAX puts together a very Good CD.

All proceeds from the sales benefit United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham. Each edition has sold out fairly quickly after release. There are 15,000 copies of the Fourth Edition, which was released on December 17, 2001 after a short delay due to production problems.

The track listing for all four Live in the X Lounge's are as follows:

    Live in the X Lounge I:
  1. Sister Hazel - All For You
  2. Black Lab - Wash It Away
  3. Fuel - Shimmer
  4. Edwin McCain - Solitude
  5. Patty Griffin - Tony
  6. Semisonic - Closing Time
  7. Tonic - Open up your Eyes
  8. Creed - My Own Prison
  9. Guster - Demons
  10. Fastball - Out of my Head
  11. Better than Ezra - At the Stars
  12. Jump, Little Children - 15 Sotries
  13. Brother Cane - Lead my Follow
  14. Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says
  15. Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono
  16. Matchbox 20 - 3am


    Live in the X Lounge II:
  1. BR5-49 - Out of Habit
  2. Train - Meet Virginia
  3. Hootie and the Blowfish - Hold my Hand
  4. Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
  5. Edwin McCain - I'll Be
  6. Alanis Morisette - Are you Still Mad
  7. Black Crowes - Remedy
  8. Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
  9. My Friend Steve - All in All
  10. Fuel - Sunburn
  11. Train - Ramble On (Cover)**
  12. Mr. Henry - One
  13. Hootie and the Blowfish - Desert Mountain Showdown
  14. Widespread Panic - Blue Indian
** - only 5,000 copies of this CD included this Song. The rest of the CD's had Train's "Meet Virginia" twice. Once at Track 2 and once at Track 11.

    Live in the X Lounge III:
  1. 3 Doors Down - Loser
  2. Splendor - Yeah, whatever
  3. Peter Searcy - Invent
  4. Sister Hazel - Champagne High
  5. Incubus - Pardon Me
  6. Better than Ezra - Wallflower Girl
  7. Guster - Happier
  8. Third Eye Blind - 1,000 Julys
  9. Vertical Horizon - You're a God
  10. Pat McGee Band - Shine
  11. Stir - Climbing the Walls
  12. Nine Days - Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
  13. Cowboy Mouth - Easy
  14. Gas Giants - Quitter
  15. Matthew Sweet - I've Been Waiting


    Live in the X Lounge IV:
  1. Live - I Alone
  2. Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment
  3. John Mayer - Your Body is a Wonderland
  4. Tonic - Mean to Me
  5. Train - Drops of Jupiter
  6. 7 Mary 3 - Cumbersome
  7. 3 Doors Down - Be Like That
  8. Athenaeum - Comfort
  9. Dexter Freebish - My Madonna
  10. Five for Fighting - Superman
  11. The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
  12. Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says (2000)
  13. Will Hoge - Let Me Be Lonely
I like it!