I mostly listen to death metal and the lyrics there are not the most inspiring. But I do have one song that I thoroughly enjoy, I guess you could consider it my little contribution for a solid list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n30gxo5vw...re=related
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A nice list there Method. Listenening to QOTSA right now actually... I might have a go at this actually. Eff it let's roll!
In the order in which they appear in Winamp:
A Perfect Circle - Passive
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
A Perfect Circle - Blue
A Perfect Circle - A Stranger
Audioslave - Show Me How To Live
Audioslave - Gasoline (2 great pump-up songs)
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Fight Outta You
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - In The Colours
Coldplay - Trouble
Coldplay - High Speed
David Gilmour - On An Island
Deftones - Xerces
Doves - The Greatest Denier
Doves - N.Y. (Reminds me of my trip there last year and just how amazing and insane the city is...)
Doves - Break Me Gently
Doves - Darker
Doves - The Storm (A song all about the hard times in life and ow you will always get through them...)
Eels - I Like Birds
Eels - It's A Motherfudgeer
Elbow - Scattered Black And Whites
Elbow - The Bones Of You (Sums up how much of an effect music can have. It's like a retreat.)
Elbow - The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
Elbow - On A Day Like This
Explosions In The Sky - The Only Moment Wee Were Alone
Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine (It's EITS! Enough said!)
Faithless - Postcards
Faithless - My Baby
Faithless - Killer's Lullaby
Feeder - Find The Colour
Jamiroquai - Seven Days In Sunny June (This and the above remind me of probably the best Summer I've ever had a few years back...)
Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop (This and the original by Massive Attack are both amazing.)
Jose Gonzalez - Cycling Trivialities
Jose Gonzalez - All You Deliver
Newton Faulkner - Uncomfortably Slow
Placebo - English Summer Rain
Queens Of The Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu (Baby makin' music...)
Sigur Ros - Glosoli
Soundgarden - Like Suicide
Stereophonics - Watch Them Fly Sundays
Stereophonics - Rooftop
Tool - Right In Two
Tool - Stinkfist
Tool - Parabol/Parabola
Tool - Lateralus
Vex Red - The Closest
Vex Red - Can't Smile
Some songs aren't necessarily "inspirational" but they just seem to have a message when I listen to them. I did compile another list before posting this but it was about 60 songs long. This one is still pretty big but it has been trimmed! Honest!