Top Ten FM Static

After assembling a The Celebrity Café.com, I think it would be just as enlightening of an experience to do the same for Trevor McNevan’s side project, FM Static. While the vocals are nearly identical to TFK’s softer sounds, instrumentally and conceptually FM is quite different; acoustics are much more frequent, subject matters are often more light-hearted, and if they’re not they are presented in a more thoughtful or sad tone rather than that of raging fury. TFK is apparently delivering a new album in August, but I haven’t heard of such news as far as FM goes (and Google has not been favorable in my efforts to find out either). With that being the case, this “Top Ten” compilation might stand intact for quite some time then!

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10. “Three Days Later”

Album: What Are You Waiting For?

Spunky and rhythmic, this track embodies everything you want in a feel-good rocker song: an up-beat tone, a confident attitude, and the depiction of pleasant occurrences (ie: It doesn’t get much better than guitars on the beach).

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9. “Cinnamon and Lipstick

Album: My Brain Says No, But My Heart Says Go!

Composed eight years later, this song could fittingly be donned “Three Days Later….Part II”. Pleasant memories are what this song is all about, except this time around it’s done with the more polished and mature sound that you would expect from McNevan and Co. several years down the road.

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8. “The Voyage of Beliefs”

Album: Dear Diary

Right off the bat the listener is hit with an appealing rap melody from McNevan, and the song consequently covers a lot of lyrical ground within a short amount of time. This is necessary, as McNevan explores a ton here in the realms of deep concepts, with the help of Tricia Brock, lead singer of Superchick.

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7. “Take Me As I Am”

Album: Dear Diary
The track’s light-hearted beginning masks the lyrical seriousness that it also possesses, namely the dilemma that arises when one is fighting the instinctual fears that threaten to overtake an individual as they are on the path to growing closer to God.

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6. “The Video Store”

Album: Critically Ashamed

In contrast to the profound nature of the last two aforementioned songs on this list, this track is simply an amusing and entertaining effort about the infatuation that can sometimes manifest when one is perusing their local Blockbuster with the intent to take in the latest Hollywood creation.

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5. “Definitely Maybe”

Album: What Are You Waiting For?

There is honestly only one word that will truly “hit the nail on the head” so to speak, when describing this song: Catchy. The opening riff thus allures the audience in to listen to the tale of yet another adulterous case of immature adolescence.

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4. “Her Father’s Song”

Album: Dear Diary

The quiet drum role snare to start the song gives way to the raw emotional frustration that results from being unable to aid someone in their greatest time of need.

3. “Black Tattoo”

Album: My Brain Says No….But My Heart Says Go!

Once you start getting this high on Trevor McNevan-produced work, you know that it has to contain at least one element above all else: Heart. This track has plenty of it, touching upon the sticky situation of woman-beating, and providing the strength to rise above it and better the situation.

2. “Tonight”

Album: Critically Ashamed

As was mentioned just above, the battle for the top spots are simply a determination of which ones have more heart. And McNevan is definitely pouring his out in this one, expressing the difficulty that one often has in dealing with those we love passing from this planet.

1. “The Moment of Truth”

Album: Critically Ashamed

The #1 FM Static track lives up to it’s lofty and grandiose title in every form and fashion, as this might be the most gut-wrenching and transparent work on McNevan’s resume. One’s long lost love, and their resolve to remove the “lost” part from the equation, are exemplified exquisitely throughout.

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