So I – like everyone else my age with mildly progressive Mennonite parents who served some time with MCC – grew up listening to Peter, Paul and Mary. They were the gateway to all other folk singer-songwriters. I wouldn’t be a Dylan fan if I hadn’t heard their version of Blowing in the Wind first; [...]
Entries Tagged as 'What's in my playlist'
Mary leaves and she’s not coming back again
September 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · What's in my playlist
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The world wants me to feel old
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · What's in my playlist
So I was digging through some music, putting in and having a good time singing and dancing and realized with shock that this song — which I absolutely adored — was released 10 years ago.
What makes it even more depressing is reading YouTube comments on the video that say things like “I remember this song [...]
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5 songs of this summer from worst to best
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · 5 things, What's in my playlist
Last year at this time, we were listening to charming British songbirds and bisexual girls and about getting low, low, low, low. No such luck this summer. Nope. In fact, this summer has not yet produced the song that deserves to be playing on everyone’s car radio as they roll through my neighborhood. [...]
There’s a song in my head
May 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · What's in my playlist
The House season finale was two days(!) ago and I still can’t get this song — which played over the final scenes — out of my head. So I will share it with you in hopes that it will flee me and hang out with you instead.
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5 songs about rain because it just won’t stop
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · 5 things, What's in my playlist
Actually, it’s going to be 6 songs about rain because my #1 (Here Comes the Rain Again sung by Annie Lennox when she was one-half of the Eurythmics) is not embeddable. Silly music companies.
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Give Bob his due, man
March 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Popology, What's in my playlist
For anyone who might have been watching American Idol last night and heard Kris Allen sing and now erroneously believes that Garth Brooks is the composer/writer/creator of “To Make You Feel My Love,” I offer this as refutation:
The reason it didn’t sound like a country song, Kara, is because it isn’t. Jeez. And [...]
Oscar sings a sad song
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Popology, What's in my playlist
Here’s my general gripe — again — about the Oscar rules for Best Song. It has to be a song written for the movie it plays in.
So it isn’t about using the movie that uses a song in the best way; it’s not about how a song can in an instant sum up an entire [...]
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5 best hymns for the season
December 23rd, 2008 · 6 Comments · 5 things, What's in my playlist
O come O come Emmanuel. It’s the ultimate Advent song. Plaintive, minor and caught between tender hope and crushing despair. And here is the best description ever of its power as a song.
Lo, how a rose ere blooming: there are a thousand YouTube videos for this one but again, sounds best when it’s four-part harmony [...]
5 sad winter songs
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · 5 things, What's in my playlist
Because sometimes the days between Thanksgiving and March 21 can seem very long and very dark.
“February” by Dar Williams (but Joan Baez does a nice cover too)
“The River” by Joni Mitchell and sung most melancholic by James Taylor and Robert Downey Jr. (surprising but true!)
“Winter” by Tori Amos
“Sister Winter” by Sufjan Stevens: Honestly, all of [...]
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A song for my birthday
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · What's in my playlist
The most epic song about November ever written. Well, maybe the only song ever written about November. Plus, it’s so deliciously early 1990s. And somehow, on my birthday, it’s appropriate to remember the 18-year-old me who abso-freaking-lutely loved Guns n’ Roses.
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