Sometimes when you force yourself to watch a few minutes of The Singing Bee before feeling a little sick to your stomach, you are ordered by Mr. Dub to make a more palatable playlist while he is busy creating a collage.
And sometimes these are the songs you pick, just because they're sentimental favorites ... and few new sounds:
Veruca Salt & Franck Black - Vincent Delerm
On The Radio - Regina Spektor
Feel The Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me) - The White Stripes
Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente!
Sleep The Clock Around - Belle & Sebastian
I Know - Fiona Apple
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
American Tune - Paul Simon
Is This Love? - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
Bright as Yellow - The Innocence Mission
Lullaby - The Cure
When They Really Get To Know You They’ll Run - Pedro The Lion
The Story - Brandi Carlile
Caring is Creepy - The Shins
Seven - Sunny Day Real Estate
Rue St. Vincent - Wes Anderson
What is your most sentimental tune?
(Mine is Here Comes your Man by the Pixies, but it just didn't jive with my mellow mix, which I dubbed, "a distant shimmer" for no real reason other than it makes my random playlist seem cooler.)
Oh and what's the new song you can't get enough of? I must admit, last month it was Fergie's Glamorous. Mostly because I want to know what "flossy" means.
Sometimes I have more in common with Singing Bee viewers than I'd like to think.
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What DOES flossy mean?
Right now, our house loves the HS2 soundtrack. I don't mind it. I actually like, "What Time is It?
When I'm in the car (or at home) alone, I can't get enough of KT Tunstall's "Other Side of the World", and Goo Goo Dolls' "Before It's Too Late".
And "Wind It Up"- Gwen Stefani... when I'm feeling edgy.
Sentimental: probably any Mazzy Star since me & Hubs used to nap to it, long ago. Any time I've made a mellow mix (in my head) I always include Teardrop by Massive Attack. Wow, love that.
New song...??? Maybe I'll listen to FM radio today & get back to you on that one.
love your list. truly could have been my own list.
most sentimental tune has got to be sarah mclachlan's "fumbling towards ecstasy" ... mmmmm. (this took some serious thought... 'cause most songs become sentimental for me at some point)
song that i currently can't get enough of... there's a few of them:
Rogue Wave - Manna (Demo)
Wolfmother - Pleased to Meet You
Modest Mouse - Float On
Simon & Garfunkel - Only Living Boy in New York
Fave mellow song of the moment by far: "My Moon My Man" by Feist.
Runner up: "The Funeral" by Band of Horses.
Yahoo Answers and Urbandictionary readers seem to think the flossy flossy means superficially stylish or slick, a glamorous rich person, like someone who uses a lot of floss or slick like a flossed tooth. Others vote for fancy or expensive lingerie. However, if you look it up yourself, I recommend using the "jump" feature because scrolling through the F words is a bad place to be. Since I know very few of the songs on any of these lists, other than the oldies (which to me was Elvis and Buddy Holly, not Simon & Garfunkel or Goo Goo Dolls or later acts), this is the best I can do to look current. Little under 20 years old on my i-Pod but I can search the Net.
"Flossy" - extremely flashy or showy.
Also, can refer to a person who is hot or banging.
I'm completely sentimental about any song off the The Cure's Disintegration album, like Pictures of You.
Baby Pain - Intaferon
Heroes - David Bowie
Any Psychedelic Furs
Sentimental: Sarah McLachlan's "Ice Cream"
Newest fave: Caleb Kane's "In Your Own Way"
Love this post because some of us are SO out of touch with new music. Thanks!
it seems that music is like the sense of smell--it brings back a flood of memories. this was so fun, lu!
for mr. r and i probably something by chicago (i know you and jos have a story or two to tell about about this) or "at last" by etta james.
for mom, she is the reason i know every word to phantom (...and less glamorously, little mermaid and regis and kathy lee's christmas album from the 80's--don't ask.)
for dad, anything by ella, led zepplin or linda ronstadt.
for the bros, "i can't get no satisfaction" by the rolling stones and "thriller" by michael jackson.
and for the old roomies, "can't take my eyes off of you" by lauryn hill. i remember riding to church from the ybh (all 10 of us) smashed into steph's car with this cranked. it is FOR SURE sabbath material.
...and the "singing bee" makes me want to puke. the other lyric show is done better, what ever it is called. but, you can only watch is for about 15 minutes before you are done. for both, the singing is bad. the dancing is worse.
Love the list. I loved Dino Jr. in H.S.(thanks to my HB friends). Vincent of Jersey or anything on the album of Big Head Todd. The Samples the morning pillow song. my dh always calls me when he hears a dave matthews band song, crush or crash because he heard it after picking up my wed ring, and I call him when I hear cranberries 'dream' or is it that other chick singer band? I can't get enough of Jamie Cullem's 'All at Sea' song - I've had the CD ever since it's been out and the song just resurfaced on The Hills.
Jos left your page up and I couldn't resist-
Most sentimental songs: Duhh, untouchable #1-"Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh
Distant runner-up #2:Captain & Tennille: "Do That Too Me One More Time"
#3:Pinback "Loro"
#4: The Cure "Untitled"
#5: Jeff Buckley "Hallelujah"
Now songs:
Beck: "We Dance Alone" (The robot lives at the Fish house)
The Black Keys: Magic Potion
T.I. & Wyclef: "You Know What It Is"
Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye"
The usual favorites: Radiohead & Elliot ESmith
Favorite New Song Colbie Caillat, Feelings Show, but that's this week. (Her whole album CoCo is great!)
Music that makes me feel sentimental about my hubby: any Weezer. Specifically the Green Album though. Also Ben Folds' Rockin' the Suburbs album and more recently anything from The Shins.
Music that makes me work out better: mostly R&B stuff like Christina Aguilera's Ain't No Other Man, Timbaland's The Way I Are, or Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl (but mostly because I'd like to think that I ain't no hollaback girl).
Music that makes me miss my time at BYU-Hawaii: 311 and Sublime.
Music that makes me think of my parents: The Beach Boys, Peter, Paul & Mary, Roy Orbison, and The Eagles.
I could go on and on, but I'll spare you instead.
And can I just say, TWO whole weeks in So Cal? Oh the flossy, flossy.
whoa, sorry for the lengthy comment!
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