This week's Confab is a bit different in that I'm going to talk about grown-up music. It's rare that I get the opportunity to write about my music, since so much of my time is spent listening to and writing about music for kids. But earlier this week, I was asked what I am listening to.* This caused to me face a sad truth -- I haven't been listening to much grown-up music lately. And if it weren't for my husband saying, "Hey, you've got to hear this!" once in a while, I would probably be listening to the same three CDs for months on end. But here are seven songs:
"599" by Ida. I've been listening to their album Heart Like a River. There's not a bad song on there.
"Bitter" by Jill Sobule. The lyrics are here. This is from Happy Town, which is 10 years old but still sounds completely relevant and fresh.
"Rose Garden" by Southern Culture on the Skids. My husband just downloaded their new album Countrypolitan Favorites. It's all covers, and therefore, I love it.
"Stuck Between Stations" by The Hold Steady. Another one my husband turned me onto. He saw The Hold Steady live last weekend in Columbus. This song has one of the best lines ever: "She was a damn good dancer but she wasn't that great of a girlfriend."
"Chatterbox" by David Mead. Perhaps the poppiest, catchiest song ever written with a baritone sax solo.
"Here it Goes Again" by OK Go. I love hearing this at the gym.
"Always on Your Side" by Sheryl Crow with Sting. If I wasn't so mature and happy and well-adjusted, listening to this song repeatedly could easily lead me to a night of drinking too much wine and calling up an old boyfriend.
* Wasn't that smooth? How I made this look and sound not at all like a meme? Tucking it here in the Friday Confab and making it sound like someone was actually looking for my expert opinion? Heeee. I was tagged by Tracey, along with the rest of the MamaPop ladies. You might want to check out their songs as well.
March 23, 2007
The Friday Confab: 3/23/07
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A few songs have perked me up in the past year or so and kept me from sliding completely into kid's music oblivion (though with the right tunes that's not such a bad place to be either):
"Bellybutton" by Jellyfish. This album must be 15-20 years old now, but still as fresh and poppy as when I first listened to it. Tons of fun hooks and surprises.
"Slow New York" by Richard Julian. Discovered him on a Paste Magazine sampler CD last year, and RAN to the store to buy his album. Phenomenal both musically and lyrically, from someone who often writes and plays with Norah Jones (but has his own sound).
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