Inspired by the absurdly beautiful weather this weekend that is continuing into today.
Top 5 albums to listen to on a beautiful spring day…
1. Andrew Bird – …and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
2. Lucky Soul – The Great Unwanted
3. Built to Spill – The Normal Years (There’s Nothing Wrong With Love could easily be substituted)
4. The Blow – Paper Television
5. Ted Leo – Hearts of Oak
Honorable Mentions: Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow, The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We Are Gone?
No real surprises I don’t think. Lucky Soul was in the “guilty pleasure” column for me for the last few years. They are easy to write off as a 60’s throwback band, but when it comes down to it, I like every single song on that record. They moved up to just “pleasure” I guess. I had to choose The Normal Years because it has “Car” which is one of my favorite songs to crank and sing along to. And The Normal Years version has the sweet Doug Martsch guitar solo where the cellos come in on the There’s Nothing Wrong With Love version. Andrew Bird had to be on there with all the breezy whistles and glockenspiels and violins that make that record float along. Paper Television is just fun. And every time I have seen Khaela Maricich preform, she seems like she is having such a good time playing those songs. I wish Ted Leo would release something comparable to Hearts of Oak because I haven’t been into another of his records since that one. But Hearts of Oak really holds up and is as catchy as when I first got it back in 2003.
June 15, 2009 at 11:04 pm |
5 songs that remind me of a sunny spring day:
Sublime – Scarlet Begonias
Bright Eyes – Loose Leaves
Junior Murvin – Roots Train
Third World – 96 Degrees in the Shade
Modest Mouse – Float On
Sublime is classic. I remember listening to Loose Leaves in the summer when it was a new song years ago. Roots Train is infectiously happy and easy to hum. The Third World comes to mind when the sun is out and its hot as the line goes “96 degrees in the shade…real hot…in the shade.” I remember being on the boardwalk in Seaside NJ and hearing Float On and thinking “Modest Mouse just got paid.”
Music is really good.