Faves *New Edit, 5/28/15

Curious about which blog posts I groove on the most? Check out these geeky-sweet gems!


2/11/09:
Sometimes When We Touch

2/1/10:
Just Can't Get Enough

2/28/10:
Six Degrees of Fish Heads

3/30/10:
Spooky Instrumental

9/27/10:
Jump

1/18/11:
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

3/5/11:
New Mystery Song!

3/9/11:
Wonderful Tonight/Stuck On You Mash Up

8/1/12:
Dreams of Merlin

8/4/12:
Last Time in Love

1/20/13:
Tom Sawyer

Billy Boy

I haven't been focused on the song blog in quite some time, but this tune arrived so out of the blue, I had to post it. I'm sure I haven't heard any version of it in more than 30 years. The internets date its origins in the 18th Century, but it looks like the most popular versions weren't published in England til about WWI era and not in the States til 1930.

Thanks to YouTube user LDsongscreen for posting this sweet rendition of the song.

Artist: Unknown
Year: c. 1790s; 1910s; 1930s
Rating: Warm

In The Mood

This is one of those songs so ubiquitous in the popular culture, it feels like it's been in my head my whole life. This afternoon, I found myself spontaneously "meowing" aloud to the melody.

Artist: The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Year: 1939
Rating: Warm

The Waiting, Redux x2

Perhaps in anticipation of my leave of absence from Facebook for a few weeks, this trusty tune popped into my head this morning, again. And, really, it's kind of a treat to listen to all the selections on my Tom Petty tag. Go ahead, enjoy yourself.

Last posted April 19, 2012.

Artist: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Year: 1981
Rating: Luke Hot

Summer Breeze, Redux

Hard to believe this song was last in my head in 2009 but, then, I haven't been attending to the blog very well. Hoping to remedy that.

Artist: Seals & Crofts
Year: 1972
Rating: Hot!
Last in my head: February 13, 2009.

Every Day Is Like Sunday

And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face...

Artist: Morrissey
Year: 1988
Rating: Hot!

Do That To Me One More Time

This song is sadly underrepresented in nostalgic playback in my life. Its racy lyrics, masked as they are by the smooth pop melody, flowed into my late-70s/early 80s kid consciousness almost insidiously. "THAT'S what they're talking about??"

Artist: Captain and Tennille
Year: 1979
Rating: Warm

Note: Get ready for the Captain's recorder breakdown at about 1:35!

Breaking Us In Two

I alerted the tribes on twitter/soozzip last Sunday that this song had already been in my head for some time. Still it persists, and, though I love me some Joe Jackson, and I love this song, the compulsive repetition is wearing on me. I even tried a Mozart Reset, to only limited effect. Sometimes too much of a good thing is too much.

Artist: Joe Jackson
Year: 1982
Rating: Hot!

The Fear

This is the sound of someone losing the plot/
making out that they're okay when they're not.

I had a particularly disturbing dream last night: I was dying, and tortured by the realization that my consciousness would not cease upon death. I would be damned for eternity with my own burdened thoughts.

There couldn't be a more apt song in my head upon waking.

Artist: Pulp
Year: 1998
Rating: Hot!

I Go To Extremes

A song I'd pretty much forgotten existed. A compliment, compared with the the album's awful, earwormy first single that I only wish I could strike from memory. Ah, Billy Joel. His songwriting really does go to extremes. Quel human.

Artist: Billy Joel
Year: 1989 - album/1990 - single
Rating: Lukewarm