Meme Day 5: 10 Songs You Love Right Now

[dira]

1. Bastille - Pompeii. So catchy!

2. The Mountain Goats - Steal Smoked Fish. I had it stuck in my head for an entire afternoon at work, and it makes a much better mantra for keeping calm than my previous favorite Mountain Goats song to sing to myself at work, which was No Children.

3. The National - Fake Empire. Uggggh, I love this song so much forever and ever amen. THAT VOICE.

4. Hallelujah, various artists. I still have six different covers in my regular playlist. It may not be a phase anymore.

5. pomDeter (Nine Inch Nails & Carly Rae Jepsen) - Call Me a Hole. I heard "Call Me Maybe" in a restaurant yesterday and all I could think about was how much I love this mashup.

Aaaaand it's after Thanksgiving so I've been adding Christmas songs to my playlist so ESSENTIAL CHRISTMAS SONGS I AM EXCITED TO LISTEN TO!

6. Vienna Teng - The Atheist Christmas Carol. This. Yes.

7. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance! Because all the best Christmas songs have exclamation points.

8. Annie Lennox - I'l Est Ne Le Divin Enfant. Because all the best Christmas songs that don't have exclamation points are in French.

9. Bruce Cockburn - Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes. Seriously, Christmas songs in French = A+.

10. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - I Believe in Father Christmas. My favorite Christmas song of all for years now, ever since it was in a ... Canadian bank commercial? In like 2004? Anyway, I love it to bits. ♥





1. Intro and a recent picture
2. 20 facts about you
3. Your favorite quote
4. What are you afraid of?
5. 10 songs you love right now
6. Your 5 senses right now
7. Your pet hates
8. What's in your handbag?
9. What are your worst habits?
10. What's your best physical feature?
11. List 15 of your favorite things
12. What's inside your fridge?
13. What is your earliest memory?
14. If you won the lottery...
15. Timeline of your day
16. What's at the top of your bucket list?
17. What is your most proud moment?
18. The meaning behind your blog name
19. What do you collect?
20. A difficult time in your life
21. Your 10 favorite foods
22. The best thing to happen this year
23. Your dream job
24. Your favorite childhood book
25. Your 5 favorite blogs
26. An old photo of you
27. Post your favorite recipe
28. What are you looking forward to?
29. Where have you travelled?
30. What's in your makeup bag?
31. Why do you blog?

Comments

[flamebyrd]

The Nationalllll. "Fake Empire" was the song that got me into them. <3

On the subject of "Call Me A Hole", did youy ever read this article about mixing "Call Me Maybe" - http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep12/articles/it-0912.htm - turns out the guy who mixed it also worked on NiN. Fscinating!

[dira]

Oh, interesting! Maybe that's why they go together so well. :)

[krait]

Mmmm, "No Children". I also find myself singing this at work fairly often!

[dira]

I used to kind of croon it lovingly/hatefully to the copier as it warmed up in the morning while I was waiting to make a bazillion copies of newsletters for distribution. It worked really well, not least because the length of the song was almost exactly the length of the warmup cycle. :)

[riverlight]

MMM MATT BERNINGER'S VOICE IS RIGHT. I will never get over that whole album; I think it's one of the best of the past decade.

[dira]

Julie and I were just talking about that the other day, about how we both rank Boxer as one of those Perfect Albums along with a very few others. ♥

[riverlight]

Ooh, what else would you put on that list?

(I think the only other one I can come up with would be Paul Simon's "Graceland".)

[dira]

For me, REM's Automatic for the People. Julie includes also U2's The Joshua Tree and that album The Postal Service did that I can never remember the name of.

[riverlight]

Oh, interesting! None of those albums are albums I particularly know, actually.

[everbright]

Thanks for the Christmas music! I'm always looking for new stuff this time of year. :D

[dira]

You're very welcome! Enjoy! :D