I am currently in love with this song:
Stolen Dance by Milky Chance
Listening to(and watching) A Hard Day’s Night right now. To say that I love it would be a tremendous understatement.
Shizuku by the Japanese band Kagrra,.
Just last week I discovered the Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow.”
I picked the slow, nice songs out of Tom Waits’ album Mule Variations and have been playing those. According to me, the slow, nice songs are:
Hold On
House Where Nobody Lives
Pony
Picture in a Frame
Georgia Lee
Take It With Me
Come On Up To The House
When all that gets* too *slow and nice, I play Macklemore’s Thrift Shop four or five times in a row.
Boom, new Afghan Whigs album, sixteen years since the last and sounding phenomenal!
Standout single: “Matamoros**”: **Youtube Official Video or the even better live performance on Letterman. (Letterman’s concluding comments are spot on.)
Old Fart Alert
Anything by the Fifth Dimension, particularly this. Marilyn McCoo’s voice gives me the shivers.
La Colomba Ferita, an opera composed in 1670 by Francesco Provenzale, one of the earliest of the Neapolitan School. I heard it for the first time a few days ago and instantly loved it. It’s playing now and it conveys the message to my brain that God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world. He isn’t, of course, and very little is right with the world, but that’s the power of music.