I Love You

Alright, so it’s Monday and it’s been quite a long time since I last wrote. Plus, today is extra special because…are you ready for it? This is my 100th post!! WOO-HOO! And to celebrate this I’m going to do a 100 song Random Playlist Monday. I know, I’m pretty dedicated. So, without further ado, here it is (just a warning: I am about to completely embarrass and humiliate myself because I have a feeling some very weird things are about to come up, brace yourselves).

1. War of the Worlds – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
2. The City is a Drag – Hawksley Workman
3. To The Dogs or Whoever – Josh Ritter
4. Neon – John Mayer (so far so good)
5. Joy to the World – Sufjan Stevens
6. Woods – Bon Iver
7. Depot Depot – Tom Waits
8. Fool – Neutral Milk Hotel
9. The Girl You Lost to Cocaine – Sia
10. Back Broke – Swell Season
11. Cape Canaveral – Connor Oberst
12. New Years – Ohbijou
13. At the Airport – Old Man Luedecke
14. Motion the Eleven – Cornershop
15. Extra Ordinary – Dave Mann Collective
16. Sixteen – Justin Trawick (Freaky, no!?)
17. Come Together – Across the Universe Soundtrack
18. Late Bloomer – Sarah Harmer
19. Never Going Back Again – Fleetwood Mac
20. An Open Door – Illinois
21. Dream About Flying – Alexis Murdoch
22. South Australia – The Pogues
23. Trouble – Ray LaMontagne
24. Here Goes Something – Nada Surf
25. Waiting on the World to Change – John Mayer
26. To Go Home – M. Ward
27. Language is a Virus – Laurie Anderson
28. Doot Doot Plot – The Hidden Cameras
29. I Don’t Mind – The Cave Singers
30. Whole Lotta Losin’ – Monsters of Folk
31. Home – Wintersleep
32. Perfect – Danny Michel (It’s about time!)
33. Say Hey (I Love You)  – Michael Franti and Spearhead
34. Sula – Jeremy Fisher
35. Violins – Lagwagon
36. The Clearing in the Woods – Harry Nilsson (It’s getting strange now!)
37. Oviedo – Blind Pilot
38. Little Nancy – Fionn Regan
39. Junkie Song – The Be Good Tanyas
40. Jimmy Jazz – Clash (Good changeup there!)
41. Chelsea Dagger – Fratellis
42. Free Until They Cut Me Down – Iron and Wine
43. Low Day – Capra
44. Gypsy Boys Reprise – David Francey
45. I Am a Rich Man – Old Man Luedecke
46. Sammy – The One Night Band
47. The First Snow of the Year – Hawksley Workman
48. Run Devil Run – Jenny Lewis with the Watson T
49. On My Way – Ben Kweller
50. I’ve Just Seen a Face – Across the Universe (Go see this movie if you haven’t already, and if you have go watch it again I know I’m going to)
51. Toothpaste Kisses – The Maccabees
52. A Matter of Minutes – Shawn Colvin
53. Black Wave-Bad Vibrations – Arcade Fire
54. We Go -   Thao
55. Story of My Life – Done With Dolls
56. Had Me a Girl – Tom Waits
57. Blake’s View – M. Ward
58. Salt Bean Fumble – The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (Great name for a song if not a little strange)
59. Close to Me – The Cure
60. With or Without You – U2
61. Why Didn’t You Call Me? – Macy Gray
62. To Your Love – Fiona Apple
63. Never Know – Jack Johnson
64. Sold – Dan Mangan (Going to see him next week: can’t wait)
65. Anti-social – Cuff the Duke
66. Satisfied – Bruce Peninsula
67. Cowgirl in the Sand – City and Color
68. No Sleep – Sam Roberts
69. Last Leaf – The Cake Sale
70. Basket – Dan Mangan
71. Happier – A Fine Frenzy
72. Hearts in the Park – Patrick Watson
73. Our Velocity – Maximo Park
74. Midnight Lullaby – Tom Waits (With 3 songs, Tom now dominates, but how could he not?)
75. House in Motion – Talking Heads
76. Hello Seattle – Owl City
77. Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend
78. Run (I’m a Natural Disaster) – Gnarls Barkley
79. Patience – Take That
80. Hours Last Stand – Elvis Perkins
81. (Past-due) – The Weakerthans
82. State of the Union – David Ford
83. Gomni – Ali Farka Toure
84. A Call to Arms – Beirut
85. The Saga – The Libertines
86. Shelter from the Storm – Bob Dylan
87. Sweet Baby James – James Taylor (some classic cheese, but we all love our cheese, well except for lactose intolerant people)
88. True – The Frames
89. The Dozens – Amelia Curran
90. 1234 – Feist
91. Champion Angel – Low Anthem
92. Try (just a little bit harder) – Janis Joplin
93. Sweet Hallelujah – Hawksley Workman
94. Quiet – Rachael Yamagata
95. All is Love – Karen O and the Kids (if you haven’t seen “Where the Wild Things Are”, go see it NOW)
96. Hannah – Freelance
97. Whales – Personal Stars
98. This Feeling — Danny Michel (just in time)
99. Relax – Frankie Goes to Hollywood (a terrible song! Yet so very good)
100. Brainy – The National

So, that was quite the list. There were some really good things on there, and a few questionable ones. Now is the appropriate time to laugh at that list. I must admit I’m slightly embarrassed by it, especially the Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but oh well I guess. Of course, there was an extremely large amount of Danny, Tom and Hawksley, but there always is. Today though out of all those songs I’m going to go for Michael Franti, because we all need a music pick-me-up every once and a while, and a little reggae never hurt anyone.

I first discovered Michael Franti through his Obama Song. I was really into Obama and all he stood for (and still am) and the song just seemed really cool to me, it also proved to me that I can like hip-hop/rap/reggae music (other than Bob Marley). After the intial discovery I went in and found a few more of his songs. I especially fell in love with Say Hey (I Love You). Sure it’s a little cheesy, but it’s a damn good cheesiness. And there’s just some kind of appeal to Michael Franti, I’m not entirely sure what it is, but he has that “thing”. This song just always makes me especially happy, and it can give you a good outlook on the world, this is especially shown in the video. The video for Say Hey (I Love You) has just made it up pretty high on my list of top videos. It’s pretty fantastic and incredible cute, see for yourself.

I love this video, I especially love that it’s real people and his background looks real, not Hollywood perfect. I think that’s what makes the song not come across totally fake and cheesy. It has a certain real-ness to it not expressed in most things. I really love that the people look like real people of different sizes, cultures, and are allowed to show real emotions. It’s a pretty darn cute video, and I think it can even make all you cynics out there smile (it achieved that for me, and I’m about as cynical as it gets). So, please smile away for the rest night, and if you’re like me you’re going to watch this video about a million times more. For now though I’m out, thanks for putting up with me for this long, it’s greatly appreciated, and feel free to continue, that would also be greatly appreciated.

P.S. Feel free to get up and dance a bit to, it may actually be a requirement. Awkward dancing especially.

Cuntry Boys & City Girls

It’s Monday and I’ve just endured one of a rural towns greatest jewels, the annual fair. And what does this great event have you might ask. Well it has horse pulls, truck pulls (which I thought was going to be farmers trying to pull trucks, turns out it’s just trucks pulling weight, not quite as exciting), medicore and overly priced rides, so much deepfried food I think I broke out just from being there and the cherry on top, the demolition derby. Now if you don’t know what that is, don’t be ashamed, in fact be very happy you have no idea what it is. But I’m going to burst your little happy bubble and tell. Basically the demolition derby is cars smahing into cars, “smashy smashy” as one car fondly put it. It’s where people gather to drink and smoke and until they pass out. And I literally mean until they pass out. Atleast one person does every year. It’s sort of like a morbid disturbed small town ritual. But it was back to normality again at school today. Stressful, fluorescent light normality, but normality all the same. And the topper of this very normal day, Radom Playlist Monday. So I’m going to stop my incessant chatter and get right to it.

1. Heavy Soup – Cornershop (the perfect start to a random playlist)

2. Cousins – Vampire Weekend

3. The City – Sarah Harmer

4. Sweet Baby James – Taylor (’cause everyone needs some sweet baby James)

5. Cuntry Boys & City Girls – The Fratellis (their pretty super awesome and the title goes along pretty well with the fair, there’s not much like a Cuntry Boy)

6. Bright Future – Bowerbirds

7. ‘Til You Come Home – Peter Katz (this is a very, very sweet song)

8. It’s All Been Done – Barenaked Ladies

9. A Thousand Suns – Hey Rosetta!

10. Ashes to Ashes – Danny Michel (this is super great. You take a momumental artist like Bowie and than a budding artist like say Danny and get him to cover this monumental artist and what do you get but a pretty darn awesome covers CD)

This might have been one of my favourite random playlists. It has all the great components of a pretty awesome playlist. I think I’m going to go for Vampire Weekend today. The video for Cousins is pretty amusing and it’s a great band. I’ve already ranted far to much on Vampire Weekend so I’m just going to show the video and you can see the greatness all for yourselves.

I would love to bang on things going down a street to. Especially sped up like that. I am so tired tonight though that I must go to bed (yeah I know it’s only 8:30, what can I say) so until tomorrow, Goodnight and dream all about Vampire Weekend.

A Double Dose of Monday

It’s Monday! And this Monday I’m actually going to do my Random Playlist. Now I think I’m going to do 20 songs this week just for the fun of it (and to catch up a bit). So sit back relax and enjoy, I have a feeling today is going to be a good one.

1. Anywhere I Lay My Head – Tom Waits (there’s always Tom Waits, and this happens to be my dads funeral song)

2. Let My Love Open The Door – Pete Townsend (old school)

3. Somebody Got Murdered – The Clash

4. Sh0t In The Back Of The Head – Moby (this is quite the playlist so far)

5. I’ve Just Seen A Face – Across The Universe Version (and a great version at that, if you haven’t see that movie, go do it, NOW!)

6. Thunder In The Mountain – Danny Michel (always Danny as well, now all we need is Hawksley)

7. (Bit Part) – The Wooden Sky (this is one of my new favourites, it’s fantastic)

8. Atlantis! – Shane Koyczan (this is a great one, not quite as sad)

9. Action/Reaction – Choir Of Young Believers

10. Old Bloody Orange – Hawksley Workman (and there’s the Hawksley, with quite the lovely title)

11. Too Many Nights – Matt Giraud

12. Hello Goodbye – The Beatles (this is one of my favourite Beatle songs)

13. Sweet Medicine – Jason Castro

14. Please Call Me, Baby – Tom Waits (more Tom. I think this is the song where I finally start to fall asleep on Heart of Saturday Night)

15. Airplanes – Local Natives (I’ve been really loving this song lately)

16. Dashboard – Modest Mouse (this is a classic. One of my favourite Modest Mouse songs)

17. Tickle Me Pink – Johnny Flynn

18. What Katie Did – The Libertines (I loved this song and this band when I was little. It’s really to bad they broke up so early)

19. Sweater Song – Hedley

20. Kids – MGMT (you just can’t help but love this song. Even my mom likes it)

So after perusing all the songs on this list (and it really is quite the list), I’ve decided to go with Modest Mouse today. I find that I often forget about Modest Mouse, but than I remember and think “how could I ever forget about this, I won’t this time” but than it just happens again. I’m not sure what that is because they really are awesome and seem unforgetable. As Modest Mouse goes their CD Good News For People Who Love Bad News is my favourite CD. It has classics like Dashboard (of course), Bury Me With It (the perfect funeral song) and Bukowski. For today though, here’s the video for Dashboards. I kinda like this video, it’s a little quirky, but quirky is good.

It’s an old man video so of course I like it. It also includes cool beards and the water not to mention monsters. All my favourite things (well maybe minus the monsters). But for now I’m off to bed ’cause my mom and I are off early on a bit of a culinary adventure inlcuding the Moosewood Restaurant, perfect for a vegetarian like myself and a foody like my mom. I’ll see when I get a chance to blog, but between awesome veggie dishes and pastry over-doses I may not have much time for music.

It’s Called Summer

Okay, so I thought today was a good day (or night) for my new favourite musicians. Kinda like my summer music list. I’m going list my favourite song by each band but be sure to check out all the songs of each one.

1. Juliette – Hollerado (this indie boy band to the max, but perfect for the pool)

2. Bulletproof – La Roux (not my usual, a little to electronic and well…female, but for some reason I really like it)

3. Little Lion Man – Mumford & Sons (one of my favourite bands of the year, check ‘em out)

4. Kindergarten – Zeus (another one of my new favourite bands, also invited to the Sensitive Bearded Boys Festival “SBBF”, ‘course theirs are a little more hipper than say Bon Iver or Iron and Wine)

5. Babies Don’t Like Blue Anymore – Yukon Blonde (wasn’t sure about the band or song but it’s really growing on me)

6. Caught In The Crowd – Kate Miller-Heidke (for some reason I’m really loving this right now, kinda quirky, but super good. She’s classically trained as an opera singer, so it’s really interesting. This song is a bit of an eye-opener and a little cheesy, but I’m always up for a little cheese)

7. Your Island – Young Rival

8. This Feeling – Danny Michel (you must check out his newest CD Sunset Sea, it’s fantastic, I’ve had it on non-stop for weeks. Has a very Caribean feeling, yet still very Danny)

9. Golden Age – Jay Jay Pistolet (this guy is very quirky, but quite fantastic)

10. MIA – Emmy The Great (she’s really interesting, love her lyrics, especially in this song, although it’s actually very sad)

11. Bright Future – Bowerbirds

12. Airplanes – Local Natives (this is yet another really fantastic indie rock band, it’s also a really lovely song)

13. Dreamer – Jenn Grant (upbeat and happy, kinda reminds me of Sarah Harmer)

14. Captive – Sarah Harmer (this is from her new CD Oh Little Fire. I Think this song sounds a lot like Ingrid Michaelson’s The Way I Am. The whole CD’s really good in a happy go-lucky, Sarah Harmer way)

15. Not Your Parent’s Music – Hawksley Workman (I’m kinda bummed this is the music that’s making Hawksley popular it’s pretty generic and if it wasn’t him I’d think it was great, but if you’re lookin’ for some good ol’ Hawksley Workman, check out his older stuff)

16. Without A Doubt -Isbells (I’m not even going to say it, I think it’s pretty obvious what it is)

17. Floating In The Forth – Frightened Rabbit (indie boy band, but with a scottish twist, even better. For some reason this song just really gets me and I can’t help but love it)

18. Leftovers – Johnny Flynn (everyone’s favourite British boy)

19. John Had a Bell and a Whistle – Sunparlour Players (a very strange song, a little like Rock Plaza Central)

20. Crooked Legs – The Acorn (taking place as one of my new favourite bands, you have to check them out, you won’t be disappointed)

I just want to clarify, these bands aren’t all knew to me, some of it is just new music and some of them really are new to me this year.

So I have a video I’ve been wanting to share forever. This is video for The Acorns song Crooked Legs. I think it’s a great video and really clever.

I like the editing of this video, and of course the song. I just think it’s super clever, and although it doesn’t quite make sense with the song, some how it works. I like video’s that are a little more abstract, and this one certainly is that.

One Way Monologue

It’s Monday once again. And a great Monday it’s lookin’ like it will be. Hopefully that means it will also be a great random playlist today. I’m feelin’ good about it. So, lets see if my predications were right. Here is July 19th’s random playlist.

1. Calendar Girls – Stars (a good start to hopefully a good playlist

2. Don’t Pass Me By – The Beatles

3. Switchman – Danny Michel (from my new favourite summer CD)

4. Hey Hey Hey! – Room Eleven

5. Song For Sarah Jane – Hawksley Workman (there’s always Hawksley Workman)

6. Two Way Monologue – Sondre Lerche

7. Glass Onion – The Beatles (wow 2 Beatles songs)

8. Always Crashing In The Same Car – Danny Michel (this is from his David Bowie covers CD, which is awesome)

9. Her Diamonds – Rob Thomas (I was never a huge fan of this song)

10. Babylon – David Gray

Okay, so that was a great one as well. It’s obviously a Danny/Beatles day, of course that’s my favourite day. Shockingly all these song kinda’ go well together, as my Grams would say “it’s a keeper”. I think out of all of those Sondre Lerche is my topic for the day (or night).

He’s my favourite musician from Norway (and other places too). He has this great sound, that I can’t even describe with words. It’s weird indie-pop meets singer-songwriter, a strange combination, but a great one. I’m afraid I only know a few songs though. I’ve been working on expanding my Sondre Lerche collection but haven’t yet. Two Way Monologue is deffientley one of my favourites. It’s a great song, and has a great video. Enjoy Sondre Lerche, and the video.

Sorry about the bad quality, it’s the only one I could get to work. It’s kinda’ gameshowey, reminds me a bit of Hawksley Workmans We Dance To Yesterday. It’s a little boring at times, but the song rocks, which makes up for the lack of interest in the video. Enjoy the playlist, and until next time, GOODNIGHT!

Dan the Man

Danny Michel, yes Danny Michel, a complete underdog of the Canadian Indie music scene and for no reason. Why he hasn’t exploded I’ll never know, but maybe that’s good (for people like me anyways) because than he’ll continue to play at little places like The Company House and put on really, really awesome shows. I’ve seen Danny at least 3 times but mainly at places like Hillside, seeing him in such close quarters really opened my eyes up to a whole new Danny Michel. Maybe it was the cool, clear Halifax air, the fog, or rain but something was really working for him that day.

I’ve been a fan of Danny’s since I was little mainly because my mom was really into his music, but there was always a Danny CD playing. My two favourite CD’s for a long time have been Fibsville, and Tales from the Invisible Man, but Valhalla has slowly scooted into top running. His new CD is rising pretty high up onto my list though. It has a really great feel that reminds a lot of his older stuff, but with a bit of a Carribean twist. I’ve had the first few songs on the CD, Maybe You Can Find It In Your Heart, Wish Willy, Who’s Gonna Miss You?, and This Feeling on repeat for a very long time. They’re all really good though. His vocals are really interesting on this CD, especially in Maybe You Can Find It In Your Heart. I don’t think there’s anyway to describe how much I love his new CD though. I don’t think I’ve listened to anything else for the past 2 days. He sang a few from his new CD when I saw him live and they sounded pretty good, but listening to the whole CD as a collection makes them sound even better. Especially Wish Willy, I can feel deep down that’s going to be a hit, demolishing any other #1 top song records EVER (funny picture of people in their cars singing along to Wish Willy just like any other hit, say Hey, Soul Sister by Train). It’s actually a very catchy song, I’ve had it in my head all day. I can actually see Maybe You Can Find It In Your Heart being a real hit, with lots of radio play.

Of all his songs though I’m still a huge sucker for Beautiful, Tennessee Tobacco, Elgin Ave., Perfect, Two Hearts (I especially love the rhyme in this song I got no beepers, no pagers. Just Farrah Fawcett-Lee-Majors, it makes me smile everytime), I Will Love You for Miles, and so, so many more but I don’t think I should continue naming them. He did a lot of those songs in the show which was good. I’m always happy to see a musician go old school. I even got a signed CD and maybe when he explodes (which he will, we might just have to wait until he dies, because for some reason when people die they seem to get more popular, why is that?) I can sell his CD for a lot of money and live comfortably for the rest of my life. I feel like this is the time where I should compare Danny Michel to similar artists but I’m having trouble. He seems like a genre all of his own, and maybe one day there will be the Danny Michel genre featuring, well, Danny Michel. There are definitely similarities to say a musician like Hawksley Workman, because they both are in a genre all of their own. What I love so much about Danny is his stick it to the man attitude (in this case the man is the music industry) because he’s one of the only musicians I know who hasn’t changed his music for anyone but himself and continues to make music he enjoys, not music the industry enjoys. When they want pop crap from him he makes folk crap and than when “they” want more folk crap from him he decides to make pop crap and the cycle goes on and on. That to me shows a great musican and it’s the kind I’d want to be. So for that congratulations Danny, you are definitely not a sell-out.

So, I’ve been on a Danny video hunt, but can only find the video for Feather, Fur & Fin, which is still pretty good. It seems like making the video was a very long process. Getting all the pictures in all the different places. This makes the video seem even more impressive. This may become the official environmental song of the year. I know as I was looking it up I came across many a school environment project using this song, which were pretty amusing. But I’m not going to show those, go find them yourselves.

Make sure to go and checkout his new CD here, it’s sounding pretty good, and it just came on sale today, so you can be one of the first to purchase it! Also if you’re new to his music check out the rest of his CD’s you won’t be disappointed (I’m afraid there isn’t a money back guarantee though). Enjoy the rest of your dannylicious day. Oh, and have an awesome Canada day for all you Canadians out there, and well anyone else too! Enjoy the great Canadian music out and lovely weather, well here anyways.

Sensitive Bearded Boys Unite

So I am now officially in Halifax, which is pretty awesome. It’s full of rain, cloud, fog, good music, and well pretty awesome people and food. Today there was a bit of  a dilemma concerning breakfast. My dad is totally into the greasy-spoon, diner, bacon, eggs, toast, homefries meal, where as me being a vegetarian is not. One gets pretty tired of diner pancakes very quickly and so when our friend recommended a total greasy-spoon slash Syrian vegetarian restaurant it seemed totally perfect and it really was. It fulfilled both breakfast needs in a delicious way. But I guess I should really be getting back to music instead of diner food. This week in Halifax is actually looking really good. Last night we went to see a band called The Once. Check them out at their myspace page, they were super good, in a fantastic traditional Newfoundland way which I always love. Now tonight we are going to see Danny Michel, which should also be a really great show. I’ve seen him a few times before and loved each show. Wednesday night is sounding a little more music quiet but than on Canada day there is another music bash including Deep Dark Woods, David Miles and Joel Plaskett, which I am super duper excited for.

Even considering all this music I’m having a hard time deciding what I should talk about. Something I’m going to see or have already seen this week, something new, something old. So, although I thought I should keep in the spirit of Halifax and feature a local I think I’m going to go for. I did miss Monday’s random playlist but I’m not in the mood for it so here’s Iron & Wine instead.

It’s rainy, cool, we’re sitting around drinking currant tea, cooking Mexican food and to me felt like a perfect time for Iron & Wine. There’s something about his voice that’s incredibly haunting and perfect for right now in my opinion. His CD The Shepherd’s Dog is what first got me and still gets me to this day. Every track on that CD gives me the chills in the best possible way. Especially Resurrection Fern, House By the Sea, Flightless Bird, American Mouth (popuralized by the movie Twilight sadly), and Carousel. His new CD, Our Endless Numbered Days is also really, truly fantastic. My favourite on that CD is Naked As We Came, another typically beautiful Iron & Wine song.

My dad is also talking about me starting my own music festival and jokes that it should be the (ready for it) sensitve bearded boy music festival including of course Iron & Wine is who top bearded sensitive boy as well as Bon Iver, Joe Purdy, William Fitzsimmons, Bahamas and many others. So as an introduction to that festival here’s Iron & Wine with Naked As We Came.

This video is pretty and cute and of course hauntingly beautiful and exactly what I’d expect from Iron & Wine. Without further ado enjoy Iron & Wine and the rest of your day.

Rain, Rain Please Stay

So, a good ol’ rainy day, where it just rains and all you want to do is curl up on the couch with a good book, some tea and the perfect music. Well this is a mood I’m often in and have made many a Rainy Day playlist, but there not all great, so here’s another try of mine. The problem with the rainy day playlist is it’s hard to know what the perfect rainy day song is. I’m sitting at my aunts house curled up on the couch awaiting the rain and couldn’t be happier. These are songs that seem pretty good to me at this exact time on this exact rainy day, let me know your perfect rain song.

1. Ticket Taker – Low Anthem (my dad introduced me to this, and I really love it, GO DAD!)

2. Passion Play – William Fitzsimmons

3. City Song – Emmy The Great

4. Low Rising – The Swell Season

5. World Spins Madly On – Weepies (my favourite morning song, or grumpy, bad mood song totally captures the mood)

6. Road Regrets – Dan Mangan

7. All The Way Down – Glen Hansard

8. Song For Your – Alexi Murdoch (pretty little song for any mood)

9. Shore to Shore – Johnny Flynn (just a perfect song)

10. Bright Future – Bowerbirds

11. Insects – Brasstronaut (a creepy title for a pretty, rainy song. Don’t get turned off by the name like I did at first)

12. Safe and Sound – Hawksley Workman (the most perfect song EVER, for anything)

13. Song For The Road – David Ford

14. Eyes Full Of Rose – Horse Feathers

15. Julie Blue – Joe Purdy

16. Weighty Ghost – Wintersleep (another fantastic song that I’ll never get sick of)

17. Beautiful – Danny Michel (because it captures the mood perfectly and who doesn’t love Danny?)

18. Blue Skies – Noah and the Whale (the title may have blue in it but it’s “a song for anyone who can’t get out of bed”, perfect)

19. Dreamer – Jenn Grant

20. Skeletons (Acoustic Version) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (one of my favourite songs by them)

21. Drinking Games – Library Voices (saw them at Hillside, FANTASTIC)

22. In The Battle of Sun VS. Curtains, Sun Loses and We Sleep Until Noon – Woodpigeon (greatest song title ever and perfect for a rainy day)

22. Lay Me Down – The Frames

23. The Dress Looks Nice On You – Sufjan Stevens

24. Summer Day – Coconut Records (don’t let the name decieve you, it’s all about rain)

I’d say that’s pretty awesome for a rainy day, or any day for that matter. A day you need some good quiet music, which is a lot of days for me. Below is the video for Weighty Ghost, which I’ve been meaning to play for awhile so it’s perfect. This is one of my favourite video’s even though there’s nothing spectacular about it. Maybe it’s just the great song, or the sing-along chorus which I’m a HUGE sucker for. Either way, enjoy.

I hope that put you in the rainy, sleepy mood if you weren’t already.

Monday, Monday, Monday

Okay, so it’s random playlist day, how exciting. Enjoy.

1. Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams

2. Rosie – Joan Armatrading (this was for a Rosie playlist I made for my little cousin)

3. Neon – John Mayer

4. Common Cold – Hawksley Workman (he sang this at the show)

5. Road To Nowhere – Talking Heads

6. Glass Houses – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

7. Mr. Brightside – The Killers (this seems very grade 5)

8. Coconut Grove – Serena Ryder

9. Danny Know – Dancehall Free For All (first saw these guys at Hillside as a youth band, they came back last year as a real band and were just as good as I remembered)

10. Tell Sally – Danny Michel

This playlist is okay, not my favourite. What I love about random playlists is it introduces me to musicians that I’ve forgotton about. Today that person was Serena Ryder. I first saw her play at the Peterborough Folk Festival many years ago and now she’s a famous Canadian Musician. I’ve always really liked her and her music but completely forgot about her. I’m happy this re-introduced me to her. Hope you enjoy the song and the playlist of the day.

This has always been one of my favourite songs by her. The videos cool too, although all her videos seems to be the same.