Alabama Shakes - Be Mine

May be a little late to the bandwagon on this band, but I love them. Britany has the coolest voice and their sound is just so cool.

This is the first song by them that I bought. I bought it just on a whim because the title "Be Mine" sounded kinda' cool. Alabama Shakes has a real '70's vibe for me. And I really like the '70's. So it's all good.

The Avett Brothers: NPR Music Field Recording

Pretty amazing if you ask me. These guys are awesome. Have a listen..

Lana Del Rey

I think she's great! I love the moody, meloncholy feeling I get from her songs.

I also love her hair. Lana Del Rey's hair is awesome.



Two other of her songs are essential- "Blue Jeans" and "Born To Die." Those were the songs that really intrigued me and got me interested in Lana Del Rey's music. Also, yes, her SNL performances weren't brilliant, but she looked gorgeous and hey, shake it off and move on. I just flat out love the music.

Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait (Official Audio)

Lover-ly, lovely, lovely. This song has been on repeat all day long! I am so excited for the new album. This month better go by fast. "I Will Wait" for the new album. Haha. I have no choice. Oh dear, anyway, I love it! Hope you will, too.

I Have A Serious Problem...

OK, so I wouldn't nessecarily call it a problem, maybe just weird intrests is a better term. Whatever. So while other people my age are out living and doing stuff that people my age are supposed to be doing. Me? Well, I'm holed up inside my house, or the antique store downtown. When I'm home I not only watch TV but listen to songs that nobody's probably even thought of for fifty years and trying to replicate hairstyles that mimic people like Rita Hayworth, Bette Davis, and Lauren Bacall. I even bought rollers! Yes, those things that you roll your hair in. They're not even hot rollers, they're good, old school, roll wet hair up. I have to learn patience to actually be able to wait the alloted time to let my hair dry completely. At the antique stores I find all kinds of things I just feel like I have to have, knowing that I have no room for them, then mourn when I look at the price tag. I need a job.

Yet, antique stores have the occasional vinyl selection. I went with my mother and she finds this album, looks me in the eye and goes "you're going to die." It's a miracle I didn't pass out right then and there. My favorite band in about the whole entire world is Fleetwood Mac. Yes, John, Stevie, Mick, Lindsey, and Christine. I never fail to be mesmerized by their music, their story, their music. So when my mom pulls out an original 1977 vinyl of "Rumours" I was in heaven. I literally spent everything I had in my wallet(a whopping ten dollars) to buy it. You have to understand I already had a replication of "Rumours" on vinyl that was made in like 2009. I didn't care! I was getting that vinyl. I went home, listened to it and nearly died. No scratches, the sound is amazing. Who knows how long it's been sitting in that shop just waiting for somebody to find it. I mean, 35 years that thing has been around. Needless to say I was, and still am, pretty stoked about that. Now, all I need is Fleetwood Mac to go on tour next year like they've been saying they are going to. Fingers crossed!



Now, the real reason I have actually made time in my extremely busy schedule(sarcasm) to write a post.  Playlist time. I haven't done one of these in about forever. Blogging and playlisting.

1. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Connee Boswell. If you've ever seen the movie "Bringing Up  Baby" with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn this is the song that they have to sing to catch Baby the leopard. I also listened to like fifty different versions of this song before finding this one by Connie Boswell.

2. "House of the Rising Sun" The Animals. Thanks to just about one of the greatest playlists on RollingStone.com I found this song. I'd never heard it before and now I'm hooked. Basically, its on repeat.

3. "White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane. OK, so I kinda', seriously love this song.

4. "Hey Jude" The Beatles. Just because this is one of the greatest songs and Paul McCartney's performance at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics was one of the greatest performance I've ever seen. I mean the way literally everyone was singing the 'nanana' part was amazing. I seriously got a sense of world-togetherness when that happened.

5. "In Your Atmosphere" John Mayer. This version is live and I can't get enough. John Mayer does an amazing performance of this song. Just the perfect amount of melancholy and longing to make it good. "Wherever I go, whatever I do, I wonder where I am in my relationship to you." Ack!

6. "Ho Hey" The Lumineers. It just makes me happy. Plus the album is freakin' amazing!