When The Sun Hits

Aaron mentioned Slowdive so I had to post my favorite Slowdive song. Can't hurt to keep up the shoegazer/dream pop trend. I found Slowdive through a recommendation by Rhapsody around 5-6 years ago, so I came a little late to the party. I debated for far too long whether to post Alison or When The Sun Hits. Ultimately WTSH won, since I feel like its a bit dreamier and darker than Alison. You can find the US and UK Alison video on youtube but there's not much for WTSH... Anyway, here's the video...



* Emmons, you might like Alison better

New Order - Crystal

I love New Order. I could have chosen anything off of Substance (CEREMONY!), but I decided to go with something fresher. If you're a New Order fan or casual listener you may have missed this one.

Every time I listen to Crystal I feel like it's going to end at 3:10, but then it gets a second wind within seconds and goes for another full minute. Somehow that always impresses me. I will concede that the song is a little dancey. I also don't really get the video. The Youtube comment says that the killers got their name from the fake band in the video.



...I couldn't resist posting Ceremony. Here's a Radiohead cover of it. I'm feeling all fanboy now.

MMJ Anytime!

I listened to My Morning Jacket's live album Okonokos pretty much non stop from 2006-2007. I can't explain why either. I was getting into the slide guitar country/bluegrass sound and Emmons recommended My Morning Jacket to me. Overall Okonokos sounds really heavily edited, but I actually think most of the songs sound better than the actual studio versions.

Not to overhype it, but this song is pure catchy. Anytime is easy to sing along with, has keyboard, guitars, some oh-ohs/yeah-yeahs, and makes a Madonna reference, what else could you possibly ask for? Not a lot of deep meanings or metaphors here, but that's okay.



For those of you with shorter attention spans, here's the sock puppet version: