In Love...Not in Like.

You enjoy music, right? You have your music library that you have built over the years and you might discover something new all the time or you might take new in dosages. Can you riddle me this though?
Between the music that you've listened to for years, the music you recently discovered. Amongst play lists and most recently played, can you actually come up with a list of songs you could honestly put onto one CD and listen to on a desert island for the rest of your life? Music... Songs that you could honestly admit you could listen to and with out fail have it give you that same incredible feeling or a rush from the heart, a calming of the mind or just a really good laugh? Music that you don't get sick of after you've played it into the ground because you like it so much. No ladies and gentlemen I'm talking about being in love...Not in like.

As I was driving the other day, I noticed that my Ipod is always on the "recently played" playlist. Often I skip over songs while I listen to a few new ones (Itunes got the best of me 2 weeks back). Then while I was skipping, skipping, skipping...I heard it... The heart tugging acoustic guitar  building momentum to a cymbal and a crash with electricity into the intro of Coldplays', Yellow. This song which if you haven't heard it before, you can very well take a moment and go check it out straight away....Coldplay, Yellow...I can wait. Honestly.

This song with out fail I could listen to and not get sick of. I don't believe I have ever skipped over this song. I feel that jump in my being, that aching of love and fidelity. I can easily recall the first time I heard it on the radio in 7th grade. Instantly falling in love with the music and the language of the way each note and lyric danced into one another. How I so terribly wanted someone to sing to me the way Chris Martin pours his heart out in stating he would literally bleed himself dry for for the one he's singing for. That was the first time I had ever purchased a CD based on a single song that I knew the rest of it was going to be SUPERB. And well it was. It also introduced me to the world that is Coldplay. That world is EPIC. Each album recreated and invented that feeling. The only way I can truly describe it is ELECTRIFYING. Two of my bucket list items were to see No Doubt in concert and Coldplay in concert. Check and check...2 summers ago I saw both in concert with in a month of each other... E-P-I-C... Coldplay was such an overwhelmingly worship session for me. So many times I've been running, driving, sitting and have been listening to Coldpaly. Praying, thinking about people, places, yelling the lyrics and just loosing myself in the music and how alive it makes me feel. That concert moved me. Arms in the air, knees buckled, ready and willing to just sing, and praise how great God is for letting me feel this way and how much it moves me. And Coldplay isn't even my favorite band! No doubt is. That was an experience in it's self. However I have to be in the mood to listen to No Doubt.

As I'm looking through my music I see a lot of stuff that I like to listen to often. As of late I had been on a Fray/ Brandi Carlile kick. Whatever moves me. It's like listening to a really good friend talk and converse with things that you have in common. It's like revisiting an old place for a short time and just remembering how incredible that little moment in time was. Or even dreaming to the future possibilities. It's all relative. I love music...and music loves me. So it's all good.

As of right now I can't quite thing of another song to add to that specific list. I'm sure if I heard it, I would know. However I'm not going to sit here and go through every single song. I feel that would be a bit of an overload on love. Could you overload on love?...No, but I'd rather talk about what I've been listening to that's currently on my top 5. Songs that really get me going and that really calm me down. Slow me down and help me look at everything differently.

5. Eddie Vedder- Hard Sun
4. Basia Bulat- Heart of My Own
3. Mumford & Sons- The Cave
2. Matt Costa- The Road
1. Paramore- Looking Up

I wanted to make a longer list...However I somewhat enjoyed narrowing it down to these specific genres. However the list it's self is a lot longer.

Current songs that make me think of specific people?
3. Down With Rowland- Track 5 (Miss Jennifer Spears)
2. Mumford & Sons- Awake my Soul (Miss Ryan Michelle Coury-Scavo)
1. Barry Manilow- Can't Smile (The lovely ladies of Glen Iris)