Category: Music
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Songs that light up the creative part of your brain
For me, “Fools,” by the Dodos starts playing, and my brain feels like a Christmas tree that just got plugged in. My heart pounds a little faster, and I feel focused, and the ideas start flowing. I don’t know why … I’m sure a musician would have a better idea than I do. (Musicians? Any…
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An almost perfect three-song playlist
I’m not going to say this is a perfect playlist. I am going to say that I’ve been listening to these three songs, in this order, over and over and over for the past week or two. So… yeah. Take that for what it’s worth. And enjoy.
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Shall Not Walk Alone, by the Blind Boys of Alabama
I don’t know if you’re like me, but I can’t hear The Blind Boys of Alabama singing “Shall Not Walk Alone” without seeing Sayid walking away down the beach. Apparently I’m not alone, though, given the intro to this video. (PS — for more thematically-related goodness, chase this with Redemption Song. Fifty points to the…
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Little Talks, by Of Monsters And Men
This will make, what, the fourth or fifth time I’ve listened to this song today? Doesn’t matter. Little Talks, by Of Monsters and Men, is the stuff. Sure it’s a little haunted-house-y, but there’s something true under there.
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After the Waves, by Ben Neumann
I’m not saying it will make you happy… but more than a year later, Japan is still rebuilding, and Ben Neumann’s After the Waves is still a powerful voice for what was lost that day. This is personal for me, since I was in the path of the tsunami and heard the sirens saying get…