As a "there's a playlist for everything' sort of person--the thing that popped into my head (rather surprisingly--as in, out of nowhere) was the soundtrack to Out of Africa--there's something expansive about it-and calm....It's probably that sense of "wholeness" that I get when I listen to it. Thx for asking us to play along!
‘Wildflowers’ by Tom Petty and ‘Southern Cross’ by Crosby Stills & Nash. The latter is my everything right now as the soulful human in my life who loves it is in the fight of his life against stage 4 cancer (at age 44). We will sail that reach on a following sea.
Southern Cross takes me soaring back to a particular moment in 1983 just a few months after it's release, sitting on the grass with friends as I learned to play it on guitar the summer before heading off to college. I remember Stephen Stills sharing the meaning, it was about "using the power of the universe to heal your wounds.” May that energy be headed to you and your soulful human.
Love “Into the Mystic”. I tend to fall back on Coldplay’s “Sky Full of Stars” for that full of live feeling. It used to be The Samples “When It’s Raining” and, more recently, I’d add CHVRCHES “Clearest Blue” in there.
We have a very similar taste in music. I have Samples "Everytime" on repeat (a happy reminder of my college days in Boulder) and my tween & teen girls now often join in. "I'm not going home the same way I came..."
Lately I’ve loved the vibe of Beautiful Life by Lost Frequencies. I feel happy when I hear it and the first five or six times I heard it I had to find out what it was.
I’m into “Into the Mystic” again, too. And “No Hard Feelings” by the Avett Brothers. I think you’re so right about music bypassing our conscious mind and going right to our soul. Well expressed!
What a beautiful ode to music. My 23 year relationship ended last year, and I do not know how I would have coped without music. I made a ‘Moving On’ playlist filled with gorgeous angry songs and some days I imagined my car turned into a fiery ball of heat fired down the freeway as I sang/roared/cried my way through those songs. I’ve recently become a choir singer, and those evenings are like therapy without the analysis. Honestly, music is such a gift. I grew up listening to all those songs too, and I love your choice of Into the Mystic. Gorgeous.
Love seeing you with guitar on lap. Music also has become the gateway into my teen daughter's world. We shares songs on almost every car ride. I'm now into Olivia Rodrigo and a string of other currents, and she's into The Cars, Talking Heads, and other 80s music so it's a fair trade. You'll appreciate that I took her to last year's iHeart Radio's Jingle Ball concert at MSG. To your point about music, twice I looked over and she was crying in awe.
As a "there's a playlist for everything' sort of person--the thing that popped into my head (rather surprisingly--as in, out of nowhere) was the soundtrack to Out of Africa--there's something expansive about it-and calm....It's probably that sense of "wholeness" that I get when I listen to it. Thx for asking us to play along!
Ah, nice. Going to have to pull that one up, it's been a long while.
Oh goodness. Yes! That takes me back.
And reminds me that it's a movie (a glorious one) that is ready to be watched again!
‘Wildflowers’ by Tom Petty and ‘Southern Cross’ by Crosby Stills & Nash. The latter is my everything right now as the soulful human in my life who loves it is in the fight of his life against stage 4 cancer (at age 44). We will sail that reach on a following sea.
Southern Cross takes me soaring back to a particular moment in 1983 just a few months after it's release, sitting on the grass with friends as I learned to play it on guitar the summer before heading off to college. I remember Stephen Stills sharing the meaning, it was about "using the power of the universe to heal your wounds.” May that energy be headed to you and your soulful human.
He just leaned over my shoulder to read your comment and says thank you--he didn't know that. We both teared up a bit.
Love “Into the Mystic”. I tend to fall back on Coldplay’s “Sky Full of Stars” for that full of live feeling. It used to be The Samples “When It’s Raining” and, more recently, I’d add CHVRCHES “Clearest Blue” in there.
Nice. There's a cool Hardwell remix of Sky Full of Stars that keeps the soulful vibe, and adds a bit of a transcendent Ibiza dance feel to it, too.
I’ll have to check that out!
We have a very similar taste in music. I have Samples "Everytime" on repeat (a happy reminder of my college days in Boulder) and my tween & teen girls now often join in. "I'm not going home the same way I came..."
That’s a good one!!
Lately I’ve loved the vibe of Beautiful Life by Lost Frequencies. I feel happy when I hear it and the first five or six times I heard it I had to find out what it was.
Love those songs that seem to haunt us in the best of ways!
Chi Mai by Ennio Morricone has held me in its grip since it hit the British top 40 charts in the early ‘80s.
I’m into “Into the Mystic” again, too. And “No Hard Feelings” by the Avett Brothers. I think you’re so right about music bypassing our conscious mind and going right to our soul. Well expressed!
Yep, No Hard Feelings has such an airy groove to it.
What a beautiful ode to music. My 23 year relationship ended last year, and I do not know how I would have coped without music. I made a ‘Moving On’ playlist filled with gorgeous angry songs and some days I imagined my car turned into a fiery ball of heat fired down the freeway as I sang/roared/cried my way through those songs. I’ve recently become a choir singer, and those evenings are like therapy without the analysis. Honestly, music is such a gift. I grew up listening to all those songs too, and I love your choice of Into the Mystic. Gorgeous.
Love seeing you with guitar on lap. Music also has become the gateway into my teen daughter's world. We shares songs on almost every car ride. I'm now into Olivia Rodrigo and a string of other currents, and she's into The Cars, Talking Heads, and other 80s music so it's a fair trade. You'll appreciate that I took her to last year's iHeart Radio's Jingle Ball concert at MSG. To your point about music, twice I looked over and she was crying in awe.
My song: Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)
Right now I am entranced by Ludovico Einaudi “Experience” and “Adieux” are my favourites. His music transports me to a place of beauty I rarely visit.