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Music

Summer soundtrack

Mandy tagged me for this music meme, but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to follow the rules. You’re supposed to:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good — but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

We have music playing all day, but I keep the iPod on shuffle most of the time. There are more than 2,000 songs on there. That doesn’t quite mean that we rarely listen to the same song twice, but it does mean that there hasn’t really been a steady soundtrack to our days. That being said, there are songs that are getting a lot of “airtime” here lately.
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Silly little love songs

My friend Amy is looking for a few songs to play at her wedding. She and her fiance, Joe, are going off by themselves to get married on an island, which means I will not get to dance, cry or eat cake at Amy’s wedding. But I love her anyway, so I thought I’d try to help her out with the song situation.

Here’s a little glimpse into her dilemma:

I told Joe today that I wanted to play the Allison Krause song, “When You Say Nothing at All.” My clueless fiance looked up the song on iTunes while we were on the phone together. Next thing I know, he was mumbling something about purple blue jeans, gun racks and the NRA. Then I told him to look up, “Feels Like Home” by Chantal Kreviazuk. After this one, he started laughing.

I think “When You Say Nothing at All” is a pretty song, even though it is very country. I’ve never heard “Feels Like Home,” though. I have a pretty good feel for Amy’s taste in music, but I don’t really know what Joe likes. So these suggestions were compiled using a formula of one part songs I like, one part songs I thought Amy would like and one part songs that I guessed Joe might endure.
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Seeq and ye shall find

I could easily waste a few hours at SeeqPod. You type in a band or musician, and it gives you a great big list of audio files it finds on the Internet. Naturally, I searched for Wilco and Jeff Tweedy. I wish I could download “A Simple Twist of Fate.” It’s really lovely. “Either Way” is one of Poppy’s favorite songs, and “Don’t Fear the Reaper” is one of Rockford’s. That always makes me laugh. He’s a goon.

SeeqPod – Playable Search