Never Too Old

Mood: Annoyed

Listening to: “I’m Me” – Lil Wayne and a variety of oldies

Eating Drinking: Waffle Pretzels and Diet Snapple Peach Tea

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Basically, I’m in love with oldies so I’d like to give a list of my favorites. I’ve never really understood why people wouldn’t like them. If you’re in love with an artist, doesn’t it make sense to be in love with the band or singer who was their inspiration? The music of today comes from the music of the past. There’s no getting around that. To me, oldies are classics for a reason; they’re great, to put in quite simply.

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Pardon this tangent I’m about to go off on; I’ve got to get this off my chest.

Recently, I was with a group of people and we were talking about artists who have “sold out". One girl's example was Sufjan, which kind of bugged me because I still love him. So I got kind of defensive but I tried to tell myself to just chill out and listen to what she had to say. She argued that his music wasn’t as special as it had once been. That’s when I started to get annoyed. So popularity immediately turns something bad? It’s always annoyed the shit out of me when people are overly focused on being different. Maybe another example will help.

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Let’s say you like this sick indie band. Everything about them is great; their lyrics kick ass, their melodies are unique and they seem like really nice people. Cool. Then you share them with a friend and that friend shares it with another friend and before you know it, they're everywhere. Suddenly their lyrics become so cliché to you...even though it's the exact same song you were obsessed with two months ago. I just don't get it. What I do get is getting upset with a band if they sell out from the popularity; they change to a more poppy sound, suddenly every single song becomes about love and they never leave home without their hipster glasses. I get why there's a reason to be upset with that, but I think it's important to give the band the benefit of the doubt, don't you? Have a little faith.

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People can be so busy making sure they’re nothing like anyone else that they aren’t even themselves. News flash: it doesn’t impress anyone that you’re so unique, it’s just obnoxious. In my opinion, if something is popular, it’s for a good reason—a lot of people agree that it’s good. So here’s what I have to say: like what you like, whether you’re the only one or one of many. As Lil Wayne would say, “I’m Me”. (How ironic is it that this song came up on shuffle as I was writing this?)

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To bring this all back to oldies, those songs were popular for a reason and it’s lame not to like them simply because a lot of other people do. Have a legitimate reason.

Thanks for stickin’ that out with me. Here’s my aforementioned list (in no order with various release dates). Not all are oldies exactly, but they're still classics to me.

1. "Delia's Gone" - Johnny Cash
2. "You Make My Dreams" - Hall & Oates
3. "Don't Stop Me Now" - Queen
4. "Alison" - Elvis Costello
5. "In the Ghetto" - Elvis Presley
6. "Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
7. "Do You Love Me?" - The Contours
8. "Ain't To Proud To Beg" - The Temptations
9. "Sherry" Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
10. "Blowin' In the Wind" - Bob Dylan
11. "Ten years Gone" - Led Zeppelin
12. "Saturday In the Park" - Chicago
13. "The Way You Make Me Feel" - Michael Jackson
14. "Love Child" - The Supremes
15. "Good Lovin'" - The Rascals
16. "Brown Eyed Girl " - Van Morrison
17. "Don't Look Back" - Boston
18. "Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
19. "I'm A Believer" - The Monkees
20. "Sweet Caroline" - Neil Diamond
21. "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
22. "Reelin' In The Years" - Steely Dan
23. "Baby In Black" - The Beatles
24. "Barbara Ann" - The Beach Boys
25. "Isn't She Lovely" - Stevie Wonder
26. "Blister In the Sun" - Violent Femmes
27. "At Last" - Etta James
28. "Three Little Birds" - Bob Marley
29. "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" - Manfred Mann
30. "Oh, Pretty Woman" - Roy Orbison
31. "I Wish I Knew" - Nina Simone

There are SOOOO many more I would've put but I don't want this post to become completely rediculous. I basically just went through my itunes and selected some random good ones.

Flea Markets and Lollapalooza.

Mood: restless
Eating/Drinking: Lemon Diet Snapple
Listening to: "Hey You" - Pony Pony Run Run

I'm going to a flea market tomorrow with some friends and I'm pumped. I love finding deals and making treasures out of things people would never expect; it's one of the reasons I love thrifting. So here's to bargains tomorrow.

Anyways, on to music I suppose.

Lollapalooza is approaching as summer break gets closer and closer. I thought I'd share the list of bands that I'm interested in seeing there, even though there's no possible way I'll be able to see them all.

FRIDAY
1. Manchester Orchestra
2. Fleet Foxes*
3. The Decemberists*
4. Andrew Bird
5. Of Montreal*
6. Depeche Mode
7. Kings of Leon*
8. KiD CuDi

SATURDAY
1. Constantines
2. Miike Snow
3. Animal Collective*
4. Arctic Monkeys
5. Coheed and Cambria
6. Rise Against
7. Lykke Li
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs*

SUNDAY
1. Carney
2. The Airborne Toxic Event
3. Vampire Weekend*
4. Passion Pit*
5. Cold War Kids
6. Band of Horses*
7. Silversun Pickups*
8. The Killers*

*Bands I really want to see

My friend told me that The Antlers are supposed to be playing too, but I couldn't find them on the list. Maybe I'm just blind. But if they're there then I definitely want to see them.

I'm super excited. It should be sick.

My Forgottens

Mood: anxious aka I have ants in my pants. Hah, love that expression.
Eating: Surprisingly...nothing.
Drinking: Not so surprising - Lemon diet Snapple
Listening to: "Somebody to Love" - Queen

So recently my dad accidentally deleted a large chunk of my music off my computer with no possible way of ever getting back. Naturally I handled it like the mature 17 year old that I am; I balled my eyes out. I wish I could say I’m kidding. But there was one benefit that came out of all this; when starting to re-purchase all the music I’d lost, I remembered some great bands that I hadn’t listened to in a while or I'd forgotten how much I love. I thought maybe this time it’d be nice to post a list that will hopefully remind you of some great music. Or maybe this will be completely new music to you, which is even better if you ask me.

1. "I Would Be Sad"
Emotionalism - The Avett Brothers
A simple song that is straight to the point. You can always rely on The Avett Brothers for that.

2. "The Great Salt Lake"
Everything All The Time - Band of Horses
I've always loved how their songs of this echoey feel to them.

3. "Postcard From Far Away"
Prospekt's March - Coldplay
Sometimes instrumentals speak so much louder than words.

4. "Bixby Canyon Bridge"
Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie
I love practically everything by Death Cab. This song is just one of my many, many favorites.

5. "Ashley"
Visiter - The Dodos
This song makes me feel...slow? Does that even make any sense?

6. "Radio Ballet"
Copia - Eluvium
Just plain awesome.

7. "Private Eyes"
Looking Back (Best Of) - Hall & Oates
Classy. Sets the mood, for sure.

8. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
Alone in IZ World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
I don't care how much your day sucked, this will make it at least a little better.

9. "Man In Black"
16 Biggest Hits - Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash knows what's up. So do his lyrics.

10. "Camaro"
Because Of The Times - Kings of Leon
This song makes me feel like a bad ass.

11. "Lessons Learned"
Grand - Matt & Kim
I thoroughly enjoy the music video for this song.

12. "Weekend Wars"
Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
My favorite part of this entire song is the first nine seconds.

13. "What Would Steve Do?"
These Things Move In Threes - Mumm-Ra
I wish they were still making music.

14. "Sweet Caroline"
The Neil Diamond Collection - Neil Diamond
Something about this song makes me wanna belt out the lyrics along with Niel. Gotta' love him.

15. "I Wish I Knew"
Protest Anthology - Nina Simone
The way it's done.

16. "Shape Of My Heart"
Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down - Noah And The Whale
I dig the horn section.

17. "She's A Rejecter"
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer - Of Montreal
Their retro-trippy feel is sick and so is lead singer Kevin Barnes' voice.

18. "Jenny Don't Be Hasty"
These Streets - Paolo Nutini
Okay so this isn't a song that I forgot about... I just love this song. Something about his voice just draws me in. Anybody know what is accent is?

19. "Good Lovin'"
The Essentials: The Rascals - The Rascals
Feel like dancin' now?

20. "Eet"
Far - Regina Spektor
This song makes me hungry...haha...ha.

21. "Middle Distance Runner"
Leaves In The River - Sea Wolf
Chill.

22. "Hoppipolla"
Takk - Sìgur Ros
This song is so inspirational even though I have know idea what they're saying.

23. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection - Stevie Wonder
It doesn't get better than Stevie, plain and simple.

24. "Concerning The UFO Sighting"
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
An awesome title for an awesome song.

25. "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Is your bed made? Is your sweater on?

The Snapples that come in the plastic bottles don't come with "real facts". What other reason is there to drink Snapple?