here in my head

(aka Sunday Random 10 on a Monday – The forgotten music edition…)

It’s been a lazy holiday Monday afternoon (and thus it feels like a Sunday…) spent listening to music newly discovered, or forgotten and rediscovered while digging through my iTunes archives. I have far too many songs to ever really listen to, and far more cds not yet added to my electronic library. The iPod has changed how I listen to music – rarely do I listen to an album from start to finish any longer, but rather put my favourites in playlists to listen to at random. I love afternoons like this, where I have nothing more pressing than listening to good tunes while rocking in the sunshine, cuddling my cats… Here’s the 10 songs I’ve listened to most recently today:

1. Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Once Soundtrack. (Gorgeous song from a wonderful movie. I have no idea why it stopped being put on my playlists…)

2. Where I Stood – Missy Higgins, On A Clear Night. (I apparently downloaded this sometime last year and listened to it all of one time. But it’s a gorgeous song and deserves to be in heavy rotation on the iPod…)

3. Running up that Hill – Placebo, Bones Soundtrack. (I really like this version of Kate Bush’s song. It’s slower, more deliberate somehow than the original. And despite my love of all things Tori Amos, I’ve never really been able to embrace her predecessor in the same way…However, I only downloaded this song because the album cover had my beloved David Boreanaz on the cover. Shallow, I know. That I like the song is simply a bonus…)

4. I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You – Black Kids, Partie Traumatic. (I’ve never heard this song before, but threw it on my May New Songs 09 playlist for that precise reason. I’m going to assume it was a Free Single of the Week on iTunes once as I have no recollection of downloading it. However, I kind of like it – it’s rather catchy in a fun brit-pop kind of way…)

5. Pretty Piece of Flesh – One Inch Punch, Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack. (I listened to this soundtrack repeatedly the spring of 1997. It was my accompaniment on the trek home from Winnipeg after dropping out the University of Manitoba’s vocal music program… I have hard time believing that that was 12 years ago…in so many ways it seems like yesterday while in others it seems like a lifetime ago… This song instantly takes me back to that time in my life.)

6. Better Man – Pearl Jam, Vitalogy. (I think this is my favourite Pearl Jam song, although there are many that I love. Why I’ve never been more than a casual listener of this band despite really liking most of their songs, and loving Eddie Vedder’s voice, I don’t know. I haven’t listened to PJ in months and months, which is why this counts as a forgotten song…)

7. There is a Light that Never goes out (Smiths Cover) – Automatic Pilot, You’ll Wake the Neighbours. (I downloaded this song today while downloading one of this group’s covers of an Ani DiFranco song. I prefer the Smiths version, but this one is interesting in it’s quiet, gentle approach to the song…)

8. Epilepsy is Dancing – Antony and the Johnsons, The Crying Light. (How I love Antony, I can’t even begin to tell you. I recently discovered this singer’s amazing albums. I just downloaded this album today…)

9. Sex-O-Matic Venus Freak – Macy Gray, On how life is. (I used to work out to this album, and apparently forgot about it shortly after I added it to my iTunes. Figures. I’ll have to pull this music out again for the 1/2 marathon training…)

10. Everybody Here Wants You – Jeff Buckley, Sketches for My Sweetheart. (Buckley’s album Grace is on heavy rotation both on the iPod and on my CD player, but Sketches for My Sweetheart gets forgotten, and I don’t know why…)