I thought it only appropriate that I make the last Sunday School Soundtrack of the year extra special. With that said, let me explain a little about what I've done. For the "Yuletide Edition" of SSS, I have collected not five, but 10 of my favorite holiday runes to warm the cockles of your inner ears. On top of that (well, more to the side of that), I've given you the gift of convenience by including a QR code with a link to here, my blog. To sweeten the deal even more, I will be providing you with a link at the end of all of this to my Grooveshark playlist, "That Gingerbread Feeling," which includes all of the songs in the YESSS! plus about 20 more musical snacks.
So without further delay, much like the Magi of old offered their best to the Christ child, I offer you my best this pre-Christmas night. Enjoy.
There it is my dear students. Thank you for a remarkable 12 months of SSSs, occasional visual aids (when I remembered to use them) and themed treats. I've enjoyed every lesson and every moment spent with you. It's been quite a year. Here's to an adventurous 2012!
Oh, I almost forgot, click HERE for the link to my grooveshark.
Okay, let's talk music. I love the list today. I am hoping you love it as well.
Here is it, in the flesh:
Anyway--Entrain Into the Mystic--Van Morrison The LIttle Things--Carlos Bertonatti I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme)--John Rzeznik Holding Out For A Hero--Ella Mae Bowen
I know the video is lousy, but the song is great. Normally I'm a big proponent for dancing while listening to music, but I kind of hate the crowd in this video--a little too hippy for me.
I'm not going to lie. I think Van Morrison is one of the best song writers ever. I love this song. "I want to rock your gypsy soul just like way back in the days of old."
I'm not exactly sure when or where I stumbled across this little gem, but needless to say, it happened and I'm glad it did. He's got a very Jack Johnson feel to him, but without all of the overwhelming popularity.
Loved this song the first time I saw the movie and I still love it. I recently downloaded it for the first time and I can't get enough.
Out of all the remakes from the new Footloose, this is my favorite. Truth be told: I would date Ella Mae Bowen.
Hope you enjoy the videos. I couldn't find any of these songs on playlist.com...so I hope it's not too annoying having to go through all of the youtubes. Let me know what you think of my choices this week.
In honor of my favorite holiday: Halloween (I actually have three favorite holidays: Christmas, Halloween and the 24th of July...Some might argue I don't understand the meaning of the word "favorite", but I might argue that I probably understand it better than anyone that might argue that.), I am posting the following song.
I've always been a fan of the holiday with religious roots that allows us to be whatever we want for at least one day—or a whole weekend if we are lucky. On the other hand, I've never been a fan of anything macabre (why we still have words in our vocabulary that can be pronounced three different ways, is beyond me), but when I came across this song today, I had to share it. Sure, she talks about eating her boyfriend's brain and maybe she mentions that all of their friends will want to kill them, but it has a catchy beat and I thought it was kind of fun. Enjoy...and Happy Halloween to all of you...no matter what your current mortality status is.
I'm not sure what made me think of this song this morning, but it popped into my head and I had to listen to it. I kind of went through a Blessid Union of Souls phase in high school and then on into my first semester of college. I even went to one of their concerts held up at Juan Diego High School—I may or may not have been on the front row. When my buddy, Phil, and I went to BYU-Idaho for our innagural year of college, we went out first thing and bought a stereo so we could listen to our sweet jams. We split the cost of the CD player/boombox and then listened to BUS for the next four months.
Our favorite song, Rest of My Life, was put on repeat multiple times and some days, it was the only song we listened to...simple minds, I guess. Lucky for me, Phil is also a person who can listen to a song over and over without getting sick of it. It's my favorite Blessid song. I hope you enjoy it. If it helps, just think of Phil and I in our dreary college apartment playing that burned CD until it wore out.
I just wanted to let you know that I have a new Sunday School Soundtrack...okay, maybe you were there...but if you weren't, here it is:
Oh, but let me explain: This is a special edition. I watched So You Think You Can Dance for the first time last season and I loved it. Mostly I loved being exposed to new music every episode and loved seeing someone's visual interpretation of each song. The following five songs are my favorites from the season. I hope you like them. (side note to this side note: I've added four of the songs to my playlist. If you want to listen to Ven A Bailar you may have to look it up on Youtube. I am going to bed.)
Special edition: SYTYCD Season 8 Misty Blue---Dorothy Moore Moth's WIngs---Passion Pit I Got You---Leona Lewis Ven A Bailar (On The Floor)---Jennifer Lopez (featuring Pitbull) Poison & Wine---The Civil Wars
Welcome to round two of the Sunday School Soundtrack. I will be posting five new songs every two weeks, so stay vigilant or you may miss out. Just to review, Round one included the following songs:
September 18 1. Hurricane Drunk--Florence + the Machine
2. Find My Way--The Gabe Dixon Band
3. When I Get My Wings--Will Hoge
4. I Won't Let You Go--James Morrison
5. Let's Start Over--Miles Jaye (This one was a stretch, but I think it's hilarious.)
Okay, now that that is over with, say hello to this week's edition:
October 9
1. Little Lies--Dave Barnes
2. Virginia--Ron Pope
3. I Would Do Anything For You--Foster the People
4. I Cannot Settle Down--Peter Bradley Adams
5. Miracles--Matt White
I love these songs. I've tried to find all of them on playlist.com, but unfortunately, playlist.com doesn't know all of the good music. To make up for their lacking, I have included a song from each artist in the sidebar playlist titled (can you believe it?) "Sunday School Soundtrack." Where I couldn't find the song on playlist.com, I have included it below as an embedded YouTube video. Enjoy, and don't forget to comment with any songs that you've been loving that I should check out.
I know, I know, it's a live version, but it's awesome and Dave Barnes is amazing. If you are feeling especially ambitious, check out his Christmas Extravaganza videos. He's funny and talented.
Okay, I hope you realize how hard it is to only be sharing one song of Ron's with you today. His voice is a little whiny, but it has a quality that I enjoy listening to and one that seems to speak the emotion he writes about. If you want more, click here.
Listened to this about a million times when I went to Bear Lake last month. It now causes me to think of waspberry shakes, paddle boats and IDPs (Impromptu Dance Parties). Can you think of a better combination? I certainly can't.
Holy Smokes! Where do I start? Peter Bradley Adams is wind blowing through the wheat field. Peter Bradley Adams is the rain drops that falls on your head in the summer. Peter Bradley Adams is...you know what?--just listen to the song.
This just might be the single worst video job I've ever seen, but it's the only version of this song I could find to share. Don't watch the movie, but listen to the music. If you like it, go to iTunes and listen to it there...or come to my house and I'll play it for you from my music collection.
Whew! That was a lot of linking and embedding. I'm hoping it is worth it to you. Let me know what you think?
My buddy's mom passed away last Friday. His dad died when he was three. After her funeral yesterday, I listened to this song and imagined her flying back into her husband's arms. Twenty five years have passed since she's seen him and she loves him more now than she ever did before. I hope one day to find someone I can spend my life loving both before and after death. Here's to you AnnEtta Cope Merrill, I never knew you, but you've blessed me a thousand times over with your life, your children and your example.
WOW! I am overwhelmed with how much I am loving this song right now. Here are the instructions for proceeding:
1. Listen to this song
2. Put it on repeat.
3. Repeat step two until it's enough.
I'm wearing my gray pinstripe suit, I used two squirts of cologne and I gave myself a theme song. Sometimes Tuesdays require a little more than other days.
I won't talk a lot about this one. It's fun, it's got good energy and it moves. It also reminds me of two things that I wish I had more of in my life right now: summer and girlfriend. So, with that said, I will go back to my daydreaming of said summer and girlfriend as I continue rotting in front of my work desk.
Yes Matt, Faster is exactly how I want work to be happening right now.
I would like to draw your attention to the embedded video box below. This little musical morsel dropped like manna from heaven into our laps last weekend while we were cruising along the PCH on Memorial Day. In a word (or two): Sweet serendipity.
Here's the deal. It's not the best constructed song. I would have loved to have heard another verse or two and maybe a nice counterpoint of chorus and verse at the end in a frenzy of voice and instrument, but I didn't write the song, Newton Faulkner did. So, without further ado, here he is singing it:
Seriously though, don't you love the lyrics?
"I'm gonna master all kinds of kung fu. I'm gonna live inside a tiny zoo."
"I'm gonna grow myself a giant afro (incredible) when the alarm goes off I just won't know."
I was listening to this song on the way to work today and it basically changed my life. I've been a fan for sometime. In fact, Jackson's moving anthem has been a theme song for a number of important life events: road trips, long races, lonely nights and unbearably difficult days. It is during these trying times that Will You Be There gives you the strength you need. And just when you think you can't go on, Michael sneak attacks you with a key change and inspires you to press onward. Later on when you have reached your breaking point yet again: another key change. At this point you are pretty much overwhelmed because no one has ever dared to slip in two key changes in the same song (too much of a good thing? I don't think so), but nothing is too daring for the King of Pop. As he winds down tantalizing you with what you think is his last experimental move, he rises from the ashes yet again with a third key change. You thought it couldn't be done. You doubted his ability. Luckily, you were proven wrong.
As you listen to it, I would ask you just one question: Will YOU be there?
Don't make fun of me. This song is amazing and let's not forget how inspired all of us were when Willy flew for the first time. That moment when he rose from his watery cell and his body drips rained down on the young Jesse below rallied a nation and inspired generations old and young. Let us not forget his inspiring legacy.
I have a close friend who is in an interesting situation—he's desperately in love with his ex-wife. More than anything else in the world, he wants to get back with her. More than anything else in the world, I want him to get back with her. I've told him that I am in his corner...that we are going to get her back. He's Rocky and I'm his Mickey.
Today as I was heading back to Utah Valley Regional after a meeting at Orem Community Hospital, I was listening to Mayday Parade's moving ballad, Miserable At Best and thought instantly of my warrior friend. I have to admit that I got a little emotional as I listened to the lyrics so appropriately describing my buddy's plight (At least in my mind they were talking about my friend). Such a poignant song about the complications of two people who love each other, but have been hurt and don't quite know how to move on.
This one's for you little buddy. Go get your Katie back.
The other day I went and saw The Adjustment Bureau with my roommate and some of our friendgirls. Justin showed me the preview a couple of minutes before we left to see it, so I really wasn't sure about the movie. To make matters worse, I lost my temper on the way over and was a sourpuss the rest of the night...that is, until this song came on during the most action-packed scene of the movie and made me feel worlds better.
I love Adam Freeland's remix of Sarah Vaughan's classic Fever. I didn't realize it was a remix until I looked it up online after the movie. About halfway through listening to it, I was struck by the way she sings one of the lines. It reminded me of another song. It hit me that another version of Fever is in Dan in Real Life (which, also stars Emily Blunt). I hope you enjoy it. I think it is a great song to listen to and to exercise to.
