Don't Stop the Music

A quick blurb of songs that I'm completely fixated on at the moment:

Lil Wayne - Lollipop
When I first heard this, his first solo single in forever, I seriously was far from impressed. It barely even sounded like him! But then, after hearing it just once more, I became more addicted than Tyrone Biggums. Every time it comes on the radio, I start squealing. I love him. I really think he's amazingly talented. Sure, he's hideous, but who needs good looks when you've got a showstopping voice? (Marc Anthony's comparably fugly, and he impregnated JLo!) I'm going to be so sad next week when this song gets killed by radio overplay. Listen to this unique, irresistible jam on my "Feeling Frisky?" playlist on the right, or check out the music video on Youtube.

M83 - Kim & Jessie
I love this song! Besides my name being in the title, I also really think it's gorgeously fun, and quite different from their other moodily beautiful pieces. It has this 80's vibe, but the lush singing and lyrics add this magical quality to it. The CD just came out, and someone on Youtube made a video for it with scenes from Donnie Darko, so I'm going to provide it here.


Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses
GOD. My favorite band ever, and Mark's back, baby. The last album was all covers of Modest Mouse songs (my favorite is the first one on my "Feeling Wistful" playlist, Neverending Math Equation), and while it was lovely, nothing compares to original Mark Kozelek lyrics:
'I see you well and clear
Deep in the moonlight, dear
Your radiant august eyes
They are the suns that rise
They are the light that guides
They are these lost verses'
This song, the opening track of their new CD, is absolutely stunning. This is classic Kozelek: haunting, hapless, and heartbreaking. I could only find it on their Myspace (it's the first song), since they never do music videos. But you have to be in the right mood to listen, and the right time. I'd say around midnight, surrounded by fog, while forlornly clutching a distant memory.

Homeboy

Towards the end of my teenage years, I became deeply infatuated with a boy only a couple of years older. The sordid 'relationship' proved to be both dysfunctional and destructive. At the time, I thought of him as an old soul: radiant and reflective, mysterious and melancholy. Of course, now I look back and think, "The fuck?! The guy was twenty-one." No, really, how profound could he have been? He was probably still popping his pimples while having a farting contest during a wicked game of Mario Kart with the boys.

Anyway, I wrote enough about him to fill a novel in my other blog, so I'm going to move forward to the main subject of this post: Adorable. Adorable was a British indie/pop band in the 90's, part of the Shoegazing genre. Adorable also penned a song--"Homeboy"--that I considered to be the prevailing melody of the 1.5 years with my obsession with this kid. Sure, The Cure played a huge part, along with Tom Petty, Sun Kil Moon and Death Cab for Cutie...but Adorable sang the anthem. And thanks to Youtube and Myspace Music, I have been on an Adorable revival binge for the past two nights. I found the music video for the song, which I never knew existed, and I want to share it with you.



Ok, seriously though. These lyrics! They were like scripture to a dramatic, depressed, 19-year-old female yearning for love from a drugged up, emotionally unavailable fucktard, lol.

I want to drown beneath the waves
I want to dig myself a shallow grave
And hold you up for all to see
I want to cut you up
I want to watch you bleed
Ever so slowly...

You're so beautiful
You're so beautiful

It's been five years since that whole ordeal, and the song is still just as good as it was when I completely related to it. You'd think I'd be a lot wiser now about matters of the heart, wouldn't you? Here's to never again being so foolish about those fleeting and fickle feelings.

Please?