Some of the songs that were part of the impetus for this blog

Bright Eyes - "First Day of My Life" (I'm Wide Awake It's Morning) - Oftentimes my favorite songs become my favorite songs because of a line in the song that just kills me; this song is filled with those killer lines: "Yours is the first face that I saw/think i was blind before I met you" "remember the time you drove all night/just to meet me in the morning" that reminds me of that scene in Elizabethtown, which by the way is an excellent often underrated movie. If you liked Garden State (which I did) i don't see how you could dislike Elizabethtown. Same thematic elements: boy is sad, boy goes home for parental death, boy meets girl, girl puts life into perspective....and isn't that what we all want out of life? Last awesome line in the song: "but i'd rather be working for a paycheck/than waiting to win the lottery"

Bright Eyes - "Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)" (I'm Wide Awake It's Morning) - off the same album....awesome imagery about a protest....i love the "and all the way home held your camera like a bible/just wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth"

Sufjan Stevens - "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" (Greetings from Michigan) - i can't get totally behind sufjan....lots of his stuff is kinda boring to me even though i much prefer slow, mopey music....that being said..this song rules....love the banjo.....i read/heard one time that its way harder to play banjo slower than fast.....don't know if its true, but its sad and awesome.......does anybody know who the girl singer is? "i'll do anything for you/i did everything for you"

Ray LaMontagne - This is the guy i've been listening to the most recently.....saw him at ACL.....he was fantastic...... first 3 songs on (Trouble) will hook you: "Trouble" "Shelter" "Hold you in my arms" also check out (Till the Sun Turns Black) his new album that came out late last year......."Empty" is teh best track on there....."Lesson Learned" and "Till the sun turns black" are also incredible

so much more, but i'll quit for now........ps.....i don't think you should feel obligated to write lots of stuff about each song you pick......