Songs That Speak To You

Day 29, Wednesday: Five songs or pieces of music that speak to you or bring back memories.

Guys, we're almost done with this May challenge. I can't believe how close it is to being over, and how close it is to my birthday!

I really liked this prompt. It's fun to share songs that remind of you specific things, or just certain times in your life. I'm a sentimental person, so I love reminiscing of these moments.

1. Girls - Beastie Boys: My best friend and I used to sit in the parking lot of our high school before football games and scream this song at the top of our lungs.


2. Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin: This song will always remind me of college. My college boyfriend and I were obsessed with them. I went to their concert and ended up with bloody hips, but was able to hold that front row position, and it was glorious.


3. To Make You Feel My Love - Adele: This song will always remind me of my mother. I personally love the Adele version, but my mother fell in love with it from the Hope Floats soundtrack with Garth Brooks singing.


4. Starting Now - Ingrid Michaelson: When Hal and I were first dating he learned how to play this song on guitar and played it for me because he knew I really liked it. This whole CD reminds me of the winter that Hal and I started dating.


5. You and I - Michael Buble : This was the song we used as our first dance, and it will always always remind me of our engagement and dance classes, and our wedding day.

Songs for Life: Karla Adolphe - Beautiful Sound

I heard this song for the first time the other day on a terrifically long uncomfortable bus ride from Phnom Penh back to site. I love hearing and song and it just inspires the listener to want to play it at a certain time. I guess that's the whole basis of these Songs for Life. Except, this one is more of a song for death. After I heard it the first time I told Hal I wanted him to play it at my funeral. Of course he just said "who said you die first?" Then he said "do I have to whistle the last part" and I told him "Of Course"

So, just in case..I'm telling all of you, I want this played at my funeral, because really, it's a celebration of life.

Karla Adolphe - Beautiful Sound

Beautiful Sound

Songs for life: Adele - One and Only

You know when you hear a song and instantly it makes you think of a certain time in your life? Or you hear a new song and you wish you had had it at a certain time in your life, or played it at a certain event? I'm going to start chronicling songs I find that that I would love to play at certain events in my life.

This first one came out after my wedding, but if I heard it before my wedding I would have been conflicted between this song and the song I actually played for my first dance. Either way, it would have played. At my wedding. because it's just that awesome, and Adele's just that awesome. Only and Only by Adele

http://youtu.be/g7U96o3f9FI

And please, if you have any songs for your life, share them!