The Weepies - Be My Thrill

The Weepies - Be My Thrill

What a nice album. I won't say this is the greatest album of all time. I will say it is a nice little group of songs that should fit nicely into your collection.

The first track, Please Speak Well of Me, is a quaint song that recaptures the feeling of the final moments of two good friends who only rarely see each other. It's like those college friends who you always forget to call but randomly end up in your current town and you enjoy a meal with. You hope that when life goes back to normal, the memories are good.

I like the Weepies approach to songwriting...the heavier the topic, the happier the music needs to be. It keeps the listener off balance.

The album ends with "Empty your hands of overheard conversations. Empty your hands, static from the big bang dinosaur radio stations. Empty your hands genocides in foreign nations, Empty your hands and look up." This sums it up to me. It's a lot like most of our lives overall; we bounce around through troubles and challenges, it's nice to remember that we always have that sweet melody line of life running through our veins...we just need to take the time to stop and pay attention to it.
Give this album a listen and I bet you'll come away smiling.

Sunset Songs

Do you ever hear a song and as it gets to the last verse, you start wishing it would start over? I've got a lot of those. I created a playlist of these songs on my iPod. I call it "Sunset Songs" because they are like sunsets...so beautiful you always wish they'd last a little bit longer. So without further adieu, here is my current top 20 list (feel free to leave a comment of your own favorite "sunset songs"):


Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
Both Hands - Ani Difranco
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
Nightswimming - REM
Grace Cathedral Park - Red House Painters
La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
Fields of Gold - Sting
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Southern Accents - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
One - U2
Lines Upon Your Face - Vertical Horizon
One Voice - The Waillin' Jenny's
These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
Love Like Laughter - Beth Orton
Halfway Home - Billy Pilgrim
Waiting For My Real Life To Begin - Colin Hay
Hard Times - Eastmountainsouth (Stephen Foster Song)
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
Over The Moon - The Innocence Mission
Down In The Valley - The Head and the Heart