lululuvsol | Music Share Week!

Okay, here's the deal. I am hitting the "Update Journal" button before midnight so it's still Sunday. Why? Because I have an idea.

I have been wanting to share music here more often but had lacked the motivation or ideas...but I won't be participating at the other music blog this week so it leaves more time to do something with music here. What I've decided to do is to go back to SMM and look at the themes they used before I started to read it regularly. That adds up to 11 different themes, of which 7 of them I wish I had been around for as they sound fun. So instead, I shall make lists one a day, all this week, to share my contributions to those themes. To make it work, I have to start on Sunday, so I begin now.

Theme 1: Days of the Week
(Sendspace files)
Seven days, 7 songs.

Leah Andreone - "Come Sunday Morning"
Leah Andreone's debut album came out in the late 90s at the female rock boom (oh, the memories) and this is one of the first albums that got me into it. Her voice can be a bit annoyingly nasal at times, but the songs are stellar. This one is supposedly a tale of child molestation, pretty depressing considering the song rocks.

Tegan and Sara - "Monday Monday Monday"
Of course, many of you reading this already know and love Tegan and Sara, but all the same, as far as Monday songs go, this one was a no brainer to pick. I could have gone with the classic Mamas and the Papas or even Manic Monday, but really, this is the one that I enjoy the most and feels the most "me".

Frida Hyvonen - "Today, Tuesday"
Okay, I openly admit this is the only Tuesday song that is on my computer and therefore it was my first and only choice. But still...it's a nice song, and Frida is Swedish and therefore cool. I am such a Swedeophile lately. She's a singer-songwriter that's generally a bit more obtuse and artistic than many straight-up folk rock singer-songwriters I usually go for. But plenty of mellow piano goodness.

Tori Amos - "Wednesday"
It's Tori's Beatlesque song from her outstanding 2002 album "Scarlet's Walk". This song is just so fun, it's not really typical Tori by any means (though I am not sure what that'd entail anyway), but it is typical awesome.

HoneyHoney - "Thursday Night"
Honeyhoney is a California-based folk-rock-country duo that had a song on a Paste Magazine sampler sometime this year and I liked enough to buy a few of their songs from iTunes. This song is both sweet and funny because the sentiment is that she wants to get laid. Gotta love it.

The Cure - "Friday, I'm In Love"
The quintessential day of the week song? Perhaps. It might even be cliche to include it, but it's still a song I really enjoy and makes me nostaligic for the 80s. Any song that can bring a smile to my face definitely deserves to be included.

Rachel Ries - "Sad Saturday"
Most Saturday songs are all about Saturday night and the fun and the parties and yadda yadda, it's nice to get another perspective on the day. Rachel Ries is a singer-songwriter and I've enjoyed everything I've heard by her (only a few songs) but unfortunately I don't know all that much about. But you can expect mellow acoustic folk/americana.