3 posts in a week, you're probably thinking. I'm starting to have a little too much fun on the computer I guess...but I got my floor mopped (okay, Brad did this actually), house cleaned, I babysat for a friend / visited with my friend too, cooked dinner, completed an entire batch of incolumns, and bathed kids today - so I'm not going to apologize for having a little fun.
Music is one of my most favorite things in the world. I think i-tunes has to be one of my very most favorite inventions ever. I love that I don’t have to purchase an entire album anymore, and that I get to just pick and choose which songs I want. Living in a small town the last 5 years, I only get 2 radio stations, and I’m pretty much on my own to search for songs I like. I was listening to my i-tunes playlist and was thinking of so many good things while I listened to favorite songs of mine. Anyway, that’s where this idea to write down some of my favorite songs came from. I realized something while doing this, which I already knew about myself…I am a sucker for a good slow song. I don’t know why I love them so much, but I do. I have lots of up tempo music on my i-tunes list, but for some reason I get tired of them easier. I just can listen, and listen, and listen to some of these. Anyway, enjoy the list!
Okay, the most played song on my i-tunes list is embarrassingly enough, Last Kiss by Taylor Swift. I am seriously obsessed with this song, and I’ve probably listened to it at least twice a day since I bought her Speak Now cd (for $3.99 on amazon ☺). I love it!
Please Remember Me – Tim McGraw (loved it since high school)
My little Girl – Tim McGraw (makes me not want my girls to grow up – ever!)
I will not take these things for granted – Toad The Wet Sproaket (loved it since high school)
Some Things Never Change – Tim McGraw (just love it, & have since high school)
Hoy Me Voy – Colbie Caillat (this song makes me want to start singing in Spanish for some reason…)
Stole My Heart – Little & Ashley (this always makes me think of a Target commercial – it was probably on one. I love that I got it free on amazon!)
America – Neil Diamond (always makes me think of my dad, and how we’d dance to this song together as it played on our record player)
Far Away – Nickelback (there is a youtube video that someone made with this song that I love – it’s this song with Pride and Prejudice video footage…gotta love Darcy coming out of the fog!)
Little Known Fact About Me – I like celtic music. I have about 4 celtic woman songs, and I’d have more except I can’t choose which ones to get. Once I watched an episode of So You Think You Can Dance and they danced to a celtic woman song. The judge said it was great except for the slow, boring song. I loved the dance too, but I thought the song was great! I’ve watched the pbs Celtic Woman special twice. Yep. True. I did fall asleep to it the first time though, I’ll admit. It’s relaxing – be warned.
Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission – Ennio Morricone (I watched this movie in college, and I LOVED this song from its soundtrack)
Heartbeat – Enrique Iglesias (This is Megan & Paige’s favorite song. They dance like crazy to it, & that’s why it makes the list – it makes me happy to see them dancing!)
Over The Rainbow – Eva Cassidy (when I was student teaching the teacher whose classroom I helped in had Eva Cassidy’s cd. She would turn the volume up on this particular song so that it was seriously audible throughout the whole hall at school)
Flightless Bird, American Mouth – Iron & Wine (Love song in the movie Twilight when Bella & Edward are dancing in the gazebo. Love it!)
Songs by Mindy Gledhill – (I just discovered this artist. Her songs are sold at Deseret Book, so they’re totally clean. Her voice is so unique, & her songs are so fun and catchy. I ended up buying Crazy Love, Hourglass, All About Your Heart, Anchor, and All The Pennies, and kept thinking to myself, “Maybe I should just buy her album?” Hourglass is another one of those songs that tug at a mom’s heart – about not wanting your child to grow up. It’s so true, I hate it!!!)
On Fire – Switchfoot (My sweet sister gave this cd to me as a late b-day gift, and I happened to listen to it on the way to my grandpa’s viewing after he passed away. This song always reminds me of my Grandpa Memmott for that reason. I love this song.)
Other Switchfoot songs I love: Dare You To Move and Twenty-Four (Dare you to move is from the A Walk To Remember soundtrack. That was the first cd that I wanted so badly, that was out of stock everywhere, and that I special ordered when I lived in Logan -before i-tunes ☺. I still love all the songs on that cd)
I Don’t Think I Will – James Bonamy (this was on my wedding video!)
I’ve Gotta Find You – Lonestar (also a song from my wedding video)
Come What May – From The Moulin Rouge Soundtrack (I love a lot of songs from this soundtrack. It makes me think of singing in the backseat with my sisters while on vacation in Southern Utah, and of watching the movie in my sister’s basement apartment with the popcorn & glitter ceiling. It was the first movie I ever watched in wide screen, & I remember being totally bothered by the black lines on the top & bottom of the tv! Dumb movie – great soundtrack!)
Falling Slowly – (I have 2 versions. One by Glen Hansard & Marketa, and one by Lee Dewyze & Crystal Bowersox. I love this song, and I never get sick of it.)
Gethsemane & Loaves & Fishes– Roger & Melanie Hoffman (I had to get this for my kids. This album is so wonderful! The loaves & fishes song will get stuck in your head, but my kids know how many loaves & fish – 1,2,3,4,5 loaves and 2 little fishes!)
Songs I just love:
Two Is Better Than One – Boys Like Girls
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
Goodbye’s The Saddest Word – Celine Dion
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Celine Dion
What Can I Say (Featuring Sons of Sylvia) – Carrie Underwood
Almost any Colbie Caillat song
Little House – Amanda Seyfried (Dear John Soundtrack)
Broken – Lifehouse
Can’t Breathe – Leone Lewis
Beautiful Like You – Lee Dewyze
Terrified – Katherine McPhee
Broken Strings – James Morrison & Nelly Furtado
Singing in the Rain / Umbrella – Glee Cast
Falling Stars – David Archuleta
Other Side of Down – David Archuleta
Vultures – John Mayer (always makes me want to dance)
Stop This Train – John Mayer (makes you not want to age)
Perfectly – Hayley Anderson (love the whole LDS album)
Say – John Mayer (even though he repeats “say” over and over, I don’t get sick of this song)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Lady Antebellum
Feel – Marie Digby
One – Mary J. Blige & U2
Heart On My Sleeve – Michael Johns (remember him from American Idol?)
The House That Built Me – Miranda Lambert
You Could Be Happy – Snow Patrol
The Best Day – Taylor Swift
Love Story – Taylor Swift
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