Feel free to turn this up and just dance. Bruno Mars has such great soul. I just heard this song for the first time while I was in the shower and I actually danced right there in the shower. I couldn't help myself.
I know that you're thinking I've lost my mind, and wondering what is UP with all the poppy music, but COME ON. I dare you to not shake your whatever you desire when you hear this song.
I love this song, there is no denying it ever. I will always love it. Even with Pitbull, but the version without Pitbull is better.
Back in 1988 I went to a Metallica concert just because The Cult was the opening act. It was fun to tell all the metal heads in my school that I was going to be at the Metallica concert and see the looks on their faces that this preppy/waver chick was going to see Metallica. None of them were clever enough to clue in that I was only there for the opening act.
(Full disclosure - I left that concert with an enormous appreciation for Metallica)
So this song is one of my "theme" songs. I am a bit of a pyromaniac, I'm a Sagittarius (fire sign), and have a fiery personality. I always thought I should have been a redhead because of it.
Sorry for the bubblegum nature of this song but it's spring and everyone needs to feel happy every once and awhile.
Deep inside of me there is a bee bopping boy loving teenage girl that prevents me from having disdain for this type of music. The same girl that was obsessed with the likes of Duran Duran and Bros.
I'd call it a guilty pleasure if I was ashamed of it, but I'm not.
Admit it, you found it catchy and now you're humming along.
Another time machine song. I am instantly transported to Grade Nine and my high school dance at The Zone. I loved that place. I loved this song and had it totally memorized.
Imagine my surprise to find out that this was a cover of a Temptations song. That version's good too.
I included the video with the lyrics for this one so that you could know all the lyrics.
This is such a time machine song for me. It takes me back to when I was too young and also too poor to have a car, so riding public transportation was the only way to get around. I would take the bus to Vancouver to meet my friends, some of them boys, some of them not, but kissing on the bus was always the best.
Sometimes I just cringe so hard at the things I did in public when I was young and foolish.
It's a Platinum Blonde song that I loved in the eighties, sung by Robert Smith of the Cure, and has this excellent electronica groove. I love the sound of this song. So haunting, so danceable - it speaks to both sides of my personality.
Flashdance came out when I was still dreaming of becoming a professional dancer. Coming from a very working class background and knowing that I was going to have to be one of these people who make their own dreams come true - no one was going to help me, no fairy godmother, this movie really spoke to me.
Plus, Irene Cara. What pipes!! Feel free to sing this song out loud. Really loud.
I love The Art of Noise, but my sister loves them more. This was one of those bands that I introduced to someone else and they ended up loving them even more than I.
This is the first Art of Noise song that I heard and it blew my mind. If you're hearing this for the first time, you're welcome. If you're hearing this as a blast from the past, you're welcome.
Alright, I know I post a lot of older videos, but this one's from DEEP in the archives.
David Cassidy and Davy Jones were easily my first crushes. All my friends were crushing on Shaun, but it was all David for me. That hair, the pucca shells....
Ahh, my people. I always loved Big Country, one reason being that they're Scottish and so am I. Sadly, I have never seen the Old Country - the home of my ancestors, but being from Canada, I am from a "big country".
This song is so great for so many reasons, but the bagpipes is what does it the most for me.
I feel like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are one of those hidden gems that once you've found them, you just can't forget about them. I love, love, love, lurve Nick Cave. Just listen to that voice!! It's so unique and so soulful.
Yes, this is the song that Harry and Hermione dance to in the tent after Ron leaves in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I. This song really spoke to me then, and then my niece posted it on Facebook therefore cluing me in to the fact that it was Nick Cave, and I was all 'no wonder it spoke to me so deeply'.
Since I discovered the song thanks to Harry Potter, I thought I would post a Harry Potter video. Hope you like it.
This song by Ellie Goulding is in Catching Fire so I thought I would include this video version.
It makes my skin all goose bumpy and shivery.
If you've seen the movie, or are familiar with The Hunger Games at all, watch the video. I love Ellie Goulding so much, I loved Catching Fire this is a brilliant marriage.
I feel like it's inappropriate how much I am enthralled by Lorde considering the difference in our ages.
I love her words. She is such a lovely poet. The words of this song are so great, but I also love the chanting at the beginning. It's so different from anything else I've ever heard. No wonder she's getting played all over the world right now.
I'm kinda over being told to throw my hands up in the air. So there.
Here's one from the archives. O my gosh how I loved to dance to this one. I was having a particularly difficult day and the radio gods blessed me with this.
It made my day, so I thought I would make yours.
Sorry that there's no real video. Have fun wasting the rest of your day on YouTube looking at these dudes. Sigue Sigue Sputnik are so awesome.
