Comments on: “Celebrate Good Times, Come On!”

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:59:58 +0000

Alright, I’m going to be obnoxious and correct Chris; but I feel as though this distinction is important. Amy and Julio danced to “Help Yourself”, a much better selection than “It’s Not Unusual”. As a Tom Jones fan, I love them all, but “Help Yourself” is one of the best.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:44:30 +0000

Interesting list. I notice there’s a fair amount of crossover between this list, your iPod top 10 list from LJ, and the CD you sent me not too long ago. I love that Bright As Yellow song, but I’m not sure I see it as a spotlight dance. I like the R&B route.

Two songs I think are really kick ass, which I doubt Amanda would ever agree to for a spotlight dance are “Modern Nature” by Sondre Lerch and Lillian Samdal (it was the final credits song in the movie Dan In Real Life, where they’re playing the first dance at their wedding… just a great fun song, and it helps that I loved that movie… look it up if you’ve never heard it) and “It’s Not Unusual” by Tom Jones, which some friends of ours played for their first dance (the wedding we went to in Destin, FL).

I love that version of “Such Great Heights”. I guess that could be a spotlight slow dance song. I don’t know. You’ve got a lot of intersting choices in there.

By the way, anytime the topic of wedding music comes up, it always reminds me of one of Amanda and my favorite ongoing conversations, which is to name the most inappropriate reception music for things like the first dance, the father/daughter dance, the mother/son dance, the dollar dance (if you’ve ever seen that one), or any of the other staged dances. Try it sometime. It’s fun.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:35:30 +0000

It’s on the ground, leaning against the wall, to the right of your door.

By: girldogtorch

girldogtorch — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:06:13 +0000

Matt here — that sounds awesome. It would be great if you could get us a copy to hear. I have always heard good things about the Zombies, but I am not really familiar with them.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:04:21 +0000

I think the OK, Go song is a cover of a Zombies song. Do you know the Zombies? Totally fantastic 60’s songwriting, cream of the British crop. Seriously. Odessey [sic] & Oracle is the name of the album, and it’s just, God, it’s just beautiful. If you want, I could burn it for you and leave it outside your door.

The Zombies version of that song is one of my songs with Aaron. I think it is sooo beautiful.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:24:23 +0000

Oh, I do love the Postal Service version of that song, “Such Great Heights.” I remember listening to it while painting Aisla’s nursery.

By: girldogtorch

girldogtorch — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:59:38 +0000

I certainly do not remember it from childhood. It definitely wasn’t a tape that got brought out for car trips.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:46:49 +0000

I am not sure how you could have made it into your 20’s without having heard “Nashville Skyline.” Maybe you didn’t consciously remember, but “Lay Lady Lay” was one of our songs, and I am sue that Nashville Skyline spent quite a bit of time on the stereo. I know that we didn’t bring our records with us when we left Ohio, but I am pretty sure that would have been one of the albums that I made a tape of. There were five or six albums that we listened to constantly when we were dating, that was one, Simon and Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” and “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme”, Buddy Rich “Norweigen Wood,” and Dave Bruebeck “Time Out.” Or at least I think those are the titles of the albums. It isn’t like now when you can put five cd’s on the player and shuffle them or listen to them all. I think it was one record at a time or at the most three. There are things you just have to do in your lives in order to be able to move on and not moving our pounds of records was one of them. We never looked back, because it would have made us entirely too sad. But in my memory I can still sit in that basement on Dawson Drive (in the dark) and hear that music playing.