weekend playlist: dido, carly rae jepsen, tennis

this past week has been a gold mine for awesome sounds yet again. these three songs have enjoyed a constant loop throughout.

dido: go dreaming
go dreaming is one of the tracks in dido's fourth studio album, girl who got away. i enjoyed listening to this song a lot. it (as do the other songs from this album) has this beat that makes one want to groove. suffice it to say that the musical style used in this album makes it really different from the songs from no angel. sad to say that girl who got away is the only album of dido's that i haven't gotten my hands on yet. which is why go dreaming goes on to my 2018 playlist and not 2013 as it should have been.



carly rae jepsen: cut to the feeling
this is a song that i only heard on the radio a few times (around three i think) yet it caught my ear each time. unfortunately i haven't been listening that much to mainstream music lately so the title and the singer of this song escaped me for a long time. until i heard this song again this week and i finally told myself i'll listen carefully this time to catch the lyrics (i was in a supermarket and the general noise level made it difficult to do so). i then searched "i wanna cut to the feeling" on google and voila! that sense of fulfillment and satisfaction upon finally learning the title and who sang it was immense.



tennis: origins
the second song from that awesome tv series once upon a time that caught my ears. origins was used at the welcome home party for mary margaret scene. at first i thought it was an oldies song but when i googled it, i found out that origins is a song from this millennium. this is also the first time i am introduced to tennis, a husband-and-wife tandem that has been in the US indie music scene since 2010.




just hit play!

weekend playlist: sam cooke

so i got the nth warning text from the ndrrmc due to the torrential rains brought about by the combo of the southwest monsoon and tropical depression. accuweather reports 26 degrees celsius tonite. photos and videos of flooded areas are shared all over fb all day. endless traffic in several districts. in a nutshell, it's just another regular stormy day in the metro, with everyone trying to cope the best they could.

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the nippy weather is no match for the warm fuzzies that's been raging in my heart lately however, thanks to sam cooke. in truth, the only song of his that i've listened to was you send me many years ago. the song made it into my ever-updating golden oldies playlist as i thought it was the sweetest sound i've ever heard. still do; it invokes lovely images of '50s and '60s soda fountains and diners, jukeboxes, poodle and balloon skirts, and such. i also think it's a good song to slow dance to, so...



twistin' the night away:
it was a fanfic i read recently that, well, brought me to this particular song of sam cooke's since it was mentioned there. i loved how it was written into the story. and because i'm such a sucker for oldies, i just had to search for it, and what do you know, i fell in love with it. so much so that i now sing and play it on my uke. 



(i love you) for sentimental reasons:
now this song i first heard in the movie the parent trap, where linda ronstadt's version was used in the yacht dinner scene. it's another romantic song worthy of a slow dance. then my heart did a million flips when i listened to sam cooke's version of it. sounds very much like you send me, with too many 'i love you's' and 'loving' for comfort. but it was sung oh, so, smoothly, like warm cream over whiskey. was actually lulled to sleep the other night listening to it. with a goofy grin, of all things.



y'all know already what to do with those play buttons on the vids, yeah? enjoy!

gosh all this rain is turning my brain to mush. just sayin'. good night!