Songs of the Week

It's a crazy/beautiful weekend: one of my favorite movies, it also sports a highly emotional soundtrack, full of songs with musical complexity, lyrical intrigue, and variety of all sorts.  From Gray, Torrini and the Warhols, to the Spanish-Rock of Mellow Man Ace -- it's all here.

Artist: David Gray
Title: This Year's Love
Length: 4:05
Credit goes to: "crazy/beautiful"

This song is used at one of the key moments of the film: when they're indicating quite a while has gone by in Nicole and Carlos' relationship, chronicling some of the time spent together.  It's sweet and soft, warm and cozy.  And call me soft, but someday, I want a romance where this song could be used, quite appropriately, on its soundtrack. 

Artist: Emilianna Torrini
Title: Who am I?
Length: 3:22
Credit goes to: "crazy/beautiful"

until I had no hope -- Should it hurt to be free, it's what I need to pull myself together. 

Angelic quality to this song; vocal qualities reminiscent to Bjork, except not at all.  Beautiful song, and if I might say so, I think quite good on its own.  But of course, it's always from "Crazy/Beautiful", and hence, I love it.

Artist: Dandy Warhols
Title: Sleep
Length: 5:57
Credit goes to: "crazy/beautiful"

The extended play of your most vivid dream.  Twinkling instrumentals -- guitar, keyboard, and violin.  The song flies by, yet it is truly a six-minute guitar diary.  Few lyrics.  "Well I could sleep forever, but it's of her I dream.  If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything."   That is about it, lyrically - this song takes its form from its layered Warhol-ish guitar and synth sounds.  I strongly suggest you find it -- not the shorter version, either.  This one. 

Artist: Mellow Man Ace
Title: Ten La Fe
Length: 4:01
Credit goes to: "crazy/beautiful"

I hear this song and I instantly think of the movie - early mornings rising, driving to school on a smelly bus, the heat of the day already pounding down from the pale-lit sky.  If there is more of a parallel to this summer, I need to hear about it.  I've never really listened to Spanish Rock before, save what Carolyn has played for me.  I could see myself getting into it, pretending I was cool.  But not in that trendy, world-music sort of way; to me, it's not world music if it has the word "rock" tagged onto it.  Therefore, if it's [insert random country here]-rock, it's still Rock 'n Roll.  Call me Bob Seger or Billy Joel, but c'est la f'n vie.

Hey, missed any songs you wanted from before?  Well never fear, this page here has all the links to the previous songs you always wanted.