One year anniversary playlist

According to Blogger its technically the two year anniversary, but I kept my blogger spot warm for a year before my brother and I started posting.

Before you listen, take a watch of this Mcdonalds video.  I think I had a sticker of the crescent moon guy on my window for 10 years.

Anyway, in celebration, here is a mini playlist of some great songs from the past.

Throwback Thursday

This video is so great on so many levels.  Some of those levels are that Risk Astley looks like he's 14 years old and has a 40 year old man's voice.  The shots of him clapping and dancing by the fence are hilarious.  I can just imagine the director explaining the shot.  "Alright, so we are going to drive by and just dance...clap...shimmy....whatever, but look really cool when you do it.  Which shouldn't be too hard with an all denim shirt and pants and sunglasses."  Then the bar tender who is just cleaning things up? and then these guys just decided to start singing in the room? and then the beat is so strong that he has to show his acrobatic talents to them?  I'm sure many of you have already seen this video and heard this song many times, but I don't get tired of it.  Enjoy.

Throwback Thursday

Juliana Hatfield's "Universal Heartbeat" is easily one of my five favorite songs from the 1990's.  Boasting a sturdy melody, a killer guitar-laden chorus, vocals dripping with cool attitude, and awesome keyboard noodlings, this song leaps from the speakers and wrestles you to the ground in a musical half nelson.

Juliana was at the forefront of the wave of assertive female musicians in the 90's who found in expression in, among others, the Riot Grrrl and Lilith Fair movements.  Hatfield was a founding member of the beloved college rock band The Blake Babies and continues to be a prolific musician to this day.  But in her impressive musical career,  "Universal Heartbeat" (at least to my mind) remains her crowning moment of musical glory.

Juliana Hatfield - Universal Heartbeat    

Throwback Thursday ... Snochi Style

I suppose there are worse places one could be stranded than Tampa, Florida. I've been here in the Buccaneers' and Rays' hometown on a business trip since Monday and was scheduled to fly back to DC this morning. However, a light 12-18" dusting of snow in the greater DC region (the storm's now being dubbed Snochi — cute) has all but paralyzed air traffic in the nation's capital, meaning that my original return flight as well as my backup flights all got canceled. I'm now scheduled to get home by tomorrow evening. But even that's in jeopardy now, as another system advancing into the area may drop up to 4 more inches tomorrow night. So with the status of my return less than certain at the moment, I continue to cool my jets in the warm Tampa sun.

And speaking of the warm sun, let's take a quick jaunt back to the summer of 1992 — a time I always associate with sunny optimism and carefree frivolity. To me, no song more immediately conjures up that era than the Soup Dragons' highest-charting single "Divine Thing." So for those who sit in their snowbound houses tonight (or worse, an incapacitated airport), here's a little ditty that will hopefully send a ray or two of sunshine your way. Enjoy!

Soup Dragons — Divine Thing