Music Monday is full of luuuurve this week

I was going to celebrate the 80's this week, which probably tells you how much attention I pay to Valentine's Day, but I remembered this morning that it's tomorrow, so here we are.  The following is one of my "Swoons" playlists, which take turns going on repeat when I need characters to look all starry-eyed at each other  Some of these may be a little on the morbid side, but this is, you know, me.

• The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned):  Random fact: there are 572 songs in my iTunes library with "love" in the title, and this one may be the swooniest.  If "With this long last rush of air/let's speak our vows in starry whisper/and when the waves came crashing down/he closed his eyes and softly kissed her" isn't the prettiest love-lyric ever written, it's close.  
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory
• Nick Drake - Northern Sky
• Ryan Adams - Desire
• Feist - Secret Heart
• The Civil Wars - Dance Me to the End of Love (Leonard Cohen cover)
• The Swell Season - In These Arms
• Army of Me - Love Song
• Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
• Okkervil River - Mermaid:  Another contender for swooniest lyric.  "My hands meet, and they press to a point in the air/but my mouth fills with more panic than prayer/and my skull fills with more color than care/and my heart fills with love, with too much love to bear."
• The National - Slow Show
• Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
• The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
• The Cure - Lovesong
• Suede - By the Sea

What song makes you swoon?

Music Mondays #3

Back again!  This will be a regular thing now, since I don't plan on having surgery again anytime soon.

The previous ones have been of the indie rock persuasion, mostly, so something a little different--and heavier!--today.  I love this stuff, probably for the reason detailed in Saturday's post.  If weird electro-industrial/EBM/Darkwave aren't your thing (read: if you have no idea what at least two of those things mean) please feel free to back slowly away from the crazy writer-lady.

Spark - Assemblage 23
Künstliche Welten - Wolfsheim
Light - KMFDM
Kiss - London After Midnight
Call the Ships to Port - Covenant
Panzermensch - And One
Standing - VNV Nation
Poltergeist - Hocico
Mindphaser - Front Line Assembly
Sin - Nine Inch Nails

Music Monday #2

For reasons that probably only make sense in my head*, this one is listed on my iPod under "Foxfire."  For me, it's got that humid, swampy, night-filled-with-fireflies-and-other-glowy-things feel to it.

*Long story short, I considered using it as a book title, just because it's an awesome word.

• You Are the Everything - R. E. M.
• Look Out, Look Out - Perfume Genius
• Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground
• Putting the Dog to Sleep - The Antlers
• The High Road - Broken Bells
• St. Peter's Cathedral - Death Cab for Cutie
• Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks - The National
• Hey You - Pink Floyd
• Ask for Answers - Placebo
• This Place is a Prison - The Postal Service
• No Surprises - Radiohead
• Let's Get Lost - Beck/Bat for Lashes

Something new - Music Mondays

I don't blog enough, this much I know.  In my defense, I'm usually buried in writing fiction, but I should still use this little web-corner more than I do.  (I have also just put up some links of other places to find me, just over there --->.)  But I'm going to start a regular Music Monday post, in addition to whatever random posts pop up in my addled brain.

The "official" playlist for First Novel (otherwise known as Weird Novel) will remain in my pocket for now, as will the playlists I've got for some of the major characters, but my iPod is laden with others that help me get into - and stay in - specific moods for writing.  Most of these *should* be on YouTube, blip, or otherwise available for free web listening.  If you love something, go forth to your retailer of choice.

Just because I'm listening to it as I type this, the first Music Monday is my "Mellow" list.  (Actually one of many that could be described that way.)  Used for getting into that slightly-emo-but-peaceful headspace.  I wouldn't write comedy to it, but you might. :)

Title/Artist:

• Cold, Kind and Lemon Eyes - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
• Falling - Wiretree
• Before the Great War - Vandaveer
• Dandelion Days - Adam McHeffey
• Poison Oak - Bright Eyes
• Cinder & Smoke - Iron and Wine
• Temazcal - Monsters of Folk
• Somebody Loved - The Weepies
• Heart of Love - Army of Me
• Let's Dance - M. Ward (Yes, this is a David Bowie cover.  I was skeptical too.)
• The State I Am In - Belle & Sebastian
• Holocene - Bon Iver
• A Bird is a Song - Chris Walla
• Johnnie - Swear and Shake
• Love Love Love - The Mountain Goats
• Poke - Frightened Rabbit
• After the Storm - Mumford & Sons

Any and all music recs left in the comments will be appreciated.  I feel about new music the way Cookie Monster feels about cookies.

...and now I want a cookie.