1) Jack White - 'Love Is Blindness'
I have to admit two things now: one, that this song isn't available on iTunes, and is instead on my YouTube history over and over again, and second of all that I didn't know this song before The Great Gatsby trailer (which is incredible, and I'm so excited about the movie - and if, by chance, you haven;t seen the trailer which is flying round YouTube at the moment, you can see it here (and just if you were wondering, the first song on the trailer is 'No Church In The Wild' by Jay Z and Kanye West)).
Jack White has such an incredible voice, and this cover of U2's 'Love is Blindness' is so amazing! Check out the video from YouTube below:
This is one of the songs on 'Watch the Throne' that has had very little fame and is rarely played on the radio, but I believe it's one of the best songs on the album, mainly because of it's lyrics. I agree that most of Jay Z and Kanye West's lyrics have some meaning, but this song in particular has very meaningful lyrics (for exampl (off the top of my head) "314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago). It not only features the incredible voice of Frank Ocean, but also highlights the racism that is still apparent all ove the world (but especially in Chicago). Well worth a listen, and as I'm going to see them live in a few weeks (I'm absolutely chuffed) I thought I'd share the live video from their tour in Montreal:
As you may already have guessed, I have pretty varied music tastes, but I do love indie style music. This song is cute: and it's just perfect for lying out on a sunny day with a cold drink and listening to. There are going to be a lot of songs like that, but then again isn't that what summer's all about?
Again, you may be thinking right now that I'm just plucking songs out of a random bag of genres, but this is genuinely one of my favourite songs at the moment (and my music tastes really do span this many genres!). You may remember Dragonette for doing the vocals on Martin Solveig's song 'Hello' from last summer, and that was one of summer's anthems. This song (like 'Hello') motivates me to tan: it sounds stupid, but try lying outside in the deadly silence for three or four hours. You'll soon wish you had a song to keep you company and this is the one!
5) Grouplove - 'Tongue Tied'
After featured on the recent iPod Touch advert, everyone secretly knows this song without really knowing it, you know what I mean? Probably not, but if you've ever seen that advert, when you hear the line 'take me to your best friend's house', you will immediately be ahhing, as you realise that you did know it all along! its again a really cute, lazy and laid back song that's perfect for relaxing and rewinding to!
So there concludes the list for this week. Hopefully you've learnt two things: I really do like all music. When people ask what music I like and I reply with "a bit of everything" I'm not just saying that in case we don't like the same music - I really do listen to everything! And second of all, I'm really bad at explaining emotions - especially when it comes to subconciously knowing a song.
