Joni Mitchell’s “River” is NOT A HAPPY CHRISTMAS CAROL. It does not bring me holiday cheer that compels me to merrily buy your products. Have you ever even listened to that song? It’s an achingly sad song about lost love that fills me with melancholy and regret every time you play it.
Well, okay I guess that makes it the perfect holiday song, actually. Nevermind, carry on!
Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the Earth (Gotye - Cover)awesome awesome awesome! watch the whole thing or you have no soul!
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The Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees
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I Want You (She’s So Heavy) \ The Beatles
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Double Cello Concerto in G minor, RV531 (Mvt 1)
Vivaldi
Maurizio Naddeo
Antonio Fantinuoli
Fabio Biondi
Europa Galante
A fantastic thing to wake up to.
Urgent message for every department store and coffee shop in America:
BRB LEARNING THIS
dammit
i can only play the trumpet
dammit
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as you were, as I want you to be…
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Alex Day - Forever Yours
Don’t ask me how many times I’ve listened to this song.
Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup
Stuck in my head ALL DAY.
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“Winter Song” by Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles
All my hearts for this song. ALL OF THEM.
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Frédéric Chopin was a Polish virtuoso, teacher and composer during the Romantic period. He was never able to marry the woman he fell in love with, Marie, and wrote many songs for her. When he lived in Paris, he carried on a relationship with the french woman George Sand. His friend, Franz Liszt, called him (correctly) a genius. Chopin is best known for his piano works; his music is technically demanding and yet focuses on depth and expression as well. Later in life, when he was dying of TB, he wasn’t looking so good, but in his younger days? Oh baby. And have you heard his nocturnes? Swoon.
I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick Of Time - Bon Iver
So it almost goes without saying that this cover is stunning, but I pose a question, no, a thought. Bon Iver is essentially covering one entire song by Bonnie Raitt, and this song happens to be one of the most heart breaking songs that I’ve ever heard. I Can’t Make You Love Me tears me up inside, but just when my heart begins to completely fall apart he comes in with a single line from Nick of Time (another Bonnie Raitt cover.) The lyric in question is “I found love in the nick of time.” This lyric, although seemingly going unnoticed in the utterly pain filled cover, gives the song a totally different meaning. In my opinion, the reason for this final line is to show that through the hardest and toughest times in life; whether it be heart break or the feeling of failure in any aspect of your life, you will always find love. And that love will be just in the nick of time to save you.
This is wonderful.
