Ray LaMontagne

oooh. Great font color!

Just discovered this British singer. He's really good. Sings with a lot of emotion and soul. It's great to connect with music. I know there's at least a handful of artists out there waiting for me to discover them so I can blast them in the iPOD and go for walks with the dog. I can turn on music and instantly feel good. I wish I spent more time researching different artists. I hate to admit this, but I mostly listen to whatever I find on the radio. I hate that. I really do. I'm very current on top-40 music - because it's easily accessible on the radio. I do enjoy the 80's and 90's music very much, and even music from my mom's generation. Though, I would probably benefit from getting sirius radio in my car. I spend so much time in my car traveling for work, which may justify purchasing the means to obtain a wider variety of music. I guess I could get some books on tape. Ugh. That sounds so boring.
I spent an entire evening looking up lyrics to TOOL - almost as though it were a homework assignment - to look up and understand their lyrics. I did it with so much intensity, it was almost as if I were preparing to meet the band and wanted to impress them with my knowledge of their music and yet it became a sort of hunger throughout the night that was never really taken care of because it's all about interpretation. Reading other people's interpretation of the music was extremely entertaining and thought-provoking, but it didn't answer my black-and-white question: 'what does this song mean?' The great thing about music, and especially with TOOL, is that interpretation is up to the listener, not unlike art, so even though it left me un-climaxed, I still enjoyed reading about people in the deep throes of their lives, and them connecting with the music. That's the beauty of a lot of music out there. There's some riff-raff out there that's merely there for the catchy beat and because the "singer" is easy on the eyes. I admittedly often find myself bee-bopping along to the crap. Argh.

If you're like me, you often or occasionally listen to a particular song at a particular point in your life, and you may suddenly feel a surge of emotions or nostalgia. It may bring up old feelings about something or someone, or it may be relevant to something going on in your life at present. I love raw emotion. When a song hits you during a moment of raw emotion....it's great. It's intense and real. Ray LaMontagne sings a song called, "Wild Horses." I read that someone connected to the song because it made him think of his horse. I think he's singing about a woman, but hey, whatever you gleen from the music is yours.

Look this dude up on youtube. My LEAST favorite song so far is called, "You are the best thing."

My parting words are: I will admit... I'm a Madonna fan.