In which Ten glories in the Carolina Chocolate Drops, repeats a song, and brings back Rihanna. Again.
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The National - Exile, Vilify- Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
I do wonder. And what can I say, this song owned me--and still, really, owns me.
4.
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Snowden's Jig (aka Genuine Negro Jig) - instrumental
This month was when Mari pointed me to the Chocolate Drops, and I quickly found a playlist of them on YouTube to abuse. When this song came up, I was shocked--really just shocked--at how gorgeous it was, despite the simple nature of its instruments: a fiddle, the bones, feet and hands. It is haunting and lovely and at this point I really want to hear it everywhere, though that is unlikely to happen.
3.
Rihanna - Stay - Something in the way you move
My brother and I heard this song a bunch when I was driving across the country--and then, one day, I just woke up with it my head. It wouldn't leave me alone, and despite my desire to, y'know, let go of Rihanna a bit, I couldn't fight that particular feeling. It gets me in a personal sense and a fannish sense, which is that deadly double whammy.
2.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us - And we'll keep marching ho!
This song is infectious, but it's partially that and partially, well,
these awesome French guys. Dancing in Japan, doing an amazing job of it, and the feeling that the song just lends itself to that kind of spontaneous great time.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans-Eatin' beans and makin' love as long as I am able
More Carolina Chocolate Drops! 'Cause Mari spontaneously started singing this song on the mic one night, and lo and behold, it led to a YouTube playlist and this song being stuck in my head for days. Not that I mind; it is fantastic like that.