Because I loved the Monkees

I can't help it. I know it's insane. I don't understand myself and think I may need some kind of medication. But I luuuuuurve this Jonas Brothers song, "I Fell in Love with the Pizza Girl." It reminds me of the Monkees and their cute, goofy sweetness.




And here are The Monkees with "Last Train to Clarksville" and I think I was all of four years old when I saw them singing it on their Saturday morning television show. This song debuted in 1966 when I was three, so that sounds about right. By four, I was already a steadfast fangirl, playing for Team Mickey. I LOVED him, but the truly funny thing is, I can TOTALLY remember wistfully wishing that he was my big brother.

I had no recognition of this tune as a VietNam-era protest song, which it apparently was. I don't think the Jonas Brothers' song about the pizza girl is protesting much of anything, except maybe having giant ripe olives rained down on them from above. Or maybe how fake the shredded cheese looks.

Beautiful song

These are the lyrics to a Peter Gabriel song that was used on the Shall We Dance? soundtrack, my newest, much-loved Jennifer Lopez movie.

Like many Peter Gabriel songs, the lyrics are romantic and quirky and even a little bit funny. But if you could hear these sweet words coupled with the dreamy waltz tempo, you'd know why I listened to it once and blotted my tears with a tissue, and listened to it again and ended up drying my face on a tea towel. I thought he'd done all he could do when he wrote: In your eyes/the light, the heat/In your eyes/ I am complete/In your eyes/I see the doorways to a thousand churches, but it turns out that was only his penultimate love song.

This song makes me think of my husband, who wanted to give me a wedding ring.


The Book of Love

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the whole damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
and instructions for dancing

But I --
I love it when you read to me

And you --
You can read me anything

The book of love has music in it
In fact, that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb

But I --
I love it when you sing to me

And you --
You can sing me anything

The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know

But I --
I love it when you give me things

And you --
You ought to give me wedding rings

And I --
I love it when you give me things

And you --
You ought to give me wedding rings

And I --
I love it when you give me things

And you --
You want to give me wedding rings

You want to give me wedding rings

MP3 music list

Hi, honey! Since you are the official Downloader of Music, I thought it might be easier for you if I put my music list for my BRAND NEW FANCY MP3 PLAYER here on my blog. Because right now it is scribbled and scrawled on that ratty-looking envelope that the electric bill came in about three months ago and since there's a water stain blurring the ink because I've put a glass of iced tea or a Diet Coke on it every day for three months, it's getting kind of hard to read.

It starts, as all lists of good music should, with Joe Walsh and a moment of silence.

1. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
2. Shambala - Three Dog Night
3. Me & Julio - Paul Simon
4. Change the World - Eric Clapton
5. Been a While - Staind
6. It's Not Over - Chris Daughtrey
7. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood (I'm afraid if I leave this off, she'll come beat me up.)
8. You Got Lucky - Tom Petty
9. A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
10. Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette
11.This Love - Maroon 5
12. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
13.Crazy on You - Heart
14. Call Me When You're Sober - Evanescence
15. Peace Train - Cat Stevens
16. Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
17. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard
18. And the Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen
19. Straight Up - Paula Abdul
20. Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
21. Far Away - Nickleback
22. I'm a Believer - Smashing Pumpkins
23. Vertigo - U2
24. Graceland - Paul Simon
25. Tell Me - Marc Anthony
26. Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
27. You Dropped a Bomb on Me - by those people who sang that song
28. This Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire