This Might Get Loud!

Remember when we were in 5^th or 6^th grade – for Peach and CoCo, this means the mid-nineties – and we made those mix tapes of our favorite songs from the radio?  No, we mean literally recorded from the radio.  We had to jump across the room which was suddenly an obstacle course and hit that record button and hope that we weren’t near the end of that side of the tape.  A lot of the songs were missing the very beginning.  “….mmraup zzooop… until my fingers bled. It was the summer of sixty nine!”  That was just how the song began for CoCo.  Her favorite mix tape included Billy Joel’s River of Dreams, Meatloaf’s I Would Do Anything For Love,   Annie Lennox’s Walking On Broken Glass, and who didn’t have Ace of Base’s I Saw The Sign.

Music was much more an intimate love affair.  You walked across town to get that cassette tape from Rite Aide, you did slave labor for your older siblings for hand-me-down rock albums by Aerosmith and Madonna.  You knew and treasured every word and nuance to all your favorite songs.  You and each of your friends had your own holy grail of music on one or two cassettes.  And if your favorite mix tape got lost or eaten by a crappy tape recorder… whoa mama!  Major meltdown.  “You know how many days and hours I spent on that tape!  I can never get back!  It won’t ever be the same!”

Patton Oswalt summed it up pretty well in one of his bits about music today.  He was talking about going back in time and meeting himself in 1999.  His 1999 self would be listening to a tape with his twenty favorite songs, and future Patton would say, “take that tape out, now break it in half.  That’s the size of the thing we listen to music on in the future. And it holds all the songs you’ve ever heard as well as every song that will ever be written.”  1999 Patton would think something so amazing must be worth way too much money, and future Patton would explain that people give them away.  “It’s a goddam miracle and nobody gives a shit!”

It’s so amazing that we can have so much music –plus the bonus feature of having the song in its entirety, beginning to end!  We have to say, we love every song on our ipods.  Except sometimes when it’s on shuffle.  Then we love about every fifth song on our ipods.  BUT, we love even more that we have that option.  No matter what mood you’re in, there’s a 99.9% chance you have the perfect song for that moment.  With or Without You by U2.

Peach sometimes follows her dream of being a DJ.  Party in the House DJ Baby Peach covers all your wedding, birthday party and anniversary music needs!  Hit it Enrique Iglesias, Kanye and Pitbull! Yeah, this is totally a plug for Peach’s extensive and lucrative DJ business.  Call her!  (note: we’re totally joking.  It’s not really lucrative.  She DOES totally DJ your party, no cost.)

CoCo’s  a campfire guitar player.  Sister Golden Hair and Leaving on a Jet Plane will be your entertainment when you hang with s’mores and wine and Alaska reindeer sausage on the fire. She’s just a rhythm strummer, but you know you love singing even the cheesiest folk songs when you’re drinking with friends and family.

Here is what we are listening to!

The Peaches picks for the season…it is almost spring!!!  

Let’s Get Lost - Beck and Bat for Lashes

Rolling in the Deep - Adele

Born this Way-Lady GaGa

Kids-MGMT

Cinnamon Girl- Type O Negative

What you Need - INXS

Supermassive Black Hole- Muse 

American Music- Violent Femmes

Messiah, No.1.-44. - Handel

Whole Wide World- Wreckless Eric

Ball and Biscuit- White Stripes

Can’t You Hear Me Callin- Crooked Still

All Night- Damian Marley

D’yer Mak’er- Led Zeppelin

Start Wearing Purple- Gogol Bordello

CoCo’s favorites this week

Band on the Run – Beatles

The Rose – Bette Midler

Turn the Page – BoB Seger

Listen to the Music – Doobie Brothers

Feels Like Home – Linda Ronstadt

Fly Away – John Denver

Lola – The Kinks

Under Pressure – Queen

Howlin’ For You – The Black Keys

Raining Like Magic – Raffi

Little Bitty Pretty One – Thurston Harris

Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen

Seed of Wonder – Jesca Hoop