CDs worth of songs I've obtained from MP3blogs in the last eight months
Three.
Predominant themes of these CDs, as indicated in compilation titles
RockaRolla, indie rock and pop, including a few nuggets of out-there 70s AOR
FancyDancy, electronica, dance-pop, and hip-hop, with a smattering of indie-rock
FolkyDokey, singer-songwriter-y stuff, with or without an acoustic bent.
Numbers of times I teared up while listening to these new CDs
Three.
What triggered the waterworks
- Johnny Cash, "The Man In Black" (after the line about Jesus "talkin' straight to you and me" and continuing to the end of the song
- 16 Horsepower's cover of "The Partisan"¹ (when it switches to French and all the different voices come in).
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps" (as soon as Karen sings that first "They don't love you like I love you..." I just dissolve, every time.)
¹ itself not written by Cohen, and therefore a cover: who knew?
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