I had to do some writing for some thing or other today, and I made myself this playlist, titled ‘not quite the ubiquitous requisite fifty’
(somehow I found that sounds really nice, doesn’t matter if it actually makes sense or not):
Some pretty mushy songs in there, huh. Michael Bublé? Robbie Williams? John Mayer? What was I thinking.
I am sticking with all the other choices, though. Number 21 always knocks the air out of my lungs a bit.
Number 39 is one of my all-time favourites, and the next one is just hauntingly beautiful.
And for those of you who have never listened to ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’: check it out sometime. Be sure to listen to the MTV Unplugged one, too - pretty amazing.
Yael Naim I also love: brilliant songs, and she sings in Hebrew as well; best way to learn and so much more fun than studying lists of vocabulary – those lists make me shudder involuntarily.
Basically, just give the songs you don’t know a listen, there might be a few you actually like. Number 2 is really popular now; I saw Adele featured on a BBC2 show called ‘Sound’ quite a while back performing Hometown Glory, and wow, does she know how to carry a tune.
By the way, number 35 is just breathtaking.
