Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Bob Dylan's rhyming techniques have always been a mystery.... Especially in this song.

I will never forget the first time i heard this song.....
My Freshman year of highschool, my dad was driving me to school one morning. The drive to school was always filled with good music playing really loud in our little black VW cabrio, o how i miss that car! My father used to make mix cd's to listen to on his commute to work (yes this was before ipods were alive). "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" by Bob Dylan came on. I really liked the song from the start. I started listening to the lyrics and thought they were pretty catchy, that was until i heard this.....

"It ain't no use in turning on your light babe, the light i never knowed."
"And it ain't no use in turning on your light babe, I'm on the dark side of the road"

NEVER KNOWED??? WHAT?! Knowed isn't even a word... once i heard those lyrics my dad and i burst out laughing so hard. I asked him what never knowed was supposed to mean, and all we could really come up with was that Dylan must have really needed something to rhyme with road so he picked knowed. Bob Dylan's so cool he makes up his own words!
I must say...... after that, i become a devoted Bob Dylan fan for life. This was definitely the song that hooked me!
I was sitting around with my family over Thanksgiving and this song came on... my mother, father and i started laughing immediately!! instant laugh memory forever!
Thank You Bob, Thank You!

~Penny Lane

The Lazy Song

This song has been stuck in my head all weekend!!!!! AHHHH!
Hahaha love this song though, catchy little thing it is!

Everytime i hear this song i think of my brother, this is our song. We love rocking out to this whenever we are together...screaming it at the top of our lungs. (Or atleast i do and he looks at me like i'm nutts!) hehe.
Since i have developed a nasty cold to accompany me to my Thanksgiving weekend and nice long weekend off Arggghhh, this song seems appropriate today!

I really wish i could have acted out this song and stayed in my bed all day!!!
This music video is a little weird eh? Kind of creeps me out a bit, but since im on cold meds..., it's making me laugh really hard! Bruno Mars is so cute with his lil Danny Zuko hair style.

So this song goes to anyone who had a case of the Mondays or is actually sick like myself. Listen and have a laugh!

~Penny Lane

A Thousand Years

Yes i'm a crazy Twilight fan, yes I am going to see the movie at midnight and yes I'm Team Edward and proud of it!!!

So i recently purchased the Breaking Dawn Soundtrack... so many amazing songs on it! can't wait to play the shit out of it!!! HaHaHaa.
I've heard Christina Perri before with her hit "Jar of Hearts." I really like that song, so when i heard she was going to have a track on the upcoming Twilight soundtrack i was super excited.

The song is called "A Thousand Years" and I LOVE IT! So romantic, the lyrics are so pretty. I can see people using this to death as a wedding song. "I have loved you for a thousand years and i will love you for a thousand more."
To all my fellow Twi-Hards, enjoy! Can't wait for tonight!!!
To everyone else, just take a listen - it really is a beautiful song, you won't be sorry!
~Penny Lane

Before The Deluge (live 1977)

I must admit, I have such a crush on Jackson Browne circa 1970's! Who wouldn't??!! with that long flowing hair, soothing voice and romantic, meaningful lyrics!! He's soo cute.

Before the Deluge is off the album "Late For The Sky." This is my father's favorite Jackson Browne album. I still don't think i can decide which album is my favorite... there are just too many good ones!!!

When most people think of Jackson Browne they think "Running on Empty." Before the Deluge is a track that only REAL fans recognize. Being the last track off "Late For The Sky," some could easily get lost in the other tracks and never reach it!
The lyrics to this song are beautiful. I love the way that you can interperet them into so many different meanings. This way even if it meant one thing to Jackson Browne while he was writing it, it could mean something completely different to each person that listens.
I can see it talking about new love, youth growing up and maybe even war.
My favorite line in the song is,
"Some of them knew pleasure And some of them knew pain And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered And on the brave and crazy wings of youth They went flying around in the rain."

~Penny Lane

Try A Little Tenderness

Here's another goodie to add to my list of favorite musical scenes from my movie collection. Jon Cryer's version on "Try a Little Tenderness" by Otis Redding in the 1986 classic Pretty in Pink, simply amazing!

Going down as one of my favorite "Brat Pack" movies from the 80's, i think mainly because of how cute Duckie is!! (Jon Cryer's character for you fools that have yet to experience this movie greatness!!)
Great 80's hair, a pink homemade prom dress and awesome 80's beats!! What else could a girl want from a romantic comedy from the 80's??!!
This scene is soo cute! Props to Duckie for having the courage to try and romance his crush and props to Jon Cryer for showing how well a white boy can imitate Otis Redding!!!

~Penny Lane

San Diego.... Drink It In!

I know my blog is a musical blog, and i only post music... but i just got back from an amazing adventure with my best friends in San Diego! Here are a few of the fun, beautiful pictures to remember the trip. Good friends, good food, and fantastic times.

There is one song that i seemed to have stuck in my head the whole trip... A song by Wolfmother called "Vagabond." The band says that it's a song about the innocence lost, I don't know if we lost our innocence.... but it was one hell of a trip! The song is addictive and the beat has a way of sticking in my head!! Now whenever i hear it, i think of my favorite girls and the great time we had with fun videos and pictures to last a lifetime!!!

~Penny Lane