Safety Dance

Yes, with the Holidays and all the craziness i haven't posted a song in quite some time.....

My dear friend Kendyll is visiting this week from California!!! Love when we get to spend time all together again, brings back so many memories!!!! It's like we have never been apart!

Last night as we were all being silly and laughing, taking hilarious pictures and chanting.... i thought back to highschool and how it felt as if we were all right back there! 17 again.... and of course The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats was in my head! Being one of our favorite songs to clap and stomp around to, I had to put it up on the blog today!!!!

I couldn't remember if i had posted this jam before but WHO CARES???!!! It's great!!! This video is quite priceless itself.... a midget dressed as a joker playing an instrument.

So glad to be spend time this week with some really great friends!

Here are some pictures from our times together... and it's only been 1/2 a day!

~Penny Lane

American Girl

Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker's song "American Girl" is the type of song i love dancing around to in my apartment... by myself! Don'y say that this has never happend to you at some point in your life, cause guess what? I know you'd be lying!!!

Ok, so maybe for you it's a different song, some tune that catches your fancy but for me this has always been my go to song. Kinda my own version of "Old Time Rock n Roll" Tom Cruise style in Risky Business!

Anytime i'm cleaning, bored, feeling low or just need to get energized dancing and singing along to this song is where it's at!

I absolutely love Tom Petty!! I've had the privelege of seeing them live twice in my life and it was great each time!!! Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers have so many good tracks that can be listened to over and over and over for years to come!

If i had to pick a favorite, hands down it would have to be "Running Down A Dream." I just love how those few little chords in the beggining start the song off with a bang!

Happy Friday!! Do yourself a favor, put on your favorite dance song today and dance around by yourself.... i can assure you you'll be laughing and smiling afterwards!

~Penny Lane

Real Good For Free

I'll be one to say that i've never been a huge fan of live albums. I guess i just fall in love with a song the way i hear it the first time, ya know right when you unwrap that CD package and listen to your new album for the very first time. Sometimes i get a tad dissapointed when i go to see it performed live and its just not the same.

Joni Mitchell's live album "Miles of Aisles" is one of my favorite live albums. I can listen to songs on this and on the originals and love them both equally!
Joni Mitchell is such a talented artist, if you've ever heard her voice it's one of a kind. The high notes she can hit compares to no one else!

"Miles of Aisles" one was Mitchell's most popular albums going all the way to #2 on the charts when it debuted in '74.
As i posted a couple weeks ago, my favorite Joni song is "River" but my mothers favorite and my favorite off this album is the song featured above, "Real Good For Free."

The song has a great meaning, soemthing you find yourself saying, " Wow, i never thought of it that way."

"Now me I play for fortune and those velvet curtain calls I've got a black limousine and sixteen gentlemen escorting me to the halls and I play if you have the money or if you're a friend to me but the one man band by the quick lunch stand he was playing real good, for free."

~Penny Lane






Today

At The Zoo

Ever heard of the album "Bookends" by Simon & Garfunkel?? Well if you havn't you're a deprived child! it's great! Everyone needs to have a copy of this... it needs to be a staple in your musical collection! It'll give you some much needed knowledge! lolol

"Bookends" is the fourth studio album coming from this amazing duo! There are so many good tracks, it's hard to pick a favorite....
-Bookends Theme
-America
-Old Friends
-Mrs. Robinson
-A Hazy Shade of Winter!!!
And of course the track i chose for today, "At The Zoo"

"At The Zoo" is such a fun song!!! It's said that Paul Simon wrote the song as a sort of tribute to his hometown city, New York. The song is rumored to be about a trip taken to the Central Park Zoo (assuming some psychedelic drugs were used...). While there, Simon comes up with all different human attributions and gives them to all the zoo animals.... quite funny!
My favorite:
"The monkeys stand for honesty,Giraffes are insincere,And the elephants are kindly butThey're dumb."

~Penny Lane

Little Black Submarines

Ok....so of course i'm super excited! The Black Keys just came out with a new album!!! The album is called El Camino (HaHa love it already, even the cover!) and this is my new favorite song off the album!
The song is called 'Little Black Submarines." I just love how this song starts out mellow and a little on the feeling sorry for myself side, then turns into a Rock "N" Roll heartbreak song!!!

I'm lovin' on the lyrics, especially "Oh, can it be the voices calling me they get lost and out of time I should've seen it glow but everybody knows that a broken heart is blind that a broken heart is blind."
I like how the Black Keys are funky and retro in this day and age. They definitely have an old school blusey sound that has some awesome foot tappin' beats! This album is packed with goodies. A little more new age alternative but i think they do a great job of changing things up for a new sound while still keeping that what distinquishes them from the rest. Something that old fans and new fans will love equally.
I don't know about you, but when a band i love comes out with a new album it sometimes breaks my heart if they try too much to go in a different direction. Don't get me wrong I'm all for trying new things and experimenting with different sounds but don't lose the luster that i originally fell in love with and got hooked on!
Keep the beats comin'!

~Penny Lane

La Vie En Rose

I just love the classic sound of this song along with Louis Armstrong's unique voice! A perfect song for a rainy Tuesday... I'm a girl that loves the classics and this song is one of my favorites!
I can't really remember when i first heard Louis Armstrong, probably when i doscovered how great Ella Fitzgerald was... the two made a lot of music together.
Don't ya think it would be great to live the the 20's and go out to clubs where you could dance and hang out to this music all night?!?! Well I do!

Most of you have heard this song in various movies ( its only been played in just a few... lol). The song is so romantic, my favorite lyrics are "Give your heart and soul to me and love will always be la vie en rose."
So if you can appreciate great Jazz music from the 20's, take a listen. If you can't appreciate it....well listen anyway!! Haha

~Penny Lane

Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?

Yes, I do have a little girl crush on Zoey Deschanel.....but HELLO, she's awesome!! I got into her band She & Him a couple years ago, fell in love instantly! She has such a pretty, unique voice with a classic sound!

This is one of my many favorite She & Him songs, it's called "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here" off of their first studio album. This is not the original music video but i came across this and love it! After she did the movie 500 Days of Summer with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (such a cutie!!), they made this little dance movie to this song!!

The two of them together are precious! I want them to date in real life! Or him to date me!!!HaHa. This video made me smile, i hope it makes you smile! Happy Friday!

~Penny Lane