1. "Life is Beautiful" by Vega4
I really wish I could remember where I first heard this song. I know it was in the movie My Sister's Keeper, but I'm POSITIVE I heard it before then. Maybe a TV show? Hmm... this might drive me crazy. Anyway, in the meantime, it's on my "feel good music" playlist. Take a listen.
2. "Life by the Drop" by Stevie Ray Vaughn
This just screams a lazy Saturday afternoon on the pontoon boat with a cooler of beers and a bag of chips in the middle of July. Apply sunscreen, soak up the rays, jump in the lake to cool off, repeat, repeat, repeat. Until it's time to bbq for dinner. Turn it up...
And, just because I'm in a summertime frame of mind, here's the next song that came on when I was listening to "Life by the Drop." Consider this a bonus track, not at all associated with the letter V. If you're not groovin' by this point, well, I don't know. I guess we shouldn't road trip together, that's all. I'm just sayin'...
Gimme all your V's, please. What'd I miss? What song screams summertime to you?
Now, i'm going to say something here that will really scream my nerdiness to the world, but there's a song on the Pokemon movie (sigh. Yes i just said that) that's about vacation and man, that just screams summer to me.
ReplyDeleteYou get one demerit for omitting Vertigo by U2. And Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve is kind of fun too.
ReplyDeleteOkay, you get your merit point back, because I really do love me some Stevie Ray Vaughn sometimes, and, hello, Superstition is just badass-gotta-love-it music.
The Verve was up in letter B with that song! But yes, I take a half-point deduction for Vertigo. :)
DeleteThe Verve did other songs besides just Bittersweet Symphony. ;) It's funny, after them, the next V band to jump to my mind was Vengaboys. Despite that I haven't listened to them since high school.
ReplyDeleteThe only V song I have in my iTunes is Violet Hill by Coldplay.
I know. I just don't really know anything else. :)
DeleteViolet Hill makes me realize I haven't loaded the new Coldplay album into the collection yet. Thanks for the reminder!
Violent Femmes--Blister in the Sun :)
ReplyDeleteGasp! You're right! Why isn't this on my list!?? Thanks for the great reminder!
DeleteThere was a singer-songwriter from Texas named Townes Van Zandt. There's a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band named Steven Van Zandt. And there are the brothers Ronnie, Donnie, and Johnny Van Zant who were/are members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, .38 Special, The Johnny Van Zant Band, and Van Zant. {Don't ask me how I know all that.}
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Wow! You're totally on my virtual trivia team! But were all these Van Zandts related?
DeleteI don't have any Vs in my playlist. :( I'd better go find some!
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