Journal to a Muse

Five Important Tunes
This Midwest Knitter has asked for people to list five (or so) important or favorite songs... to see what variety there might be AND to help increase the diversity of what people listen to.

You Make Me So Very Happy by Blood Sweat and Tears. This was my mantra during highschool and my F.I.R.S.T. L.O.V.E. Spinning Wheel has much more ambiguous (and probably mentally healthy) lyrics and is a close second.


There's a hippo in the bathtub sung by Amy Grant on a kids recording that I can't find any more. I wore it out (along with several Raffi tapes... remember Raffi?) with my kids. It was the supreme exuberance of the child discovering amazing things... and the adult sensibility that "you never know the minds of little children" that won me over.



Come Away With Me by Norah Jones. There must be something subliminal in this. It is just SO soothing and awesome. I like the rest of the CD, too.

All Four Seasons by Sting. I'd never heard a man be bemused, befuddled and even bruised by a woman with -- um-- moods, and apparently still think she was worth singing about. Plus the words are so spare, and tell a story much bigger that first seems to be there.

Star of Wonder by The Roches. My all time favorite "Christmas" song... partly because it doesn't say anything dogmatic, religious or theological! The tonality soothes me like Come Away... and a rhythm that would make a perfect lullaby... Suzzy Roche is terribly underappreciated.

Drat... and I forgot Phoebe Snow... If I get to list 6, I'd choose Going Down for the Third Time which got me singing the blues loud and proud when the love songs weren't working. Oh. and No Regrets. I'd like that one played at my wake or funeral or whatever. I want to live my live and be able to say... I have no regrets.