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Turn Your Lights Down Low

Oct 19, 2007
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Here is my favorite Lauryn video. You know that feeling you have waiting for that first date? That anticipation?

Turn Your Lights Down Low

My Favorite Albums...

Oct 18, 2007
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This list is in order, from number four to number one...

Let's start with Prince. Is this cheating? Probably. Every song a "greatest hit." My favorite? "Raspberry Beret." Prince says, "She walked in through the out door."

The Hits/The B-Sides

Prince

Bruce was hard to pick. He's my favorite artist, but I like many songs from many albums rather than one album in particular. However, forced to choose, I go with his response to 9/11, "The Rising." Favorite song: "You're Missing." The song starts out with silence, and then a melancholy piano. Violins fade in. Get's me every time.

The Rising

Bruce Springsteen

Stevie is hard for the opposite reason. There are so many classic albums. However, it is easy to pick his best. Of all the classic albums, one stands above all the rest, "Songs in the Key of Life." Favorite Song is the first one, "Love's in Need of Love Today." All you need is that chorus...

Songs in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder

And my favorite album of all-time. Miseducation of Ms. Hill. Only studio album she ever did (her live double-album is so-so); every song pitch perfect. Greatest rapper. Greatest singer. For one album, for one year (1998), there's no comparison. Favorite Song: "Ex-Factor" and "Tell Him" are great, but my fav is "Nothing Even Matters." You want poetry: These buildings could drift out to sea/Some natural catastrophe/Still there's no place I'd rather be/Cause nothing even matters to me...