https://songsforanyoccasion.com/Recent content on Songs for any OccasionHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 30 Dec 2021 20:40:46 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-end/Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:40:46 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-end/h1, h2 { text-align: center; margin-top: 2rem; } div + p, blockquote p { margin-top: 0px !important; } This has been a fun distraction. I got to share most some of my favourite songs with the about ~3 people per week, who stumbled upon this website by coincidence, while making use of a domain name that laid dormant for the better part of 10 years, and reminiscing about some of my favourite bands ands songs from the past.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/welbilt/Sun, 26 Dec 2021 16:21:50 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/welbilt/Another CDBaby find, this was yet another inspiratiion for the domain name “songs for any occasion”. I enjoyed this band so much during my late teens/early twenties, especially second half of my undergrad years. T’was a time relationships became more dramatic, and I was trying to improve my bass playing—these ended up being my jams. The sound I was after, and lyrics that spoke to me? Instant jam. The radio is playing songs we shouldn’t knowhttps://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/bryde/Sat, 18 Dec 2021 12:27:17 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/bryde/Negative thoughts divide and multiply like flies, Strip away layers to remind you I’m alive. After Jylt, after Halflight, and after Paper Aeroplanes, Sarah decided to be on her own, and she became Bryde. I wasn’t a fan of the change at the beginning. If you read previous thoughts, there are bands that I’m happy are still creating, but not in the capacity that I most enjoyed them for certain periods in time.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/paper-aeroplanes/Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:51:13 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/paper-aeroplanes/I’ve got just the one tattoo. It’s an airplane. And it’s named after this band. Well, not directly. You see, this version of the band is named after an unreleased song they made when they were Halflight, and my tattoo is named after the same song. Let it all drift away, just like paper aeroplanes. That’s one of the many lost Sarah Howells/Rich Llewellyn songs lost to the ether.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/halflight/Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:39:31 +0300https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/halflight/Pick Me is another song that has a hauntingly beautiful guitar-and-vocal match that gets intertwined in a beautiful harmony and rhythm that makes one get lost in it and not hear where vocals and instruments begin. But this is one of many gems in the few EPs and albums that Sarah Howells, and her then-partner Rich Llewellyn recorded and released. I remember the day I heard Sarah’s voice for the first time.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-damnwells/Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:44:24 +0300https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-damnwells/… Did I catch your name? Was it something weird, or something strange? Did I catch your name? Did I catch your name?! Was it something strange? Right after this bridge, the guitar joins the chorus. It’s not a riff, it’s not a solo—the guitar is singing. The song is a duet. There are two singers, singing two sides of an argument. There’s an electric harmony. I’ve written about many songs, stories, and feelings on this journal.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/cotton-mather/Sun, 21 Nov 2021 19:09:07 +0300https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/cotton-mather/You can’t break something that doesn’t work anymore And now I’m seeing my life like a tourist If there ever was a band that sounds like fockin’ Beatles, Cotton Mather is the one. While Kontiki is their most revered album, my favorite is Cotton Is King. The lyrics from both make me think I’m having a stroke, but the latter has more understandable snippets amongst all the weirdness.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/son-feci-bisiklet/Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:24:47 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/son-feci-bisiklet/There was a disturbing trend of Turkish bands having nonsensical names for the past 10 years, and Son Feci Bisiklet (The Last Disastrous Bicycle..?) was at the the one that faced the most ridicule for it, being mocked by every comedian-wannabe. I couldn’t care less about the name though—I loved the music. By now, it should be apparent that I have a thing for alt-rock that is done with pure-ish instruments—a few guitars, a bass, and a drum does it for me.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/vega/Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:13:07 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/vega/There’s an inexplicable excitement around the band Vega. It’s beloved, almost unanimously, and has almost reached a cult status amongst Turkish rock bands. Their debut release, the one popular song that was on repeat on every music channel, was slightly inappropriate due to its sexist and misogynistic undertones, which I assume was kinda necessary for a women-led band to be signed around then. However, the album featured multiple great songs. Their sound was raw and unpolished, but some songs were extremely memorable…https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/sia/Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:13:16 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/sia/Sia is by far the most popular artist in my Top Artists of All Time list in Last.fm. However, due to all the recent stuff she’s pulled, I almost didn’t include her in my list. She was a huge part of my identity in my late-teens, though, and it wouldn’t be fair–or complete–if I had left her out. She wasn’t popular when I fell madly, deeply in love with her music though.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/zero-7/Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:16:07 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/zero-7/And, yes, it is true, death is everyone’s fate But we’ve made it this far, it’s time to celebrate I love Zero 7. I love songs featuring Sia, I love songs featuring Tina, I love songs featuring José. For the longest time, they were my go-to for any kind of relaxation and focused working tunes, and I still turn to them when I feel overwhelmed and need to calm down.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/missy-higgins/Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:25:26 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/missy-higgins/This is the song Missy Higgins wrote with Butterfly Boucher, and they both featured in their albums. This song came out in my last summer in Uppsala. It always reminds me of my last Valborg there—a time when 7 friends crammed inside my tiny room with a single bed and a single folding couch, and the last time I remember having that much fun. But I knew Missy Higgins way before then.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/gin-wigmore/Sat, 09 Oct 2021 17:28:53 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/gin-wigmore/All the artists and bands I wrote about on this blog for the past 40 weeks have been bands I listened to throughout high school, university, and Master’s program. Gin Wigmore is the first one that I discovered post-college, after I jumped into real life. While I started listening to her in 2013, it wasn’t until 2018 that I really got into her music. The reason I started listening to her?https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/this-day-and-age/Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:53:03 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/this-day-and-age/Before The Reign of Kindo, they were This Day & Age. It’s almost the same band—Jeff Martin is the frontman, and Kindo’s frontman Joey helms the bass here. And might I say, I love Jeff (Kindo’s bassist), but damn the basslines on these albums are one of the best I’ve heard ever. They’re not particularly spectacular or anything, they’re just so right. The improvement in their sound, from their first album to second (below) to third and final (featured) is massive.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-reign-of-kindo/Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:35:20 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-reign-of-kindo/If you visit my profile on Last.fm, you’ll find that my all time top artist is The Reign of Kindo, top album is Rhythm, Chord & Melody, and top song is The Moments in Between, with over 470 scrobbles. This is a band that I loved. This is a band that should’ve been so much bigger. This is one of the reasons why I’m still in love with music.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/pinhani/Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:12:47 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/pinhani/There was a short period of time when bands were either MySpace-famous, or traditionally published and totally oblivious to social media. The current marketing-focused band representation wasn’t there—some saw it coming, most didn’t. Those who saw it were also divided into two factions: malicious impersonators, and benevolent helpers. I was in the second one for Pinhani, a Turkish band that had popped up and became famous overnight. I realized that the name was available on MySpace, they had no official page there, so I tried my best to create an official-looking page, added their videos as they’re launched, moderated fan requests and comments, and kept it updated with previews of songs, with links to buy the albums.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/tamburada/Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:02:55 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/tamburada/Is psychedelic ethnic jazz a thing? If it’s not, these Turkish musical bandits made it a thing. A fusion of whatever music genre you can think of, including trashy wedding party melodies, made this incredibly hypnotic musical concoction. (Calling it a song wouldn’t make it justice.). Tamburada (RightHere, if we were to translate) is a cult band, that was quite obscure even in its time. They did have a hard-to-find CD published, and I did get my hands on one—but I was very lucky to find it.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/headlights/Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:43:05 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/headlights/I can’t even stand to watch the TV The liars and the killers keep staring at me Whenever I see a politician on TV, this is the song that gets going in my mind. If there was place for one high-energy band in my life, I’d probably pick Headlights to be it. One album, would be Killing Them With Kindness. Headlights is what’s left of Absinthe Blind after the lead singer left, and while they were less edgy with their sound, some songs (like my all-time favourite Lullabies) was quite reminiscent of their previous tunes.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/fredrika-stahl/Sat, 28 Aug 2021 10:37:56 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/fredrika-stahl/I really love this album. It opens with whispered words, accompanied by a piano. Then dives straight into this piano-driven ballad. It’s got heavy hitters, as well as light & upbeat songs. …and some with very creepy lyrics. 😬 I had the pleasure of watching her live in a small venue in Istanbul, after I’d returned from Sweden—where she is from.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/pilot-speed/Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:50:14 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/pilot-speed/The label that brought us Evanescence, Company of Thieves, Civil Twilight, Drowning Pool, and many other bands, decided to do the bare minimum for this Canadian rock band. I love their debut album as Pilot Speed, which is actually their second album as Pilate. It’s a fun listen, from start to end. And that animated music video, still gets me every time. For their second (fourth?) album, they sounded more experimental, but it was still a good listen.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/david-hodges/Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:10:13 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/david-hodges/This was the moment we thought he’d make it big, me and my trading-yesterday-friends. The single didn’t really go anywhere. No bigger record deals, no full-length albums. We thought it would. We hoped it would. But he’s been really, very, very busy with writing for others, recording on his own, and even doing some covers. Here are some songs, in no particular (or even chronological) order… Originals The Age of Information Trading Yesterday had become The Age of Information.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/trading-yesterday/Sat, 07 Aug 2021 15:28:29 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/trading-yesterday/David Hodges is a legendary songwriter. He was 1/3rd of Evanescence, and departed just after he completed the debut album, which is why you don’t see him rocking the keyboard in the Bring Me To Life video. But look at the song credits—for any song on Fallen— and you see his name next to Amy Lee and Ben Moody. Anyway… More on him later. Trading Yesterday was the band he formed after he left Evanescence, and their album The Beauty & The Tragedy had a polished-yet-demo-like quality to it.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/swan-dive/Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:48:14 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/swan-dive/I’ve thought a lot about this place and how I’d never come back again You know that I’ve thought a lot about my past, and all the times I’ve laughed at those poor souls who stayed… Similar vibes to Tina Dico’s Goldhawk Road, for various reasons this week. (Same reasons as Leslie Odom Jr. singing “Our troubles won’t disappear/Just ‘cause we don’t live as near” brought me to tears.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-rifles/Sun, 25 Jul 2021 08:10:58 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-rifles/When I started this blog, I listed all the bands that I wanted to feature. Last weeks band wasn’t in it—it just came out of nowhere. This weeks band also wasn’t in it—it came while listening to the songs from last weeks band. The Rifles was a big part of 2006 summer for me, and deserve to be here. I was 17 for my freshman year at university. Like, all of it, since my birthday was in June, after all the classes ended and everyone had gone back home.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/honestly/Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:56:10 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/honestly/Yet another short-lived rock band with hard-to-google name, Honestly was a thing between 2003 and 2005. It was the kind of music I liked, but obscure around my neck of the woods, so of course I was obsessed with them. It was a CD Baby purchase, of course. I did find them after they’d disbanded, of course. At the time, my research (and the limited amount of online information) led me to believe some kind of crisis of faith was the reason for the dissolvement of the band, and many years later I’ve come to realise that, that really was the case.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-low-stars/Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:43:50 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-low-stars/The Low Stars were a band made up of 4 incredibly talented musicians. One of them was Jude. The other was Dave Gibbs, of Gigolo Aunts. The first time I ever heard of the band was through yet another TV show—What About Brian. When I heard the intro I immediately knew that it was Jude singing it. The release of the album that included the song came almost a year later though, just as the show was–sadly–ending.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/gigolo-aunts/Fri, 25 Jun 2021 23:43:24 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/gigolo-aunts/Reassurance never sounded so relaxing. Also, incredibly 90s. One of the better power pop bands I’ve heard, I’m glad I discovered them after 2007, when this video was posted, because it is what pushed me to listening to the whole album. And, my god, what an album. There’s always a small surprise in these songs that take you on a detour, whether it is a small solo or a slight change in pacing.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/jude/Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:56:44 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/jude/Late 90s/early 2000s feeling lovey-dovey, mixtape worthy songs? Jude’s the artist you’re looking for. Music supervisors of hit TV shows and movies of the era, such as Felicity and City of Angels, also seem to agree. What I remember from the time is that, Jude could never win. People found his songs overproduced. Then overproduced. They said he didn’t promote enough. They said he was a sellout. His songs invited this kind of criticism too, I guess.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/safetysuit/Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:02:04 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/safetysuit/I don’t know SafetySuit. Unlike all the bands and artists I’ve featured previously, I have absolutely no knowledge of who the band consists of, or how many albums they have released. I don’t even know if they’re still a band. Even their two videos from this album, I watched for the first time, while listening to the album on YouTube. I had to check to see if I heard of them through a show.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/matthew-santos/Sat, 12 Jun 2021 14:19:57 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/matthew-santos/I’ve come to know Matthew Santos through another band I love, The Reign of Kindo. They were signed to the same indie label, and touring together. I heard what I liked, I saw a PledgeMusic campaign (there was a time when they paid!), and I pledged for a package that came with a USB stick with his whole catalog. I couldn’t pick just one song to feature, as I love many, many of them.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/poets-and-pornstars/Sun, 06 Jun 2021 07:09:19 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/poets-and-pornstars/I love Hal Ozsan. I loved his character in Dawson’s Creek and Fallen, I love seeing in him steal the scene in every show he guest stars in, and I loved that he got a lot of attention with his role in the second season of Jessica Jones. But what I love the most about him is his rock band, Poets and Pornstars. This is another band that I see as a pure rock band, obvious in their sound and stage.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-self-project/Sun, 23 May 2021 14:43:27 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-self-project/A couple of weeks ago my SO started blasting her latest discovery, a Turkish singer-songwriter named Melike Şahin. Her style is rather unusal—it’s alternative, but it goes through arabesque vocals, 90s pop synths, and psychedelic lyrics. It’s… interesting. Ever since I’ve heard the album though, I craved this another band I knew way back when. You see, they were a duo who released 3 songs on MySpace, and that was it.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/jason-mraz/Sun, 23 May 2021 07:50:33 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/jason-mraz/This is the perfect cover. It retains the core of the original, keeps all the elements from it, improves them, and fills in the gaps with unmistakable Jason Mraz energy. I associate this song with the incoming glimpse of summer—like you still have finals and stuff, but its nice and warm outside, and it’s hard to give a damn about anything. It makes me feel all is good, even if there’s some impending doom and gloom right around the corner, I’ll be fine.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/lillix/Sun, 16 May 2021 08:54:31 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/lillix/I just finished watching Girls5Eva, and for whatever reason, it reminded me of Lillix. I guess they were the closest thing to a “wronged-girl-band” I had in my library. This song especially had a very familiar feel, and sounded very that era, and a comment on the video actually highlights why that might be: These songs are siblings: “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne “Why Can’t I” by Liz Phair “It’s About Time” by Lillixhttps://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-like/Sat, 08 May 2021 19:31:02 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-like/I was a fan. Cute girls that could sing and drum and play the bass like The Like did; are you kidding me? I had no choice, of course I was a fan! Their first album Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? was brilliant. Their earlier demos that got me hooked on the band were also not half bad. Someone says wish you were here? I’ve got The Like playing in my mind.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/over-the-rhine/Sun, 02 May 2021 10:07:24 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/over-the-rhine/I found Over the Rhine on a sunny spring day in 2007, while killing time in my favourite stationary/bookstore. A song was playing over the speakers in the multimedia section of the 3-floor building, and I just couldn’t contain myself—I had to go and ask for the album. It was Discount Fireworks, a compilation album that consisted of songs from their previous albums. I listened to it a couple of times.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/nothing-more/Sat, 24 Apr 2021 10:25:28 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/nothing-more/They repeat a lie till it becomes a fact We gotta burn it down so we can build it back The more you love ‘em, the harder it gets to write about. Nothing More is a band I’ve known and loved for over a decade. Every album they’ve released has had at least one song that I’ve truly connected with. Even though I’ll be forever grateful even if they don’t record a single new song, I’m excited that they’re actively working on a new album.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-civil-wars/Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:22:12 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-civil-wars/They seemed polar opposites, but had a lot in common. They were both fine musicians by themselves. Had a couple albums under their belts, and a reasonable amount of fans. The true magic happened when they combined their powers. The Civil wars was Joy Williams and John Paul White. They basically came onto the scene with nothing but a guitar and a camcorder. They not only created beatiful and simple original music, but they also created beautiful covers that matched their unique style.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/sakin/Sat, 10 Apr 2021 10:08:27 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/sakin/This week is going to be a bit different. It’s going to be a Turkish song, and it’s also going to be a bit of a rant. You see, Sakin (Calm) was a good pop-rock band. They were forerunners of a certain musical movement in Turkey, with melodic indie tunes and somewhat psychedelic lyrics that can be interpreted in multiple ways. It wasn’t just weird nonsense though. This song, Denek Hayatım (My Experimental Life) is a protest song, inspired and heavily influenced by a fatal train accident, describing how it feels like to live within a society with no consequences to wrongful actions.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/boy/Sat, 03 Apr 2021 08:08:28 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/boy/Some songs are vivid and literal. You get exactly what you hear; lyrics say a thing, and they mean it. Some are a bit more abstract. They don’t form a cohesive story, but they make you feel a certain way. Drive Darling manages to be both for me. My adventurous little Beetle usually had an iPod mini connected to its stereo with 6 CD changers, but the one and only CD that was in the changer was the BOY’s Mutual Friends album that came with its vinyl.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/butterfly-boucher/Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:14:17 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/butterfly-boucher/I loved the first half of 2012. Best year ever. I was in a city that I loved, I had amazing new friends, and it just felt so damn good. Around April, Missy Higgins released a new album after 5 long years. It was eagerly awaited, and it was truly welcome. At the same time, Butterfly Boucher also released an album. The lead single from Missy Higgins’ album was co-written by Butterfly, and was featured in both of their albums.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/bettie-serveert/Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:34:02 -0400https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/bettie-serveert/I’d like to introduce you to one of my all time favorite bands, and in my opinion, one of the Top 5 Rock Bands in the world. It was a different time, when I discovered Bettie Serveert. You couldn’t just launch Spotify or YouTube to listen to all their songs. If they were relatively obscure, you also couldn’t find them on Napster or eMule. And sometimes, they wouldn’t even have a personal site.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/remy-zero/Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:01:30 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/remy-zero/I’m the keeper of the songs of everyone. Remy Zero songs seems to have a strange harmony. It feels like all instruments just go their own way, only to fall into line and into step like they have no other choice. Like fate brings them together. Thus, every song feels like a jamming session. It feels raw and energetic. Thoughtful, yet effortless. They’re most famous for providing the title theme for TV series Smallville.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/company-of-thieves/Sat, 06 Mar 2021 12:14:45 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/company-of-thieves/Company of Thieves has it all. Two amazing albums with absolutely no fillers, mesmerizing vocals on top of devilishly good guitar licks, and a stage presence that captivates audiences. It’s also given me a quote about how I’d want my eventual mortality to arrive: I’d like to die with the songs I like stuck in my head. This is a band I always include in my roadtrip playlists, and always keep fully synced to my iPhone.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-zutons/Sat, 27 Feb 2021 23:08:56 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/the-zutons/When I started writing about The Zutons, I struggled to find the right song to share. Because you see, my favorite doesn’t belong to them anymore. As I was writing about it, laptop at hand and Little Voice playing in the background on the TV, Valerie came on. And I went “Oh cool, Amy Winehouse.” As I was LITERRALY typing how the song was actually by The friggin Zutons! Apparently not.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/jylt/Sun, 21 Feb 2021 07:53:42 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/jylt/Sarah Howells is the best. She, collectively through all her bands, is my most listened-to artist. My only tattoo is inspired by one of her songs, and she steadily releases songs that pull me out of my depressive moods. Though she was 1/4th of Jylt, this post is not about her. It’s about Nia George—a very talented musician who would’ve been very popular had she not passed away 17 years ago today, on February 21st.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/hugh-laurie/Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:52:05 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/hugh-laurie/As an amazing actor and a brilliant jazz musician, the man needs no introduction. This song plays a crucial role in my relationship with my SO—I put it on a mix CD, not knowing she was even a bigger fan of Laurie’s than I am. It turns out we were even at the same Istanbul concert with her, quite a few months before we even knew each other, sitting at the opposite ends of the same row.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/tina-dickow/Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:08:07 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/tina-dickow/Oh, to belong Such a gift I’m rarely surprised when songs long forgotten suddenly come to mind when certain feelings bubble up. This has been a tough week. I’ve been watching my significant other struggle with the reality of losing a safe space she has always assumed would be there. Losing hope is never easy. It hurts. My love, will you be there The morning my ship comes inhttps://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/kent-music-non-stop/Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:04:53 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/kent-music-non-stop/January means snow. Snow means memories of Sweden. Sweden, of course, means Kent. I discovered Kent in university, a couple of years before I went to Sweden to get my Master’s Degree. Their songs had perfect basslines for a beginner—complex enough to be enjoyable while playing with your cover-band, yet simple enough to not mess up live. Music Non Stop started as a fun song to learn to play, and stayed in our party-background-playlists for some time.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/weak-lazy-liar/Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:01:23 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/weak-lazy-liar/I remember hearing weaklazyliar songs on Felicity. There were many good songs on the show, but these stood out to me. It didn’t hurt that they were an indie band that used CDBaby to distribute their songs. It was just an easy sell, one CD among many, many ordered from there. This wasn’t the song I actually wanted to share. Bright Yellow Bucket, the song in the Felicity sample, is one of my all-time favorites.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/sleeping-at-last/Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:36:54 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/sleeping-at-last/This is my Christmas song. For me, holiday season kicks off with this song. Any new years resolution, any new planner purchase, any new plans made has this song as its soundtrack. It’s a song full of hope and dreams and wonderment. Sleeping at Last is Ryan O’Neal. He is a very famous musician now—his songs are used in 1 of every 3 Grey’s Anatomy episodes, and he even recorded a cover for a Super Bowl ad.https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/kish-mauve/Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:19:49 -0500https://songsforanyoccasion.com/post/kish-mauve/Kish Mauve may be the most well known obscure band in my library. You know, the kind you think you don’t know, but you actually know. Come On, in almost 14 years, has garnered a mere 35.000 views. Their most watched song? 78.000. Yet another song of theirs has been watched 1.8 MILLION times in 10 years. Then again, being sang by Kylie Minogue definitely must’ve affected its odds. I don’t remember how I found out about them.