Alright, everyone and their brother’s kid is going to be posting the saddest/maddest tracks for the week of Valentine’s day, which is fine. But I’m a happy person, so I’m gonna take the happy route and dedicate this week to songs that make me smile, or grin stupidly, or make me dance the entire time, or give me that warm melting feeling that only the rarest of rare songs give you. Love may suck, but your playlist doesn’t have to make you cry, right? Therefore, I’m gonna call this “Smilin’ Singles” week, and give you a bunch of singles to make you smile, and if you don’t have a valentine, let’s hope you’re a “Smilin’ Single,” too, eh?. Corny? Yes. But to quote a Geiko commercial, Music Blog Theme Weeks are like pie and chips. I mean come on, who doesn’t like pie and chips?
Sunday’s Smilin’ Singles:
Of Montreal – “Wraith Pinned To The Mist & Other Games” from The Sunlandic Twins (Of Montreal is coming to Champaign Urbana March 11th)
Candy Butcher’s – “Sparkle” from Hang On Mike (Almost too happy, but I still love it)
Keller Williams – “Thirsty In The Rain” from Spun (This is one of those melt-in-your-seat tracks for me)
*Feel free to comment on the tracks, suggest some songs that do the same thing for you guys, email me some songs at [email protected], all that fun jive.
*Also, at the end of the week I’ll have a Smilin’ Singles Mixtape post with all of the files together. It’s a nice way to sum up the week, thanks to Bethanne of Clever Titles Are So Last Summer for starting the trend. I’m calling it right here and now, she’s the first one I’ve seen do this at the end of a Theme Week.