I’m building a playlist on my iPod called “uplifting.” I think the descriptor is pretty self-explanatory. I’m looking for mp3s that make you feel like the heavens have cracked open. Music with warm chords, epic strings, bass that makes your colon vibrate. Oh and emotion. Thus far, I have one track in my playlist. It’s called Rapture At Sea.
If you have an mp3 that you think would fit into the “uplifting” theme, do you want to pass it along? I’d love to build the playlist from reader files.
[Side note: One of my storage sites wracked up 30 gigs of bandwidth usage last month because I accidentally left an mp3 tucked in a folder. The file must have gotten posted somewhere, because thousands of people came and downloaded it, and eventually my storage site was shut down for exceeding its bandwidth. Wow. Note to myself and you, too: do not leave mp3s sitting around in random folders, even if you don't think anyone will find it.]
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Harry
December 3rd, 2003 at 10:58 am
Blown A Wish by MBV.
http://cronus.res.cmu.edu/~hey.....A_Wish.mp3
As I blatantly ignore your warning. *grin*
Are you intentionally stripping HREFs out of comments? Couldn’t get a link to work right.
tlc
December 3rd, 2003 at 11:22 am
I REALLY love Beth Gibbons’s solo album, lead singer of Portishead. I forget if I’ve mentioned that to you before. Most of her songs make me feel uplifted, but I’m not exactly sure why. It’s more rainy uplifting than sunny uplifting, but in Seattle that might not be a bad thing.
*b.
December 3rd, 2003 at 11:48 am
check out Sigur Ros stuff — i can’t think of a specific song (maybe Staralur), but it’s all beautiful.
leblanc
December 3rd, 2003 at 11:57 am
you’re going to hate me for these. I don’t have the MP3s but i’m sure you can find them:
Moby: Feeling so Real (off Everything is Wrong)
Anything, and i mean anything, sung by Mahalia Jackson. old school gospel-style inspirational, and even though i’m not a Christian, her voice still opens up something inside of me.
Madonna: Sky Fits Heaven and Swim (Ray of Light) and Impressive Instant (Music)
Zakir Hussain: most of his work, but particularly that on Tabla Beat Science (you might not be able to find MP3s of this…)
i can think of more later. i know i have more to suggest.
DA
December 3rd, 2003 at 1:34 pm
I have circulated your request among my ipod toting friends.
dori
December 3rd, 2003 at 1:49 pm
kevin yost. most anything from kevin yost.
Emily
December 3rd, 2003 at 2:03 pm
Fits your request description completely: “Plainsong” by the Cure (off of Disintegration)…this song IS the sound of the sky cracking wide open and the wonder of the world shimmering down. http://www.strangechord.com/potd/Plainsong.mp3
Brian Schaeperkoetter
December 3rd, 2003 at 2:35 pm
Supernova by Liz Phair
bristol
December 3rd, 2003 at 3:09 pm
Robert Mills or Miles (?) - cool techno piano music. It is my driving-through-montana-with-a-million-stars-in-the-sky music.
rebecca
December 3rd, 2003 at 3:47 pm
manitoba - the whole album “up in flames” is awesome psychadelic techno goodness
dori
December 4th, 2003 at 8:55 am
ariel - some more - quango dub selector - look especially for “Music is the redeemer” (or “only redeemer”, hang on lemme check the pod).
Jandhi
December 4th, 2003 at 9:28 am
I don’t know exactly what genre you might be looking into, but here are a few that have rent a heart or too:
Death Cab for Cutie : New Year
Hum: Stars
Ben Folds (not 5) : The Luckiest
Weakerthans : Pamphleteer
Sorry no mp3 links, only shameless promotion
slim
December 4th, 2003 at 7:32 pm
“One Better Day” by Madness. “Winter” by the rolling stones.