It's been nearly a year since my awesome trip to Seoul with friends, and there is still a lot left to post about it - I will get to that, some time in the coming weeks hopefully. But until then, here's a preview to the next few posts you'll see up here, about two Korean-inspired cafes in Manila - plus a cute KPop video for your travel playlists, or if you're ever dreaming of Seoul and need some inspiration!
I follow a blog called Offbeat Collective, and they had an interesting post a while back about takeoff songs. The writer chose MGMT's "Time To Pretend" for his own takeoff song, which I absolutely love and also wrote about previously. I got to thinking about what I'd choose to be my takeoff song and a handful of songs came up, until I finally decided to go with this one:
Snow Patrol - "Chocolate"
I'll probably change my mind tomorrow or on my next trip because I'm fickle like that (and because there are just too many beautiful songs out there, it's hard to stick to just one), but for now, this is the one.
Do you remember that scene in "The Beach", when Richard gets a view of THE Beach for the very first time, and it's beautiful and he's so amazed by what he's seeing, and Moby's "Porcelain" starts playing? That's probably one of my favorite movie moments ever. And ever since that movie, when I hear the song "Porcelain", I think of nothing but fine white sand and blue water.
Every travel moment should have a soundtrack, because music is a perfect companion when traveling - I'd even go as far as to say that the iPod is probably the second best thing to human travel buddies (so if you're ever traveling solo, you mustn't board your flight without one!).
The summer is a season for trips, trips, trips, so I thought I'd share a portion of my summer soundtrack in this post, with sixteen of my favorite summer songs. It was incredibly difficult to cut the list down to 16, as I had about 50 songs on my playlist - maybe I'll post the rest of the songs next year. For now, I hope you like these!
Also, what are your favorite summer songs? (I'm a music junkie, so please, I hope you can recommend some for me!)
Just a bright, happy song to cheer you up when you're on the road. Jason Mraz is made of pure awesome, and he has a lot of bright, happy songs which I love. Also try "Make It Mine" and his version of "Melt With You" from the "50 First Dates" soundtrack.
2. "Whoo! Alright - Yeah...Uh Huh" - The Rapture
This one totally screams "Pool Partay!" to me, which probably has to do with its music video:
This is a new favorite, and quite frankly, I'm a little addicted to it! I've had this one on repeat on my iPod for a while now. It's from a KPop experimental group called Clazziquai Project. The vocals on this are awesome. More importantly, this song makes me want to wear a sundress and put flowers on my hair. That's how summer-y it is.
I first heard this song on some random compilation they were playing in a record store, and I thought it was lovely.
10. "We Give In Sometimes" - Up Dharma Down
"Sand and the sea, meet in between. Fire and ice, you and I..." I absolutely love this song and this band. If there's one song I'd like everyone who's read this post to listen to, it'd be this song, because it's from an awesome Filipino band that deserves global recognition (which they've already received, mind you - they were featured on Time Magazine once!). And check out the awesome video!
11. "Ocean In Your Eyes" - Smokey and Miho
This one's also from the "Y Tu Mama Tambien" soundtrack. Apparently the girl was from Cibo Matto, and the guy is from Beck! I had no idea.
12. "Better Together" - Jack Johnson
You knew there had to be a Jack Johnson song here somewhere, right?
13. "Put Your Records On" - Corinne Bailey Rae
This song is here because of the line that goes "Sipping tea at a bar by the roadside (just relax, just relax)."
I grew up watching black-and-white Beatles performances, and I remember having one of my very first little girl crushes on the very young Paul McCartney in those videos. I read somewhere that this song came to George Harrison as he was walking around the garden on a beautiful spring day. I think that if a beautiful spring day were a song, it really would sound like this.
15. "Summertime" - The Sundays
Probably one of the oldest songs on this list, and a timeless favorite for me. A long time ago, in another blog, I wrote this to describe it: "Catchy tune, interesting lyrics, totally feel-good - it's the perfect non-love song for the summer."
16. "Walkin' on Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves
I was born in the 80's, but unfortunately, as I was too young, I have no memories of that decade. But I do remember discovering music from that time when I got a little older, and this one is definitely one of my favorites. It's just so fun to listen to! You can't not cheer up after listening to this song.
Everyone and their mother probably has a casette tape of this stashed somewhere so I won't be putting a link to the song here, but I am posting this video from one of my favorite books and movies, "High Fidelity", where a hilarious Jack Black plays "Walkin' on Sunshine" and just goes crazy. Happy summer everyone!
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