I’ve been listening to this song a lot recently, I love the rock of it but I also like the fact that the “Devil’s Party” sounds like a blast! “At the devil’s party/Nothing’s a sin/At the devil’s party/We know where you’ve been.” Sounds like a pretty inclusive and nonjudgemental group, to me. And somehow, even [...]

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Bear with me, here. I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do He said you can’t go hatin’ others who have done wrong to you Sometimes we get angry but we must not condemn Let the good Lord do his job, you just pray for them I pray your brakes go [...]

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I love Natalie Merchant. I especially love the name of the album this is off of (Motherland; from her, it doesn’t sound nationalistic but goddess-centric). This song especially speaks to me for some reason. I imagine each verse sung by an earlier generation of women, each who fell victim to what she warns against; each [...]

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I’m not a huge fan of war-glorifying holidays, especially when they degenerate into an excuse to eat, drink, and buy to excess. Memorial Day certainly fits that bill. But, underneath the Uncle Sams who want me to buy a new car, there is a respect for those who fell in the wars our country saw [...]

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Some of the bits of this song annoy me, but I love the repeated chorus: “How do you keep your feet on the ground/When you know you were born to fly‽” It also reminds me of this necklace. I think we all fly when other people aren’t watching—especially if we haven’t learned yet that we [...]

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Let’s call this a Music Monday. I have always loved “Walking in Memphis” by Marc Cohn. It was the kind of religion I understood, even when I was young. the original: When the Divine appears to people in the old testament, they are ordered to remove their shoes, because they tread on sacred ground. Here, [...]

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Ah, iTunes Single of the Week, how I love thee. This has nothing to do with anything that we usually post on here at MoF except that it is my new current favorite song. The video is proof that the ’80s live again and we should all be afraid, very afraid. No real commentary except [...]

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For some reason, John’s request for favorite vampire/zombie movies and books reminded me of this—which is a song and about ghosts. So…yeah, I don’t know what the connection is. I love the simplicity and sweetness of this track and the awesome video made me love it even more.

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I know that Amanda is often ampersanded with Neil Gaiman (and vise versa) these days, but I let myself take a little nostalgic trip back to the days when AFP and Brian Viglione worked a little magic together: Many thanks to my friend Erika for turning me on to this delectable madness, which I somehow [...]

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Also, in the interest of full-disclosure, Shameless Not-Quite-Self Promotion. This is done by a fbfriend/former coworker as part of a contest to choose a music video for the song. The song is by Monsters of Folk (how could I not post something by someone of that abbreviation?!). I’m not quite sure how the winner is [...]

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