The Music Moves Me Monday linkup has, heretofore, linked blogs that actually embed music videos. This web site does not embed videos; we only link to them. Nevertheless, this web site accepts with pleasure Curious as a Cathy's invitation to join the linkup.
What I post become playlists, but I don't plug them into a device for continuous sound. I use music links, when I come to them in my (almost) daily link hunting, as a prompt to move--if only my feet while continuing to type.
This week's prompt invited songs that promote "positive emotion and energy, order and harmony." Given that that's what music inherently does, that even when songs express sadness and confusion singing them or moving to the beat creates some pleasant emotional energy and order in our brains, that could be just about anything...
I'm never sure how anything is likely to make anyone else feel. I know we all react differently. Part of the difference has to do with how aware we, the technorati, are of our privilege and empowerment. People in the blogosphere don't have the best paid jobs on Earth and are disproportionately likely to be living with disabilities. Sometimes some of us feel that we can't do anything about situations but lie around and feel bad. I say we can at least build awareness of those situations and work for the changes we want to see. Feeling bad is for duh normies. We are (or should be) keyboard warriors.
Some people seem to have an emotional filter. They want to know what's going on only if it's going to make them feel a certain way. I've tried, but I can't even imagine how that works for them. Regardless of how I'm going to feel about things, I want to know.
But I get about half of the music links here from the Meow
which is the writing and beta reading blog for the author known as Priscilla Ann Bird. (If she and I have any common ancestors, it would have been over 200 years ago. We've not met in real life.) Her music selections are very eclectic, but incline toward a cheerful hippie philosophy as expressed in the classic works of Tom Petty, Neil Young, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, and the Kinks. Her stories do have an emotional filter. They are speculative fiction of a special,grandmotherly kind. Most of them, by volume, are about the cryptid creatures of a mythical Baker National Forest, and their human friends, and how they solve problems. The first revision of each scene or story goes on the blog, and people comment on that and linger to share their news, read each other's news, share links and chat about what-all they're finding on the Internet. It's a very gentle, friendly site. Some of the music is loud and discordant but the overall tone of the site is pleasant, orderly, and harmonious. It's recommended to people who like order and harmony.
I imagine that, with that set of links, each day's music link log will have an overall tendency toward order and harmony...even if one orderly and harmonious poet whose blog I follow shares memories of listening to and playing punk rock, and last week another orderly and harmonious poet shared videos of the songs from a college musical about a young man dying from cancer, and lots of people want to post "Halloween party songs." Some music is meant to reach some people where they are, emotionally. Music, generally, is likely to lead those people to a better emotional place. And this collection is being assembled on a Sunday, so some people are going to share Christian songs.
Enough preamble. Today's music links, more or less in the order I come to them:
Tom Petty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRyOoVz5WM (Ringo Starr was in this one, too.)
Phil Wickham. (Christian content. For first-time visitors, the rule here is that religious thoughts and reviews of religious books are posted on Sundays, but religious songs may pop up anywhere. Also, although I personally am a Christian, religious content here is not exclusively Christian. This web site respects all religious beliefs, even if it's wary of large religious organizations with a history of seeking political power.)
The Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OEnyBwHrE (Arguably religious content, though then again, knowing them, it might have been about a hangover as easily as about belief in a resurrection...)
Rick Gerdes. (Religious content.)
JJ Cale.
Casting Crowns. (Christian content.)
Robert Gromotka.
Benjamin Britten. (This was a cathedral choir commissioned to perform a non-Christian work.)
Chris Isaak.
Maranatha. (Christian content.)
Roberto Cacciapaglia.
Husker Du. (I think there's an increasing level of confusion and exhaustion toward the end of this album, but we'll get back to harmony.)
America. (Song about drugs or about meditation? One of the best, or one of the worst? Your call.)
Wasted Youth.
Traffic.
Tony Bennett.
Ernest Ranglin.
Joe Bonamassa.
Avishai Cohen.
Five for Fighting.
Uncredited background music in a video of what would normally be early October scenery, though in this El Nino year we're not that far into autumn color yet. Anyway, if you're not having a perfectly beautiful October morning, somebody had one to share.
Eddie Rabbitt.
Johannes Bornlof.
Duke Ellington.
Aaron Gold.
Ella Langley.
Emancipator.
Jo Boxers.
Chequerboard.
Batch. (Rastafarian content.)
Ludovico Einaudi.
Steve Winwood.
Gerry Rafferty.
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