Random Song: “Da Da Da” by Trio

I love when commercial radio reminds me of a song I haven’t heard in years.

Wikipedia reminded me that I know this song because of a Volkswagen commercial. Thank goodness that commercial brought it into my life. And the video is so very fun. I like that the singer seems to be having a fun time with his serious sounding song. And some great Ferris-wheel-type stuff going on outside the window.

Random Song “How I Get Myself Killed” by Indigo De Souza

This must be another Sunday Brunch find. There is a slight chance I was looking it up based on notes from a Perfect Playlist session I heard on the radio on the way to the grocery store. There was one where a musician was the person picking the playlist and he had some great choices I did my best to remember until I could stop driving and take some notes.

It’s a good song for a Friday night drive to the grocery store in the rain.

Random Song: Reflecting Light by Sam Phillips

Sam Phillips was the composer for Gilmore Girls (she’s the voice of the “la la” filler that runs throughout the series). But Phillips says that she wasn’t the one who chose her song for a pivotal point in the series, that was creator Amy Sherman-Palidno’s choice.

But it’s a perfect choice for the scene in question and it comes back a few other times in the series. I probably would have liked this song anyway, had I encountered it outside the series, but it will probably always elicit an “awwww” because of the way it was used in the series.

Peggy’s Sunday Brunch Double Feature

The song “Forever Young” came into my life in the spring of 1991, when I was a sophomore in high school, and the seniors were getting ready to wrap up and head off into their futures. I first heard the Alphaville version, and it seemed like a kind of timeless song. With several decades of hindsight, I can tell it wasn’t a terribly old song. It screams early 80s. The internet tells me it’s from 1984.

But it’s the kind of song that does well with covers and I enjoyed both versions that Peggy LaPoint played. And you can listen to them too!

I enjoy when the Sunday Brunch playlist doesn’t have an album cover for the song playing. Hip and obscure.