TUNEAGE: LET'S GET CLOSER (9th Annual Valentine's Day Playlist)

Here it is! The 9th Annual Valentine's Day Playlist!! YAY! i'm not going to lie, this almost didn't happen--mostly because i was feeling a little unmotivated and because my internet is literally a piece of shit. Guess who's going to yell at time warner on Tuesday? Yea.


A N Y W A Y
This year's theme is all about the dance moves--i'm sorry (not sorry) but mostly all of what i listened to last year and the beginning of this year has been nothing but dance and funk tracks--disco here, italo-disco there, nu-disco everywhere. There is nothing wrong with disco! My personal life motto is I DISCO IN THE MORNING AND I ROCK N ROLL AT NIGHT. Give it a try, i bet you won't be disappointed. Oh and don't worry, i threw in a few familiar newbies for ya ;)

I preferably would like you guys to listen to this on 8tracks as there are two songs that are not on Spotify which i feel really complete and add to the playlist. However, if you're on the go, or at work, feel free to listen to the spotify version--it's still good!

Tracklist:  LET'S GET CLOSER

1. I Feel Love // Donna Summer
2. Catch Me Tiger // Arabesque (only avail on 8tracks)
3. Come On Closer // Pineapples (only avail on 8tracks)
4. I Want Your Love // Chromatics
5. Strawberry Letter 23 // The Brothers Johnson
6. Voulez-Vous // ABBA
7. We Are Explorers // Cut Copy
8. Feeling Without Touching // Glass Candy
9. I Need Somebody To Love Tonight // Sylvester
10. Falling // Welcome Back Sailors
11. The Greatest // KING
12. Ring My Bell // Anita Ward
13. Hands All Over Me // Tamaryn
14. Rock Your Baby // George McCrae
15. Desert Rose (War Prayer) // INC.
16. Lost Souls/Eelings // Trust
17. Blue Honey // Pop Levi
18. How Deep Is Your Love // Bee Gees
19. Share The Night // The Clientele
20. The Moment // Tame Impala

Let's Get Closer from atthisvolume on 8tracks Radio.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON SPOTIFY

ALLLLLRIIIIIGHHHT

i'm out. until next year. lol.

xoxo,

Leeds.

TUNEAGE: SONGS FOR PAST LOVES (8th Annual Valentine's Day Playlist)

Happy Valentine’s Day friends! I know i have taken what you may call an online sabbatical, but you really didn’t think i was going to miss out on my annual playlist did you?

This year’s playlist almost didn’t happen. I didn’t have a theme and time was running out until i had a very enlightening conversation last night that led me to this theme about Past Loves. It doesn’t matter if we no longer speak to these people, or if we even hate them, or whatever, it’s all about the fact that they were there and what you felt for them happened. Because no matter what, these people, these experiences have helped shape who we are today whether we like it or not. I have learned over the years to no longer hold any rancor for anyone whom i believed to have had a great romantic impact on my life because at that moment in time, i truly did love them. I learned at least one thing from each and every boy i ever fell in love with, even if with some, it was more of an unrequited love. Each track can be equated to a certain boy—sometimes two tracks! Every time i hear that particular song, it always ties back to a memory of that person. Why should we be slaves to our past and let it have a negative connotation? If it weren’t for a lot of the heartbreak or sorrow i have experienced i would not be the person i am today. Everything is an experience we can learn from, whether good or bad. This playlist is dedicated to the boys of my past, as a thanks for being part of my life. 

I encourage YOU now, to embrace your past, your great loves, including your “mistakes”, and take a moment to think about how they have shaped who you are today. Make a playlist following the same rules and share them with me! Only rules are, the songs have to be in chronological order (last track is where you are now), the song has to always remind you of this person—don’t choose a song that you think is fitting, it just has to be a song that your brain equates with a certain person, and even if you hate that certain song….it must be used. It’s part of the history after all!

Have a fabulous day my loves. 

Tracklist & Spotify playlist linked below. I might do an upload and 8tracks if there’s enough interest. 

8th Annual Valentine’s Day Playlist: 

Songs for Past Loves

1. Hands Down // Dashboard Confessional
2. Everlong (acoustic version) // Foo Fighters
3. Shooting Stars // Ozma
4. Rest of My Life // Rilo Kiley
5. Nothing Better // The Postal Service
6. I Want You to Want Me // Cheap Trick
7. Uber Legitimate // Mates of State
8. A Man Like Me // Beulah
9. Life Effect // Stars
10. If She Wants Me // Belle & Sebastian
11. Broken Social Scene // Swimmers
12. With Arms Outstretched // Rilo Kiley
13. Digital Love // Daft Punk
14. Far Away // Cut Copy
15. Let’s Call It Off // Peter Bjorn & John
16. My Delirium // Ladyhawke
17. After All // Sonder Lerche
18. French Navy // Camera Obscura
19. Come Saturday // The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
20. (Please) Don’t Break Me // Catwalk
21. Temptation // New Order

B-Sides

22. Our Deal // Best Coast
23. Over My Head // Fleetwood Mac
24. Magic Man // Heart

 


(originally posted on tumblr)

egg business

Easter egg hunts at my sister's house are serious business. 

here are a few photos of this year's craziness. 

we never dyed eggs as kids so i always look forward to watching my sister's kids do this.

i can't believe they're growing up so fast. secondly, i can't believe my sister has three kids. i am the lucky one though, because at the end of the day, i get to go home to peace and quiet. ;) 

the little one. she kills me

tuneage: loveishard (7th Annual Valentine's Day Playlist)

you guys, love is hard. you'll have good times but you will definitely have bad times. through your frustrations and all the mercury in retrogrades the year throws at you, you have times of great happiness. it's confusing, and it's crazy, and definitely unpredictable. you just have to be angry if you need to, then you have to reflect and then you have to decide a course of action. so you have your fights and if you choose to, you make up. sometimes it's just little things, other times it's big things that can be deal breakers. it's just a complicated mess, but we do it anyway. so yes, love is hard, and it's hard work. however, there's a satisfaction in having something you work hard for. 

7th Annual Valentine's Day Playlist

1. Little Jungles - Drive Yerself Crazy

2. Sailor & I - Talking to a Wall

3. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

4. The Clash - Should i Stay or Should I Go

5. The Beatles - We Can Work It Out

6. Austra - Forgive Me

7. The Jesus & Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up

8. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crystal Days

9. Patti Smith - Because The Night

10. Chapterhouse - Breather

11. Grimes - Symphonia IX (my wait is u)

12. Pop Levi - You Don't Gotta Run

13. Active Child - Take Shelter

14. Patrick Wolf - Together

15. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Us

16. Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube

17. Wild Nothing - Nocturne

18. Beach Fossils - Face It


download here
learn to import a playlist here
listen on spotify (although i don't suggest it because it won't play a third of the songs)

or listen on 8tracks:

loveishard from atthisvolume on 8tracks Radio.