There is so much free, legal and new music to be found on the web...terrific free, legal, new music. Check out this:

Spin's March and April issues (both chock full of information on the familiar and new in music) have free samplers. I've listened to the March one and it's wonderful!!! Listen here

...also don't forget Amazon has an awesome MP3 store with daily free listens and a download newsletter you can get in your inbox every Tuesday.

Each week there is always at least one new free sampler with more than a dozen songs to get you hooked on groups you've probably never heard before, but are still worth a listen!!:)

A great Gloria Estefan song that has held up well since its release in the late 90s is "I Wish You." Not only is it pretty musically and one of her stronger songs vocally, "I Wish You" is very poignant with what it has to say and always makes me think of forgiveness and how it feels when we're no longer bitter towards the person we've been hurt by most. It's a powerful song and always gives me goosebumps when I hear it!

But I'm still seeking a great song that captures the pain of wanting to ask someone else for forgiveness for something you've never forgiven yourself for. I know exactly who I'd dedicate that song to if I had the nerve. Sometimes there are things some of us have done in our past that keep us up on quiet nights like tonight and we'd do anything to say how sorry we are...


I Wish You lyrics


The day I was born I knew a lot of things
But now that I’m grown I’m just remembering where I have been
Might of we met before
Suddenly something just led you back to my door
Looking to settle the score, but no more

Deceive me, hurt and mislead me
All that I wish you is love
Confuse me, damage and use me
All that I wish you is love

Believe me it’s hard to turn the other cheek
Faithful and kind might be confused for weak, an innocent streak
Learning a lot from you
Making me stronger each time you think I’ve been beat
Whatever you scatter, you reap, but doubt me

Defeat me, shame and mistreat me
All that I wish you is love
Despise me, lie, criticise me
All that I wish you is love

Then I forget but I forgive you, if it happens again
The way that I grew, I owe it to you
I have you to thank

Deceive me, hurt and mislead me
All that I wish you is love
Confuse me, damage and use me
All that I wish you is love

Defeat me, shame and mistreat me
All that I wish you is love
Despise me, lie, criticise me
All that I wish you is love
All that I wish you is love

[ From : http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/gloria-estefan-lyrics/i-wish-you-lyrics.html ]

 

It's quiet tonight (or should I say this morning?) and somewhat unnerving to be greeted by a voice from distant past...or maybe two voices.

On an old discards pile at work today I found a copy of Into the Light by Gloria Estefan, an album recorded shortly after her amazing recovery from a bad tour bus accident in mid-1990. I found the disc earlier this, no earlier yesterday, afternoon, but didn't think to put it in my player until just now. Also found: my old copy of Cuts Both Ways.

Both these albums were pretty much my musical mainstay during my time at college, just like Primitive Love and Let It Loose were constantly playing in my room during high school.

Also from high school: a chance encounter with a former classmate while I was on the information desk at my job.

The music and the classmate both brought absurdly vivid memories I hadn't thought of in years, maybe even decades...a kind of time travel that is quite jarring for something that only happened in my mind.

The music (that poor, sweet music which was once more of a friend to me than any living non-relative when I was a teenager) has not held up that well in all this time, the classmate (I'm happy to say) has!

The music seems duller and sillier than I remember it being (even if the memories it brings will always be a part of me), the classmate brighter and as friendly as he ever was, maybe even more since it seemed so much easier to talk to him yesterday than it did when I was in school.

What is it about the music from our youth that often doesn't sound so hot after having lived in our memories unchallenged for so long? As we get older, I think we learn to listen to music for music's sake and sometimes realize what we used to love just doesn't sound so great as what we like now, even if what we liked then still has a stronger hold on our heart than what we like now.




   

I found the article below comforting in an odd kind of way...maybe because I'm not asking for acceptance, just a little less hate from the religious community.


read here>>>  here

The book it refers to (Love Is An Orientation) sounds like a great resource for the ongoing and always controversial debate over gay rights.

One of the points the book makes that I agree with is that gays and lesbians do not like being referred to as "homosexuals" (especially in that certain tone far right Christians so often use).

We are more than just sexual creatures (far more!!) and I'm so glad to see a Christian acknowledge that....here's more info on the book:

go here

Under The Radar is one of the best music magazines around!! And in the most recent issue (chock full of the latest info on everyone from Foster the People to Duran Duran) the two part sampler is stupendously spectacular!!!

The first track off the sampler is "Helena Beat" by Foster the People and, if even possible, is better than their previous killer song, "Pumped Up Kicks"!!

Also amazing: Smith Westerns' "All Die Young," Toro Y Moi's "I Will Talk to You,"  Porcelain Raft's "Come Closer," Destroyer's "Kaputt" (oddly reminds me of the Carpenters), Phillip Coggins' "Find Yourself" and the Sun Travellers' "A Thousand Stars" (reminds me of a cross between something The Doors and The Moody Blues might do).

Most interesting is the group Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson's "I'd Rather Listen to Weston." (Cool name, cool title!)


take a look and listen at their site:

http://undertheradarmag.com/sampler/v17

and try code:

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