It's All in Your Head

I love music.  I soundtrack most of my day in my head.  I sing as often as I can.  Put a piano in front of me in an empty room and I go to town.  I was raised in a house where music was important and also a constant.  While we aren't a musically inclined family per se, we have a profound love for it in all of its forms.  One of my favorite lines in a movie comes from Elizabethtown when Claire states that some music needs air.  I have loads of songs that I believe sound better with the windows rolled down and a warm breeze dancing through your fingertips.  But, I also have some songs that change into a whole other thing when you listen to them in the quiet of a dark room with your headphones on.  It doesn't matter how fancy (or not fancy they are).  There's something about a song playing just for you.  Only you are hearing it that exact way at that exact moment.  You can focus on all the little intricacies in the instrumentation.  The lyrics are streaming directly into your ears.  For me it is kind of a magical experience.  So, I share with you some of these songs that I urge you to try through your headphones.

Explosions - Ellie Goulding

All This Time - OneRepublic

XO - Beyonce

Fell in Love Without You (Acoustic) - Motion City Soundtrack

Tornado - Jonsi

Be Still - The Fray

If I Lose Myself (Acoustic) - OneRepublic

Down in the Valley - The Head and the Heart

Possibility - Lykke Li

Til the World Ends - Britney Spears

Welcome Home - Radical Face

All of the Lights - Kanye West

Helpless - Mads Langer

Hang With Me (Acoustic) - Robyn

My Love - Sia

The Weight of Us - Sanders Bohlke

Last Time - Paper Route

Down - Jason Walker

Time of Your Life - Green Day

The General Specific - Band of Horses

Even if you aren't a headphones kind of person - give them a try!  What are some of your favorites?