Mia's Music Monday: Kinky Shades of Blue

My husband recently discovered the guitar god, Joe Bonamassa. As per usual, he decided to use his discovery to expand my musical repertoire and convinced me to listen to Different Shades of Blue. 

Picture it. I was baking muffins. Chocolate with chocolate chips. (They were for my daughter, of course. I'm diabetic. I can't have them. No matter how tasty they are. And trust me, they were going to be positively orgasmic.) Anyway, the muffins were coming out of the oven when I heard the lyrics to Different Shades of Blue. I stopped dead and almost burned myself. I thought, "Holy shit sticks!" 

Why? You ask.

Because the song struck every cord I have. It was like Mr. Bonamassa had written the song for Thane Sorenson from In Love, There Was You. So to those of you who ask me about what I'm listening to while writing, this one is for you.

Kisses,

~Mia Ashlinn

Different Shades of Blue

Lyrics

The sun's been shinin' down on me day and night

Gettin' away with murder, livin' a lucky life

All good things finally come to an end

Hit ya like a train if you try to beat it

Everybody knows that she broke your heart

Everybody knows that it's tearing you apart

The row you've been sailin' on sprung a leak

You won't admit, but it's startin' to make you weep

When you got nothing left to lose

Might sound good, but I'm not sure that's true

You carry the pain around and that's what sees you through

The different shades of blue

Tell by the way you hang your head

The way you cast your eyes and things you haven't said

You've gathered past ten years written on your face

Your whole damn life's been one big race

Everybody goes there whether they want to or not

Everybody starts to hold on to what they got

And start to settle in with the long hall

Real life baby, oh, you can't have it all

When you got nothing left to lose

Might sound good, but I'm not sure that's true

You carry the pain around and that's what sees you through

The different shades of blue

When you got nothing left to lose

Might sound good, but I'm not sure that's true

You carry the pain around and that's what sees you through

The different shades of blue

Music Monday

Yesterday, I was playing around on iTunes, which I do often by the way, and found Whatever: Hits of the '90s. Me being me, I just had to check out the list of songs. Oh yeah, I'm nosy like that. And boy oh boy, did I hit the music jackpot. Sir-Mix-A-Lot, House of Pain, TLC, Duncan Sheik, Diamond Rio, and John Michael Montgomery all together in one place? It was like a music orgasm. Did I mention the masterminds behind the brilliant (and quite possibly best) compilation ever threw in some Naughty by Nature, Coolio, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and Jane's Addiction. Oh yeah, they did. And man, I love them for it.

If you can't tell (which you probably can seeing that I'm as transparent as a sheet of glass when it comes to my feelings), I have a thing - okay, an obsession - for '90s music. Maybe it's because I was a product of the '90s or maybe not. I don't know. But either way, I can't help but love the tunes that filled the airwaves back then. 

So since it is Music Monday, that means you and I are taking a trip down music memory lane with a few of my favorite hits from Whatever: His of the 90s.

Who could forget Hanson, their long hair, boyish faces, and hippy-happy-highly addictive songs? Certainly not me.

Country line dancing to Neal McCoy's Wink. Need I say more?

Not a clue why I love this song so much. I just do. 

The pants alone make U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer a classic.

Dangerous Minds and Gangsta's Paradise go hand-in-hand. Since the movie was so fantastic, the song was, too.

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As with everything, there were a few songs that I personally would have loved to see on Whatever: Hits of the '90s. Songs like these...

Tubthumping by Chumbawumba

   

Runaway Train by Soul Asylum

Tootsee Roll by 69 Boyz

And the ever-controversial Waterfalls by TLC

The list goes on...

and on...

and on... 

But alas, the blog cannot. I would hate for the server to go BOOM! So until next time, sing it loud and sing it proud.

XOXOXO,

Mia