Diario → Conjuring magic: 5+ songs atop the rest

My choices are not primarily about musicality, voice, even lyrics really. And I'm probably showing quite a bit of musical ignorance here (as well as my unrepentant popular commonplace musical taste) - but these are the songs that hit me emotionally - they evoke strong feelings, hopes and dreams. When I hear them I want their magic to last forever.

These are the songs I'll NEVER turn off the radio on or skip on my music player. As a matter of fact - these are the songs I often have to play a second time immediately thereafter.

The Top 5

#1 Crazy

Conveyed magic: Being in love with life in spite of this being a sometimes painful insensible world.

Other magic: Seal's smooth as silk voice and the music that makes you want to sway with it.

Favourite bit:
And through a fractal on a breaking wall,
I see you my friend, and touch your face again

Everytime I hear those lines I literally can feel my husband stroke my cheek to comfort me.

#2 Drops Of Jupiter

Conveyed magic: The story of someone who loves so profoundly they will keep on doing so even though the loved one leaves them for a larger more magical world. But he never stops hoping the the magic of his love will outlast the glittering world.

Other magic: The music and the lyrics both match the longing, the currently unrequited love, and both the pain and joy in the singer's heart.

Favourite bit:
Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you’re wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone
Conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me

The most wonderful summation of the magic of every day love I've every heard.

#3Mr. Blue Sky

Conveyed magic: Things may go wrong for a while, right for while, wrong for a while - but no matter how bad they get, that blue sky will come again.

Other magic: While the voices sound sad and longing the whole effect of the song is to make me want to bounce and bop - making me believe it all the more.

Favourite bit: The wonderful harmonies.

#4 Smooth

Conveyed magic: The heat and longing of obsession.

Other magic: When I listen to it, I'm there in the sweltering heat of the tropics - 7 inches from the mid day sun

Favourite bits: Rob Thomas' voice and Santana's virtuosity on the guitar. Who could ask for more than that?

#5 Happy Together

Conveyed magic: Sometimes romantic love works. Forever.

Other magic: The perfect pop song. It stays with you yet it never aggrevates.

Favourite bits: Has to be the vocal harmonies. (And the throwaway line How is the weather at the end, that always makes me smile.)

Honourable mentions they just miss the top 5 by a hair

Sweet Child o' Mine
Bitch
Kryptonite
Mas Tequila
Black Velvet

And one more that it is yet too soon to tell if it will stand the passage of time


Harder to Breathe