Day 19: A Song from my Favorite Album

Guess what? It's difficult for me to single out an album I definitely prefer above all the rest. No surprise there. I was going to try, though. I was going to talk about Mumford and Sons, and their CD, Sigh No More. Did you know the album title is a reference to a song from Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing"? I love references to the works of the bard. (English nerd alert.) I guess, since I've mentioned that, the song I'll give you is the title track, "Sigh No More."

This band makes beautiful music. I fell in love with "Little Lion Man" in January, then "The Cave" in the summer, shortly followed by the rest of the album. I like them for their unique sound (gotta love the way they use that banjo) and for their lyrics, in which I personally found some Christian themes. I'm a little disenchanted ever since I realized they're more popular than I initially guessed, because something about mainstream music often turns me off. There's something exciting about loving a band no one else has heard of.

I love that album, but I have to talk about Vampire Weekend too. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which album I prefer. At first, I was a bigger fan of their self-titled album, but when I warmed up to their second album, Contra, I realized I couldn't choose one over the other. I will pick only one song though, not because it stands out as my favorite, but just because it's the one on my mind right now. It's called :"Giving Up the Gun," and it's off their second album.

The reason this song has been on my mind is because of these opening lines: 

"Your sword's grown old and rusty

Underneath the rising sun.

It's locked up like a trophy, 

Forgetting all the things it's done."

The last time I heard these opening lines, I thought, "That's it. That's why I started my blog." As a writer, I felt I wasn't exercising my gift at all, that maybe my talent was going to dry up with disuse. So I thought a blog would be a good way to get my sword back out of the confines of the trophy case and wield it with pride. And now I'm writing "every day" (sorry day 18 was late. I have all this work to do for class...)