Music Bender

We had our prom last weekend, and more proms are coming up fast all around the country, so I figured this would be a good time to put my Top 7 picks for Best Prom Music to finish Prom with. And, yes, this is going to get dangerously cheesy. I’m a sucker for slow songs.

Number 7

Here’s To The Night - Eve 6

Here’s to the nights we felt alive
Here’s to the tears you knew you’d cry
Here’s to goodbye
Tomorrow’s gonna come too soon

Number 6

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden

I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me…

Number 5

Good Riddance - Green Day

“It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time.”

Number 4

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn’t be the same.
‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can’t change.

Number 3

Amazed - Lonestar

I don’t know how you do what you do
I’m so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I want to spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby, I’m amazed by you

Number 2

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

I feel wonderful because I see
The love light in your eyes.
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don’t realize how much I love you.

Number 1

I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith

I don’t wanna close my eyes
I don’t wanna fall asleep
‘Cause I’d miss you, babe
And I don’t wanna miss a thing
‘Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I’d still miss you, babe
And I don’t wanna miss a thing

You know you’re crying.

Chevy created an entirely song-based commercial, which I found kind of lame.

Chevy sings across America

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An independently filmed Doritos commercial featured La Traviata: Libiamo Ne’ Lieti Calici, most notably an integral piece of the soundtrack of the movie “Only You”.

Doritos Distraction

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This (older) Coke commercial that I saw tonight had a favorite of mine “We Could Have Been Anything” by Bugsy Malone.

Give a Little Love

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OF COURSE I have to give mention to K-Fed’s now infamous commercial.

K-Fed’s Front

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And finally, Sheryl Crow’s Revlon commercial, which was pretty poorly done. Meh, but I don’t mind Sheryl Crow’s music so…

Sheryl Crows About Revlon

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Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr Day. Even nearly forty years after his death, Dr. King’s message of tolerance remains just as important and potent in today’s society.

Remembrance of this day couldn’t be as significant as it is without the music that epitomizes the Civil Rights Movement. Songs like this “We Shall Overcome” revive that spirit in all of us, and give us the slightest taste of that age when rights that we take for granted were non-existent.

Remember. And then maybe someday, everyone, everyone on the entire planet can say those words that Dr. King spoke four decades ago: “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.”