Feeling Sentimental

Do you ever hear a song and it just instantly gets to you? You've never heard it before, but after hearing it just once, you immediately love it? What is it about music that does that? You may have noticed that I added a new slideshow at the bottom of the page, accompanied by a song called, "My Idea of Heaven" by Leigh Nash. I don't know why, but as soon as I heard this song, I loved it. That got me thinking about all of my favorite songs - Norah Jones' "Come Away with Me"; "Never an Easy Way", by Morcheeba; The Sundays' awesome version of the Stones' "Wild Horses", and of course the classic "The Way You Look Tonight", by the one and only Frank Sinatra. I realized that all of these songs have something in common, they are slow, they have a sentimental sound, and a touch of melancholy. I don't think that I'm a melancholy person by nature, but there is something about all of these songs that just gets me every time I hear them.

I love hearing about new music - what are your favorites?