It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Sounds of Sunday.  I’m not really 100% digging this Blog Template … and I’m going to head over to the Revolution web site to see if there’s anything new and improved there that I can tweak instead.  This one won’t allow me to place a video on the home page – and I sort of miss having that.   So that’s my lame excuse for not producing a SoS in awhile.

I have been listening to some fantastic music of late – mostly from the Twilight Soundtrack.  My son considers me totally Emo now … all that I’m missing is the black clothing, hair and nail polish apparently.  But you know … I have seen some really great dark colored nail polish.  I totally could see myself wearing that more than I would some sort of fire engine red or pale pink.  I’m not really a girlie girl … I lean towards the most natural look of all – NO MAKEUP!  I didn’t even color my hair until I started going grey – and then I do it only because of necessity.  I don’t feel old enough for grey hair yet .. but every once in awhile I do consider letting it go natural as well just to see what it looks like.

Wait .. scattrerbrained me .. we were talking about MUSIC!   The Twilight soundtrack as a whole is a rather dark collection of music.  Obviously – the movie was about Vampires so you have to expect a little goth in the sound.  But really it’s a brilliant collection – I’ve heard all of the mainstream artists get air time on the radio – so you know it’s good.

Some have criticized “Bellas Lulaby” – which was included on the Soundtrack – as being “too big”.  They want to hear just the piano – because in the book this is all Edward had available to compose the song.  But I like to hear the orchestra behind the piano because it tells the full story.  Without the backing music – the piano would seem too thin.  And we know that love is DEEP … so the lullaby should be as well.

If I had to pick a favorite off the Soundtrack it would have to be … gosh .. that’s difficult.  They’re all good.  So rather than picking my favorite to feature I’ll pick an artist I haven’t featured here before.  They say that Female Rock artists are a dying breed – but then you listen to groups like Paramore to know that girls can rock out just as well as the boys do.

Here’s Decode from the Twilight Soundtrack by Paramore – enjoy!