Jukebox the Ghost

 Nope. No April Fools joke. I decided to finally start blogging again and I feel too strongly about how great this band is to joke. Although I suppose we could always go the route of "Joke"box the Ghost?... But like I said, no jokes, "this is for reals." (ala Nacho Libre... if you've seen that).

Anywho, here's the PLAYLIST

I first heard "Hold It In" on Last.fm, decided it was awesome but stuck in my head. So I listened to it 5 or 6 times to get it unstuck (usually works) then after it was GOOD and stuck in my head, I listened to more of their first album. Then a few days later I heard "Summer Sun" on Pandora and realized they were full on awesome, listened to the rest of their albums and then bought all of them.

I know, right? I've been racking my brain to think of the last band I came across that was awesome enough for me to buy ALL their albums and I couldn't. I've ranted about Switchfoot, Guster & Coldplay but I don't like all of their songs. The songs I like, I LOVE. They speak to my soul, you know? And even though I don't have the same, intense connection with Jukebox, I like ALL of their songs (well, more like 90%) but STILL! And it keeps getting better and better!

The first album was great. Heads up for some swearing (Beady eyes, Static to the heart, Matter of Time) but that aside, their music MOVES. It's dynamic, engaging, fresh, energetic, versatile, clever, extremely talented, entertaining, fun and just plain FREAKING AWESOME!!

Please, please, PLEASE! listen to the play list!!! (Can't put enough exclamation points on there) Then listen to their albums in their entirety. Best thing you could possibly do for your musical life right now.  If not the albums, at least the playlist, if not the playlist at least Hold it in, Victoria, Lighting Myself on Fire, Schizophrenia, Empire, Nobody, Somebody, Everybody Knows, The Spiritual, At Last.

Aaaaaaaaaaand we're back.

And by "we" I mean "me" and by "back" I mean, I'm going to try this again and see how long I stick around. Basically we're in a not-committal relationship. If you (the reader/ the internet) and my blog were a FB couple, our status would be "it's complicated."

However, I have a few plans in the works that might make this smoother sailing than before. I'm currently exploring different music websites (rdio, last.fm, etc) and have been on spotify for a while now so listening has gotten easier (for me that is... don't know about you). I hope to keep my posts short and sweet and I'm thinking of putting the band/ songs in the title so as to make looking back through past posts easier (in case any of y'all actually browse past posts, that is). But I'm not sure. I just love my weird, non-sensical titles... like I said, it's complicated. But I'm willing to change to make this work. What about you? ;)

At any rate, expect changes soon but in the meantime, here's some songs celebrating my back-ness...

Click HERE for playlist.

Spoilers: they're mostly just songs that have "I'm back" in them. Not all of them are awesome. But the last one IS. Period. One of the best songs ever. Let me know if I missed any of your favorite "I'm back" songs.