“Street Life” – Randy Crawford. Because it contains multitudes, and every single one of them rocks your soul. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days STREET LIFE THE CRUSADERS by avajra
“Wise Enough” – Lamb. Something in this strange anthem strikes like lightning and stays with you for days. An altered state. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV5o8bqK3w
“The Consort” – Rufus Wainright. Am I the only one who thinks this is the perfect wedding song? “Together we’ll wreak havoc.” – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Go here.
“Thieves in the Temple” – Prince. Stirs my blood more than his other songs. My band covers this acoustically on YouTube. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi2XEXXNYA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxlBIx1rqhc
“Joy” – Lucinda WIlliams. A gritty, foot-stomping, soul-searing manifesto. If you don’t have enough joy, go get some!! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s a Youtube sample of the studio version: Here’s a live version:
“Set Your Arms Down” – Warpaint. What will happen when you fall into this swirling fever-dream? Will you love better? – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Feeling of Gaze” – The Twilight Singers. Rousing, tender, sexy and blue. Bless the wounded healer that is Greg Dulli. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s an entry for Feeling of Gaze at Whosampled.com. And here’s a live version:
“The Magic” – Joan As Police Woman. Punk + RnB, slippery and sweet, twisting + turning till it feels just right. Illuminates. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Dracula Moon” – Joan Osborne. Bite down on it! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“She’s Long Gone” – The Black Keys. Dirty, gritty, and true, like a freight train running off the tracks. You cant look away. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Rope On Fire” – Morphine. No other band in history has come close to their smoldering baritone ferocity; this song is perfect. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUAQJxKfSfw
“Nightbirds”- Ryan Adams. Swim around inside these simple piano chords and shimmering strings. Indigo-blue and haunting. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s the tune on Rhapsody. And here’s a live version:
“The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore” – PJ Harvey. When I need release I plug in, turn my amp up loud and rip this out. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5AjPyxaPI
“Helpless” – KD Lang. One of the greatest living singers covers Neil Young. Renders you (title). When I miss Vancouver I put it on. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2z9TO0bfQ
“Lover You Should’ve Come Over”- Jeff Buckley. To know me is to love this song. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Ai Du” – Ry Cooder + Ali Farka Toure. Strange, sultry blues/ afro-pop hybrid, + shivery haunting vocals. Like nothing else. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Ali Farka Toure-Ai Du – Funny videos are here
“Traveling Woman”- Bat For Lashes. Voice-stretcher, spirit-soother, breakup-helper. Gentle yet unbelievably powerful. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Kitchenette” – Grinderman. Sexy. Saw them last year. Nick Cave was a revelation. How come more people don’t know about him? – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s a live vid:
“Bleeding Muddy Water” – Mark Lanegan. His voice is the sound of the center of the earth; molten, heaving, and 1000 degrees. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Reckoner”- Radiohead. Made me want to sing again after a long dark period of ambivalence in 2009. Heaven on earth. Sublime. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmNG2D81x3Y
“Miss You Much” Janet Jackson. Guilty pleasure? How come I dont feel guilty? Puts a smile on + rocks you hard. Invigorates. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Genuine Pt 1”- Sharon Jones. Helluva singer, never sounded better than this live LP from ’11. Much respect long live SJ!! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“So Alive” – Love and Rockets. Silky and sexy with a tough swagger. I used to pretend I was one of the back-up singers. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KDnzvGWYCA
“Hard On For War”- Mudhoney. Saw them last night at the Tractor, complete with moshing and crowd-surfing. Epic. Seattle. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Stand Behind the Music” – Anjulie. Going out to all the girls + women I know in the music, biz esp my girl @celiachavez ! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Ice Blink Luck”- Cocteau Twins. Strums you from the inside + lifts you with soaring melodies + perfect beats. Ends elated. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“England”- The National. Gorgeous, anthemic, heart-soothing hymn to heart-break. Angels appear just before the last verse. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://youtu.be/7ZuqapfB_x8
“Sinner”- Neil Finn. Spooky magic, with killer bass + spine-tingling atmospherics. He has known great loneliness and lived. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Sweet the Sting”- Tori Amos. Gospel-flavored hymn to being female, a musician, + a flirt. And obsessed with tea. Familiar? – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Slide Away”- The Verve. Dreamy, creamy reverb drenched guitars + serpentine bass+ crashing drums mixed perfectly. Sexytime. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days