Replay.

Told you I had more to say on this topic.

So, in the great big replay of summer, I also seem, each year, to stumble across THE summer album. It kind of just shows itself each year, and ends up being the CD that is the backing track of my days. There have been many. A couple of biggies...Johnny Mayer's "Room for Squares" in 2002, I do believe, and Fleetwood Mac's "Say You Will" in 2003. Alanis Morisette's "So Called Chaos" became my anthem in the summer of 2004, seems fitting for the summer I had a 3 year old and 6 year old to deal with!

There are a few years I can't really pinpoint, and of course, my iTunes obsession started around 2006, and I began to piecemeal my music. But 2008 and 2009 saw me remembering that FULL albums of music have merit, and flow, and stories to tell, with distinct beginnings, middles and endings. Colbie Calliet's "Coco" saw me through the end of summer in 2007 in particular, and and then "Breakthrough" came to sing me through the end of the summer of 2009.

This summer, Sting has already brought me many, many hours of listening pleasure, and with a recording of REPLAYS no less! Every song on "Symphonicites," is an orchestral reinterpretation of his old stuff, with the Police and solo. HELLO? Does that fit my summer replay theory or what? Then, yesterday, I bought Sheryl Crow's latest, "100 Miles from Memphis." While listing to it and totally getting into the groove, she started this vamped up sexy version of "Sign Your Name," the old Terrence Trent D'Arby song from the 80's. Suddenly I wasn't driving Rt. 481 on the way home from a doctor's appointment, but I was back, in highschool, pining over a boy, and thinking thoughts that I really shouldn't have been thinking, but were oh so fun! I am having a strong feeling that this CD just may be the soundtrack of the summer of 2010. Thanks for the replay, fellow Sheryl...I knew you'd come through.