World Cup LUCK
Traditionally this is the time of year when offices up and down the land enter into a variety of competitions or lotteries to see which team will win the world cup. Some of us may be sitting pretty while most of us are left with the overwhelming feeling that we’ve been had by the entire thing… as usual my luck scored a country that has no chance of winning, whatever that means about my status in the lottery of life I don’t know. I just hope they win!
But it’s interesting many people associate little things in life as signs of a bigger plan. Perhaps they are but sometimes they are just runs of good and or bad luck. Or so I keep telling myself after all for the past 3 years I have always had the same country in the office sweepstake at some point it has got to change… you have to keep telling yourself or maybe you need to work out why the office doesn’t like you.
For all the lucky and unlucky sweepstakers out there a little bit of pop loveliness from Kylie Minogue…yes I know its cheesy and not very football related but it is summer and if you’re going to be that serious about it then I suppose you wouldn’t be in the office football lottery.
Staying with the theme of luck the weather has been unseasonably extra hot which is always lucky cue lots of wonderful good garden parties and BBQ’s. A good BBQ can often be ruined by bad food or rain but then again even those bits of bad luck have their own charm, that over cooked hot dog and undercooked burger are just as important as the music that goes with it. We all have our ‘summer playlist’ and songs for summer or songs that define ‘our summer’ but summer is the season of growth and colour so why not try out a few of these little numbers in your playlists.
By the Kings of Leon “Back Down South” is taken from their album Come Around Sundown, this little gem is the summer of the deep south. From the slide guitar riff through to the video itself. There is something reminiscent about the lyrics to a time of care free days and holidays away from the daily grind. The trade mark drawl of the Kings of Leon takes you back to a lazy summer evening in the garden with a lovely chilled cold beer and good friends helping to blow the cobwebs and dust of city life away even for a short time, this is a song that doesn’t try too hard to be perfect all it asks of the listener is to enjoy summer.
Perhaps a more modern number by Superorganism catches your BBQ. “Night time” is rather like the band a wonderfully quirky mish mash of international lovely influences. The dreamy lead vocals and backing vocals for any summer BBQ will get people bopping along. The video compliments the song so perfectly with its grainy VHS quality it speaks to the bands ‘collective’ way of mixing art and music. This song in any playlist can’t help but bring the listener into a relaxed easy going mood which in the current stifling climate is no bad thing.
Something for the rock fans out there in this summer heat a very simple classic Guns ‘n’ Roses Paradise City. A BBQ without this in its playlist just isn’t a BBQ really. Very much the band at their creative peak this is the excuse anyone needs to bust out the air guitar in fact GO ON you know you want to be Slash so I dare you all to be Slash the best Slash at your party gets a prize!!
Of course one can’t have ‘Paradise City’ without a bit of rain and for that you’ll need an umbrella and you can’t go wrong with Rhianna’s Umbrella. Alright not strictly ‘Summer’ in content but Rhianna never fails to deliver a wonderful anthem with a pumping bass that gets people dancing on the lawn or in the room.
then again if you’re going to have a BBQ in the rain you might as well chuck in ‘Singin in the Rain’ easily one of the greatest musicals but one of the best songs to combine love and rain in seamless perfection.
A more modern twist being the Mint Royale version equally beautiful but rather like the perfect Gin and Tonic they’ve added a twist of club lemon to make it that little more beautiful and summery.
So the above are just some choices to chuck into the summer playlist but it comes back to the start it’s all about luck.
Perhaps its best to end with an uncharacteristically cheerful Jonny Cash proving even the most serious and intense of people can be made to show a softer side when summer comes. ‘You are my Sunshine’ sing by a gravelly voiced legend. PERFECT!!!
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