I haven’t jumped on the ipod bandwagon. I’m tempted because they’re so cute, but since having kids I haven’t been listening to much music. I really enjoy silence when I can get it. But yesterday I was cleaning out the car and found a CD I was supposed to have turned into the library that had fallen under the seat. It was the Indigo Girls. Their new album. Now…these girls are pretty much the complete opposite of me. Yin and Yang, we are. Night and day, hot and cold, whatever you want to call it.
My gosh…it was like finding a long lost love that I hadn’t thought about in a while. I forgot how perfectly their music goes with me. Just in the right range, beautiful harmony, fun…I fell in love with their music just out of high school. I think part of my sentimental love for them is because it speaks FREEDOM to me. I was really coming into my own, and they were always in the background. They were with me on roadtrips with my sister and my girlfriends. They were with me as I was falling in love with my husband. They were with me as I was becoming a woman. My own woman. Screaming with them at the top of my lungs. While they were singing to their lesbian lovers, I was singing to the guy at my side (or in my mind). I can’t even pick one as a for sure favorite. Do yourself a favor and just listen to the samples on amazon of their Retrospective CD. Or for the real deal, I was listening to Rites of Passage during my own rite of passage. Good stuff (except these samples are just too short). A few of the songs just take my breath away.
If you could turn up the volume in my brain, it would sound a lot like that. Some angry, some nice, some mellow, in just the right key and just….cool. They just make me feel more me somehow. I can’t even describe it. But wow. How did I go so long without listening to my OWN soundtrack! Maybe I DO need an ipod, they are WAY better than silence.
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Are you sure? Silence is awful nice sometimes… although, it’s been so long since I’ve heard it…
I’m a huge Indigo Girls fan…although I don’t have any of their new stuff. And my politics aren’t that far off from theirs
Not so militant and more accepting of others though 
And we do audiobooks - the girls love to listen on car rides. I listen while I scrub toilets.
Anyway, you definitely need an ipod. You can put your kids music it on it too
You NEED it. Really. Trust me
super weird that you would bring them up today of all days. i was checking to see if you had posted anything earlier and i noticed that you had indigo girls as one of the tunes you love.
i was going to email you after i saw that to tell you that i am sooooo in love with them (not in the way they might be in love with me) i have been listening to them for about twelve years. one of our (jeff and mine) favorite songs that totally defined our engagement was “power of two”
and so many of their other songs. (mystery, closer to fine, dead mans hill, secure yourself to heaven, thats one that my sister and i love to sing together) they have also touched my life through their great harmonies. love….love….love them
Listen to them often. Have been lucky enough to see them in concert (small venues) and most of their CDs. Just recently downloaded some of my favs on to my new IPOD. I agree…there is something fine, familiar and heartwarming to their songs for women. Gotta love it.
Hey Shannon - just checkin’ in to see what you were up to today. Glad you found a fun cd. I kept waiting for you to say something about a late fee. I’m definately pumped up about listening to some Indigo Girls (had no idea they were lesbians) Are you going to the library tomorrow? Back to my movie….
Ok I am all over this! thanks for the tip girl and I likely know their songs but I am horrible with names of bands…. don’t ask me who sings who? Doh!
I want an ipod to! But silence is good sometimes!
lol…yea, totally with ya…
for years I listened to all of my kids stuff…very rarely bustin’ out any tunes of my own…
now that the kids are older, we all enjoy my ‘old’ music together…it’s fun!
my dh has an ipod & i’m coveting it…
he’s a sweetie & has made me my own ’soundtrack’ o’ all my faves, & put it on my ‘puter so I can
listen to it as I ‘m ‘computin’…
yes…btw…to answer your question from my blog…I DID go on a mission to Japan!:) you?
thanks for the IG tribute…now i have ‘galileo’ in my head…love it…thanks…
I am in LOVE with them too. Got VERY lucky to see them in concert and they rocked!!! I have almost all of their albums and now can download most of their songs onto my MP3 player. They rock my world!
I just had to post a quick comment. Your pages rock. I scraplifted one of your LOs (Almost One) - loved the idea of three columns of paper.
Take care,
Lara
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never really listened to them much when I first knew who they were, I just picked up a used copy of one of their cd’s at the swap meet a few weeks ago and oh…my…goodness…what did I ever do without their music? wow!
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Totally college music for me!!!! You reminded me to dig out some of my cds… if I can find them!
I love the Indigo Girls too. Only have the older albums from the late 80’s/90’s. They are on cassette and album though so they don’t get listened too and dh only has the CD player hooked up.
Thanks for the post. I will have to go and check out their new stuff.