Day 11: A Song from Your Favorite Band

Aloha, [I am clearly running out of creative greetings.]

For some reason I am so excited about writing right now. I just want to write. So here I am, writing [to you [on Day 11 [of the 30 Day Song Challenge [I apologize. [I had coffee.]]]]] Today's theme is a song from my favorite band, which is incredibly tricky because I've used so many of them already. But I have narrowed it down to...

"Little Lion Man" by Mumford & Sons. Before you go accusing me of being a hipster/poser/ignorant by picking Mumford & Songs, but choosing their biggest hit to date, I have two points to make: 1) I own the entire Mumford & Sons album, I love every song, they all have over twenty plays on my iTunes. I chose "Little Lion Man" because it kicks ass. That's it. 2) Never in my life have I claimed to be indie and edgy or even remotely tasteful musically. I'm just not. I listen to music that I like, whether it has 3,000,000,000 downloads on iTunes or 4. I appreciate well crafted, well performed, soul-shattering, award-winning music. I also own the entire Teenage Dream album, simply because it's fun. [Long, run-on sentence tangent over.]

I adore Mumford & Sons because they are so raw. You can here the scratching of the acoustic guitar and the growl in his throat. They sound untouched, untarnished by the pop music trends of today. It's amazing, Mumford & Sons manages to be both an undiscovered treasure and a national sensation, and their only album came out just over a year ago. And banjo is fantastic.

It's fairly obvious that high caffeine levels were involved in the making of this blog. I'm going to be done now. Here's to coffee at 10:00 at night, banjos and hipsters. Night.