SHIRELLES

So, I have been listening to the Shirelles nonstop for a day now. Sometimes I find myself doing this with certain bands, albums, or songs (anyone who knew me in high school can vouch for my consistent obsession with The Strokes, haha). Before yesterday, for example, I had pretty much been listening to Vetiver's To Find Me Gone for a week straight. I have to "thumbs down" the song "Red Lantern Girls", though, just because of the booming madness in the middle of the song...the whole album is so chill and nice, then suddenly it's like he decided to wake us up midway with blaring guitar sirens. It isn't a good wake up, the feeling is reminiscent of having an ambulance crash into your house while you are sleeping at 4 in the morning. The rest of the album is pretty good though, good fall weather driving music.

Anyway, I am a big Motown fan, I've been listening to "the oldies" my whole life. When I was a kid, my Gam would drive my brother and I around all the time with the oldies playing when we'd visit every summer in Pennsylvania. The Shirelles aren't technically Motown, I don't think, but they've got that sound if you know what I mean. I love the video of them performing live, what a fun group. I want to go back in time and be a Shirelle...

But how do you go from Vetiver and Devendra to the Shirelles? Well, I'll admit, I did rock some Beatles in between. The Beatles can pretty much take you from Artist A to Artist X and Artist Z at any point in time. It's true. So I threw some Beatles covering the Marvelettes and Shirelles on the Shirelles mix too...