Angels Of Light - "Forever Yours"

It's the brightest day of your entire life. Stopping at a roadside antique shop, you park in the yard among rusted tools and bed frames, broken down vehicles and bath tubs. There's a slow moving man with a tape measure on his tool belt. He watches you, but says nothing. Inside the store - a creaky wooden house - there is row upon row of stuff: wooden chairs, porcelain plates and lampshades, old board games hermetically sealed in plastic bags, a collection of pornographic plastic figurines, an ancient guitar with the neck bent so far back it would be useless even for slide, a plastic banjolin, warped beyond repair, but miraculously in perfect relative tune. Near the door are the two brothers who run the store - one rustic, with stubble and overalls, the other, like Willy Loman, in a cheap suit and a perfect side part. You don't buy anything. You pass the stoic worker on the way out, his eyes fixed unabashedly on yours. You drive away, and trying to get your mind off the oppressive heat, you turn on the radio. If this song isn't playing, go back, park, and repeat until you get it right. [Buy]

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Dan Goldman - "The Kids' Song"

There is something scary about Dan Goldman's rendition of Dr. Seuss's "The Kids' Song." That's good, because fear and wonderment are close friends (with a common interest in questioning and a common distaste for answers), and any friend of wonderment is a friend of any kid. [Info]