0006: Bilal: Sometimes

Now THIS song... this song is pure soul to me. I heard it for the first time a few years back while spending the night at a lovely friend's house. She put on some music from an iPod playlist called "sexytime" for us to fall asleep to and this song came on in the middle of the night when I had dazed out of sleep for a moment. It was a bit ethereal, most likely because I was still a bit sloshed from our drinking and partying exertions from earlier in the evening, but the impression it left on me was long-lasting. When I woke the next morning, she and I went through the list to find the song I was jonesing for, and when we found it, I couldn't get it out of my head. 

D'Angelo once said that the organ is the sexiest instrument in modern music, and songs like this make me believe it. The instrumentation, the sultry melodies and harmonies, the crescendos and subsequent mellows, the screaming, shameless wails... good god. 

Sometimes is honestly seven of my favorite minutes I spend on any given day that I listen to it. Periodically it's 49 of my favorite minutes when I drive to the city. I've had a very good night where it was 182 AMAZING minutes. Well, perhaps it wasn't the only song that played through that night, but the energy and lust it evoked were there in spirit, certainly. 

Moody, sultry, sexy - this is what foreplay and making out would look like if it were a string of musical notes.