Why Sister Hazel rocks!

Why Sister Hazel rocks!

Everyone knows I’m a huge Hazelnut (well everyone who’s read my Hot Seat!), but I’m quite serious when say they are one of the greatest bands around. And why, you might ask, dear reader. Because they have a song for almost any occasion (well for love anyway, which let’s be honest, is what life is about!). Every time something’s happened in my love life (so not very often :p), I’ve found a Sister Hazel song that speaks to me about where I am.

Songs for hooking up:

• Hello, It’s Me (Absolutely)
• Everything Else Disappears (Absolutely)

Songs for being madly in love:

• Beautiful Thing (Fortress)
• Everybody (Chasing Daylight)
• In The Moment (Lift)
• Let Your Love Flow
• Mandolin Moon (Absolutely)
• One Love (Chasing Daylight)
• See Me Beautiful (Release)
• This Kind Of Love (Absolutely)
• Vacation Rain (Release)

Songs about love:

• See Me Beautiful (Release)


Fortress

• Hopeless (Chasing Daylight)
• Strange Cup Of Tea (Fortress)

Songs for breaking up:

• Tear By Tear (Absolutely) (not really about breaking up, but if I need a good cry its a good one to get me going)
• Best I’ll Ever Be (Chasing Daylight)
• Take A Bow (Release)
• Take It Back (Release)
• Shame (Absolutely)
• Where Do You Go (Absolutely)
• Truth Is (Absolutely)
• Killing Me Too (Chasing Daylight)

Songs for when you’re starting to get over them:

• Life Got In The Way (Chasing Daylight)
• Meet Me In The Memory (Absolutely)
• Wanted It To Be (…Somewhere More Familiar)

Personal favorites of mine:
Everything Else Disappears – I love the shyness of this song, the unsureness of the singer, the potential of something amazing happening, the romance, “and we sat on your car while the light from the stars poked holes in the sky.” And the happy ending!

Let Your Love Flow – (Written by the Bellamy Brothers) What I
love about this song is that it makes love seem so natural – which it is – by likening it to natural things “Just let your love fly, like a bird on a wing, and let your love bind you, to all living things.” I also love this line “must be that season when that love light shines all around us” – I know when I’m in love it feels exactly like there’s light shining out of me, all around me, surrounding everything.

This Kind Of Love – I mostly love this one for its slow, methodic beat, making the song sound extremely simple, just like love… And the lyrics just ignite something in me – they get the feeling so right!

Best I’ll Ever Be – Oozes disappointment that it didn’t work out. I just love the bit at the end of the song, just random household noises, but they sound so poignant, still oozing disappointment…
– Grl Sez

Guy Sez: Grl put me onto Sister Hazel, and since then I’ve become nutty as well. Not sure that I’d say they were one of the best bands in the world, but yes, they rock! My own few personal favorites:

One Love – This is just a fantastic song for being in love. It sums up what it’s like to have a lover who is the real thing.

This Kind Of Love – More of the same – it’s a great song to play at a wedding.

Run for the Hills – I love this song. It’s got spinning wheels and people grabbing their lover and running for the hills as the tide rises, hard rain comes down and fire and brimstone bubbles up. We’ve all had days like that.

See Me Beautiful – I’d like to be the person others see me as, without my private doubts or vices. It’s something I strive towards, and this work is its own reward.

My personal ambition – one of many – is to find the time to attend a Sister Hazel concert with Grl, and rock along in the audience. We’ve come close a few times, missed out by a day or so in Orlando and St Louis. We’ll get there one day.
– Guy Sez

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1. Love is the Answer – Barbra Streisand
2. “For Today” by Netherworld Dancing Toys
3. In the Hot Seat: Grlsezual of mygfsez.com
4. Thrill me up