Various Artists, This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Vol. As I said, my subconscious was on a mission. Come Fly With Me is one of my favorite albums - might even be top five - but I hadn't listened to it in a year. Ol' Blue Eyes has a big cine-matic blast, but his delivery is also intensely personal. Billy May's orchestra pumps brass into the pond-jumpers (On the Road to Mandalay, Let's Get Away From It All) and paints the ballads with falling-leaf melancholy (Moonlight in Vermont, Autumn in New York). Pretty, but brutal.įrank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me (Capitol) Considered the first concept album, this ring-a-dingin' 1958 travelogue remains crisp, classic. Louis songwriter and regular-joe job-loss victim who gave his demo to director Jason Reitman. It closes with the title tune, written by Kevin Renick, a St. Each track deals with transience, detachment, from Dan Auerbach's Goin' Home to Sad Brad Smith's Help Yourself. It also reminds me of Elliott Smith's Good Will Hunting tune Miss Misery, which is convenient because the late Smith shows up here with Angel in the Snow. Spare, chilly, mostly acoustic, it's not unlike Simon & Garfunkel's Graduate work. Various Artists, Up in the Air: Music From the Motion Picture (Rhino) The George Clooney dramedy about a corporate downsizer with a frequent-flier fetish doesn't open 'til Friday, but I've had the soundtrack for a while and I can't stop listening. It just so happens that each one is absolutely perfect for a long layover in Somewhere Else:
Here's what I've been listening to lately.
I didn't realize this until I studied a pile of four seemingly random CDs next to my home stereo. So it makes sense that my subconscious, which has serious iPod envy, has been hankering for skyway tunes. The Thanksgiving-to-Christmas gantlet is the Season of the Airport.