Copious amounts of playing Guitar Hero 2 made me love this song. It took me a while to get past it so I listened to it about 5,000,000 times, and now I love it. Perhaps I have musical Stockholm Syndrome, but I wanted to hear it this morning, so it is the song of the day. Enjoy!
Click here for more info on Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape – “Monkey Wrench”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
I was listening to all of the albums of “A Tribe Called Quest” that I have earlier today and this song is too much fun. I have to post it as the bonus song!
Click here for more info on A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders – “Electric Relaxation”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
I didn’t pay much attention to Kanye West until I saw the “Nip/Tuck” commercial (below). Both videos are vivid, brutal, and his is violent, but both are edgy, awesome and appropriate for the message in the song.
PS: Props to West for having the balls to say “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” after Katrina. All the evidence still supports that statement from my point of view. It’s all about the money with him and his lot.
Click here for more info on Kanye West – Graduation – “Flashing Lights”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: Kanye West - Graduation
Today’s bonus song is the opening theme for “Firefly”. It is very short, but very clever I think with the fiddle and the slightly western country sound to the singer, and then the one section with just a touch of Chinese instrumentation in the background. All very appropriate and crafted to the storyline. It is a pity the song, and the section are so short. I love the concept of this fusion of music, as well as the idea of a “space western”. There are other songs on the soundtrack worth noting too like “River’s Dance”.
I missed out on seeing “Firefly” when it was on TV, but I know what the fans felt like because I feel that way now with “Dollhouse”. Both are excellent shows with a full load of interesting characters, an exciting unusual story line, and my kind of humor. Both canceled (or at least Dollhouse is as good as canceled). Joss Whedon needs to give Fox the finger and move on to ANY OTHER network/channel. His creations are brilliant and deserve at least a full season, and not on Friday night either!
Click here for more info on Greg Edmonson – “Firefly – Main Title”.
The CD may be purchased here: Firefly - Soundtrack
Although I am partial to the Doo Wop songs, I have to wonder why this is the song stuck in my head this morning. Perhaps I am feeling like a teenager in love. Perhaps it was the spinach I ate last night. Who knows?!
The MP3 may be purchased here: Dion and the Belmonts - Presenting Dion and the Belmonts
Ever have a song chase you down?
Today I had suggested to a coworker they listen to this specific song when the system we work on is slow. I meant it as a joke. Although not technically “elevator music”, it bears some resemblance and either is poking fun or legitimizing it. I cannot tell which.
What is funny is later in the day as I waited for my car to be done at the auto center, this same exact song came on in a shoe store (where I found no shoes to my liking I might add). I had never heard this song anywhere other than online until today when I happened to bring it up earlier in the day. Karma. At least it is a catchy tune.
PS: The video is an abbreviated version of the original. There are many remixes out there too if you search youtube and elsewhere.
Click here for (a little) more info on Jaffa – Elevator – “Elevator”. A bit more here.
The CD may be purchased here (for what currently appears to be an exorbitant price… oh well): Jaffa - Elevator
I have several Geneva songs stuck in my head this morning. Who is Geneva? A band from Scotland with catchy tunes, thoughtful lyrics, and a lead singer with a unique voice. They are a band that should have ‘made it’ but their label, “Nude Records”, blew it and the band broke up. For example most American’s probably never heard of the band even though in England they reached the top 20 at one point. Most of the songs on their first album “Further” are of the same caliber so I had trouble deciding which song to post because I also had “Into the Blue” and “Temporary Wings” stuck in my head.
PS: Sadly the sound quality on the video is a bit low, but it was the only stream with the full song I could find. Enjoy!
PPS: The album is for sale used on Amazon for as low as $0.01 at the moment. If I didn’t already own it, I’d be buying it.
Click here for more info on Geneva – Further – “No One Speaks”.
The CD may be purchased here: Geneva - Further
Track 1: Where The Streets Have No Name:
I listen to this album and it reminds me, this is why Bono and The Edge can get away with their stage names. (Well maybe not The Edge but the guitar part in “Where The Streets Have No Name” is too cool.) Poor Larry and Adam. I wonder if they have egos just as large or if they’d be happier being nameless and perhaps invisible. But I’m not here to sully their individual personalities. I am here to praise them as the excellent band, musicians, and entertainers they are. How cool they are to still be putting out new albums and making it on to the radio. We’re going on decade number three for U2. Holy!
This album has been critically influential to my musical tastes. U2 is one of my “staples”. I cannot help but buy every album. I’ve even paid exorbitant ticket prices to see them in concert, twice, AND it was totally worth it both times. I have had to restrain myself form going a third. They’re songs are like gospel to me though and I’ve listened to this album in particular so many times, it is truly a part of me.
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with “Where The Streets Have No Name” probably being my favorite.
Track 1: Where The Streets Have No Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY7LemSwe7s
Track 2: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAadaveBV-o
Track 3: With or Without You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJnElTqYzs
Track 5: Running To Stand Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioyUGaABjA
Track 7: In God’s Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNbWgY5CBKs
The rest are also solid songs, and “On Tree Hill” and “Bullet the Blue Sky” were both singles. 6 of the 11 songs on the album hit the charts. If you have not listened to this, then perhaps you should. If you still don’t like it then I don’t think you’re going to like the majority of my song choices on this blog because I consider U2 and this album central to my tastes.
Click here for other album suggestions!
Click here for more info on U2 – “Joshua Tree”.
The MP3 album may be purchased here: U2 - Joshua Tree
I started this blog about a month ago. I had been posting my “song of the day” on facebook before then, and it all started with this song on 2/25. It was on that day I was driving to work and thinking this song is so good. Her voice is so beautiful, and with just the guitar for the first section it is so beautiful a sound.
And then the lyrics themselves…
Let’s stay awake and listen to the dark.
Before the birds, before they all wake up.
It’s the ending of a play and soon begins another.
Hear the leaves applaud the wind.
And then how clever how the band comes in half way through, changing the mood of the song a bit, like the rising sun changes the morning. Also using the guitars to make bird like sounds. So clever!
This song impressed me so much and yet most people will never know. Most people probably only know her at all from “Gollum’s Song” (the closing credits of “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”). Perhaps you’ve heard this song on Grey’s Anatomy too? I had to tell someone. So I posted it on facebook, and I am posting it here now. This was my first documented “song of the day” and inevitably the reason I have this blog. Songs like this need to be heard and I’m trying to pick them out of the sea of music an playing them one by one.
Thank you Emiliana!
PS: Now that I have posted all my “song of the day” songs to date, the “bonus song of the day” category will not be a daily thing, but truly a bonus.
Click here for more info on Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini – “Birds”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
The flowers are in bloom, but I highly doubt that caused this song to be stuck in my head this morning. Listening to Nirvana in the early 90s made be feel badass and I truly loved the music so there was no need to pretend on that level. The attitude of the music appealed to my teenage mind, and perhaps still does 18 years later.
I was sad and pissed when Kurt Cobain offed himself. We’ve all heard the stories of why and how, etc. I think he had the world and blew it. Instead he is forever idolized and stuck in time as a 27 year old. He must have had more albums in him too. Props to Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl for picking themselves up, dusting themselves off, moving on, and sticking with music. Anyway…
Nirvana. Highly recommended (even if you’re not an angst filled teenager). Possibly the most influential band of the 1990s. Check them out if you haven’t already.
Click here for more info on Nirvana – Nevermind – “In Bloom”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: Nirvana - Nevermind
This bonus song was my “song of the day” on 2/25 actually (pre-blog). Sometimes when I feel like I need a kick in the pants, I turn on some Kaiser Chiefs. I can’t help but dance around, even if sitting. They are too much fun not to be played. This, their first song off their first album is a perfect example.
Click here for more info on Kaiser Chiefs – Employment – “Everyday I Love You Less And Less”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Some of you may remember the song “Silence” featuring Sarah McLachlan, which received a lot of attention and even radio air time. For me though, “Euphoria (Firefly)” was the song that entranced me even more so off of the album “Karma”. I love the line “…go forward and walk under a brighter sky”. Jacqui Hunt (of the band Single Gun Theory)’s voice seem is the perfect blend of haunting and delicate for the song. Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber are brilliant for incorporating singers from all over into their songs and albums and mixing it up so their vocal sound is ever changing.
Click here for more info on Delerium – Karma – “Euphoria (Firefly)”.
The MP3 may be purchased here: Delerium - Karma
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