Sh*t on the Radio…

I rarely listen to the radio on my own accord. I do pay attention to the billboard charts just to see what’s popular, but while I was away I spent a LOT of time listening to the radio. I could make the argument that the radio sucks and most popular music is over produced and, well crap. There aren’t enough hours in the day for that, but I did come up with a list of songs that you can hear on the radio right now that I think they’re pretty awesome. I normally have low standards for local radio stations so forever me is half of this is crap. J

Drake - (4 songs)

85% the time I couldn’t care less about hip hop. I think the majority of it is stupid, the language is horrible, and the use of my least favorite word is prevalent. With all that said, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Drake or JIMMMMMMMMY as I like to yell on a regular base. Who know the kid from a Canadian teen drama would have the music industry on its ear? So what if he uses his Blackberry to free style, its 2010, I know 10 year olds with Blackberries. I love what he has to say and how he says it. Dude sings his own hooks and does a damn good job.

Eminem feat Rihanna -“Love the Way you Lie”

Eminem falls into the 85% of hip hop I don’t listen to, but I do respect what he does. Even though his style of music isn’t always what I would listen to he does the angry, from a poor background, I cant handle my fame thing very well. Now this song is pretty damn depressing when you take the time to listen to the lyrics, but that’s what so amazing. I’m sure everyone has been in some sort of unhealthy relationship. Beside I think Rihanna kicks ass.

La Roux – Bulletproof

Fun lyrics, has the 80s vibe to it, a great girl inspiring song. Just an all around perfect summer jam.

Travis McCoy and Bruno Mars – Billionaire

Another fun summer song. Who wouldn’t want to be a billionaire? I’d be content with being a thousandaire. I’m also a sucker for any song that can name drop Oprah and not sounds like a douche.

Usher – OMG

If you want to feel like you at the Jersey Shore on a muggy hot Friday night play this song. It’s a perfect club song and you can easily pump your fist to it. Trust me, as someone who has a little Jersey girl inside and who was just at the shore, I did my fair share of fist pumping. Never did run into Pauly D or the Situation.

the mix

good news!!

i'll be uploading some music later today! i was on a 'vacation' for the last month and didn't bring my laptop or harddrive. that's what happens when you only expect to be gone for a week and a half! but now my love and i are back together and the ideas are flying! check back later today!

Circa Green

"I can't be honest with even myself
did you ever wish you were somebody else?"

This past week one of my favorite bands, Circa Survive, realized their third album. This is a band I’ve seen four times and would gladly pay to see them another thousand times. I point this out because there are some bands that I absolutely love but have never seen live. There’s away the possibility that they will suck live. I don’t like to pay to be disappointed when I could have easily stayed home and listened to the CD. I love love love Anthony Green’s voice. Yes, its a few octaves higher than my own, but his vocals just strike a cord with me. You can literally feel the emotion coming through your speakers. He’s just as amazing live and in person. Beside they’re from Philly and I love just about everything to come out of that city. (But not Kobe Bryant- but that’s a long story)

So here’s a couple of songs from their three albums and a couple tracks from Anthony Green’s (lead singer) solo projects/random demos.

The mix:

Juturna

- “Holding Someone’s Hair Back”

- “Stop the Car”

On Letting Go

- “Living Together”

- “In the Morning and Amazing”

- “The difference Between Medicine and Poison is the Dose”

Blue Sky Noise

- “I Felt Free”

- “Spirit of the Stairwell”

- “Get Out”

Solo stuff

- “Plays Pretty For Baby”

- "Dear Child (I’ve Been Trying to Reach You)"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/v12nir

I’m Back and I Bring You Rainy Days

I’ve slacked off long enough so I’m going to make this short and sweet. No real comments or explanations for why I picked a certain songs, if you have a question, leave a comment! It’s been raining like the world is ending in this part of the US. So with out further a due here are some of my favorite raining day songs:

Nick Drake – “One of These Things”
Elliot Smith – “Miss Misery”
The Shins – “New Slang”
Radiohead – “Reckoner”
The Hush Sound – “You Are My Home”
Frou Frou – “Let Go”

Enjoy!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2jarpg

I’m already putting together another mix for later this week. Yea! For planning a head!

lame i know

I've been busy, out of town and about a thousand other lame excuses. It happens. I'm thinking Friday will be a good day for some music.

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March Music Madness!

I was original thinking I would update every Monday since that’s when I finally got my act together last week. I still plan on doing that but I figured I would also do an end of the month kind of thing. Share the songs that made my month. I tend to make a new playlist in my itunes every month anyway. I’m THAT annoyingly organized when it come to my tunes. It was a great strain on my emotional state to narrow this list down from 35 songs. Every song of my collection is like my child. You’re just not supposed to play favorites with your kids! (I’m my mom’s favorite haha) I did my best to leave some out.

The mix:

1. Florence and the Machine.

I really got into this lovely lady this month. Still love the track “Comsic Love” but I finally gave the rest of her CD a shot.

Tracks: “Howl” “Dogs Days Are Over” “Hurricane Drunk” “You’ve got the live”

2. Regina Spektor – “Eet”

Thanks to Pandora on my sweet ne blackberry phone I hear this song just about every time I’m pulling in the work. Some how its very fitting.
3. “The How to Make it in America” Mix tape

Such a fun new show about my favorite place in the world, NYC and featuring the very handsome Brian GreenBerg.

Tracks: Aloe Blacc – “I Need a Dollar” (my current ringtone) Nipsey Hussle Feat. KC – “Husslas State of Mind” Duck Sauce – “anyway”.
4. Drake and Lykke Li – “Little Bit”

Enclosed are both Li’s original and Drake’s remix of it.
5. Sia.

Another female artist I was all about in March. Her voice is soulful and oh so haunting. She defiantly doesn’t fit the picture I have in my head, but that doesn’t stop me for singing along. Great mellow music to unwind to.

Tracks: “Little Black Sandals” “Breathe Me” “Day Too Soon”
6. Phoenix – “Rome”

“is he teasing with underage” best line ever! An all around solid band to come out recently, just hipster enough. Ha!
7. Lykke Li

She’s been feature in a couple of British TV shows I watch. Takes me back to my rave days, and not in a bad way

Tracks: “ Until We Bleed” “Let it Fall”

8. Metric

Another thanks to Pandora radio, this time for introducing me to the peppy little band. Their CD Fantasis we always remind me of the Sookie Stackhouse books. It was always playing in the background while I was enjoying a world were vampires, elves, and werewolves were real. And really “who would you rather be? The Beatles or the Rollingstones?”

Tracks: “Gimme Sympathy” “I’m Alive”
9. Ingrid Michaelson

Her music and twitter make me smile daily.

Tracks: “Maybe” “Starting Now”
10. The XX – “Stars”
The song, this CD, this band is what I consider sex music. After listen to this song just try to tell me you don’t feel something in you baby making parts.

And here's the links to pick all the up: http://www.sendspace.com/file/lv8zlc

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Two: The love song….

The love song: it’s the bread and butter of the music world. Look at any billboard chart on any giving week and there’s a very good chance there will be at least one (or more) songs featuring the theme of ‘love.’ That’s where I’ll begin this journey into the blog world.

Man, do I love a good love song. I prefer mine more on the tortured lover side. Got burned by and ex? Found out the ‘love of your life’ is a cheating scumbag? Sign me up. The sadder the better in most cases. I’m a true believer in having a good cry every now and than and a sappy ass love song can help the healing process right along. I’m the sort gal who more often than not DOESN’T believe in happy endings and that’s how I like my love songs. There are rarely happy endings in real life so why shouldn’t it be the same way with music? Most of the time we’re all too chicken to even speak of our feelings alou,d so why not have a song do it for you? Lloyd Dobler had it right when he held that boombox over his head in Say Anything.

The mix:

1. Corinne Bailey Rae- “Like a Star”

All this couple seems to do it argue, but she kind likes it too. Because you really only argue with the on you love most. Passion and what not.

2. Kate Nash – “Nicest Thing”

Nothing worse than loving on someone who’s not loving back on you.

Favorite lyric: “I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was in the reason you were in the world.” And “I wish you couldn’t figure me out but you’d always want to know what I was about”

3. Hope – “Who am I to Say”

Because sometimes it feels like you’ve found your ‘soul mate’ and they up and leave. Let yourself morn, eat some ice cream and use a whole box of tissues, all while listening to this song on repeat.

Favorite lyric: “Don't know why I'm still waiting, Many moons have come and gone, Don't know why I'm still searching”

4. Stars – “You’re Ex-lover is Dead”

There really isn’t anything better than running into an ex at a party and acting like you haven’t seen then naked as a baby. Brownie points if you don’t spend the night in the bathroom crying with a nice big bottle of booze.

Favorite lyric: “I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose” and “I'm not sorry I met you
I'm not sorry it's over, I'm not sorry there's nothing to save”

5. Snow Patrol – “You Could Be Happy”

This dude is trying to be the bigger man and end things now. He’s know the relationship wasn’t idea, but of course he’s still a bit broken up about it. But hey, he still cares enough to wish her the best. I almost believe him

Favorite lyrics: “all the things that I wished I had not said, Are played in loops 'till it's madness in my head”

6. Missy Higgins – “Where I Stood”

Another send off/break up song. I like this one because she just comes right and say that hoe over there will love you more than I can. I also like the fact that she wants to find out who she is outside of their relationship. Far too many people either settle in a relationship because they’re too scared to be alone. But that say, “You have to love yourself before anyone else can” is so very true!

Favorite lyric: “little voices whispering, That I should go and this should end, Oh and I found myself listening” and the chores “Cos I don’t know who I am, who I am without you, All I know is that I should, And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you, All I know is that I should, 'Cos she will love you more than I could, She who dares to stand where I stood”

And here’s the link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/3gfusg scroll to the bottom to start.

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welcome!

so this is my blog...blah blah blah. let skip all the b.s. if you've stumbled upon this little space of the internet world you probably already know me or you came for the music.

Music

That’s what its really all about. Music is a huge part of my life, like a significant other. Always has been and always will be. There’s something very universal about music. Everyone can relate to it not matter their, race, gender or sexuality. It’s crazy how a song can transport you back to a time or place. There really isn’t a non cheesy way for me to describe my love for music. All the silly clichés fit perfectly, but that enough about me

There’s nothing I love more than sharing music with other people. But making ‘mix-tapes’ for friends has always a long drawn out process for me. There are just too many variables to consider that I find myself spending hours on something that’s not longer than 30 minutes. Hence how we got to this point. Every week (or many more, depending on my mood) all post a couple songs that are rocking my world at that moment. 3 songs a week is my goal, but with the way I listen to music I know I’ll have 10 more I’ll just want to share. That’s just how I am.

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p.s. I don’t own the rights to any music you might find here. I’m simply trying to spread the music gospel!