Playing that song again

There are days when I could do without iTunes, especially with the Genius playlist and the lag time it now has. But for the last week, it has helped me rediscover songs in my collection that I haven’t heard in years.

For example, I am listening to Sunday Morning by No Doubt. With all the trillion side projects Gwen Stefani has and how a new No Doubt album seems far away from now, I forget how much fun this music was. Same goes with Sheryl Crow’s The Na-Na Song. I actually despise this song, but it’s a pleasant surprise when it’s in rotation.

permalink | Comment [1] | | 10/15/2008

Mixed ideas

I have at least 18 hours of road travel time in the next days, and since my adventures in having a playable mp3 player and FM transmitter have fizzled out, I’m resorting to using the trusty CD player and creating my own mixes. However, I have run out of ideas as to make a clever mix. I’ve skimmed through muxtape’s array of collections, but I have yet to figure some on my own. I will proved a list of previous mixes so that you can get the idea of what I’m looking for:

  1. A collection of different mash-ups and remixes I scavenged from the Internets.
  2. A collection of tunes featuring titles have to do with sight and vision.
  3. A collection of bossa nova music.
  4. Four years of high school.
  5. Songs pertaining to photography.
  1. Weather tunes.

If you are hunting for suggestions, check out my last.fm page and figure out my test or see what I should be listen to. Any suggestion will be considered.

permalink | Comment | | 08/08/2008

Office dance party

Unfortunately, my dance of choice is my 8 by 10 home office equipped with two small speakers and a laptop. But right now, the tune that is pumping the bass is this by NERD, Santogold and Julian Casablancas called “My Drive Thru.”

via Stuff Fly People Life

permalink | Comment [1] | | 07/14/2008

Recent music revelations

I acquire quite a bit of music ever so often, and within the last month I have purchased six or so CDs (Yes, I’m old and don’t really like mp3s that much) and a few downloads. Here is my assessment of how music is these days.

  1. Pop music is getting better. “No Air” by Jordan Sparks and Chris Brown is my favorite radio song right now. I’m not ashamed to like a tween song because it’s also shown on BET J, so that’s alright.
  2. MySpace is a great place to find music. Just think about it. We got Lily Allen, the Ting Tings, Kate Nash out of it.
  3. MySpace is a horrible place to find music. I mean, anyone from your next-door neighbor to your friendly postal delivery worker can cut an album, post it and become billionaires.
  4. I’m beginning to like remixes than the originals these days.
  5. Santogold is still awesome. Goldfrapp records are hard to find locally.
  6. More people are jumping onto the Bird and the Bee bandwagon.
  7. I’m just rambling on music these days because I don’t have anything else of interest to write about.

permalink | Comment | | 05/28/2008

But why Cambodian pop?

OK, I admit that I am a bit more excited than usual about music. And a few months ago I saw a video for the song “Seeing Hands” by Dengue Fever. I immediately thought that this was the worst music video I had ever scene. It was too hippie and trippy for me to even like the song.

But last night I saw it again, and began to like the song. The rest of their songs are great, but they should stick to live performances. After all, there aren’t enough duos out there were the guy with a long beard plays the guitar like it were a sitar and a singer who is dressed up like a Cambodian beauty pageant.

permalink | Comment | | 05/21/2008

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