Ridiculously Vocal!

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!
"Heart on my sleeve
Not where it should be
The song's out of key again"

I really love the scratchy, muddled vocals of Feist. And she's total Starbucks music, if you like that kinda soft jazzy, indie, popable stuff. If you prefer more of a Bossa Nova sound, check out her first album, Let It Die. There's a cover of the Bee Gees on there that I absolutely love.

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!
"Let's build and evil genius
And keep warm tonight"

Words cannot describe how much I love Nirmala's vocals. But in addition to her subtle, sultry voice the lyrics are ridiculous. I don't really pay that much attention to lyrics, but pretty much EVERY Controller.Controller song has a couplet or two of just plain kooky lyrics that are memorable. Some of my favourites are "I heard you liked parallels/How 'bout the 49th?"

Anyway, I thought "PF" would be fun because it sounds like something Talia would say to win over Bruce. Or something like that.

Sadly, however, the band is defunct and split up. Which kinda clears my conscience to give you all this EP and this LP. But shhhhhh. I'm not really supposed to do this.

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!
"It breaks if you don't force it
It breaks when you don't try"

When Sonic (Edmonton's version of The Edge) started radio play they had a great selection of music. Afterall, they were filling the indie rock niche for universitiy kids. It was this time I discovered a lot of new bands, and a lot of songs just stuck and resonated with me. I think it was more the synthed up guitar and keytar beats more than anything else, but after years of Women & Song this was mind blowing.

Editors is one of those groups. They probably have more albums, more singles, but I will always remember them for "Munich".

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!
"I wrote your name
Upon the back of my hand
Slept upon it then I woke up
With it backwards on my face
Reading forwards
From the mirror to my heart."

I get giddy and tinglies in my toes whenever I hear their stuff. I guess I like them like any mod girl in the sixties liked the Beatles.

Anyway, "Twilight Omens" is one of my favourite songs because of the lyrics. It's got a 'Ben Gibbard' stalkerish quality to it that is so admiring and endearing you just can't be creeped out by it. This, however, is quite uncharacteristic of them. They have sultry lyrics, discordant goodbye lyrics, and some straight up dance jams.

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!

"It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen
In your head, in your head they're still fighting"


In honour of Remembrance Day I picked "Zombie." I'm pretty sure it's the only WWI song (or any war song period) in my library.

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!
“I finally found you
My missing puzzle piece
I’m complete

Let’s go all the way tonight
No regrets just love
We can dance until we die”

GUYS I THINK I’VE BEEN BIT BY GLEE FEVER. AND I REALLY LIKE THIS A CAPPELLA VERSION OF "TEENAGE DREAM". And, um, unlike EVERY OTHER Darren Criss fan out there I knew him from Eastwick.

Either way I saved this for Glee night.

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!

"Here we are now going to the south side
I pick up my friends and we hope we won't die"

Moby was my Junior High Jam as Arcade Fire was for High School. This was when I discovered electronica (really any music that was NOT alternative was a blessing to me then) and Moby was so captivating. He was really diverse musically, but was constant in one regard: His music always moved me to the core. There's just this connection that I get with his music that amplifies and resonates itself emotionally in me. It's so calming yet so powerful.
It was pretty difficult to choose one Moby song to share, but "South Side" edges out because it features vocals from Gwen Stephanie. I've adored her music since No Doubt and this collaboration always reminds me of them in the late 90s-early 00s and I love it.

The 30 Days of Song Challenge is a way for me to post one song a day, hopefully with a theme and some commentary. If you want d/l links, further information or to discuss today's choice, feel free to comment!

I released and started the 30 Days of Awesome Challenge on Tumblr today and am continuing the 30 Days of Song. So I picked something to get pumped and ready: "Up & Adam" by Adam WarRock. (Buy/Listen to his album here!)


"Don't you love the way music fills your soul
Got me walking round the city in my Superman pose"

Colours used: FDEADA FBD5B5 FF863B

This is the penultimate update of stuff I'm listening at work. Next week will still be on Monday, but I'll add an edit with all the stuff from Tuesday to Thursday.

Roll Call:

Media Player:
Pilot Speed/ Pilate: Mostly "Knife Grey Sea" and "Barely Listening"
Moby


YouTube:
Florence and the Machine "Howl" "Cosmic Love" "Girl With One Eye"
Feist "I Feel It All" "My Moon My Man"
Rhianna "Umbrella"
Oona "Tore My Heart"
Vivaldi - Winter & Spring
The Revels "Comanche"
Vanessa Carelton "Ordinary Day"
Justin Timberlake "Sexy Back"
Anna Ternheim "I'll Follow You Tonight" "Lover's Dream" "No, I Don't Remember"
The Gossip "Standing in the Way of Control" 'Heavy Cross"

A few of the oddballs are from So You Think You Can Dance. I watched the good stuff by Wade Robson and Sonya Tayek. I also got hyped from Being Human and Dollhouse (today, in fact) thus the large amounts of Anna Ternheim and Florence & The Machine.
Ting Tings "Great DJ" "That's Not My Name" "Shut Up & Let Me Go"
The Coasters "Down In Mexico"
Escaflowne OST
Bitter:Sweet "Dirty Laundry" "The Bomb"
Apache Indian "Boom Shack-A-Lack" Qtv version
Blonde Redhead " Elephant Woman" "Mistery is a Butterfly" "The Dress" "23"

Let's list it off.

Stuff on the radio?
Hip-hop. Lots of Kresha Chante, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and too much crap.

Youtube?
"Standing in the way of Control" - The Gossip
"Skins Theme" - Fat Segal
Cover of "Standing in the way of control" "That's Not My Name" "Shut Up And Let Me Go" - The Ting Tings
"Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me" - The Pipettes
Mika's The Boy Who Knew Too Much multiple times
Kylie Minogue: "Fever" "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" In Your Eyes" "WOW!"
Madonna's Confessions On A Dancefloor
The twelves remixes of A-ha's "Take On Me" & Metric's "Help, I'm Alive"
Black Ghosts: "Full Moon" "The Repetition Kills You"
Radiohead: "15 Steps"
FictionJunction YUUKA: "Kyoya Roten"
Mutemath: "Backfire"
The Saturdays: "Ego"
Owl City:"Fireflies"
Lights: "February Air" "Ice"
"Beaux Dimanches" - Amadou & Mariam
Death Cab For Cutie: "Meet Me On The Equinox" "I Will Possess Your Heart"
Blue Foundation: "Bonfires" & "Eyes on Fire"
Openings/Endings for Gundam Wing, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vision of Escaflowne
"Cold Wind" - Arcade fire
"Final Countdown" - Europe
M83: "We Own The Sky"
MSTRKRFT: "Heartbreaker"

Media Player?
Beirut Gulag Orkestar The Flying Cup Club March of the Zapotec "Elephant Gun"
The Real People: Holland
Controller.Controller History
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
Moby: Hotel