Music Recs, the grab-bag edition
Jul. 21st, 2010 05:45 pmKirsty MacColl
A New England. Somehow, this is filed under "Essential Singer/Songwriter tracks" at iTunes, though it is pure eighties synthy New Wave.
Eddie from Ohio
They're a slightly folkier American Moxy Früvous, basically. I feel like I should like them more, but have trouble finding songs I really like by them. These are two exceptions, though.
Twenty Thousand Hearts
Sahara (Sorry, this one's just a clip; Grooveshark doesn't have it, and it's a pain in the butt to upload to them.)
Bear McCreary et. al.
Laura Runs is my favorite track off the S4 soundtrack. For the first two months I was teaching, I would listen to it on repeat as I drove to campus, because my way of psyching myself up to get in front of the class was to pretend I was Laura Roslin. The drumming is very confidence-boosting. I also love that it's an arrangement of the Roslin/Adama theme.
Patty Griffin
From the department of "Yet another song from this person I rec all the time," have Useless Desires, which I am a big fan of singing along to very loudly. It's sad and determined, and it just keeps growing in intensity. I love the rhyme in the chorus, too: "How the sky turns to fire / Against the telephone wire."
10,000 Maniacs
I imagine most of you have heard this song before, but for the two who haven't, take a listen to These Are Days, perhaps their biggest hit. I got into them because I loved Natalie Merchant's first album (I think it was one of the first I bought, back in the mid-nineties), and sort of wound up liking them even more. For a taste of their very early work, I'm partial to Can't Ignore the Train.
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Bonus amusement: I am usually not an XKCD fan. However, I stumbled across the feed on my network today, and OMG, this is HILARIOUS.
A New England. Somehow, this is filed under "Essential Singer/Songwriter tracks" at iTunes, though it is pure eighties synthy New Wave.
Eddie from Ohio
They're a slightly folkier American Moxy Früvous, basically. I feel like I should like them more, but have trouble finding songs I really like by them. These are two exceptions, though.
Twenty Thousand Hearts
Sahara (Sorry, this one's just a clip; Grooveshark doesn't have it, and it's a pain in the butt to upload to them.)
Bear McCreary et. al.
Laura Runs is my favorite track off the S4 soundtrack. For the first two months I was teaching, I would listen to it on repeat as I drove to campus, because my way of psyching myself up to get in front of the class was to pretend I was Laura Roslin. The drumming is very confidence-boosting. I also love that it's an arrangement of the Roslin/Adama theme.
Patty Griffin
From the department of "Yet another song from this person I rec all the time," have Useless Desires, which I am a big fan of singing along to very loudly. It's sad and determined, and it just keeps growing in intensity. I love the rhyme in the chorus, too: "How the sky turns to fire / Against the telephone wire."
10,000 Maniacs
I imagine most of you have heard this song before, but for the two who haven't, take a listen to These Are Days, perhaps their biggest hit. I got into them because I loved Natalie Merchant's first album (I think it was one of the first I bought, back in the mid-nineties), and sort of wound up liking them even more. For a taste of their very early work, I'm partial to Can't Ignore the Train.
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Bonus amusement: I am usually not an XKCD fan. However, I stumbled across the feed on my network today, and OMG, this is HILARIOUS.
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