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Colors, Part IV
Aug. 21st, 2007 01:38 pmThe number of songs left is dwindling, so there'll most likely only be one more post after this to complete the theme. As for this post, today's chosen colors are gold and silver.
Colors, Part II
Aug. 19th, 2007 04:57 pmI didn't mean for it to be so long between the first installment and this one, but I somehow got caught up with other things and didn't get around to it until now. Anyway, here it is, part two consisting of blue and red songs, below the cut.
Colors, Part I
Aug. 15th, 2007 07:25 pmI've had a "colors" playlist sitting around on my computer forever so I decided I should finally get around to attacking it and picking out the best songs to post. After a few days of listening, I think the list is pretty much ready. Obviously, a theme like this has way too many tracks to post all at once, so I'll do it in a few installments. I'm not sure how many yet but this first one will get the less specific titles out of the way, as in titles containing just the word "color" and as an added bonus, I've thrown in a few "rainbow" songs as well. Sample/download the chosen ones below the cuts.
Battle of the Identical Titles
Aug. 5th, 2007 12:15 amI thought it would be fun to find songs that had the same titles but were completely different songs and compare them to see which was best. This'll kind of be an on-going theme, not necessarily one right after the other, but a few little "battles" every now and then. Here are three of the best match-ups I could find, between songs that I really love, making it very hard to pick the best.
I think it would be really cool for people to leave a comment and tell me who your winners would be if you download them. Then we can get a nice debate going if you don't agree with me, of course, haha.
( The first round! )
I think it would be really cool for people to leave a comment and tell me who your winners would be if you download them. Then we can get a nice debate going if you don't agree with me, of course, haha.
Below the 2-minute mark
Jul. 28th, 2007 04:33 amUsually songs that are less than two minutes don't do much for me. They're either over before they really have time to develop or are that short for a reason (because they aren't really worth the time in the first place). So, when I'm truly impressed by one of these songs, it's a pretty big deal. It also speaks well to the artist - that they can leave such a large impact in such a small amount of time. With this in mind, I set out on the task of finding the very best songs under two minutes in my possession. I started out with well over 300 but after weeding out dozens of meaningless thirty-second interludes, concert banter, and instrumentals (since I don't have many, I'm saving them as a theme possibility for the future) I began the pain-staking task of combing through the rest to narrow down my very favorites. The list slowly dwindled down to 50, then to 30, 25, and finally to its final stage where I couldn't possibly lose any more, 20. So, here it is: my top twenty favorite songs that don't quite reach two minutes - short and sweet and completely perfect that way.
Tags:
Sun vs. Moon
Jul. 23rd, 2007 09:07 pmI was given the suggestion to gather songs with a sun and moon theme, so I decided to act on it and was surprised by how many songs I had that fit the bill. There were way too many originally for me to upload in a reasonable amount of time, so I cut it down to twelve for each category. A lot of these are among my very favorite songs, so enjoy.
( Sun. )
( Moon. )
Tags:
- !themed,
- bright eyes,
- crowsdell,
- feist,
- jolie holland,
- kristin hersh,
- mirah,
- neko case,
- nickel creek,
- rasputina,
- regina spektor,
- rilo kiley,
- sarah slean,
- shannon wright,
- the ditty bops,
- the dresden dolls,
- the eames era,
- the elected,
- the good life,
- the hush sound,
- tori amos,
- yann tiersen & shannon wright
Today's theme is songs with names of fruits in the titles - silly, I know, but I suddenly thought of the idea a few days ago (probably because I wanted an excuse to post more Hush Sound songs and they have one that fits the category) and started searching through my music library. I didn't really find that many, though I might have missed a few because I did it at around three or four in the morning, but here are the wonderful fruity selections I did find...
( below the cut. )
Mythology in Music
Jul. 6th, 2007 07:27 pmI am a huge fan of Greek mythology and recently I've started trying to think of songs that make references to mythological stories, whether it be a passing mention or a song entirely based on one. Unfortunately, I couldn't find as many as I would've liked (it's a bit harder than finding a certain word in the title or something like that!), but here are most of them that I did come up with. From the looks of this list, it seems Tori Amos is the reigning queen of mythology in her songs. Apart from the four she has here, there were also two more possibilities that I decided not to include.
Covers, Part 5
Jun. 22nd, 2007 04:17 pmWell, here it is - the final part... for now. I've found or remembered way too many other great covers to leave them out completely so you can expect to see them at some point, just with a week or two break first. These last ten don't have much variety either, I must say, with one artist making up half of the songs - I just couldn't get rid of any more than that!
( Click for songs. )
