LOL!



Love her!

Cartman of So. Park sings Poker Face.

I usually listen while I commute. Currently I replay the "Glee" soundtrack and (does classical count? ) the Bach Toccata's recorded by Angella Hewitt.

Fragile Tension - Depeche Mode
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
Bananarama - Love Don't Live Here

Robbie Williams "Reality Killed The Video Star"

Who can forget these songs that kick:

Jill Scott - Gimme

Digable Planets - Where I'm From

Some current "80s retro disco". Actually it's pretty cool:

The Roux - Bulletproof

Think she's family?

Me likey this song & video:

Raphael Saadiq - Staying In Love

I bought this electronica compilation. Originally they were sold separately as Vol. 1 & Vol. 2. I was able to purchase both in MP3 format for a VERY cheap price, as you can see. I've been wanting both but they were too expensive individually. At any rate it has 9 hours of music. It's produced/mixed by Ben Mynott, one of England's respected djs. Anyway, here's a sample of some of the music on it:

Patchwork Guilt - Paul Hartnoll Btw, Paul was 1 of the 2 bros of Orbital (one of my all-time fave electronica bands).

Diamondtrack - Cloud

Anytime Soon - Blue Mar Ten

Shower of Sparks - Ott

While not currently on my CD player, I'm hoping Santa will give me the newly-released box set Twelve Nights in Hollywood featuring previously unreleased live recordings of Ella Fitzgerald performing at the Crescendo club in Los Angeles, 1961-1962. A glowing review in the NY Times brought my attention to this Verve release.

Hmmm! I'll look for it.

This song is pretty cool!

Still listening to my two favorite recordings this year: Miike Snow and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (including the remixes).

While it didn't do anything for me the first time I heard it, that Empire State of Mind really grows on you. I just downloaded it on iTunes.

Can't help but think of RuPaul sayin, "WORK!!"

Beyonce & Lady GaGa - Video Phone



Yep!

Empire State of Mind was my fall anthem. Thank god for ipods because if I had a cd I would have burned a hole through it the way I listen to that song.

Now that I'm through listening to all my Christmas music for the season I have been rockin out to

Trey Songz---Say Ahh

Now I've heard rumors that this song is supposed to be cumming in a girl's mouth but I don't give a damn. The beat is hot and makes me want to be in the middle of the club doin it!!

It reminds me a bit of Kanye's Heartless.

FOX News segment on the Lady Gaga/Beyonce Telephone video where some lady named Sandy Rios, president of The Culture Campaign, says things like "We've got Beyonce and Gaga as gay lesbian lovers. It's disgusting!"

Further, it's been reported that one of the sets used in the Telephone video (the diner) has previously been used for a gay porn movie. (note: I've linked to The Advocate, but if you click on the link in the Advocate article--to gaypornblog.com--that is definitely NSFW )

What do people think of the new M.I.A. video Born Free? It was supposedly pulled from YouTube for its graphic violence. I think it's quite amazing. A description of the video.

Not exactly subtle, is it?

Now here's a combo you don't see every day: "Sting, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Debbie Harry and Bruce Springsteen (at) Carnegie Hall" singing Don't Stop Believin'.

Two different takes on Lady Gaga's Alejandro:

Old Lady Gaga - by Jackie Hoffman (Hairspray, Xanadu, The Adams Family)
Alejandro - by Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)

I'm back and forth between Nanci Griffith, The Complete MCA Studio Recordings and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony no. 5 -- my favorite symphony, bar none. (Vernon Handley conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic). Glorious.

Alicia Keys' Unthinkable (I'm Ready) featuring Drake

OMG this is my favorite song right now. Beautifully written song by Drake. The video is amazing. Alicia is so beautiful, Chad Michael Murray is hot in it, and the message makes the video so meaningful. She used interracial relationships but I think it could be interpreted in other ways. I would love to see this video about two gay men struggling to be in a relationship while struggling with intolerance from society. I love how the video transitions from the 50s all the way to present day and looks at how intolerant many still are with interracial relationships.

Alicia Keys featuring Drake-Unthinkable (I'm Ready)

Checked out the French movie Rap et Rai from the library and was oddly fascinated with the smile and music of the Algerian-French performer Cheb Mali.

I've heard Arab music compared to something sounding like falling down stairs but this one vid is more like an Arabic Marc Anthony.

Cheb Mali

He also resembles a friend I knew in the Dominican Republic who was an aspiring singer.

Just watched that video. Very nice.

For the past few weeks I've been listening to a couple of Broadway cast CDs: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and the revival of La Cage aux Folles. BBAJ is a satiric rock musical (they say it's "emo rock," but, duh, I don't even know what that means) about the seventh president of the United States, and the star, Benjamin Walker, is smokin' hot and adorable at the same time. The La Cage revival features an excellent Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge in a scaled-down version of the lavish 1980's musical featuring boisterous show tunes by Jerry Herman.

Oh, and I'm also listening to American Idiot, the Green Day rock musical and the soundtrack to the movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which is full of gems like I've Never Been To Me, My Baby Loves Lovin', A Fine Romance, and I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine.

This Christmas season I have in heavy rotation on my iPod (among other holiday songs):

1. Alexander O'Neal - My Gift to You
2. The Winans - The Real Meaning of Christmas
3. Celine Dion - Don't Save it All for Christmas Day
4. Tony Bennett - Christmas Time is Here

Hard-Fi - iTunes Festival: London 2011 (check out their new offering Killer Sounds Aug 22nd)
Nicola Roberts - Beat of my Drum

Dolly Parton's new CD, Better Day, is a good one- upbeat and blue grassy.

HARD-FI/ KILLER SOUNDS
NICOLA ROBERTS/CINDERELLA'S EYES
HOOVERPHONIC/THE NIGHT BEFORE
THE TEMPER TRAP/CONDITIONS (SWEET DISPOSITION makes me want to cry in joy and sadness)

I saw this on Nervous Acid and thought it was a fun idea...

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You can learn a lot about somebody by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your ipod or mp3 player and write down the first 20 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun!

1. "Pictures of You" - The Cure
2. "Just Like U Said it Would B" - Sinead O'Connor
3. "Absolutely Zero" - Jason Mraz
4. "Silence (Tiesto's In Search of Sunrise Remix)" - Delerium feat/Sarah McLaughlin
5. "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" - Human League
6. "Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix)" - Rob Dougan
7. "The Love Cats" - The Cure
8. "Crowds" - Bauhaus
9. "Listen Like Thieves" - INXS
10. "Stripped (7" Version)" - Depeche Mode
11. "Just Like Honey" - Jesus and Mary Chain
12. "Stop! (12" Remix)" - Erasure
13. "Fool of Me" - Me'Shell Ndegeocello
14. "The Crying Game" - Boy George
15. "Pissing in the Wind" - Badly Drawn Boy
16. "Cars (2003 Mix)" - DJ Irene & George Centeno
17. "Tolerance" - 10,000 Maniacs
18. "Ice Cream Truck" - Cazwell
19. "Shoplifters of the World Unite" - The Smiths
20. "Disco 2000" - Pulp
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Okay, now that I've done it - what's wrong with me? Defeinitely not the songs I would have picked to represent me. With each passing song I was begging, please something from this century! Stop laughing at me!
Now it's your turn...

Good idea simontexas. Here are my 20.

1 Little Saint Nick –The Beach Boys
2 Its Amazing - Gem (Sex and the City Soundtrack)
3 Emotion – Destiny’s Child
4 Off The Wall – Michael Jackson
5 Moonlight Sonata –Beethoven
6 Better Days – Dianne Reeves
7 Christmastime is Here (Instrumental) Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
8 Firework – Katy Perry
9 Behind These Hazel Eyes –Kelly Clarkson
10 Anonymous –Bobby Valentino
11 The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
12 Rain over me –Pitbull feat. Marc Anthony
13 Get Right –Jennifer Lopez feat Fabolous)
14 Baby Its Cold Outside –Dean Martin
15 Grenade – Bruno Mars
16 Green Light – Beyonce
17 Apologize – One Republic
18 Sweet Dreams – Beyonce
19 Ask Myself –Robin Thicke
20 Wind Beneath My Wings –Bette Midler

That 20th f*cking song would have to be the only damn Bette Midler song I have on my iPod. They are all non embarrassing except for Wind Beneath My Wings. Even my boyfriend rolled his eyes when he saw this on my iPod!!! It was like the ipod gods got together and wouldn't let me get away scott free. I actually think the list represents the variety of music that I do like. I think it shows I like old school and new school songs. The only thing i think is missing is that I have some rap and heavy metal songs. I think those are the only two types not represented in this 20. It has old school and new school R&B, old school and new school pop, and classical. I like my 20.

So this was meant to be a random of the 1st 20 songs opening on shuffle, right? (That is what I did)-

1) I Got U- Blake Lewis
2) Can't Fight This Feeling- Rock of Ages (Broadway Cast)
3) You'll Be in My Heart- Tarzan (Broadway Musical version)
4) Listen to Your Heart- DHT
5) The Phantom of the Opera- Original London Cast
6) Nutbush City Limits- Tina Turner
7) Spotlight- Jennifer Hudson (remix version)
8) When You Think of Me- Boris (Netherlands Season 2 Idols winner)
9) Paciencia y Fe- In the Heights Original Broadway Cast
10) Play the Game- We Will Rock You- London Cast
11) All These Lives- Daughtry
12) Quitter- Carrie Underwood
13) Emotional- Diana Degarmo
14) Moves Like Jagger- Maroon 5
15) Forever and For Always- Shania Twain
16) Peron's Latest Flame- Evita (Madonna movie version)
17) Forever Your Girl- Paula Abdul
18) All I Have to Give- Backstreet Boys
19) No Me Diga- In the Heights Original Broadway Cast
20) Hindi Sad Diamonds- Moulin Rouge (movie)

This says- too much Broadway and Idols....

Amazing no Glee songs popped up!!

I think represents me a hella lot more.

Top 25- Most PLayed
1) Get It Right- Glee
2) Defying GRavity- Glee
3) Baby Its Cold Outside- Glee
4) Someone Like You - Adele
5) Born This Way- Lady gaga
6) A Song for You- Ricky Braddy
7) Alejandro- Lady Gaga
8) My New Philosophy- Kristen Chenoweth from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
9) Dont Let the Sun Go Down on Me- Jorge from AI
10) Rainy Days and Mondays- Karen Carpenter
11) Don't Stop Believing- Glee
12) Positive- Legally Blonde, London Cast
13) A House is Not a Home- Glee
14) Wicked- Siobanh from AI
13) Ordinary People- John Legend
15) Paparazzi- Lady Gaga
16) Listen to Your Heart- DHT
17) My Immortal - Evanescence
19) Bette Davis Eyes- Jesse Langseth from AI
20) I Am the One- Next to Normal Broadway Cast
21) Love Never Dies- Original London Cast
22) Teenage Dream- Glee
23) Bad Romance- Lady Gaga
24) Weekend in New England- Barry manilow
25) Poker Face- Lady Gaga

A friend of mine tagged me on Facebook for a list like this last year.

Okay, so it's supposed to be from your iPod/mp3 player, but I was working at my computer last night, so I opened iTunes, hit the shuffle mode, and the first list is what came up. However, even though I like all the songs on the list, I would probably skip about half of them if I were on my commute listening to my iPod. Hence, the second list, which is actually from my iPod...

iTunes Shuffle
1 A Pain That I’m Used To - Depeche Mode
2 Almost Grown - David Bowie
3 Fall Into Your Dreams - Cyndi Lauper
4 Get Me Off - Basement Jaxx
5 The Impossible - Mariah Carey
6 Telephone - Erykah Badu
7 Try/Love Rain (Remix) - Jill Scott
8 I Can't See Nobody - Nina Simone
9 The Edge of America/Lake Shore Driving The Krush Brothers LSD Edit -Duran Duran
10 Hello Cleveland - Mono
11 Bury the Evidence - Tricky Feat. Hawkman
12 Mommy Complex - Peaches
13 Rain Rain Rain - Roxy Music
14 You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me) - David Joseph from Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story
15 'Round Midnight - Miles Davis
16 Cambodia - Paul Motian
17 Wonderland - Simply Red
18 In Denial - Pet Shop Boys
19 Precious Time - Joe Jackson
20 Silly Boy Blue - David Bowie

iPod Shuffle
1 The Messenger - A New Funky Generation, from Café del Mar comp., Vol. 6
2 Heirloom - Björk
3 The Last Baron - Mastodon
4 Acquiesce - k.d. lang
5 Spoon - Chaka Khan
6 Bicicleta - Café Tacuba
7 Take Me to the River - Annie Lennox
8 The Voyeur of Utter Destruction - David Bowie
9 Manifesto - Roxy Music
10 Surrender Your Clothing - Pansy Division (One of the first queercore punk bands. If you love "bands on tour" accounts, please, read founder Jon Ginoli's book, Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division!)
11 Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
12 Night Ride Across the Caucasus - Loreena McKennitt
13 Phoenix Rise - Maxwell
14 Won't You Listen to What the DJ's Spinning! - Deee-Lite (only 15 seconds, LOL!)
15 Little Wonder - David Bowie (from Bowie at Beeb bonus live disc)
16 In the Bleak Midwinter - Annie Lennox
17 Let's Stay Together - Pat Benatar
18 Seven Deadly Sins - Bryan Ferry
19 Fresh Off the Boat - Nelly Furtado
20 Lover (Cantata) - Lords of Acid

I have tons of music on my iPod, so there's way more jazz, electronic, hip hop and metal than what you see above.

I love the song "Far Away" by Marsha Ambrosius but I had no idea until today that the video presents two Black gay men in love and explores homophobia, gay bashing, and LGBT youth suicide in the Black community. Marsha's song won Record of the Year on the Soul Train Music Awards. After seeing the video, bravo to her for making this music video. Its so powerful and we need more mainstream Black artists to take these kinds of stands. I also read that she premiered the video on BET's 106&Park earlier this year during a special anti-bullying episode which was huge since no images like that had ever been played on the show before. Hopefully it raised awareness and opened some young and old minds. The YouTube link to it is below. Of course there are some ugly remarks in the comment section but its part of the struggle.

Marsha Ambrosius-Far Away

Here's the first 20 that came up on my iPod shuffle. Sadly, it's very revealing of the state of my life.

1. "Are You Lonesome Tonight" - Elvis
2. "My Life" - Robin Thick (Despicable Me soundtrack)
3. "One" - Mary J. Blige & U2
4. "Later" - Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A Little Night Music - Broadway revival)
5. "In Need of a Miracle" - New Radicals
6. "Now" - Alexander Hanson (A Little Night Music - Broadway revival)
7. "Top of the World" - The Carpenters
8. "Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel
9. "No One" - Alicia Keyes
10. "Think It Over" - Buddy Holly
11. "Fun to be Fooled" - Bea Arthur
12. "Devil Inside" - INXS
13. "My Love is Your Love" - Whitney Houston
14. "I Will Always Love You" - Dolly Parton
15. "Last Christmas" - Wham
16. "Cold Day in July" - Dixie Chicks
17. "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You" - New Radicals
18. "Mr. Bojangles" - Nina Simone
19. "We Are What We Are" - La Cage aux Folles (Broadway revival)
20. "Mama Who Bore Me" - Spring Awakening (original Broadway cast)

The 80s are my favorite music genre and I love the British group Her Majesty & the Wolves. The group is comprised of ex Pussycat Dolls member Kimberly Wyatt and Jupiter Rising member Spencer Nezey. They have a few songs available on US iTunes, but my favorite song of theirs is "Emerald Showers". Like some other British groups, this song and their whole album in which this song is on is only on UK iTunes. Seriously, why does Apple do that? Thank god for YouTube. Anyway...great dance song. Takes me back to the late 80s and my pre teenage years spending summers on the Upper East Side and my cousin sneaking me out late at night to hang in the city with his hot friends. Oh to be a kid again.