Category: Music
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And then you realize you’re over it…
Over what?, you might ask. Over Backstreet Boys that is. I already wrote a post about my dwindling fandom almost a year ago, but just the other night I realized just how over everything Backstreet I am. This week, the European tour dates for the NKOTBSB tour starting in 2012 were announced. My entire Twitter…
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Concert Review: Bobby Long Live @ Paradiso
As a treat to myself for all my hard word and stress related issues I decided to buy myself tickets to see another concert. The last one I saw was over a month ago, so it was about time again! I went to see Bobby Long. Bobby who? You may ask. Well, this young man…
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Soothing music
Since Saturday I’ve been feeling like c-r-a-p. For whatever reason my body decided on Saturday night that I should rekindle my relationship with my toilet in a not so fun way. I’ve been feeling nauseous, been having headaches and the shivers ever since. Unfortunately for me, I can’t stay home from work as my students…
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Current favorite songs: September
I have a few more songs for you that I’ve been listening to on repeat for the past couple of weeks. And when searching for when I posted something like this the last time, it occurred to me it had been a month since I did. So, maybe I could turn this into a monthly…
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My life in albums
I was aimlessly browsing the interwebs when I came across the blog kept by the lovely ladies of Pixiwoo. They had posts up on the soundtracks of their lives and I thought: hey! I could do something like that! What they did was list albums they listened to in their lives. I didn’t start listening…
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SOTD: Pete Roe – Bellina
This song is so so pretty! I am totally in love with it. It’s featured on the Flowerpot Sessions CD which also features Angus & Julia Stone, Sarah Blasko, Marcus Foster, Matthew & the Atlas, Damien Rice, and many more.
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SOTD: Mutemath – Blood Pressure
Yup, another one. I just can’t get enough of all this new music I’m finding. Mutemath (of Transformers and Twilight fame) are releasing their third album Odd Souls in October and their first single just released on soundcloud. It’s a song called Blood Pressure and combines all the things I love from this ground: a…
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SOTD: Arms and Sleepers – Matador
This song is perfect to just chill and help you relax. Enjoy and ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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Hilarious video: Ok Go & the Muppets
To stick to today’s youtube theme I present you with a quick little post that had me laughing my socks off. “It makes me happy to introduce to you….” OK Go & the Muppets: You know, those guys on the tread mills & the hilarious Jim Henderson puppets. Make sure you watch until the end.…
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Current favorite songs
Ever since I started doing the 30 Day Song Challenge I haven’t really been posting anything on my current favorite songs or what I’m listening to right now. That is why I thought it would be time to give you 10 songs that I’m loving right now. Mind you, these songs are completely random and…
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SOTD: Laura Marling – Sophia
As the 30 Day Song Challenge is now over (everyone: aaaaaaawwwwwwwwww) I will resort back to posting songs that I am loving at the moment: my Song of the Day (SOTD). Here’s the first one of I’m sure a long session to come. Yesterday I found out that Laura Marling will be releasing a new…
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Song Challenge 30 – Your favorite song this time last year
I actually have no clue what I was listening to in August of 2010. At the time I didn’t have a blog yet, so it’s hard to keep track of what it was that I really loved at that time. Therefore I’m going with a wild guess after browsing my files by date. There was…
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Song Challenge 29 – A song from your childhood
This one was so easy to decide on. I have been liking music for as long as I can remember and I even remember liking certain songs when I was no more than 4 years old. According to my parents I had my first favorite song at the age of 2: Bronski Beat’s Tell Me…
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Song Challenge 28 – A song that makes you feel guilty
This one is difficult. I really have no clue what to make of this. It cannot be about songs that are guilty pleasures as that is already part of a challenge. Songs make me happy, sad, angry or w/e. But guilty? No I’ve never experienced anything like that from listening to a song. I don’t…
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Song Challenge 27 – A song that you wish you could play
This song is a classic and I really wished I could actually play it. I can play it, in Guitar Hero, but as that doesn’t really count, if I would ever learn to play guitar this is the first song I’d want to master. Best riff in the universe. I’m of course talking about Pearl…
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Pete & the Pirates
Another music related post today, because I have to tell you about this band which has quickly become my new current favorite band! It doesn’t happen often that I like a band enough to give them this ambiguous title, but after seeing Pete & The Pirates live at Paradiso on July 19th, I knew that…
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Review: Justin Nozuka – Live @ Bitterzoet (18 July 2011)
On Monday night I went to see Justin Nozuka. I’m not a rookie when it comes to his shows: this was my third. I knew what to expect: a high energy show, with pretty songs, great musicians and sheer dedication. I went with Pauline, who had never seen him live yet. I had warned her…
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Extrema Outdoor 2011
On Saturday me and some friends went to Extrema Outdoor at AquaBest. We knew it was going to rain later in the day. So, decked out with cheap ponchos and a healthy amount of good spirits we set off for the festival on Saturday afternoon. I arrived in Best around noon, where my friend picked…
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Song Challenge 26 – A song you can play on an instrument
I already told you before that I sing, but don’t play any instruments, so please please please don’t laugh. I already listed a song that I can sing in the post on a song I know all the words to. Therefore I thought it would only be fair to list a song here that I…
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Song Challenge 25 – A song that makes you laugh
This one is EASY!!! I love silly songs! I love happy songs! I’m one of those people who still listens to the Macarena and dances the Lambada. I dig tunes that parody other songs, rework other songs. So, technically, I could get away just by posting everything Weird Al Yancovic ever did. Or every single…
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Song Challenge 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral
This is one thing I haven’t given much thought to. I don’t think about dying, so I don’t think about my funeral. I’d hate going with something standard. It would have to be something soothing. So, to me it would have to be a piece of Classical Music and I think I’d want to go…
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Song Challenge 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding
Eh How about none? I don’t aspire to get married and at the rate my life is going right now, I don’t think I’ll ever get married in the first place. And even if I DO get married, I wouldn’t want to pick a specific song at this moment. Oh well, but since I have…
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Song Challenge 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad
This was an easy pick for me. This has to be a Backstreet Boys song. They make the ultimate pick me up songs and Close My Eyes is my favorite! I don’t listen to BSB all that often anymore, but I was listening to their stuff on Friday evening and just knew that when I’m…
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Song Challenge 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy
This one is easy as pie! THE BEST happy song of the moment is Martha & The Vandellas – Dancing in the Street. Great Motown song written by Marvin Gaye, covered by Mick Jagger and David Bowie for Live Aid in the 80s and just a great pick-me-up-and-put-a-smile-on-my-face song. Now including super retro video. Enjoy!
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Review: Concert Warpaint
On Sunday evening I went to see Warpaint live in concert. I had known their song Undertow for some time and bought their album The Fool not too long ago. When I decided to go to a few concerts again a few weeks ago and saw there were still tickets to this show, I didn’t…
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60s Beat Music
The 60s marked the beginning of pop culture as we know it. With artists becoming living gods and the teenage generation becoming more important than ever. Of course, all of this was already outlined in the 50s, but in the 60s bands and artists started to write their own music more often, enabling a musical…
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Song Challenge 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry
I’m not an angry person, I’m a pretty happy person by nature. However, there are a few ‘angry’ songs that have made its way into my playlist. Blue October – Weight of the World Chasing Shadows – Ill Editors – Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool Garbage – I Think I’m Paranoid
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Song Challenge 19 – A song from your favorite album
My favorite album of all time has to be Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon. Unfortunately for me, I already featured a song from that album during this challenge so I’ve decided to go with a different song. Instead, I’m giving you a song by Johnny Flynn. I swear, I will hunt you guys down…
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Concerts I’ll be attending
On Friday night I decided I should go see a few bands again. It’s been March since I last set foot at a concert, which in my case is quite shocking. So on Friday I bought tickets to 3 different shows, and have a few more that I would like to go and see. Here’s…
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Song Challenge 18 – A song you wished you heard on the radio
That isn’t all that difficult: pretty much EVERYTHING I listen to. One of the perks of listening mostly to Indie & Alternative is that you won’t hear it on the radio all that quickly. One band which I think deserves more airplay, or at least more recognition is Elbow. I fell in love with Elbow…