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Jan 18 2010

Favorite Music 2009

Category: Listening, Music — velveetahead @ 2:05 am

I usually do my favorite albums from the past year, but I also downloaded a lot of singles that I loved. I didn’t want to forget them. For most of these, I have the albums to go along with the song, but some of them are just really good songs all on their own when the album didn’t really do it for me.

Below there is a clip of each song. The entire playlist is also available on YouTube.

Favorite Song 2009

Artist: Miike Snow
Song: Animal
Album: Miike Snow

How did I determine which would be my overall favorite song of the year? In 2008, I could not stop listening to “Sex on Fire” by Kings of Leon over and over and over again. This year, that honor goes to Miike Snow’s “Animal”. I still am not sick of it. It is just catchy and makes my head start bouncing whenever I hear it. I heard it for the first time while I was listening to the new releases on Amazon, which I really need to get back to doing. I then heard the song a couple of times on 94.7. It wasn’t played too often, but I loved it. They are a Swedish band. I saw them live a few months back. They were excellent.

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Tags: 1901, All Rebel Rockers, animal, Bang! Bang!, Barracuda, Boombox, break-up, can't stop feeling, Conditions, day and age, Fantasies, Grizzly Bear, Habeas Corpus, Help I'm Alive, hockey, Incredibad, Invaders Must Die, It Don't Move Me, It's Frightening, Julian Casablancas, kinky, little boots, Living Thing, Living Things, Lonely Island, Manners, metric, Michael Franti & Spearhead, miike snow, Mind Chaos, of montreal, Oxygen, Papel Volando, Passion Pit, percussion gun, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, Peter Bjorn and John, phoenix, prodigy, Relator, Remind Me in 3 Days..., Say Hey (I Love You), Skeletal Lamping, Sleepyhead, spaceman, strangers, Sweet Disposition, the killers, The Knux, The Temper Trap, To Punctuate, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, too fake, Triphallus, Two Weeks, V, Van She, Veckatimest, Warrior's Dance, white rabbits, wolfgang amadeus phoenix

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Aug 19 2009

Summer ‘09 Playlist

Category: Listening, Music — velveetahead @ 9:19 pm

These are songs I’ve been listening to a lot this summer. Some of them are new and some of them, I just recently discovered, so they are new to me!

Entire YouTube Playlist: Summer ‘09 Playlist

Miike Snow – Animal

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Tags: animal, can't stop feeling, franz ferdinand, Hasta Quemarnos, hockey, kinky, little boots, Meddle, miike snow, of montreal, Passion Pit, percussion gun, Reeling, The Party's Crashing Us, To Punctuate, too fake, Triphallus, white rabbits

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Jul 02 2009

Lisa’s Hootie Hoo Playlist

Category: Listening, Music, Random Songs — velveetahead @ 11:13 pm

Lisa requested a playlist after Melissa got one. I just started to pick random songs that popped into my head or skimming through my music collection. I got a bit stuck with the industrial/electronic stuff I listened to in high school/college years, but there’s a variety of other random things in there too. I was trying to find things Lisa might not have heard of, but I know some of it, she might have and I wanted to put it in there anyway.

lisaplaylist

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0B3B5BD49FE889A7&page=2

Tags: !!!, ash, basement jaxx, black rebel motorcycle club, bloc party, bollock brothers, Boys Noize, bright eyes, course of empire, cut copy, Doves, editors, fratellis, kylie minogue, ladytron, lo fidelity allstars, marion, mika, morcheeba, phantom planet, prodigy, renegade soundwave, revolting cocks, savage garden, sheep on drugs, sister machine gun, skunk anansie, thrill kill kult, TV On the Radio, utah saints, wilco

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Jun 30 2009

Melissa’s Roadtrip Playlist

Category: Listening, Music, Random Songs — velveetahead @ 9:45 pm

Melissa was quizzing me today about some good road trip music. I was sharing what I currently had on the Ipod and she was scribbling band names down. I decided to put together some songs for a playlist so she can hear what I think are the best of what I talked about today!

melissaplaylist

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=25A9D49A5C86A636

Tags: cut copy, datarock, dead 60s, franz ferdinand, goldfrapp, hard fi, kings of leon, kinky, klaxons, little boots, Louis XIV, MGMT, new pornographers, of montreal

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Jun 29 2009

Stacy’s Dancing Playlist

Category: Listening, Music, Random Songs — velveetahead @ 6:07 pm

I created a playlist on YouTube for Stacy. It is a sample of songs we hear when we go dancing at Fez Ballroom on Shut Up and Dance nights. Stacy has stated she wished she knew the songs better so this is what I could remember hearing there before. I know she knows some of them, but I just added what I could remember.

stacyplaylist

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A9D04643930DDACC

Tags: 20th century boy, atomic, ballroom blitz, bell biv devoe, blondie, cut copy, d.a.n.c.e., david bowie, dee-lite, don't stop believin, don't stop til you get enough, front 242, goldfrapp, groove is in the heart, jim caroll, journey, jungle love, just dance, justice, lady gaga, lightning man, lights & music, living on video, m.i.a., men without hats, michael jackson, morris day and the time, never say never, new order, nitzer ebb, olivia newton john, ooh la lha, p.y.t., paper planes, people who died, poison, queen, romeo void, safety dance, sweet, t rex, temptation, trans x, under pressure, welcome to paradise, xanadu

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Jun 09 2009

Music Releases: June 9

Category: 2009, Music, Releases — velveetahead @ 10:23 pm

New releases this week: Placebo, Sonic Youth, Kasabian, The Dirty Projectors

Music Releases: April 21

Category: 2009, Music, Releases — velveetahead @ 2:26 pm

Is it the 80s again? I believe so! New releases this week: Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys. Also: Cage the Elephant, Camera Obscura, Manchester Orchestra, Art Brut

It has the synth sounds from older albums, and while some songs sound as good as the older songs, other ones are a little on the boring side. It might grow on me, which I have found their most recent albums need to do for me to like them with the exception of Exciter. I still hate that one. The video for “Wrong” is pretty cool and twisted so I recommend watching it.

depechemode_soundsoftheuniverse

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Tags: art brut, art brut vs satan, cage the elephant, camera obscura, depeche mode, manchester orchestra, means everything to nothing, my maudlin career, pet shop boys, sounds of the universe, yes

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Apr 24 2009

Bloc Party – Signs remix

Category: Listening, Music — velveetahead @ 8:50 pm

Bloc Party will be releasing their remix CD of Intimacy on May 12. Here is the naughty video for “Signs” remixed by Armand Van Helden. This is not safe viewing for work or kidlets, especially around the 1:30 mark.