Year 2, Day 38

Hello. Today I give you What A Little Moonlight Can Do by Emilie-Claire Barlow.

This song I found when I stole my sister's music. We have different tastes, and she usually doesn't like mine, but I love seeing what she listens to. It's easy to find stuff that I've never heard of before and then I'm able to share it with my friends. It's a big circle until everyone knows and then we are all obsessed. Now this I will warn you, is very different from what I've shown earlier, but in a good way. Welcome to the jazz part of YouTube. Jazz is possibly one of the funnest genres of music. It's where every song can be changed and you're encouraged to make it your own. These are songs that have scatting and sax solo's, with crazy tempos and fun rifts. Music that you can actively listen to and not be aware of how they'll continue. I love that it's not as predictable as pop music. Emilie- Claire is a master of jazz. She's perfect for this style and is a great starting point to begin your travels into the jazz world. Your welcome.

Peace.

Year 2, Day 37

Hi. Today's song is Every Other Time by LFO.

This is an old song, as you can probably tell from the video, but I still like to listen to it. You know what I miss the most about 90's music? No matter what they were talking about in the song, most music was upbeat. You just felt good listening to it. I realize now how old I'm getting when I can say "back in my day." I mean, back in my day we had blockbuster. Back in my day, there were no ipods. Back in my day, all the members of this band were alive. The lead singer of LFO actually died from leukemia is 2010. So this is a sort of tribute to him. He made my life happy, and that was something I needed. I don't care if you guys like 90's pop or not, just check out this song.

Peace.

Year 2, Day 36

Hey everybody. Today's song is Party Hard by Beenie Man.

This is from the Blue Crush CD and played on my ipod while I was riding the train. It makes me feel so cool listening to it, with it's reggae sound. It took a great amount of self control to not dance on the C-train. I didn't want to scare people...which me dancing definitely would have. This song is so underrated for how good it is. No one knows it, and I only found it because I like looking for movie soundtracks. So I'm hoping to amp up this song a little bit by putting a shout out on here. So listen to it, share the song with your friends and get your party on.

Peace.

Year 2, Day 35

Hey. Today's song is On Paper by Arkells.

It's very important that this band be for today, because they had a concert today that I went to. At my college as part of the Welcome Back Week, they have bands every night. I have full days during the week so I could only swing one concert, and I chose this one because I love the Arkells and I probably would never get another opportunity to go see them, so I had to go. My friends all suck though, because no one wanted to come. I ended up bringing Hunter, who didn't know who these guys were, but she came anyway because she knew how badly I wanted to go. So in honor of their kickass concert at The Gateway, this is my salute to them.

Peace.

Year 2, Day 34

Sup. Today you get Take A Bow by Rihanna.

Rihanna has a lot of good songs actually. This song in particular I love. It's probably because I can sing this song perfectly. It's in my key so I don't have any trouble with the notes, and you can pour emotion into it easily because it is a very emotional song. I always imagine that if certain things happened in my life, instead of losing my mind I'd sing a song to explain what was happening, what I wanted to say to whoever it was I was thinking about. If a guy cheated on me, I wouldn't go all crazy ex on him and break his stuff...though I think a little public humility like singing this to him in front of a room of strangers would suffice. That's just me though. What would you do?

Peace.

Year 2, Day 33

Hi. So today's song is Read Between The Lines by KSM.

These guys are kind of like Everlife: also a girl band and also Disney backed. Now I say these guys are Disney backed because the videos I'm showing you are on the Disney YouTube Channel because these songs are used in Disney movies. This band in particular, was actually used in 10 Things I Hate About You TV Show. They did a Cheap Trick cover, which got mixed reviews. I don't mind it. I Want You To Want Me is one of those songs that everyone covers, and I believe it never taints the original. Although their cover is good, I used a song that is purely KSM to introduce you to these guys. So check it out and then if you're up to it, look for the Cheap Trick cover.

Peace.

Year 2, Day 32

Hola. Today I give you Something About The Sunshine by Anna Margaret.

This is a cookie cutter Disney star song, but I like it. It's just so happy! You can probably guess where I found this song based on the movie clips in the music video. Starstruck was not bad. It was a lot better than I expected it to be, though they over exaggerate character types in these movies. Like, the girl started to get annoying, but not as bad as some shows have been. Anyway, give it a listen and tell me what you think.

Peace.