Pavlov's Bell - Aimee Mann

More music? Don't mind if I do!

This is another song that was in Buffy (I get the majority of my music from tv, you know all my secrets! Shock horror, whatever shall I do!?!). It was in season 7 when Aimee Mann played at The Bronze. Spike had a little freak out and Aimee had the awesome line "I hate playing vamp towns" (yeah I thought it was pretty great, deal with it).

I'm here, bringing the late 90's slash early 2000's music in!

I enjoy this song just because it's great... there is some guitarin and some pretty vocals and it's basically great okay, deal!

Sugar Water - Cibo Matto

SURPRISE! MORE MUSIC!

Hey guys, I'm going away on Saturday so I won't have internet for a week, so you get some more awesome music from me right now! How lucky!

This is a song which was in Buffy, which automatically makes it awesome. Cibo Matto played at The Bronze in the first episode of season 2, and Buffy was all rebellious and messed up to the tune of Sugar Water. She was bitchy to Cordy, snarky to Angel and danced sexy with Xander... Willow was pissed.

Basically and awesome scene and an awesome, pretty and kind of slightly creepy song with a great music video... enjoy?

Except that Warner Brothers has disabled embedding of the video, which is lame, so go watch it on youtube

Whetstones - Deb Talan

Have a song guys, haaave one

Basically this is an awesome song that is kind of upbeat and pretty and has some pretty good lyrics except that it's kind of obscure or whatever so I couldn't find it on youtube.

Therefore, I hope this audio embedding thing works... otherwise just go and find it somewhere because it's great

OKAY BASICALLY THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A MUSIC PLAYER THING HERE BUT IT REFUSES TO WORK SO JUST GO HERE I GUESS

WHAT

THERE WAS NO POST HERE

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

Buffalo Country - Cloud Control

Today's song from me is, I think it's safe to say, BETTER THAN ANYTHING THAT ANY OF YOU HAVE POSTED SO FAR because it can be scientifically proven to be The Best Song.
I may be overreacting. IDK. It is an ok song I guess.

Anyway! Late night TV showed me this song at approx 3.30 this morning on an ad for tampax or something and I have been watching my play count in iTunes steadily tick upward since then!

I can't even get any super-interesting information about Cloud Control because they don't have a wikipedia page! I am outraged! Also noone has uploaded this song properly on youtube because apparently they're not that popular or something so all I could find was a video of some people who I presume are the band playing it on a piano in a street somewhere. The proper recorded version is avaliable on the iTunes store though and it's well worth the dollar sixty or whatever.

OH AND BY THE WAY IVE JUST NOTICED THEIR ACCENTS, ARE THEY AUSTRALIAN? I THINK SO

A Community Service Announcement - Jonathan Boulet

Firstly, you're all dicks. Secondly, I have to admit I don't mean that at all, because listening to this Lied, which I am doing right now, empties your mind of every feeling, thought or emotion ever.

Also it's the free iTMS download of the week right now!

The dude has written and played every note in this song and his self-titled album, as well as having produced a bitch all by himself!

Excuse me; I have to go and listen to it again twenty thousand times (I haven't overlistened to it yet, and I'm doubting that it's possible!)

(Postscript: my brother approves of the song and he is in a real band.)

Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen

So my thing with music is less extreme than a lot of other people's seem to be and my interest in finding new bands/musicians/etc is a fleeting, whimsical thing and I am a musical magpie who picks out shiny things she likes, listens to them a few dozen times and kind of scutters glibly onwards. New music is largely either recycled old music, wildly inaccessible to anyone who hasn't got the time to go to a garage show in a small town deep in rural America in 1999, absolutely fucking awful, or a combination of those things. This is my experience. This is my attitude. For future reference? I dunno?

So anyway Leonard Cohen, is what I'm getting to.

For the most part he's a poet who has a fixation on love and death and living, as most of us do I suppose, and for a little part he writes songs. He is so clearly not comfortable with the fact that he is singing and there are instruments around the place that it delights me, and he has the most lovely, effortless voice. His poetry is also great. If you're wondering why you've heard of him, he wrote Hallelujah, and the original version is worth listening to if only because it proves that sometimes cover versions can make a song so much better.

Anyway, this is Tower of Song, which I like for the determinedly simple words and the determinedly simple rhythm and the fact that it sounds like a kind of mournful reflection on the fact that he does songs now and he doesn't really know why. Also rad are the fragments of piano solo which fall like, a fraction ahead of the beat, I don't know why I like that but I do. This is the original, with pictures of flowers (youtube in its infinite wisdom, etc), but I'll embed a live version which I think is cool because he talks and plays the piano live, even if the audience (rightly enough) starts screamin' in the middle for a bit.

Don't Rain On My Parade (Glee Cast Version) - Lea Michelle

So I think it's established that I like, nay, LOVE Glee. Therefore it just kind of makes sense that I would enjoy a song from Glee.

Basically Lea Michelle is amazing in everything she does, and this scene and the song New Directions sings (You Can't Always Get What You Want, also great) next made me cry... because it was so beautiful and joyful and just great!

It's all "We are great even though you guys cheated, what are you gonna do about it?!"

Just listen to Lea Michelle be inspiring and beautiful and perfect okay!

Black Wax - Dananananaykroyd

Well! I'm going to kick off what looks to be a fantastically eloquent, knowledgeable and not at all based on us pretending to know about music, music blog by sharing Black Wax by Dananananaykroyd.

Quickly looking them up on w- knowing about music, I can tell you that Dananananaykroyd are a six piece band from Scotland who apparently have a /girl guitar player!/. Except I just checked and actually they don't even a little bit.

Also Black Wax is in Fifa 10 which is the only reason I know it! -ends convincing charade of music knowledgeness-

But yes! That is my song for this Boxing Day. You should probably all enjoy it as much as I do because it's excellent!