Drop Your Pants

Do you love cool indie tunes... do you also love free stuff? Well then you will love this free playlist I found! (happy birthday... or whatever)

Enjoy!!!

Also I picked up the Lily Allen album today!
Finally!
I love it so far. I had previewed it on iTunes a dozen and a half times so I knew I was going to enjoy
it. So far my fav track is Fuck You.
I don't know what it is about her, maybe the fact that she likes to break the rules, she says whatever is on her mind
she genuinely loves what she does, but she has got me hooked.

An American Doll

There are few reviews I was going to talk about, but there is something that has been bugging me
and I need to write about it so that people can think about it for a second. Ok so you might want
to know what the hell I am talking about.
First of all I don't believe in guilty pleasure music. I don't think you should have to feel guilty for
listening to music. If you like something THEN LISTEN TO IT!!!!! All I ask of people is that they have an
open mind and explore beyond the radio. It goes both ways. There are people who only listen
to obscure music and look down upon people who listen to pop or whatever they deem "not good"
I think people need to chill out and just LOVE music. Don't discriminate, don't stereotype!

Ok now that, that is out of the way I wanted to talk about something many of you might judge me for.
It's Britney Spears. I know she's crazy but so are a lot of other musicians.
I think people need to jump off there high horse and look at the facts.
She makes good DANCE music. The lyrics might not be fanciful poems of the subconscious, but SO WHAT.
Maybe some people can't get over he "baby one more time" phase but if you took a look at her last two albums
you would see that they have great dance beats and they make me want to dance more than anything else.
I know there are a lot of people who agree in secret. LET YOUR SECRET OUT!
Britney's music is some of the best Dance/Pop out there, don't let your own snobbery get the best of you
cause if you do you will truly be missing out.

Grammy Fail

.R.I.P. 2002, originally uploaded by .morgan nov elate.

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant... sorry but I don't understand this.
I am proud of John Mayer for Best Male Vocal, and also Best Male Rock Vocal.
Performances were kind of boring and too many old songs were used.
Introductions or any talking for that matter was excruciating to watch.
Oh well, I guess I wasn't expecting much more anyway.

These Animals have more to offer than just a trippy album cover

Wow this group is one of the most creative I have experienced in a long time.
I have only listened to the whole thing once so I can't say a WHOLE lot on the new album.
Daily Routine caught my attention, actually most of the second half caught my attention.
I can't wait to stare at the cover and listen to them for hours.
I'm not but if I were a stoner I would be obsessed without even pressing play.


On a side note I am currently watching season 4 of the O.C. on dvd.
In the last episode I watched they played a remake of R.E.M.'s Orange Crush.
It was by Editors and I think it's pretty great so check it out :)

So much greatness in a short amount of time.

So basically I have been living in a very dark cave when it comes to the music world.
I just discovered how great Andrew Bird really is. So it's not like I had never heard of Andrew Bird ok, I am not THAT lame. Of course I heard of him, from many people, and so I decided to download some of his stuff awhile ago. I was only able to download three songs and I just discovered they are from very old albums... Like 2003 status and so forth.
I soon forgot about him and kind of gave up.
Then in december this last year a friend insisted that Armchair Apocrypha was amazing so I put it on my list of things to check out among other things, kind of in the back of my mind.
It wasn't until last night that I finally found a copy.
Basically I have been listening to it constantly and truly love it. I love the whistling. I heard he does it constantly... like in life haha.
My favorite songs off the album so far are
Imitosis
Heretics

But I think most all of them are great and now I plan on purchasing Noble Beast because I hear it's just as awesome.

I just started checking out Animal Collective's new album and I will have more on that later when I have listened to the whole thing a few times.

Oh and also up next time She & Him!!!!
and Lykke Li
and Hood Internet haha

Finally!

After see TV on The Radio - Dear Science being at the top of everyone's favorite album list and after various people telling me to check it out... I finally have it.
I am not disappointed so far. It's hard to tell if I love it yet. I already had the song Crying so that is my favorite song on the album so far. I was talking with someone about how different each song sounds from the nest. It really is a diverse album that fits well together. It's also creative and kind of funky at times.
I do have a reason for not listening to this bad until now. The name of the band is what mostly put me off at first...not unlike My Morning Jacket. Both of these band names made me think of whiney bitch pop-rock (a-la FOB or My Chemical Romance) ....not that I have anything against those bands really, I just don't really enjoy that genre much.
Also I don't just start listening to a band just because it's on a magazine's top album list... Then suddenly it was in every music magazine's top album lists and it was at the number one spot for most of them. This made me think I should check it out, and also cause a friend, who has great taste in music, said it was amazing so I finally got the hint and do not regret one bit spending the afternoon listening to it.
So I recommend:
DLZ
Crying

Celebrity Playlists

So iTunes does this thing where every week or every other week they have a celebrity or two share a playlist with people that you can download as a cd or check out individual songs. Sometimes the person will go in great detail and sometimes I think they have someone do it for them. Well this week Kate Hudson made a playlist that I was pleasantly surprised by. It's actually pretty good and thought out. She isn't picking songs that promote herself or one of her movies. (with the exception of her ex-husbands band , which doesn't seem as bad to me).
She does have a new movie coming out so that's why they picked her but the songs themselves seem like songs she genuinly likes.
I could be wrong....
The first song is Arcade Fire which is a solid choice and made me actually read her comments, which were more than one word sentences. I really appreciate people who take the time to think about songs they really love and be honest about and it and want to share great music with people.
The one thing that sucked about her playlist was it didn't really provide any NEW music I haven't heard of but that's ok.
... and it doesn't hurt if they enjoy the same kind of music I do. :)

So here is Kate's list...

1. Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
2. Coldplay - The Scientist
3. Bob Dylan Simple Twist of Fate (Live)
4. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
5. Neil Young - Pardon My Heart
6. All I Need - Radiohead
7. U2 - All I Want Is You
8. Faces - Glad and Sorry
9. MGMT - Time to Pretend
10. Bend Folds - You Don't Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor)
11. The Black Crowes - Title Song (Live)
12. Jack Johnson - Supposed to Be