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Tuesday’s Digital Finds
Feb 3rd
To start off with, my buddy Tim Stone at C95 was blasting this in his office the other day while working on music logs.
The group is Justice. The album is called Cross. Yes… it’s 4 years old. Far be it for me to pretend like I’m discovering it… but it sounded awesome. The whole album is solid and I am now officially a fan.
Also on the interwebs, a TV show I used to watch when I was much younger (oh… in my early 20s) has now found a new life online. MTV’s Undressed was kitschy to some, sleazy to others, and just plain fun for folks like me. The story lines are hilarious… the acting is so-so… and the show is solid. One episode per week is now being posted at UndressedTV.com.
Finally, as you might have gathered by now I’m a huge fan of Twitter. Well, now you can track my stats (and those of others) — seeing just how often we tweet, and what we’re tweeting about. Check it…
That is all.
+J
Music for a Road Trip
Nov 22nd
With my impending road trip to the mountains, I figured it’d be a good time to burn a few more CDs for the ol’ collection — especially since I’m going with the parents Ford Escape which has a 6-CD changer in it.
So, while it ain’t no Time-Life collection… here goes nothing.
Road Trip 2008 – CD #1 “Pop”
Katy Perry – Waking Up in Vegas
Kanye West – Good Morning
Bishop Allen – Middle Management
Mark Ronson / Amy Winehouse – Valerie
Peter Gabriel – Down to Earth
Coldplay – Viva la Vida
Jonas Brothers – Burnin’ Up
The Killers – Spaceman
Matt Costa – Mr. Pitiful
Usher – Love in This Club
Gavin DeGraw – In Love With a Girl
Natasha Bedingfield – Pocketful of Sunshine
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations
Augustana – Boston
Armin van Buuren – Going Wrong
Timbaland feat. OneRepublic – Apologize
Road Trip 2008 – CD #2 “Rock”
Sam Roberts – Them Kids
Against Me! – Stop!
Pride Tiger – The Lucky Ones
Fall Out Boy – I Don’t Care
Metro Station – Shake It
The Mooney Suzuki – Alive & Amplified
The Dead 60’s – Riot Radio
Matt Mays & El Torpedo – Tall Trees
Lights Out Love – Belong To You
Phantom Planet – Do the Panic
The Midway State – Never Again
State of Shock – Hearts that Bleed
Ben Folds Live – Not the Same
Bon Jovi – Lost Highway
James Blunt – Wisemen
Hoobastank – My Turn
Jack’s Mannequin – American Love
Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
Road Trip 2008 – CD#3 “Alt”
MGMT – Time to Pretend
Fall Out Boy feat. John Mayer – Beat It
The Killers – Human
Carolina Liar – I’m Not Over
Kanye West – Heartless
Vampire Weekend – Ottoman
Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
Snow Patrol – Take Back the City
Jack Johnson – Sleep Through the Static
The Ting Tings – Great DJ
Flight 409 – Don’t Stop Believin’
Cold War Kids – We Used to Vacation
The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else But You
The Submarines – You, Me and the Bourgeoisie
Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Panic at the Disco – Nine in the Afternoon
Brendan Benson – What I’m Looking For
Road Trip 2008 – CD#4 “The Mix – A”
Britney Spears – Womanizer
The Kooks – Always Where I Need to Be
Rehab – Sitting at a Bar (Acoustic)
Jully Black – Until I Stay (Let’ Go To War Remix)
The Strokes – Last Night
MIA – Paper Planes
The Bravery – Believe
Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder
Drake Bell – Highway to Nowhere
Atreyu – Falling Down
Divine Brown – Next Best Thing
Counting Crows – You Can’t Count on Me
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Dawn of the Dead
Kanye West – Stronger
Wyclef Jean – Fast Car
Major Maker – Last Goodbye
Road Trip 2008 – CD #5 – “The Mix – B”
Beyonce – If I Were a Boy
Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
Devandra Banhart – Lover
Hedley – For the Nights I Can’t Remember
Gnarls Barkley – Run (I’m a Natural Disaster)
Mark Ronson – Just
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down
Kanye West – Love Lockdown
The Kooks – Naive
Duffy – Mercy
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Nowhere to Run
Kenna – Out of Control
MGMT – Kids
State of Shock – Money Honey
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
The Bravery – Time Won’t Let Me Go
Third Eye Blind – Semi Charmed Life
Road Trip 2008 – CD #6 – “Comfort Food”
Feist – 1234
Randy Bachman – Prairie Town
Fontella Bass – Rescue Me
Ben Folds Five – Army
Drake Bell – Found a Way
Van Morrison – Real Real Gone
Jack’s Mannequin – Holiday from Real
James Hunter – The Hard Way
Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles – Who Says You Can’t Go Home
Kate Voegele – Hallelujah
Hedley – Old School
Otis Redding – Respect
Dixie Chicks – Landslide
Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere
Sia – The Girl You Lost to Cocaine
Ben Folds – Tiny Dancer
Luke Doucet & The White Falcon – First Day (In the New Hometown)
Natasha Beddingfield – Unwritten
There it goes! And so do I… will blog (hopefully) from the road. Cheers!
+J
Notes from all over…
Nov 12th
The new album from The Killers – “Day and Age” – drops November 24th. The two cuts I’ve heard from it so far — Human and Spaceman — are fantastic. Spaceman especially. For some reason, The Killers manage to create a sound that sends my head back to when I was little — you know, wearing pajamas, eating cereal, and watching Saturday morning cartoons cross-legged in the living room. Simpler times…
I’ve been watching much more TV in the last few days of holidays than I have in a long time. In the process, I’m playing catch-up on some things. Like — for example — this (which is awesome.)
With Christmas not far away now, TV is starting fill up with commericals for the season. And, in an effort to stand out from the crowd, advertisers are really working overtime to find obscure Christmas-like songs to provide the soundtrack for the season of shopping. My favourite use of music right now is on the Sears commercials — where the song of choice is Badly Drawn Boy’s Donna and Blitzen. Very very cool.
Finally, Engadget/TUAW is reporting this morning that iPhone 2.2 firmware will start being available for download on November 21st. The two big additions for me will be the addition of Street View to Google Maps (damn Google vans… drive through Canada once in a while!), and the ability to turn off auto-correct (a good thing when you’re trying to talk in a corporate language and not in normal people words.)
On that note… I’m off to play some Blockles. You should too.
+J