Everywhere I'm lookin' now...

I know this isn't exactly new or unknown in any way, but I've been listening to this song a lot. Just wanted to remind everyone that Beyonce can actually make quality music. If you never really paid this song any attention, give it another try.

Download: Beyonce - Halo [zshare]

Hoping you'd hear my plea

City and Colour: As Much As I Ever Could [zshare]

= J.Buckley + Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos + My Morning Jacket




Okay. I'll post some more upbeat tunes soon. Promise.

One of these days

...I'll make some money

Owen: One of these days [zshare]

you would rather be far away...

...just to have it go all your way

Of the so-called Freshman Class as delineated by XXL magazine, there are a few of the ten that really stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. The most well-rounded talent of them all, B.o.B. brings real musicianship to his work, along with clever lyrics and an upbeat infectiousness that is impossible to resist. Listen and enjoy!

B.o.B. - Wonderland [zshare]

this place that I go, I never wanna leave...

Someday, one day, they all gonna believe/
that everything I said that I'll achieve/
and then it come fast like highway speed/
so I Tokyo Drift to a place in my dreams

This song is a bubbling, rolling ride through XV's lyrics, the kind of song you can just zone out to while walking somewhere on a sunny Korean afternoon, ignoring students yelling at you from all sides. That said, when I first heard it I was hooked from the first line:

As I hop on my bike...

XV - Final Fantasy XV [zshare]

my ignorance is *such* on a higher level...

I told y'all that my name is Theo,
the Rhode Island hero!

As silly as that claim seems, this is a wonderful song and I'm sure if, say, Rolling Stone was compiling a list of Rhode Island heroes, Theo would be on it.

I love this song.

Theo - There's Meaning [zshare]

Inside a Silent Tear

I'm in love...

Blossom Dearie: Inside a Silent Tear [zshare]

Gah, Blossom. La la la la la la... you had me.


Inside a silent tear, I have a silent dream
That sometimes sails across the patterns of my mind.
The silence follows me and dreams just disappear
and then I find myself inside a silent tear

Sometimes I laugh too much
to hide the emptiness,
to lose the loneliness.
I'm not the laughing kind.
I can't say anything I really want to say.
I guess I try so hard I stumble on the way.

I'm always finding love when it's not meant to be.
What is reality and can it be defined?
When you're a fool like me it's never really clear
so you have silent dreams inside a silent tear.

I'm always finding love when it's not meant to be.
What is reality and can it be defined?
When you're a fool like me it's never really clear
so you have silent dreams inside a silent tear.




I couldn't resist.

Blossom Dearie: Figure Eight [zshare]

I love the beginning. It reminds me of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
If she has yet to jog your memory, check the video.

I dare you to get this song out of your head

Or her. I was humming this song as we left a bar and one guy says "catchy song, huh... and it's sung by the hottest woman in the world." Perhaps only a small exaggeration.