I hope you got a few minutes, as this might be a bit of a long read. Daejin had it smart when he broke his CD explaination into numerous posts. I, on the other hand, am not nearly as smart as he is so I'll do it in one sitting. So I bring to you:
Excuses to Look at Hot Chicks unincluded liner notes
(by the way.. the links are to the music Videos.. more ways to kill time)
1. Vorspier - Johann Sabastian Bach
I got the name of this track wrong on the actual leaflet. My bad.
Kanon would be too.. commercial. Overdone. Overplayed. I like it, don't confuse my meaning here. I just knew something else with class should open up my masterpiece. I actually got this recording from the Evangelion score collection. I felt that this was also a good introduction to lead into
2. White and Nerdy - "Weird Al" Yankovic
I'm not an über nerd, but I do have certain elements of geek that still reside in my being. White and Nerdy just seemed like a bit of a satire of my high school and college years. Also, it's just so damn catchy. Did I mention that I'm now becoming known as "Sour Creme" at work?
3. Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - Lemon Demon
I admit it, I saw the video first. "Weird Al" was a childhood hero of mine, and so I thought an appropriate segue then a song about lots more of my heroes. Another song I just truly dug in the past year and cranked the car stereo whenever it came on the iPod.
4. Mr. T.'s Commandments - Mr. T.
So yes, an apparent ongoing theme here. I didn't actually find out about this track until my later high school years when I watched the Weekend marathon Much, hosted by Steve Anthony. The song resurfaced while I was in China, and it's been on my playlist ever since.
5. Spider-Man Theme - Michael Bublé
Best. Theme song. Ever. Better than The Romone's cover. A crooner singing about Spidey? Awesome.
6. Fading Into Obscurity - Sloan
Something that happens over time. Great track. Good social commentary.
7. The Lonely Shephard - Gheorghe Zamfir and James Last
This was the last of my hero theme. Something to slow it down, bringing the wonder back down to earth. A great track that landed on the playlist. The melancholy of the big come down. We all know this feeling. I revisited this feeling last year.
8. Circles - The Salads
Funny thing about popular music; songs always seem to appear that describe what you're feeling at that moment. This was one of those songs in 2006. A track that I found myself looping on many an evening. A circle that seems to have finally ended.
9. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Yes, another theme. I had big ideals when I came home. the longer time went on without these ideals being met, the more heartbroken I became.
10. Bitches Ain't Shit - Ben Folds (feat. Mr Reynolds and Lin-Z)
Intermission. Like Daejin and NIN, Ben Folds repeatedly finds himself on my mixes. What can I say? I'm a fan. Besides, this track matched my intro.. it was, uh, classy.
11. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
Slowly beginning to accept the status quo. Never accept the status quo. It's detrimental to one's health.
This track was actually one of iTunes weekly freebees. They had a long series of good releases this year. This happened to be one of them.
12. Mad World - Gary Jules
A brilliant cover to say the least. Taking a track, and making it his own, and having sound like it should That's Mad World. Simply awesome.
13. Borrowed Time - Scissor Sisters
Another CD mix re-offender. I often think about how close i was giving up on staying home. Living on borrowed-time, as it were.
14. Theme Original - XOC
Reset.
15. Best of You - Foo Fighters
I never actually heard the whole album, although I'm told it was was poop. This, however, is a great track. Somewhat of a motivational track for yours truly. A faithful reminder to keep trying, and not giving up.
16. Work it Out - Jurassic 5 w/Dave Matthews' Band
Keeping up with the motivation is hard work.
17. Pump it - Black Eyed Peas
The album was trash. Hated most of what I heard, but there's always a diamond in the rough. Of course they had to take samples from another song to do it. My only question, when are they gonna dump Fergie's as-er, Trunk?
18. Back in Black - Pee Wee Dread
It was cover. It really wasn't innovative. It was just.. cool.
19. Anna Molly - Incubus
Squeaked into this years mix. I love the track. I listen to it pretty my daily. I just couldn't, you know, make it work. So I threw it in at #19.
20. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Since it's inception in 2005, it's never left my iPod. I actually believed that the first Gorillaz album would be their last, but they surprised me with this new release. Oh yeah, it's a cool video too.
21. Peanut Vendor - Perez Prado
Roll credits. When's the sequal? Next year.
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2 comments:
Hey kudos on delivering the best designed CD sleeve this year. And thank you for White and Nerdy. Always in style.
BTW where is the first track from? I know they use it in the Canadian produced Children's show "Little Bear" but I know it's been used elsewhere. Help me out.
I actually scooped the track from Evangelion. The full track name is Suiten fur Violoncello solo Nr.1 G-dur, BWV. 1007. I think they might have used the track in The Pianist (from the research of done on TheInterweb™), but I'm not entirely sure. Vorspiel (or Vorspier) I think was a much longer piece in which this solo came. I hope that helps.
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