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Here's a list of my favorite songs for this year. I added all but the Belle & Sebastian to a myspace playlist. Enjoy & support the artist whose songs you like!
(* not on myspace)
And in the shameless family promotion department, please check out my niece Rachel Austin on myspace; she has quite a lovely voice!
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- Favorite Songs 2008
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- Favorite Albums By Year
Finally, a meme I can (want to) write about! Liam, over at Panorama of the Mountains, lists his Favorite Albums by Year, starting with the soundtrack to Wattstax, back in 1973. I don't think I can go back that far (if I did, it would include things...
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Neuroscience
Favorite Songs of 2010
Here's a list of my favorite songs for this year. I added all but the Belle & Sebastian to a myspace playlist. Enjoy & support the artist whose songs you like!| Song | Band | Album |
| Be My Thrill | The Weepies | Be My Thrill |
| Telegrams to Mars | Little & Ashley | Stole My Heart EP |
| Somethin’ Stupid | The Secret Sisters | The Secret Sisters |
| The Curse | Josh Ritter | So Runs The World Away |
| Hormones | Tracey Thorn | Love and Its Opposite |
| Beauty in the World | Macy Gray | The Sellout |
| Better Off In Texas | Raul Malo | Sinners & Saints |
| Tennessee Me | The Secret Sisters | The Secret Sisters |
| Cornbread and Butterbeans | Carolina Chocolate Drops | Genuine Negro Jig |
| Nothing but the Whole Wide World | Jakob Dylan | Women And Country |
| Ridin’ In My Car | She & Him | Volume Two |
| Still Missing You | Little & Ashley | Stole My Heart EP |
| Long Hard Road | Sade | Soldier Of Love |
| Pickle | Chumbawamba | Abcdefg |
| I Didn’t See It Coming * | Belle and Sebastian | Write About Love |
| Bad Romance | Lady Gaga | The Fame Monster |
| Why Does The Wind? | Tracey Thorn | Love and Its Opposite |
| Anytime You Need Me | Michael Franti | The Sound Of Sunshine |
| I Want The World To Stop * | Belle and Sebastian | Write About Love |
| San Antonio Baby | Raul Malo | Sinners & Saints |
| Hey Hey Hey | Michael Franti | The Sound Of Sunshine |
And in the shameless family promotion department, please check out my niece Rachel Austin on myspace; she has quite a lovely voice!
- A Secret Investigation
Secrets range from the trivial - not telling a friend you borrowed their shoes - to the serious - not telling your partner that you're HIV positive, for example. John Caughlin at the University of Illinois and his colleagues investigated whether people's...
- Stephanie's Favorite Songs, 2012
As always, it was a good year for music! I've completed my favorite song list of 2012 and posted it on Spotify. The full list, in song order, is below, with a few annotations here & there. When I Was 12 – Explicit Content This...
- Favorite Songs 2008
One of my usual end-of-year projects is to create a CD of my favorite songs which came out in the past year. This year, thanks to cool technology, I was able to upload mp3s of the songs to 8tracks.com and I can share them with you all! Here's the...
- Favorite Albums By Year
Finally, a meme I can (want to) write about! Liam, over at Panorama of the Mountains, lists his Favorite Albums by Year, starting with the soundtrack to Wattstax, back in 1973. I don't think I can go back that far (if I did, it would include things...
- A New Kind Of Concept Map?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Using Math to Predict Musical Hits. Turns out that before Mike McCready was on ScienceFriday, he was interviewed by Malcolm Gladwell at the 2007 New Yorker Conference. He was a bit more technical with Gladwell than he...