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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.
- How To Kill An Earworm
If earworms - songs that play in your head - drive you crazy, you'll welcome clues for how to eradicate them that come from a new study by psychologists at Western Washington University, USA. First - and I realise this doesn't sound appealing...
- 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! SongBandAlbumBe My ThrillThe WeepiesBe My ThrillTelegrams to MarsLittle & AshleyStole...
- A Musical Interlude
NPR.org/music has some terrific musical material! They have interviews with musical acts of all stripes: rock/pop/folk; classical; jazz & blues; world; and urban. I've mostly explored the first category, which has featured: Moby -- All Things...
- Using Math To Predict Musical Hits
Last week's Science Friday asks Can a song's success be predicted? Ira Flatow speaks with Mike McCready, co-founder and CEO of Platinum Blue; "McCready says he and his colleagues have come up with an algorithm that will predict whether a song...
- Radio For Me
Have you seen slacker.com? It's another online music radio source (like Pandora or last.fm) -- but it's more in the radio mode than the other two. The home page shows various types of radio stations / genres, broken out by TOP Stations, ALL stations,...
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Stephanie's Favorite Songs, 2012
The full list, in song order, is below, with a few annotations here & there.
- When I Was 12 – Explicit Content This Stephanie-friendly, lite-pop album Dear Eskimo came out in 2009. How did I miss it then?! Fortunately, Amy came to the rescue & shared it with me in 2012 ... and three of their songs made the cut.
- Stars – The North (Breakglass Version)
- Lana Del Rey – Diet Mountain Dew So many great songs on her two-volume set Born to Die, the Paradise Edition, but I limited myself to this one.
- Chairlift – Cool As A Fire Haunting lyrics: "now that I found you, I don't have a choice ... with or without you, I don't have a choice." There are a lot of great songs on their album Something.
- Carolina Chocolate Drops – Country Girl
- Norah Jones – If the Law Don't Want You ... neither do I. This is one of two songs I selected from KIN: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell. They're all a little country (or Americana), and they're all just like a Mary Karr novel.
- The Little Willies – Jolene I heard -- and loved! -- this version before I heard Coach Beiste sing it on Glee. Coach's version makes the song even more heartbreaking, tho' I prefer listening to the Little Willies.
- Lisa Marie Presley – Heartless Storm & Grace is my favorite Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis) album ... and this is the best song.
- Lee Ann Womack – Momma's On a Roll The second of two songs from KIN: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell.
- Steve Forbert – Can't We Get Together? This is second of Steve's songs that mentions being in another time zone from his girlfriend; it also mentions the Raleigh airport.
- Josh Ritter – Love Is Making Its Way Back Home This whole album is amazing, even tho' it's an EP. Josh Ritter could make a great song out of a phone book.
- Citizen Cope – One Lovely Day
- Leonard Cohen – Come Healing The entire album Old Ideas is terrific, but this song, with Dana Glover is especially haunting.
- Josh Ritter – Why
- Glen Hansard – Talking With the Wolves
- Sea Wolf – Old Friend
- The Mavericks – Back In Your Arms Again Not nearly enough Mavericks on the Suited Up & Ready EP, but what's there is great fun.
- When I Was 12 – Kitten I'm Smitten Really, who doesn't like a song with that title? Of course, mittens are also mentioned.
- Calexico – Puerto
- Allen Stone – Sleep This turned into a huge earworm for me ... mostly when I can't sleep, and this song comes to mind when I "feel it [sleep] on the ends of my fingers / Taste it on the tips of my teeth" ... You've been warned about the earworm!
- How To Kill An Earworm
If earworms - songs that play in your head - drive you crazy, you'll welcome clues for how to eradicate them that come from a new study by psychologists at Western Washington University, USA. First - and I realise this doesn't sound appealing...
- 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! SongBandAlbumBe My ThrillThe WeepiesBe My ThrillTelegrams to MarsLittle & AshleyStole...
- A Musical Interlude
NPR.org/music has some terrific musical material! They have interviews with musical acts of all stripes: rock/pop/folk; classical; jazz & blues; world; and urban. I've mostly explored the first category, which has featured: Moby -- All Things...
- Using Math To Predict Musical Hits
Last week's Science Friday asks Can a song's success be predicted? Ira Flatow speaks with Mike McCready, co-founder and CEO of Platinum Blue; "McCready says he and his colleagues have come up with an algorithm that will predict whether a song...
- Radio For Me
Have you seen slacker.com? It's another online music radio source (like Pandora or last.fm) -- but it's more in the radio mode than the other two. The home page shows various types of radio stations / genres, broken out by TOP Stations, ALL stations,...