z2: Ruth's Playlist of the Time Period
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rsadelleI've gotten a lot of the music I've been listening to over the last couple of months via fic soundtracks and other mixes people have offered up for download, so this is something in the way of giving back.
Download (If you're from the future and this link no longer works, leave a comment and I'll reupload it.)
I have no idea if you have any interest in reading me talking about music. I'm not even sure if I have any interested in reading me talking about music. But that's what I'm going to do in this entry, even though I don't really have the musical vocabulary to be particularly technical or precise about it.
First, a note about the name of my playlist. You see, a while back, I thought, "Hey, I want to listen to a couple of miscellaneous songs," and I threw them into a playlist that I named "Z - Playlist of the Day" with the intention that I would move things on and off it as I wanted to listen to them. (The Z was so that it would be at the bottom of the list and I could just hit the end key to get to it.) But then I put those six songs in an order and kept listening to it, so I didn't want to mess with it. Then I had a different bunch of songs I wanted to listen to and I had yet to rename the other playlist, so this one got named "z2" to keep it at the bottom of the list.
This also started out longer, but then I couldn't listen to the whole thing before I had to go to bed, so I cut some songs. It's now 57.9 minutes of music. (Thank you, iTunes, for the precision.) The track listing below is in alphabetical order by artist as sorted by iTunes; I've been listening to it on shuffle.
The connective tissue of this playlist is something like things I'm fannish about at the minute, but there's also a theme of voice (mostly in terms of physical voices, but at least one in the more metaphorical sense).
And now the annotated track list.
Boss DJ (acoustic live) - Brendon Urie
I love Brendon's voice on this, especially the little growl he seems to do on covers but not his own songs. I'm also fond of the beats he does against the guitar at "no trouble, no fuss." This is from a video wherein Pete Wentz asked him to "play the song that is the moment right now." I'm fascinated that Brendon says he usually goes for Sublime when he's put on the spot because he knows it. Why not his own band's music? Anyway, I'm especially proud of myself for this because I managed to download the video, rip the audio, and cut it so I had only the song. Two weeks later, I got a zip file of new bandom stuff from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eleanor_lavish that included someone else's rip that cut at exactly the same spots, so clearly I did it right.
One of Those Nights (feat. Patrick Stump and Brendon Urie) - The Cab
This is absolutely a voice song. It's on here because I made a playlist called "Patrick" that has everything I have that Patrick Stump sings on that isn't Fall Out Boy (I also have a "Patrick - All" list for all of that plus the FOB songs I have) and was listening to that obsessively when I made this playlist and dragged all three items from that playlist onto this one too. I love his voice, and Brendon's a bonus. This is the song that made me realize I always expect Brendon and Patrick to have each other's voices. (I think there's some kind of fairy tale in that, but I'm not sure exactly what.) Plus, it's kind of a fun song that fits with some of the other catchy stuff, and it has some really nice guitar work.
Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship
I pulled this song onto the playlist because I love it and I'd been listening to it a lot, but I have to admit I've been thinking about taking it off of this playlist. It almost doesn't quite fit with the rest of the songs. Something about Gabe's long vowel sounds, maybe.
Hot Mess - Cobra Starship
I love this song. Absolutely, completely, flat-out love it. This is the song on this list that does it for me in terms of physical and metaphorical voice. I like the way you can hear Gabe working to sing without trying too hard. (I'm not sure if that explains what I mean very well.) Metaphorically, this song is just perfect Gabe voice. Every time I listen to it (and I'd listened to it 47 times by the time I had it for 70 hours - now up to 67 times in a week), I can close my eyes and picture Gabe, grin firmly in place, doing it on stage.
The World Has Its Shine (But I Would Drop It On A Dime) - Cobra Starship
This is a love song I've fallen in love with. I was listening to it one day wondering if Gabe wrote it about his girlfriend or just fit words to a love song, and I started thinking about music as truth (in a bunch of the Leverage S1 interviews, Christian Kane repeatedly talks about acting as lying and music as telling the truth) versus music as performance (which seems to be what Gabe & Co. do). I have no idea if this thought is going anywhere, but I keep thinking it.
Spit the Dark - Empires
It took me quite a while to get into Empires, and even now, I'll sometimes be listening to my bandom folder on shuffle and skip a couple of Empires songs. But I love "Spit the Dark." I love the way it always makes me sing along to "will you join me?" and "to open up," the repetition of "I will guide you in the night," and that I always hear it as a song of hope. If you like it, you can download the entire album for free from their website.
Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year - Fall Out Boy
This is another Patrick's voice song. It also has William Beckett's voice, and I like that I can picture him with a mic in one hand and the other hand tucked against his cheek as he sings, even if his voice is not quite as amazing as Patrick's. But this song is also on this list for its lyrics: "I'd burn the city down to show you the light" catches my ear every time.
4th Period: Clothes Off!! - Gym Class Heroes
I totally love Gym Class Heroes. I never realized before that I actually knew some of their songs and liked them. This song made it onto this playlist because Patrick sings on it. Plus Travis, whose voice and confidence I also like. I love the lyric "My name's Travie and I'm pretty much a big deal."
Burnin' Up - Jonas Brothers
This particular version is the one off of A Little Bit Longer; I also had the version from Music From the 3D Concert Experience on here, but it's about two minutes longer and got cut when I was trying to make this shorter. I was skeptical at first about this song, but it grew on me. It's catchy, it's one of those songs I hear the sound of more than the words, and "Big Rob's for real and that's no lie" makes me laugh. If I were picking favorite JoBros songs, both "Tonight" and "S.O.S." would beat this out, but I was more in the mood for this when I cut this playlist down.
Turn Right (Live) - Jonas Brothers
I love this version of this song. It's soft, and I love the introduction of "Kevin Jonas on piano" and then Kevin's piano playing, and the way the audience claps along in time. I also like that the lyric is "turn right into my arms."
Free Fallin' - Jonas Brothers
This is an amazing cover. I just love it so incredibly much. I love the voice and the guitar work and the crowd noise that doesn't overwhelm the song. I also like that the beginning and the end of the song fit together so it loops well. (If you remember, I'm the kind of person who sometimes likes to listen to the same song on repeat for hours.) In the month I've had this song, I've listened to it enough times to make it the fifth most played song in my entire iTunes library.
JoBros Music and Introduction Resource Interlude
You can find out everything you ever wanted to know (and then some!) about the JoBros from The Jonas University Lecture Series, which is a series of posts that you should consider reading even if you're not into the JoBros just because the writing is so good and will make you laugh. One of the lectures in the series, JNS 201: Jonas Music Theory, includes download links for pretty much every JoBros song in existence, which is where I got all of the JoBros songs I have.
Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
This is absolutely a voice song. It's both the rough sound of his voice and then the background vowel sound chorus that I love. I ended up with this song on a couple of fic soundtracks, then I downloaded the whole album, and now I keep hearing it on the radio. This is also the only song from my previous Z playlist of the time period to make it onto this one.
Keep the Mood - Mark Rose
This is a cover of an Empires song that Mark did for They Just Howl. (Overall, I liked this and Arsdiona's tracks and the rest of it made me look at the speakers and think, "What the hell is this?" Although one of my friends liked the Scimeca & Co. track, so I might try it again sometime.) I prefer Mark's version to the original. It's a little more stripped down. I was skeptical of the electric sound of the guitar at first, but it's grown on me, and now I think it's part of what makes it work for me. There used to be more Mark on this playlist, but it got cut when I was making it shorter.
New Perspective - Panic! At The Disco
I didn't like this at all the first time or two I heard it. But then I found it to be quite catchy and couldn't get it out of my head, so onto this playlist it went! This is not a voice song. I like Brendon's voice, but I don't think he's doing anything particularly interesting with it on this. It is, however, a lyrics and melody song. "Stop there and let me correct it / I wanna live a life from a new perspective" is what kept getting stuck in my head. I also like the chimey thing (a xylophone?) they used in it. What I love about both this and the "Oh Glory" demo bit is that what I hear most are Brendon's voice and Spencer's drums (I will concede this might have more to do with my mindset than what's actually there). I keep thinking of it as their way of saying, "This is our band now."
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Patrick Stump
I got this off of the soundtrackschuyler and lifeslushlips made for their big bang story, and it's the song that made me fall in love with Patrick's voice. (It also made me make a Prince Covers playlist that has only this and two versions of Christian Kane's cover of "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" on it.) I'm also fond of the guitar playing - this is emphasis without overemphasis (baby!Bill Beckett, I'm looking at you!), and somehow he manages to bring a sense of emotion to the guitar music.
Should've Said No (feat. Jonas Brothers) - Taylor Swift
I love Taylor Swift's voice. There are a number of her songs that I try to sing along to but can't because I get tripped up on trying to sing that many syllables at that speed, and yet she does it sounding like she's not making any effort at all. This version of this song is off of the JoBros' Music From the 3D Concert Experience, which means you also get the crowd excitement and Joe doing a warm intro and then singing with her (even if the relationship eventually went bad).
Download (If you're from the future and this link no longer works, leave a comment and I'll reupload it.)
I have no idea if you have any interest in reading me talking about music. I'm not even sure if I have any interested in reading me talking about music. But that's what I'm going to do in this entry, even though I don't really have the musical vocabulary to be particularly technical or precise about it.
First, a note about the name of my playlist. You see, a while back, I thought, "Hey, I want to listen to a couple of miscellaneous songs," and I threw them into a playlist that I named "Z - Playlist of the Day" with the intention that I would move things on and off it as I wanted to listen to them. (The Z was so that it would be at the bottom of the list and I could just hit the end key to get to it.) But then I put those six songs in an order and kept listening to it, so I didn't want to mess with it. Then I had a different bunch of songs I wanted to listen to and I had yet to rename the other playlist, so this one got named "z2" to keep it at the bottom of the list.
This also started out longer, but then I couldn't listen to the whole thing before I had to go to bed, so I cut some songs. It's now 57.9 minutes of music. (Thank you, iTunes, for the precision.) The track listing below is in alphabetical order by artist as sorted by iTunes; I've been listening to it on shuffle.
The connective tissue of this playlist is something like things I'm fannish about at the minute, but there's also a theme of voice (mostly in terms of physical voices, but at least one in the more metaphorical sense).
And now the annotated track list.
Boss DJ (acoustic live) - Brendon Urie
I love Brendon's voice on this, especially the little growl he seems to do on covers but not his own songs. I'm also fond of the beats he does against the guitar at "no trouble, no fuss." This is from a video wherein Pete Wentz asked him to "play the song that is the moment right now." I'm fascinated that Brendon says he usually goes for Sublime when he's put on the spot because he knows it. Why not his own band's music? Anyway, I'm especially proud of myself for this because I managed to download the video, rip the audio, and cut it so I had only the song. Two weeks later, I got a zip file of new bandom stuff from
eleanor_lavish that included someone else's rip that cut at exactly the same spots, so clearly I did it right.One of Those Nights (feat. Patrick Stump and Brendon Urie) - The Cab
This is absolutely a voice song. It's on here because I made a playlist called "Patrick" that has everything I have that Patrick Stump sings on that isn't Fall Out Boy (I also have a "Patrick - All" list for all of that plus the FOB songs I have) and was listening to that obsessively when I made this playlist and dragged all three items from that playlist onto this one too. I love his voice, and Brendon's a bonus. This is the song that made me realize I always expect Brendon and Patrick to have each other's voices. (I think there's some kind of fairy tale in that, but I'm not sure exactly what.) Plus, it's kind of a fun song that fits with some of the other catchy stuff, and it has some really nice guitar work.
Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship
I pulled this song onto the playlist because I love it and I'd been listening to it a lot, but I have to admit I've been thinking about taking it off of this playlist. It almost doesn't quite fit with the rest of the songs. Something about Gabe's long vowel sounds, maybe.
Hot Mess - Cobra Starship
I love this song. Absolutely, completely, flat-out love it. This is the song on this list that does it for me in terms of physical and metaphorical voice. I like the way you can hear Gabe working to sing without trying too hard. (I'm not sure if that explains what I mean very well.) Metaphorically, this song is just perfect Gabe voice. Every time I listen to it (and I'd listened to it 47 times by the time I had it for 70 hours - now up to 67 times in a week), I can close my eyes and picture Gabe, grin firmly in place, doing it on stage.
The World Has Its Shine (But I Would Drop It On A Dime) - Cobra Starship
This is a love song I've fallen in love with. I was listening to it one day wondering if Gabe wrote it about his girlfriend or just fit words to a love song, and I started thinking about music as truth (in a bunch of the Leverage S1 interviews, Christian Kane repeatedly talks about acting as lying and music as telling the truth) versus music as performance (which seems to be what Gabe & Co. do). I have no idea if this thought is going anywhere, but I keep thinking it.
Spit the Dark - Empires
It took me quite a while to get into Empires, and even now, I'll sometimes be listening to my bandom folder on shuffle and skip a couple of Empires songs. But I love "Spit the Dark." I love the way it always makes me sing along to "will you join me?" and "to open up," the repetition of "I will guide you in the night," and that I always hear it as a song of hope. If you like it, you can download the entire album for free from their website.
Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year - Fall Out Boy
This is another Patrick's voice song. It also has William Beckett's voice, and I like that I can picture him with a mic in one hand and the other hand tucked against his cheek as he sings, even if his voice is not quite as amazing as Patrick's. But this song is also on this list for its lyrics: "I'd burn the city down to show you the light" catches my ear every time.
4th Period: Clothes Off!! - Gym Class Heroes
I totally love Gym Class Heroes. I never realized before that I actually knew some of their songs and liked them. This song made it onto this playlist because Patrick sings on it. Plus Travis, whose voice and confidence I also like. I love the lyric "My name's Travie and I'm pretty much a big deal."
Burnin' Up - Jonas Brothers
This particular version is the one off of A Little Bit Longer; I also had the version from Music From the 3D Concert Experience on here, but it's about two minutes longer and got cut when I was trying to make this shorter. I was skeptical at first about this song, but it grew on me. It's catchy, it's one of those songs I hear the sound of more than the words, and "Big Rob's for real and that's no lie" makes me laugh. If I were picking favorite JoBros songs, both "Tonight" and "S.O.S." would beat this out, but I was more in the mood for this when I cut this playlist down.
Turn Right (Live) - Jonas Brothers
I love this version of this song. It's soft, and I love the introduction of "Kevin Jonas on piano" and then Kevin's piano playing, and the way the audience claps along in time. I also like that the lyric is "turn right into my arms."
Free Fallin' - Jonas Brothers
This is an amazing cover. I just love it so incredibly much. I love the voice and the guitar work and the crowd noise that doesn't overwhelm the song. I also like that the beginning and the end of the song fit together so it loops well. (If you remember, I'm the kind of person who sometimes likes to listen to the same song on repeat for hours.) In the month I've had this song, I've listened to it enough times to make it the fifth most played song in my entire iTunes library.
JoBros Music and Introduction Resource Interlude
You can find out everything you ever wanted to know (and then some!) about the JoBros from The Jonas University Lecture Series, which is a series of posts that you should consider reading even if you're not into the JoBros just because the writing is so good and will make you laugh. One of the lectures in the series, JNS 201: Jonas Music Theory, includes download links for pretty much every JoBros song in existence, which is where I got all of the JoBros songs I have.
Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
This is absolutely a voice song. It's both the rough sound of his voice and then the background vowel sound chorus that I love. I ended up with this song on a couple of fic soundtracks, then I downloaded the whole album, and now I keep hearing it on the radio. This is also the only song from my previous Z playlist of the time period to make it onto this one.
Keep the Mood - Mark Rose
This is a cover of an Empires song that Mark did for They Just Howl. (Overall, I liked this and Arsdiona's tracks and the rest of it made me look at the speakers and think, "What the hell is this?" Although one of my friends liked the Scimeca & Co. track, so I might try it again sometime.) I prefer Mark's version to the original. It's a little more stripped down. I was skeptical of the electric sound of the guitar at first, but it's grown on me, and now I think it's part of what makes it work for me. There used to be more Mark on this playlist, but it got cut when I was making it shorter.
New Perspective - Panic! At The Disco
I didn't like this at all the first time or two I heard it. But then I found it to be quite catchy and couldn't get it out of my head, so onto this playlist it went! This is not a voice song. I like Brendon's voice, but I don't think he's doing anything particularly interesting with it on this. It is, however, a lyrics and melody song. "Stop there and let me correct it / I wanna live a life from a new perspective" is what kept getting stuck in my head. I also like the chimey thing (a xylophone?) they used in it. What I love about both this and the "Oh Glory" demo bit is that what I hear most are Brendon's voice and Spencer's drums (I will concede this might have more to do with my mindset than what's actually there). I keep thinking of it as their way of saying, "This is our band now."
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Patrick Stump
I got this off of the soundtrack
schuyler and lifeslushlips made for their big bang story, and it's the song that made me fall in love with Patrick's voice. (It also made me make a Prince Covers playlist that has only this and two versions of Christian Kane's cover of "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" on it.) I'm also fond of the guitar playing - this is emphasis without overemphasis (baby!Bill Beckett, I'm looking at you!), and somehow he manages to bring a sense of emotion to the guitar music.Should've Said No (feat. Jonas Brothers) - Taylor Swift
I love Taylor Swift's voice. There are a number of her songs that I try to sing along to but can't because I get tripped up on trying to sing that many syllables at that speed, and yet she does it sounding like she's not making any effort at all. This version of this song is off of the JoBros' Music From the 3D Concert Experience, which means you also get the crowd excitement and Joe doing a warm intro and then singing with her (even if the relationship eventually went bad).
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Date: 2009-09-04 04:48 pm (UTC)For anyone else curious, the one I like is the one marked "(Tom Petty Cover)" at the Jonas Music Theory post.