Novelty Playlist

"The Way To The Heart Is Through The Ears"

2010-04-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

After my big long rant about having to take a science class, I thought I'd never have to blog about it again. Wrong! Today's playlist was also fueled by my forensics class (That professor is more useful than she seems!) I had been struggling for a term paper topic when I was hit with both Novelty Playlist and term paper topic subjects in rapid succession: I could use the subject of the human heart for today's Novelty Playlist AND heart biopsy would be fantastic for my forensics paper.

The heart plays a big factor in music. The immediate thought that comes to mind is that 99% of songs are written about one form of love or another-- It's true. I wouldn't be making the easiest playlist of all time if it weren't true. There are so many songs about hearts: heartbreak, heartbeats, hearts-on-sleeves, the list is thousands of heartbeats long. However, there is another way that the heart affects music in more a of a physiological sense. Any of you who perform will already know what I mean. However, it has been stated in several performance classes here at my university that if your heart is racing, the tempo of whatever it is being performed will race as well. Your heart is your own organic, internal metronome! Conducting students are found guilty of the racing dilemma on a regular basis and it is of course only after years of practice that one can separate the internal chest metronome from that of the one in their minds. (Based on song and lyric content, you'd think that the two could never be separated- love can be overwhelming.)

As my term paper is looming, I'm going to keep this short today. Just one large radio playlist. No Subsections. <3

"The Way To The Heart Is Through The Ears:"
Crazy On You - Heart
Pablo's Heart - Four Tet
Circling - Four Tet
Heart it Races - Architecture in Helsinki
Romantic Comedy - Stars (Off of the album, Heart)
Heart Entire - Nosaj Thing
Melt Your Heart - Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins
Heartless - Kanye West
Purple Heart - Ernest Gonzales
Heartbeats - The Knife
Lead You Astray - Heartbeater
Heart Of Gold - Neil Young With The Stray Gators
Your Heart On Your Sleeve - Colleen
Heart Skipped A Beat - The XX
I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) - Billie Holiday
When You Give Your Heart - Laura Veirs

Honorable Mention:
Today's Undertaking - M. Ward
He said go build a song forty heartbeats long and sacrifice your love...

Thanks for listening!
<3 Morgan

Gran Exitos

2010-04-15T18:03:00.001-07:00

A Finely Aged Friendship

2010-04-14T03:49:00.000-07:00

At age four, little toe-headed, dimple-faced Morgan walked into Sunday school and her life was forever changed. No, not because she found God or was in a hindu church by the age of four, but rather because she met the friend of a lifetime: Her name was Charmaine Olivia.

Exiting third person... NOW.

April 11 marked my Twenty-Second complete year here on this good green planet. On my birthday, I noticed something rather remarkable and entertaining: Charmaine and I have been friends for a solid eighteen years. From spending every sunday school together, to having nearly every elementary school class together, all the way to the occasional college visit, Charmaine and I have shared a lot [probably too much.] Baths, blood, spit, embarrassment... you name it, we've probably shared it.

The greater point that I pontificated on my birthday, however, was that Charmaine and I have nursed a friendship to adulthood. We have been alive on this earth long enough to have experienced something together, the quantity of which could be equated to a 'fully-matured', voting-age, individual. We marveled at this together and when I offered to have Charmaine on the show during her visit, it was pretty clear to me that this would be our playlist theme.

Charmaine is now a freelance artist living in San Francisco with her beaux, Joe.

They comprise what I think might be the cutest couple on the planet:

Charmaine is an absurdly talented drawer, painter, and photographer (amongst a myriad of other things). You may access her work at her blog: Charmaine Olivia.

Most recently, her painting A Deer Wearing Gym Socks, was chosen to be featured on UrbanOutfitters.com in their print shop. [Coming Soon!] I am a very proud surrogate sister and will take any opportunity to brag.

I hope you will enjoy the awkward childhood photos. There will be interesting song explanations and I'm sure embarassing stories told on the air today. Live at 3 PM on Chapmanradio.com. Be sure to listen in! If you miss the show, click here for the downloadable podcast.

This blog will be updated upon her arrival. However, this is the tentative framework for tomorrow's playlist based on age, birthdays, and friendship:

A Finely Aged Friendship:

We're Going To Be Friends - The White Stripes

Airbag - Radiohead Charmaine and I used to interpretive dance to OK Computer after class in Middle School [NERDALERT]

I Feel Like A Child - Devendra Banhart

The Happy Birthday Song - Andrew Bird

Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens [True Friendship]

As Ugly As I Seem - The White Stripes - We have competitions to see who can look the ugliest... refer to the photograph in which charmaine is about to bite my face off. This one is honorable mention- we wont double up on Jack White.. well, at least not on the radio. We both had crushes on him in high school. Enough of the subtext ramble!

Gimme Stitches - The Foo Fighters A track on repeat in our adolescent years- would have also been good for black and blue playlist. Also, Charms and I are big on wrestling so it is injury-appropriate.

Spies - Coldplay I bet you can't guess what Charmaine and I used to pretend about as kids...

The Rest of My Life - St. Andrew [His mix of it, at least...]

Old Man - Neil Young

Penelope - Pinback

You've Got A Friend - James Taylor

Wannabe - The Spice Girls

Howard Makes It All Go Away - Yann Tiersen [Amelie Soundtrack]

Thanks for tuning in,
Morgan Hughes Beckett <3

Black'n'Blue

2010-03-17T16:00:00.000-07:00

Today I had a very special guest on the air for Novelty Playlist.

Today's theme: BLACK AND BLUE

I don't know how this started, but sometime at the beginning of this school year, my friend Melanie and I started sending each other text photographs of our bruises. It may be that we share a disaster-prone temperament, or that we both have a shared fascination for slightly gross things, but whatever the case, Melanie and I started snapping shots of our banged-up knees and thus began a competition of the damaged, injured, and impaired.

Amongst our favorites are:

1. The Coffee Table Whilst Running Out The Door

2. Arms From The Chairs in Our Boss's Office [This one happens to me most often]

3. A High Heel To The Foot

4. Harris Apartment Showers [You literally have to climb in and out of these showers- its like a hike to bathe yourself]

5. This last injury was obtained in the process of doing the radio show.

I kneeled down to unplug my laptop at the end of the radio show and accidentally sat down as hard as humanly possible on a wooden chair...in a skirt.. yipes.

Most of these are of Melanie, as we think she is slightly more anemic than I. [Melanie wins]

As I was sifting through my mind one day for playlist topics, I realized that both words 'black' and 'blue' are very prevalent in song titles and in song content. Furthermore, songs about injuries as metaphors for being unlucky in love are very common as well.

What was played on the air today:

Black and Blue - Mike Snow

Black Wave - The Shins

Black Math - The White Stripes

Monster - Lady Gaga (Melanie claims that bruises make her feel like a monster, but I think she just wanted a reason to put Gaga on the playlist.)

Bruised - The Bens

Run This Town - Jay Z ft. Rihanna (off of the blue print- we will refrain from black and blue chris brown jokes...)

Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood - St. Vincent

Bruises - Chairlift

Tables and Chairs - Andrew Bird (Most common bruise-makers)

Cool Blue Reason - Cake

Red Right Ankle - The Decemberists (For our friend Craig, who had just sprained his right ankle)

Out of The Blue - Julian Casablancas

Black or White - Michael Jackson

In The Studio:

Sorry for the blog hiatus, please don't hate us! (hiatus, hate us... nevermind)

Lots of Love,

Morgan

She Blinded Me With Boredom

2010-02-24T13:19:00.000-08:00

If my forensics class continues this way, we will soon be studying the physics behind the bullet wound in my own brain.

Hell, if we studied bullet wounds, I might actually look up from my laptop to learn something.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I take a Forensics and Biology course at the university that I attend. Looking to fulfill one of my final General Education science credits in November, I signed up for a Forensics course. I was thinking that it might be a fun and interesting way to complete an otherwise potentially boring subject. For all I know, it still might be a fun course. I just can't hear my professor.

Well into her golden years, my professor is a sweet woman with the best of intentions. However, she is so soft spoken that I have no idea what she is talking about. Ever. To top it off, the classroom in which the course is instructed is always deliciously cozy and warm. I'm pretty sure this combination is a formula for disaster. All I need to do is throw in a Children's book and I've got a pretty serious nap ahead of me.

Morgan + Soft-Spoken Professora+ Warm Room = zzzzz....

SO- what do I do to stay awake in this class, you ask? I know you're all dying for an answer.

Well, last Thursday, I was spending most of my time on Facebook (Hold back your hypocritical scoff, I know you do it, too.) chatting with a friend [Hi Justin!] about anime and debating the true definition of art [simultaneously- we are talented.] Suddenly I was struck with a lightbulb moment. I am so bored with science, that I have been blinded. ... SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE.
OH MY GOD A NEW NOVELTY PLAYLIST.

Here we are with a new playlist that had nothing to do with the ideas that I had proposed from last week.

Also, as a disclaimer, it is no surprise that with the theme of science, comes a lot of electronic artists, so you will have more than your share of delicious bleeps and bloops this week.

Lucky you, you just got a glimpse into the workings of my completely non-sequitur brain.

She Blinded Me With Boredom:

Novelty Playlist Organization:

Simply Science:
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
I am A Scientist - Guided By Voices
Scientist - The Dandy Warhols
The Scientist - Coldplay
Bad Science - Cursive
Spot-o-Matic Freeze - We Are Scientists
Love Dog - Tv On The Radio - (Off of the Album Dear Science,)

Biology:
Biological - Air
Plasticities - Andrew Bird
Melatonin - Radiohead
Phantom Limb - The Shins
Marrow - St. Vincent
Blood Bank - Bon Iver

Earth/Space/Geology:
Life On Mars - David Bowie
Earthquake Weather - Beck
All My Stars Aligned - St. Vincent
Emerald Nova - Ernest Gonzales
Density 21.5 - Edgard Varese [Dopest Solo Flute Piece You Will EVER Listen To]
Supermassive Black Hole- Muse
Planet Telex - Radiohead
Volcano - Damien Rice
Volcanoes - Islands
Kelly Watches The Stars - Air
Stars - Au Revoir Simone
February Stars - Foo Fighters
The Stars are Projectors - Modest Mouse
Stars and Sons - Broken Social Scene
Setting Sun - The Chemical Brothers

Chemistry & Physics:
Anti Matter - N.E.R.D.
Kerosene - Big Black

Nerd Robot Math Grab Bag Stuff:
Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Zoetrope - Boards of Canada
Aplomb - Daedelus
2+2=5 - Radiohead
Royksopp - Circuit Breaker

The Radio Playlist:
Anti-Matter - N.E.R.D.
I am A Scientist - Guided By Voices
Plasticities - Andrew Bird
Scientist - The Dandy Warhols
Emerald Nova - Ernest Gonzales
Zoetrope - Boards of Canada
Aplomb - Daedelus
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
Life On Mars - David Bowie
Phantom Limb - The Shins
All My Stars Aligned - St. Vincent
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Love Dog - Tv On The Radio - (Off of the Album Dear Science,)

If it wasn't clear to you, Radiohead has a LOT of songs about science-y things. Andrew Bird does, too, but I thought I'd spare you the obsessive overlap.

As a completely random end note, does anyone else think the past-tense form of 'blind' should be 'blound?' You don't say that you 'finded' something, you say that you 'found' something. Food for thought.

Thanks for reading! Hopefully you're listening on Chapman Radio, as well! (3 PM on Wednesdays)

mix.match.shuffle!

Lots of love,

Morgan Hughes Beckett

Awkwardly Successful!

2010-02-17T16:52:00.000-08:00

All in all, I had an awkwardly successful first encounter with Chapman Radio today! Thanks for listening- I had the highest count thus far today!

Upcoming Playlists for the following weeks:

-Planes, Trains, Automobiles

-Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll

-Songs with Extended Technique.

Stay Tuned!
Mix, Match, Put on Shuffle...

<3,
Morgan

Beginner's Luck

2010-02-17T03:05:00.000-08:00

Heyo!

Today begins my adventures in the realm of college radio. My radio show (appropriately entitled Novelty Playlist) will be based on playlists I compose for the blog. A show that forces me to blog and a blog that forces me to have a constructive radio show!

My first playlist is going to be taken from my original "New" Playlist associated with beginnings and have song titles with the word 'New' in them. It only seems appropriate, as I'm starting an entirely new job. :]

For those of you who are new to my blog, Novelty P is a blog in which I compile songs that share conceptual commonalities, rather than inherent musical ones. I aim to put songs together based on the lyrics, intention, plot content, or titles in common with one another. Generally it should make for a good mix of cross-genre fun.

Be sure to listen to Novelty Playlist at 3PM on Wednesdays with Chapman Radio.

I've renamed the list for today's festivities...

Beginner's Luck:

Where I End and You Begin - Radiohead

A New England - Billy Bragg

Once Upon a Time - AIR (every story starts like that!--also, one of my favorite songs off of Pocket Symphony)

The New - Interpol

For Beginners - M. Ward

Wake Up - The Walkmen

Newjack - Justice

Just The Same, but Brand New - St. Vincent

Love at First Sight - Kylie Minogue

New Jersey - Red House Painters

New Soul- Yael Naim

The New Pollution - Beck

First Day of My Life - Bright Eye

The First Song - Band of Horses

Life Begins When You're in Love - Billie Holiday

To view the original list from which the tracks were pulled, click here!

Lots of love! Wish me luck.

Mix, Match, Put on Shuffle,

Gita

St. Vincent and Procrastination

2009-12-23T21:08:00.000-08:00

Hello! I'm not posting with a playlist this time because I'm working on one for favorite picks of 2009. However, I'm working on procrastinating a few make up assignments and had the desire to share a few things.

I've started listening to St. Vincent. She is one smart cookie. I know I'm a bit behind on hopping on the St. Vincent Bandwagon, but I avoided listening to her for a long while after A. hearing the rampant rumours about her and Andrew Bird getting together and B. being annoyed at being told that I look like her on several separate occasions --I honestly don't see it- maybe the curly hair? Okay, so that's only partially true; As a music student, you kind of live under a classical-listening rock until semester's end. The bitterness was only a reason to feel okay about putting her off until school was over. So, here I am catching up on music and I have a few things to say about Miss Annie Clark:

Actor:

The album starts off strong with densely layered instrumental orchestration and choral vocals in The Stranger. This album has a tendency to sound a little more ethereal or far-off than that of Marry Me, which has more of a bluesy heartwarming feel. While the romantic roots remain, it definitely has more of an intellectual feel, what being that she has a great sense of electronic production. You can hear it in the unique reverb, distortion, and pitch modulation that you don't generally hear in the music of those who are simply instrument-savvy. St. Vincent's propensity for a quality finished product may have something to do with her graduating from Berklee College of Music, which not only influences focus on one's instrument, but also has an phenomenal technological side of the school. All of this leads to a unique focus on timbre and quality of sound which can then bring us back to why Mr. Bird added her to his late-summer tour this year.

St. Vincent's use of orchestral instruments in her music is something I've been wanting to see happen for ages. Several artists have done this to some degree but St. Vincent is doing something that you're going to hear a lot more of in music from here on out: the combination of electric instruments, acoustic instruments, and electric effects. While music is moving in an electronic direction, it would be silly to abandon the instruments that got us there: The tools through which we've poured our souls. While electronics can achieve most of these sounds and synthesize sounds we've never before dreamed of, true virtuosity must not be ignored. It is the amalgam of these musical subsets that makes her music unique and beautiful.

Favorites on this album include the lyrically all-too-true Save Me From What I Want, and the pentatonic track The Neighbors. [The Pentatonic Scale seems to prove a more and more effective songwriting tool for relatability.] Her single, Marrow, has a satisfyingly gritty sound--not to mention any song that spells out words is okay by me. Clark's voice is delicate but smokey at the same time, which makes for a really unique and alluring combination over her somewhat darker tracks. As this album progressed however, I found myself zoning out at about the 9th track of her 11-track album. Despite the dwindling effect the album has, I was thoroughly impressed and pleasantly surprised by her music.

Embedded below is a video from what appears to be the very beginnings of the Bird-Vincent duo. Bird improvises on St. Vincent's What Me, Worry? in a small place in France. Check it out and read the details. It's absolutely heartwarming. I said heartwarming twice, didn't I? 'Tis the season...

Push Brooms

2009-11-10T23:30:00.000-08:00

Several essays, concerts, and extinguished fires later, I NEED to write a blog as an outlet. It has been far too long and I apologize for the playlist hiatus.

That being said, I find myself at an interesting point in my life. Contentedly independent, I have reflected upon a great deal of my college life the past two/three years and realized how I’ve grown as a person and what growing I have yet to do. I think a lot of girls go through a period in college that helps them realize how important their independence is. Following this thought, I went through the list of men I’d been with in the past year. Most every relationship ended in this manner (spiced up for your own entertainment):

Boy: Morgan, I’m crazy about you- let’s run away together to a tropical Island where we can spend the entirety of our days gazing into each others’ eyes and eating mangos.

Morg: Fuck.

Boy: Fuck?

Morg: Yes, Fuck. I loved you yesterday, but that's gone now. I’m so sorry. This seems to happen. I am heartless.

Boy: But yesterday you told me you would love nothing more than to pull out my back hairs and play video games. You are the girl for me. I want no other. We could frolic in the sun and I could review your resumes and you could follow in my administrative shadow forevermore! (okay, that got a little too close to the real deal.. woah. sorry)

Morg: I want that all for myself. Minus the back hairs-- I never want those for myself.

Boy: No one has ever dumped me before

Morg: Well, I’m a woman with goals. One boy on a tropical island with mangos and lemurs doesn’t quite fit the plan.

Yeah, I’m a brat. I’m sure I’ll get swept off my feet one day and you’ll all laugh at me when I run off to Bora Bora to be with the octogenarian who has stolen my heart with his superior juggling skills and his head of soft, snowy, downey hair. Laugh away. I’m sweepable; You just need one of those big push brooms.

Here’s a playlist about gender roles, girls getting tough, etc.:

Gender Identity Crisis

Boys will be boys, and girls will, too

Bat for Lashes- What’s a girl to do? (This Blog’s primary inspiration)

Rilo Kiley- Always

Blur- Girls & Boys

The Shins - Girl Sailor

-this one is kind of opposites. boredom with romance and a lack of independence.

La Roux - Bulletproof

-”I’ll never let you sweep me off my feet”

[ADDED] Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent

Girls-

Beck - girl

Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

Built to Spill- Distopian Dream Girl

Cyndi Lauper- Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Devendra Banhart- Bad Girl

Neil Young W/ Crazyhorse - Cinnamon Girl [still to date one of my favorite songs of all time]

T Rex - Girl

Ugly Casanova - Hotcha Girls

Boys-

Air- Sexy Boy

Belle & Sebastian - The Boy Done Wrong again

The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry

John Denver [lol] - Thank God I’m a Country Boy

M. Ward - Poor Boy, Minor Key

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-headed Boy

Queen - Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

Royksopp - Boys

Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Where have all the rude boys gone?

The White Stripes - Same Boy you’ve always known

Confused

The Kinks- lola

[repeat] Blur- Girls and Boys

Womanizer

[duh] Britney Spears - Womanizer

Beyonce - irreplaceable

Sade - Smooth Operator

The Beach Boys - I get around

Carly Simon - You’re so vain

As a side note, I'm not actually that bitter and have pretty good relationships with all of my ex-boyfriends. This is just more entertaining this way.

Mix, Match, Put on Shuffle.

<3 Morgue

Short List: Songs About Songs

2009-09-27T13:47:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure this one needs an explanation...

Songs about Songs:

Rilo Kiley - It's a Hit

The Happy Birthday Song - Andrew Bird

(This song is crazy. It has a lot of modern composition techniques used in it. Essentially, Mr. Bird takes the actual birthday song, flips it upside-down and backwards)

Another Travelin' Song - Bright Eyes

Sad Songs and Waltzes - Cake

Sing a Song for Them - Jenny Lewis

Sad, Sad Song - M. Ward

Love Song - Sara Bareilles

Someone Else's Song - Wilco

Canciones De Amor - Julieta Venegas

Here embedded a video of Andrew Bird in a live performance for Pitchfork's Cemetery Gates Series. I tried to get one of The Happy Birthday Song, but all were of very poor quality. Plus, this is pretty much the sexiest song I've ever heard. I would go on my rant about the importance of live music, but I will save that for an entirely separate blog post. Just know that his music is music that lives and breathes and he is perfectly and wonderfully capable of accompanying himself.

This ended up being more neo-folky than I thought it would...

Contribute!

Mix, Match, Shuffle.

Morgita

Hyperbolic Superlatives

2009-09-22T12:40:00.000-07:00

The XX- Listed Under Never, Always, and Forever.

If you haven't checked them out, do it. They are quickly reaching the top of my list of favorite bands. (Thanks to Steve N.)

Hello! Blog two. So far so good.

All throughout college, my best friends and I have drawn out this long joke about how the men in our group of friends absolutely abuse hyperbole and exaggeration. More often than not, they will use words such as 'never' or 'always' at completely inappropriate or non-extreme times. At one point I think my friend Mark and I started calling Jon by his superhero name; 'Mr. Superlative Man.' Or maybe Jake and I started it, I don't know, and obviously these details aren't that important. However, what IS important is the use of textuality and hyperbole in modern pop songs. Without the use of overly-dramatic metaphor, we wouldn't have some of the best songs in pop-rock history. Most of these delicious utilizations of dramatic vocabulary tend to occur when in reference to the pain of our love ...or that to find love we will have to go on some long, arduous, epic journey. Obviously, being that my current marital state is distinctly and cynically single, I would have to say that all of this is a load of crap. Of course, whichever side of the delineating bachelor's fence you reside on, songs filled with metaphor and hyperbole are bound to draw some form of emotion from you, whether it be that of precious vomitous disgust, or the intensification of your love for your cute, scruffy, talented, imaginary boyfriend..

So, without further ado, I give you the Hyperbole/Metaphor playlist entitled...

Because "I'll Love You Most of The Time" Wont Make for A Hit Pop Song:

Songs With Metaphors In The Title:

I Am The Walrus -The Beatles

I Am Sound-The Dandy Warhols

My Body Is A Cage - The Arcade Fire

You Are The Moon- The Hush Sound (not my cup of tea, but pretty)

Family Tree- Ben Kweller (has he made anything good since this album? I'm curious.)

Wonderwall- Oasis

Random Tangent of Sorts: If you haven't heard Cat Power's cover of Oasis's Wonderwall, you should listen to it NOW. It's mellow and gorgeous.

The Best of the Best, The Worst of the Worst:

You are The Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne

The Softest Voice - Animal Collective

Trying My Best To Love You- Jenny Lewis

Nicest Thing- Kate Nash

Prettiest Thing- Norah Jones

The Greatest Man Ever To Have Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)- Weezer

(Don't actually listen to this. Sorry, Rivers)

A Boys Best Friend-The White Stripes

The Hardest Button To Button- The White Stripes

So Blue, Billie, Blue:

Really, I could dedicate an entire overly-romantic post to the songs that Billie Holiday sang, so I'll pick a couple and move on to the melodrama that others produce.

I've Got A Date With A Dream - Billie Holiday (metaphor and personification )

I'll NEVER Be The Same- Billie Holiday

I MUST Have That Man- Billie Holiday

Never, Always, & Forever:

I Will- The Beatles

I Believe (When I fall in love, it will be forever) - Stevie Wonder (High Fidelity Soundtrack!!)

For The Widows in Paradise; For The Fatherless in Ypsilanti - Sufjan Stevens

Fool Says - M. Ward

I ain't never met anyone like you before// I thought all the good ones had died//You're here to tell me that they lied.

There's Never Enough Time- The Postal Service

Never Met A Girl Like You Before- Iggy Pop

Never Say Goodbye- My Bloody Valentine

I Never- Rilo Kiley

Sugar Never Tasted So Good- The White Stripes -- Mr. White is quite the exaggerator.

Always- Rilo Kiley (This Song will be featured in another post about girls who act like guys in relationships. Stay Tuned!)

It Always Rains On A Picnic-Modest Mouse (Off of Sad Sappy Sucker- Everyone should give old modest mouse a chance)

Live Forever- Oasis

Infinity- The XX

As always, I invite you to share your thoughts and add songs to the list.

Mix, match, and put on shuffle!

Until Next time,

Morgatron

New

2009-09-20T12:28:00.000-07:00

Seeing that today marks the birth of my blogging experience, I thought I'd start with a slight introduction about my aims as a blogger. With Novelty Playlist, I'm shooting to share random facts about the songs that many of us have on our iPods. Ultimately, I'm trying to shine a different sort of light on the songs you already own and present them in an entertaining manner. This is more of a conceptual way to put together a playlist versus the manner in which we typically put one together-- based on mood. It ought to be both entertaining and enlightening.

As I am a fairly avid concertgoer, I'll probably throw in some personal accounts, photos and opinions-- oh, and let's not forget the shameless plugs for my friends music and that of my own!

Because we're dealing with new beginnings today, I thought we'd stick with that idea for playlist thoughts.

Songs titles that begin with the word 'New':

The New - Interpol

New Deep - John Mayer (I have no shame)

A New England - Billy Bragg

New Hampshire - Matt Pond PA

New Jersey - Red House Painters

New Noise - Refused (Driving and loud- beware)

New Partner - Palace Music

The New Pollution - Beck

The New Rap Language - Spoonie G and the Treacherous Three

New Slang - The Shins (DUH)

New Way Home - The Foo Fighters (Back when they were good)

New Years Day - U2

Newjack - Justice

Songs Associated with Beginnings:

I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles (Had to get the Fab Four in somehow)

Wake Up - The Walkmen

Something New - The Airborne Toxic Event

Primer Dia - Julieta Venegas (had to get some flavor in there)

Genesis - Justice

Life Begins When You're in Love - Billie Holiday

Where I End and You Begin - Radiohead (okay, okay, it's a stretch)

For Beginners - M. Ward

Section 18 (Everything Starts At The Seam) - The Polyphonic Spree

Junior Kickstart - The Go! Team

Going To California - Led Zeppelin

Once Upon a Time - AIR (every story starts like that!--also, one of my favorite songs off of Pocket Symphony)

Firsts:

First Song - Andrew Bird

The First Song - Band of Horses

First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes (If only Emmylou sang on this one- still totally gorge.)

Love at First Sight - Kylie Minogue

One of These Things First - Nick Drake

Obviously my experience in music can be limited to what I like, so let's share! Add songs to the list.

Mix, match, piece together, and put on shuffle!

<3,

Gita

Welcome

2009-09-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

It appears as though I'm jumping on the blogging bandwagon.

Visit often to get the random musical musings and opinions from yours truly.