Sunday, January 15, 2006 @11:23 AM
Download-Happy
It's been so hard to post this past week (except for the whole Brad-Angelina thing...that took only two minutes)...what with school and all. We're pretty much on the edge since tests are next week. (Bakit di na lang kasi ginawa nung December pa?) Besides...whenever I go online it's really just to download songs. I love DSL.
I've just been downloading so many world music songs. Na-adik ako sa French songs ever since I heard Complainte de La Butte by Rufus Wainwright. You have to listen to
Putumayo Presents: French Cafe. It's soo cool...really nice to listen to. You also have to listen to
Acoustic Brazil. Really nice...especially if you like guitar music. It sounds kind of like Ottmar Liebert's Nouveau Flamenco. You can find those in the World Music sections in record stores...or on Limewire and other file-sharing communities.
Now to Harry Potter. Ella posted this link a few weeks back. It's a Harry/Hermione, Dan/Emma thing, and it looks really gross. Click
here. It's the most petrifying thing you'll ever see. Emma-haters will obviously be mad...but try to see the comedy in it.
Also, I have to recommend these artists (I am a music elitist and proud of it):
Sufjan Stevens. I found him in The OC Mix 4...and his song was my favorite in the lineup. "To Be Alone With You" is so nice and soft and his half-whisper of a voice is really soothing, as well as the soft twang of the banjo when he shifts. It's so nice. His sound is sort of a folk rock, very light music. Check out his album
Seven Swans, and listen to "Size Too Small".
Stars. I find everything in The OC mixes. This one I found from Mix 5. They have a guy and a girl vocalist (which is like Sufjan Stevens, 'cause a girl backs him up in some of his tracks)...which could be irritating with other bands, but not at all in this one. I checked out their album
Set Yourself on Fire, and "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" is the best one there, as well as in the Mix 5 CD.
Imogen Heap. Yes, from the OC again (4 and 5). When I first heard "Goodnight and Go," I thought it was so pop with hints of electronica...but catchy nonetheless. If you watched the season 2 finale of the OC, where Marisa shoots Trey. The very second Marisa pulls the trigger, an eerie song plays. That was "Hide and Seek." Check that out.