I am in a splendid mood. Aside from my low threshold for heat (you see, I wear more or heavier stuff in the winter, but can't move as much as I begin to melt quickly. That's why I've developed a habit of not wearing coats or jackets at all, but that's neither here nor there...), the weather is treating me well, and school is in session.
So being that my ipod and I are becoming more in touch with one another after a month or so of only car listens, I'd like to share some dopeness with you.
I'm fixing to just stop apologizing for my absesnces and get on with the music. Y'all know how it is.
Anywho, I blame my absence on not finding music that moves me enough to share, so lemme just get out all of the songs that I've been feeling over the past few weeks.
I really wasn't that excited for N.E.R.D.'s latest album, "Nothing". Therefore, I let it come and go without a second glance. That was a mistake, because when I heard Mike G's take on one of their songs from the album, I felt like an idiot.
The same goes for Corinne Bailey Rae's "The Sea", I was afraid to listen to it for fears that it was hella sad and depressing. I was half-right, but it shouldn't have stopped me from gems like this.
This is a mix of Beyonce's "Diva" coupled with N.E.R.D.'s "Everyone Nose" I found on Tumblr a week or so ago, it has brightened my boring days.
And here's another N.E.R.D. song that is killing it in my car on the way to work. Although there's a complicated compliment in the lyrics, in which Pharrell says, "they treated you like do-do... they were right, you're the shit." I laugh every time I recite that part.
This song is too adorable, I can't wait to play it in the summer.
I love Seu Jorge's voice, and this song came into play while I was listening to the Jorge Ben Jor Pandora station. I couldn't stop dancing.
I like to dance, so Spank Rock has been in rotation ever since Yoyoyoyoyo. This song is no different, 'cept for the part where Big Freedia comes in and I LOSE MY MIND.
This is one of my father's favorite albums, and therefore, has a few songs I'm familiar with as well. I was excited as hell when I came home one afternoon and saw it sitting on his computer desk, apparently he had rediscovered it deep inside a box in the shed. I ripped it immediately.
That's the gist of what's new in my music library. Hopefully this'll jolt all of us into some kinda music frenzy and everything'll be back on schedule.
Hey you guys! I'm busy working on intership applications this Christmas, but I wanted to stop by and say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy "Channukah, with a CH", and Happy Kwanzaa. (Be sure to give out your "What the hell is Kwanzaa books too", word to Futurama.)
I was with my dad, headed to the airport one morning a few years ago when my dad got into the car with a flash drive he had been working on all night and into the morning. He got in eagerly and said, "I got a new playlist! Riding music!"
The playlist included eight minute funk classics, ten minute rap classics (in which my father portrayed every member of the Funky Four + 1 More, and even the crowd cheering "Ho! Ho!"), and the occasional funk ballad (my favorite). Then this song came on and he shouted, "Bet you don't know nothing bout this, Tina!"
He was right, I didn't know anything about the song, I had caught up to De La Soul the year the Grind Date was released (2004), and I had gotten their Greatest Hits album. I figured I had done all the research I needed, I was far too preoccupied in my Neo-Soul phase to touch Hip Hop at the moment, and had, as years passed, completely failed to explore De La any further than what I heard at random times.
That was a mistake, and I'm now making up for lost, lost, lost time, and buying albums I should've bought when they came out (two years before I was born).
So yeah, anyway,
ENJOY!
PS, 3 Feet High and Rising was accepted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the same year Steely Dan's Aja was, and their song "Peg" is sampled in this jam right here.
This song, on this album, was the first time I heard a lot of things.
It was the first time I heard anything with Little Brother.
It was the first time I heard an Al Jarreau song sampled.
It led me to a lot of things as well.
I ended up in a HEAVY anything related to Little Brother phase.
It led me to finding out that Al Jarreau’s “Agua de Beber” (the song sampled that keeps looping, “My heart a flower…) was a cover of a Brazilian bossa nova classic, and that only furthered my exploration in Brazilian Portuguese and music.
I owe a lot to this one song, and it ain’t half bad to jam to either.
WORK FLOW, because I adore the phrase, will be a new feature on JLM, in which I showcase a song with an emphasis on working, or just one with work in the name or something. If you like it, add it to your own WorkFlow playlist, amp yourself up before work.
My job is almost five miles away from my domicile, but the trip takes on average, 20 minutes. I don't like to drive, it makes me anxious, so to rid of the anxiety, I like to make my driving space as comfortable as possible. Music helps.
So when I'm doing something I don't like, to go to a place I don't particularly fancy, I like to get into the mood.
So I decided to work on a playlist called Work Flow.
This song is hilarious, but it's also quite true. Just do it, do it, do it.
This is a Repost from this blog's earlier incarnation on Vox. I used to do a rap quote every week. I should get back on that.
ORIGINALLY POSTED April 6, 2009:
I know, I'm late, and for the first time in a while, I feel like I have something to write about in terms of music. I'm so excited! I hope I don't forget it! Um, anyway, this song came up and reminded me about how well I knew the lyrics when this album first came out (1993, I prolly got my hands on it when I was about eight or nine) and I didn't understand what I was saying, lol. But aqui,
"You don't wanna be a sista in the name of rap,
Yet you wanna talk sh!t, and your style is wack?" -Queen Latifah, 'I Can't Understand'
When the weather turns cold -as it is rather bipolarly- my taste in music changes. There are songs that just don't feel right to me when I'm outside and cold, or when there are no leaves on trees. There are songs that just work well with grey skies, and songs that don't.
That being said, the songs I've been listening to have deep basslines and heavy melodies (With the exception of one Bollywood Dance Off I'm gonna upload soon). This song included, that, while I'm not sure if I've englightened it to you before, deserves many second, third, and infinity listens.
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