So I was debating in my head which artist to chose for the final installment in Confessions Week. There were quite a few of songs/artists I could have chosen from, but my mind was made up last night as I surfed back and forth between Conan and Ferguson. Honestly, Pink’s performance on Conan last night was worth staying up until 1:30 in the morning. It was that good. Now for those of you who are just showing up to these posts here on TWF let me explain a bit. Normally I post about music that I really love and artists that I support. While that is true of every post I write here on TWF it does seem that most artists I choose to write about could fit into a small subset of music. With Confessions Week I was aiming to finally admit that I listen to other music, yes even top 40 music, in an effort to show that good music can be found in almost every genre {except country}. If you’d like to read all my confessions click here. Next week I’ll be returning to my regularly scheduled broadcast.
mp3 : Pink – So What
Pink has a brand new attitude, she’s still entirely hot {minus the face piercings, I mean seriously, is it still 1998?}, she’s newly single, and she might be making the best music of her career. I must admit, I’ve listened to this single, off her new album Funhouse (amazon) (itunes), at least three times in a row and I’m not sick of it. I actually enjoy it quite a bit. Does it remind anyone else of Kelly Clarkson’s Since U Been Gone. Oh no, I’ve said too much. Happy Halloween.
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Wow, so just the title of this post and the picture already have me regretting starting this week. Goodbye loyal fans, goodbye rss subscribers, goodbye page views and advertisements, hello integrity. I said it five years ago, and today I’ll say it again. Of Hilary’s particular generation of lady cross over kinda stars she has the most potential for great things. Yes I was young when I said it the first time. Yes I was probably stupid and impressionable, but compared to Lohan, Spears, Aguilera, Lavigne and company, Ms. Duff, in my mind, has the most potential {still} of doing something truly great.
mp3 : Hilary Duff – Come Clean
I honestly don’t know why I used to like this song. Maybe it was the sweet music video? Maybe it was the fact that in 2003 when Metamorphosis (amazon) (itunes) was released I was still learning what I wanted in a good song? I’m not sure, but I’ve finally come out and come clean about Hilary Duff. I still think she shows a lot of potential, well, at least more than those she could be easily compared to.
I promised this series is almost over. In fact this might be the last post as I’m travelling over the weekend. Don’t fret, next week {or sooner} regular and awesome posts will resume. Most notably with something about Snow Patrol’s brilliant new album.
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I’ll be honest, I’m not your typical white kid from the suburbs. And by that I do mean I don’t listen to copious amounts of hip hop, rap, and r&b. Now don’t get me wrong, while I was in university I definitely went through a phase where I couldn’t get enough of BET and everything surrounding the east coast vs west coast rap drama/comedy. At some point during my undergrad days I just stopped listening to everything with a clever rhyme. Now don’t read too much into what I’m saying here. I still love the occaisional album by Nas, Clef, or The Streets, but I’m done digesting everything on that scene.
All those words aside I actually do like Chris Brown’s latest single {and not just because I caught him showing Tyra some dance moves, oh snap!}. I’m even overlooking the fact that this track was recently coopted as a Double Mint Gum jingle and appears regularly on the top 40 show Ryan Seacrest hosts.
mp3 : Chris Brown – Forever
Let’s look back at this one post and count up all the confessions I made. You should be proud, young reader, that you’ve stumbled upon a blogger who, for at least one week of confessions, possesses this much integrity. Here’s a quick list. 1: I used to love watching BET. 2: I’m a white kid from the suburbs. 3: I’ve occaisionally been caught watching Tyra. 4: Sometimes I listen to top 40 radio, even when it’s Ryan Seacrest doing the voiceovers. 5. I do, in fact, enjoy this track by Chris Brown.
Now for those of you wondering out there, and I know almost all of you are, this track from Mr. Brown appears on a special edition reissue of his album Exclusive. The new reissue is called Exclusive : The Forever Edition (amazon) (itunes) and this track pops off as track number seventeen. Just to be absolutely clear Chris Brown has about eleven versions of this album currently in worldwide circulation, but the reissued ‘forever edition’ is the only one that has this track.
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For pretty much his entire career I’ve been a big not fan of Jason Mraz. His music, especially his lyrics, have always come across to me as false, boring, or just plain vanilla. Give me something new Jason, give me something I don’t mind admitting to my friends that I kinda, sorta, in a backwards way like to hear on the radio. It’s not so much to ask for. Maybe what I really wanted {or still want} was for Mr. Mraz to man up a bit and not sound so much like a lovestruck junior high drop out. But that’s just me.
My confession today is that there is a song by Jason Mraz that I must admit I really like. This track hails from Jason’s latest disc We Sing, We Laugh, We Steal Things (amazon) (itunes) and I can say in all honesty that I genuinely like listening to this song.
mp3 : Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
I’m thoroughly convinced that I have a crush on this song due to the fact that it sounds exactly like something Jack Johnson would lay down. In my opinion aping Jack would be a good route to go if my name was Jason Mraz. Oh, one other thing, his website is mildly amusing. Check it out {and make sure you have sound turned on}.
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Here on The World Forgot, in an effort to stay ever pithy and, as the youngsters call it, ‘hip’ I sometimes in an oblique way allude to the idea that I don’t like certain artists. In the past such artists have included John Mayer, Rihanna, and more recently Katy Perry. And while in a general sense my objections to Katy Perry still hold true I must confess that her latest single has caught my ear on more than one occasion. I could have kept this information to myself and only listened to Hot n’ Cold with headphones on, pretending all along I was nodding my head to new tracks by The Killers or some sweet Radiohead bootlegs, but at some point the lies would have caught up with me. And a liar is just not the type of blogger that I want to be.
mp3 : Katy Perry – Hot n’ Cold
This track hails from Katy’s album One of the Boys (amazon) (itunes) none of which I can really recommend beyond this single. Sorry Katy, but if I’m attempting to come clean about my affection for Hot n’ Cold I need to have integrity in not endorsing the rest of your work.
Random questions. Are there some photos out there that make you double check the internet to reassure yourself that Katy Perry is in no way related to Zooey Deschanel? Does this track remind anyone else of Cher’s late nineties track Believe? Does anyone else now need to admit they liked the track Believe as well?
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At long last we come to the conclusion of the set The Killers played in 2007 at the Glastonbury Festival. If you’re looking to read/download day by day you can check out each individual post at these links. part 01, part 02, part 03, part 04. If you’d rather view them all on one easy to read page, which makes way more sense to me, just click here. This concludes the set. Enjoy the music.
mp3 : The Killers – My List
mp3 : The Killers – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
mp3 : The Killers – Shadowplay
mp3 : The Killers – For Reasons Unknown
mp3 : The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done
As I’ve said before these are live tracks recorded at a concert. They’re not off any studio album and they’re not available, anywhere, for purchase. Enjoy the music and the next time The Killers are in town get out and see their show.
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Here you go, it’s part three {of four parts} of the set The Killers played at last year’s Glastonbury Festival. Enjoy the music. You can find part one here and part two at this link. Cheers.
mp3 : The Killers – Read My Mind
mp3 : The Killers – On Top
mp3 : The Killers – Bling (Confessions of A King)
mp3 : The Killers – Indie Rock and Roll
mp3 : The Killers – Mr Brightside
As stated in the previous two posts these tracks are live bootleg recordings. That being said they’re definitely on the top of the pile in terms of audio quality. See you tomorrow.
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Yesterday, aka through this link, I brought you the first four tracks from The Killers Glastonbury 2007 set. Today, as promised, I bring you the second part. Two more days and you’ll have them all. Until then you’ll just have to make due with the first half. Enjoy.
mp3 : The Killers – Somebody Told Me
mp3 : The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It
mp3 : The Killers – Jenny Was A Friend of Mine
mp3 : The Killers – Uncle Johnny
mp3 : The Killers – This River Is Wild
As I said yesterday these tracks are appearing here on The World Forgot in the order that they were played in concert. They’re bootleg live tracks, not studio recordings, so be prepared for a little crowd action, clapping, and quite possibly some singing along. All that aside the audio quality on these tracks is tops. See you tomorrow and the day after for the last half of the set.
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Apparently there’s this little music gathering known as Glastonbury Festival which happens occasionally. Apparently at said gathering of music fans there are some big bands who sometimes play killer sets and set off the revelers. Apparently The Killers have played a few sets there over the years. And also, apparently, someone thought it would be a good idea to bootleg the entire set, all nineteen tracks, and put them online. Welcome to part one, the first four tracks. It’s an excellent recording, I’ll try to post the entire set throughout the week. And yes, that is a ploy to get you coming back over and over and over again. Eat it.
mp3 : The Killers – Sam’s Town
mp3 : The Killers – Enterlude
mp3 : The Killers – When You Were Young
mp3 : The Killers – Bones
Note that all of these tracks are live recordings, not studio quality. The tracks will be posted in order that they were played at the show {and the downloads are numbered to keep them in order}. Also, and I guess I could use some help here, but I’m assuming that these are bootleg tracks recorded live at the concert. I’m assuming this because I could find no mention of this being an official recording {anywhere on the web, including The Killers site}, and I can’t find this concert for purchase at any retailer. Enjoy the tunes.
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On occasion I allow my personal life to bleed over and contaminate the lovely and witty pages of TWF. It doesn’t happen all that often, but I do feel as the sole author, writer, and creative personality behind this blog that I can afford myself the luxury to pretty much say whatever the heck I want. As some of you may remember, and as a scant few of you worried, I talked about landing a job in the wonderful city of Shanghai and possibly moving there soon. Let me simply say that the amount of ma fan {trouble in Chinese} involved in this process reminds me a lot of movie Waterworld; I’m struggling to find a piece of land to put my feet on.
For a long time I’ve found comfort and peace in the songs of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. If you’ve been reading, or just listening, here on TWF for any amount of time at all I do hope that you’ve found yourself enjoying their music as well. During the past month I’ve really been loving the sounds of their latest album, Með suð àeyrum við spilum end (amazon) (itunes), and I’ve come to appreciate the track ÃÂra bátur more and more throughout successive listening.
mp3 : Sigur Ros – ÃÂra bátur
What makes this track even more impressive, and what proved to be the deciding factor in me posting it here today, was what I recently read about this track. ÃÂra bátur was recorded in a live format, in one take, with over 90 musicians on the track {including the London Sinfonietta and the London Oratory Boy’s Choir}. This song encompasses the magic of Sigur Ros and has worked to calm my mind and heart as I attempt to stumble my way into a job decision. I hope it helps you as well.
If you’re interested in listening to the entire album, which I quite strongly recommend, Sigur Ros has graciously made this possible by following this link.
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