Anatomy of a Song

Don't know exactly where I got this idea, but it was fun coming up with these. Here are 10 anatomical songs...

1. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
2. Your Eyes Open - Keane
3. Bite My Tongue - Relient K*
4. The Damage In Your Heart - Weezer
5. Lungs Speed, Lungs Sped - Brooke Waggoner
6. Love in Your Arms - Eleventyseven
7. I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
8. We Won't Need Legs to Stand - Sufjan Stevens
9. Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin
10. Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie

*there is also the album "The Anatomy of The Tongue In Cheek" by Relient K

10 songs about work

1. Fired - Ben Folds
2. Work - Jimmy Eat World
3. We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals
4. Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello
5. Manic Monday - The Bangles*
6. Blue Collar Man - Styx
7. Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
8. Fred Jones, Part 2 - Ben Folds
9. Working Man - Rush
10. Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

*remade by many artists including Relient K

10 healthy songs...

Hope you feel better soon Katie and any other readers who are feeling under the weather! Here are 10 songs to help get you in the right state of mind:

1. Better - Regina Spektor
2. Heal for the Honey - Brooke Waggoner
3. I Feel Fine - The Beatles
4. Feelin' Stronger Every Day - Chicago
5. Make you Feel Better - Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Each Others Medicine - Patti Scialfa
7. Temporary Remedy - Ben Harper
8. Heal Over - KT Tunstall
9. Go to Sleep - The Eames Era
10. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel

10 Sick Songs

No, I don't mean "sick" as in "cool." I mean sick as in the norovirus, that lovely strain of stomach flu that tends to hit nursing homes and day cares hard every winter. No, I don't live in a nursing home, and I don't go to day care. But my grandma came down with the virus several days ago. So, my family went over to her apartment to help disinfect the place, so it would be clean when she came back from the hospital. Unfortunately, because the virus is highly contagious, we probably shouldn't have done that. Since the cleaning, my aunt, two uncles, my dad, and I have all come down with the dang thing. So, needless to say, I feel much like the pumpkin above.

So, because I'm home sick with little else to do, I thought I'd make a top ten of songs about being sick.

Enjoy and stay healthy!

1. One More Pill - Stabilo
2. Suicide Medicine - Rocky Votolato
3. Homesick - Kings of Convenience
4. Fever - Ella Fitzgerald
5. Fever Dream - Iron & Wine
6. Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
7. This Bitter Pill - Dashboard Confessional
8. Pills - The Perishers
9. Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
10. Medicine - Guster


Catch My Disease - Ben Lee

Doesn't Ben just make sickness sound like fun?

Have You Heard...

Rosi Golan

Just the other day I was lamenting to myself the lack of new music I'd been discovering lately. This was bothering me because a.) I love new music and b.) it was limiting my ability to blog.

So, to remedy this terrible situation, I cruised over to The Late Greats, my (other) favorite music blog. There I discovered the lovely Rosi Golan (you can download her melancholy and beautiful "Been a Long Day" for free there).

The Israeli-born artist moved to Los Angeles at age 9, where she began taking voice and violin lessons. At age 19 she decided to pursue singing and learned how to play the guitar. Her music has been featured on One Tree Hill and Grey's Anatomy (and a shampoo commercial, I think).

Her first album, The Drifter and the Gypsy, was released in November of 2008 and is available for $9.99 on iTunes. Her sound ranges from the ethereal, quiet "Hazy," a duet with William Fitzsimmons:

Hazy (featuring William Fitzsimmons) - Rosi Golan
to the infectious, shampoo-commercial tune,
"Shine:"

Shine - Rosi Golan

RIYL: Ingrid Michaelson, The Weepies, Alexa Wilkinson, Sara Bareilles, Brooke Fraser, Priscilla Ahn

26 albums I like

Gasp! Not a top 10, but here are 26 albums that I like (3 are kind of a stretch, but the others I really listen to quite a bit and there are no artist repeats):

August & Everything After - Counting Crows
Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
Continuum - John Mayer
Daylight - Duncan Sheik
Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart - Rachael Yamagata
Five Score and Seven Years Ago - Relient K
Girls and Boys - Ingrid Michaelson
How to Save a Life - The Fray
In Between Now and Then - O.A.R.
Joshua Tree - U2
Kiss - Kiss
Little Voice - Sara Bareilles
Made of Bricks - Kate Nash
No Really, I'm Fine - The Spill Canvas
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
Paper Nest - Raining Jane
Quiet Songs - Aisha Duo
Ripe - Ben Lee
Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Twenty Three - Tristan Prettyman
Under the Iron Sea - Keane
Vavoom! - Brian Setzer Orchestra
Whatever & Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
X & Y - Coldplay
Yourself Or Someone Like You - Matchbox Twenty
ZZ Top: Greatest Hits - ZZ Top (I swear, the album's called "ZZ Top: Greatest Hits")

If you're feeling adventurous, go ahead and try this for yourself and see if you get stuck on the same letters that I did (K, Q and Z).