we could break through – 100820

Facebook is removing it’s notes feature after this (for new notes) so this will be my last audio update. I am going to try to go back to my extinct wordpress.

20syl, Mr. J. Medeiros, AllttA – “Ampersand”
Against All Logic, Estado Unido, FKA twigs – “Alucinao”
Aitch – “Triggered” – the sample here… and it even starts off with “Nostalgia” XD
AKA Lui – “Hey! I Don’t Want That Anyway”
Alfie Templeman – “Things I Thought Were Mine”
Aly & AJ – “Attack of Panic”
Ana Tijoux – “No Estamos Solas” (Tema Central de la Serie “La Jauría”)
Anuel AA, Lil Wayne – “Ferrari”
BabyJake – “Cigarettes On Patios”
Bausa, Juju – “2012”
Becca Hatch – “Girl Like Me”
Bobby Sayyar, Creezy – “Curven”
C. Tangana, Paloma Mami, Alizzz – “No Te Debí Besar”
Cash+David – “When You’re Lonely”
Clueso – “Flugmodus” (I AM TWO MONTHS BEHIND ON THIS)
Dark Heart, TITUS – “D.O.A.”
Dua Lipa – “Physical”
Elderbrook – “My House”
ELIF – “ABER WO BIST DU”
Empress Of – “Bit Of Rain”
Fabian Römer, Namika – “Mit dir langweilen (feat. Namika)”
Faydee, TM Bax, Pav Dharia – “YEYE”
Flume, Toro y Moi – “The Difference” – I blame the Apple ad…
Gabriel Garzón-Montano – “Agüita”
GOT7 – “POISON”
Goth Babe – “Moments / Tides”
Jimilian, HEDEGAARD – “Smid Tøjet / Frisk På Det Hele – HEDEGAARD REMIX”
Kamaiyah, Trina – “Set It Up”
Keeka – “How It Hurts”
Kendra Dias – “Headhurts!”
KLAN – “Gleichzeitig”
Kontra K – “Sonne”
LATASHÁ, Segnon – “Missy Elliott”
L’homie, ETHERYAL, Isabel Damiani – “Reasons”
LIZ – “Intuition”
Louis The Child, Vera Blue – “Nobody Like You (with Vera Blue)”
Luca Hänni – “Nie mehr allein”
Mishaal – “I Don’t Wanna Wait For Summer”
Namasenda – “Dare (AM)”
narou, Noah Slee – “Enough”
NASAYA, Floyd Fuji – “JUNE”
Nathy Peluso – “BUSINESS WOMAN”
Olexesh, Esther Graf – “Letztes Mal”
Raphael Futura, NoMBe – “Heartbeat”
REI AMI – “DICTATOR”
SACRE – “The Call”
Saint Motel – “Cold Cold Man”
Sevdaliza – “Joanna” (cannot wait for the album, all songs have been good this year)
Sylvan Esso – “Ferris Wheel” — animal crossing versionnnn
SYRE – “Feel U”
Tama Gucci, X-COAST – “I LET YOU”
TENDER – “Closer Still”
The Aces – “Kelly” – oh kelllyyy!
Yaeji – “WAKING UP DOWN”
Zanski – “Threes”
ZICO – “No you can’t”

Older-
Burna Boy, Zlatan – “Killin Dem” (feat. Zlatan)
Epik High – “Rain Again Tomorrow” (비가 온대 내일도)
French 79, Sarah Rebecca – “Diamond Veins (feat. Sarah Rebecca)”
Gabe Fleck – “Colder Shoulders”
GASHI, G-Eazy – “My Year”
Ghostland Observatory – “Sometimes”
Jasper Lotti – “Take U There”
Kasbo, TENDER – “Aldrig Mer (feat. TENDER)”
Lostboycrow – “Orange Juice”
Milky Chance – “Stolen Dance”
Now, Now – “MJ”
p-rallel, Lava La Rue – “99”
RKCB – “Elevated”
Ruelle – “Monsters”
Sister’s Barbershop – “홀로 있는 사람들 People who stay alone”
Slayyyter – “Candy”
slenderbodies – “belong”
Tisoki, Kozze – “IT’S OK (feat. Kozze)”
Young Juvenile Youth – “Darkroom – Single ver.”

Cute and creepy at the same time…

20syl – 36 (Beats & Types)
Allie X – Cape God
Anna Sofia – Broken Perfection and Self Aware Bitch EPs
Arca – KiCk i
Ben Khan – Crimson (GEN1)
BLVTH – ONE WORLD
Carlitos Rossy – Original Flavor
Daði Freyr, Arnar Úlfur – & Co.
FLAVIA – Out Loud
Glass Animals – Dreamland (+ Bonus Levels)
GOT7 – DYE
Harrison Brome – No More Love Songs
Holow – Something to Say
J Balvin – Colores
Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure?
Josie Man – aLOVINGboothang
Joywave – Possession
Kidnap, Leo Stannard – Grow
Kiiara – Never Let You
KORDELYA – Mal Hecha
Kristian Kostov – Mood:
Lemaitre – JGM
Netta – Goody Bag EP
Party Pupils, MAX – Neon From Now On
Robotaki – The Grand Mirage
Roosevelt – Echoes
Seeb, Zak Abel – Sad in Scandinavia (Part 1)
St. Panther – Highway
The Seshen – CYAN

Carton of 2016 Orange Juice – January

WMATA SafeTrack presents to you…

it’s the local subway system messing with us, one neglect at a time…

On the first sip of 2016, I heard only one thing!

Rihanna – “Work”

Not gonna lie… didn’t listen to a lot of music this month, so the only thing that seemed appropriate to start off this Best Of was this song as it almost defines the start of this year, without really being released early in January. I heard it almost everywhere, either as the catchy song you don’t know how to dance to, or through amusings that discuss how no one can understand the lyrics. This clip was so spot on that it only felt appropriate to link it here as I mention how this was probably the best anticipation of Rihanna’s ANTI album. This is a such a great link to seeing what her lyrics meant and only added to the amusement. It’s like no matter what she’s trying to sing, she knew she was going to get a hit… and surprisingly, I felt that way with ANTI. Great album with some killer hits but took me a bit of listening to truly get into it. Also, this year was pretty much about work,work,work,work,work…

Here’s an old ad about orange juice to mull you over until the next post!

Best Of/ Top Singles/Albums of 2010

01.   Mark Ronson & The Business Intl ft. MNDR and Q-Tip – “Bang Bang Bang” This is taken from my blog, because I am that lazy. This song is genius! “Bang Bang Bang” gives tribute to an old French nursery rhyme called Alouette in a fun way. We’ve got Amanda Warner (MNDR) and Q-Tip contributing their fantastic vocals. Now I never knew the nursery rhyme as much as I knew Frère Jacques but this still created an interesting concept for the song verses and video. The video started off with a cute commercial (with a little girl singing the Alouette nursery rhyme), an introduction-based interview of some sort, and then an almost futuristic action-related video. It’s clearly better to see this for yourselves. In addition to being a unique and catchy song, it introduced me to MNDR and re-confirmed my disappointment in not checking out Q-Tip as much as I wish I did. At first I thought it was just Amanda on her own but she works with Peter Wade to form an electronc duo, but we’re getting off-tipic here. All that needs to be known is that this song, video, and the guests on this song should all be checked out!

Best Of/ Singles of 2010 (cont.)

03. Kanye West “Power” Kanye is such a genius. I know that it’s pretty sad that he’s on this list and not my albums list but that’s because I took forever listening to his album and I need to be in the mood for it. I still do recognize how great it was though because I liked hearing it whenever my friends played it. It was this song that got me mostly interested in the album though and that is why I figured I’d rather write about this song than the album. The video was amazing and the Saturday Night Live performance was somehow even better… and I’m not sure how Kanye continues to crank out such amazing performances but whatever he is on that makes him not seem personable, he should continue just for his musical geniusness. This needs to be heard and seen, especially the saturday night live performance.

Best Of/ Albums of 2010 (cont.)

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03.Alphabeat – The Spell | release date (UK):March 01, 2010

top five pecks: Hole in my Heart / The Spell / The Beat Is / DJ / Chess
Not going to lie, I have been waiting so long to put this on my list. I was going to put this on my list last year but then I realized it would not technically be released here until 2010… It still has yet to be released here… regardless, I knew I had to put it on my list and I knew it was going to be one of my top five albums. It’s somewhat funny because I didn’t hear the big deal when my friend first introduced me to Alphabeat. Then, when I really did get into them, he was not that much into them. I think he’s started to slightly come around, especially after their AlphaMonsterMash, which is a mash-up/cover of Lady Gaga’s Telephone and Bad Romance :p If you’re into fun, electronic pop, and have yet to check Alphabeat out… do it nauwww! /arnoldschwartznegger

Best Of/ Singles of 2010 (continued)

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11. The Sea of Bees “Willis”* I heard this song way too late. It reminds me of when I first heard of Headlights – “Cherry Tulips” and it just had me feeling good for a while. This may be the highest song that I am not certain if it is a single or not. I don’t even know if this is the actual video for the song. Disregarding all of that, it’s been a fun song and I’m glad NPR had it featured on their all songs considered podcast. This song seems to be more about recovering after learning to not trust… and I love when you can’t really tell what the song is about because the music somewhat contradicts the lyrics. Then again, this could all be my odd interpretation.

Best Of/ Albums of 2010 (continued)

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11.The Morning Benders – Big Echo
release date: March 9, 2010 | top two pecks: Excuses / All Day Day Light

How was this not their debut album because I just can’t believe I didn’t hear about them before.

Best Of/ more Singles of 2010

brought to you by the black swan.

21. Black Keys – Tighten Up
Why did I never check out the album when this song is so great?! Then again, this is the only single I heard.
22. Brown Eyed Girls – Abracadabra*
I know this is from 2009 but I did not know that originally. Another korean pop song is to show up higher.
23. NIVA – Ghost in my Head*
Someone introduced me to this sometime early 2010 and ever since then it gets randomly stuck in my head.
24. The Hundred in the Hands – Ghosts*
Hey, remember them from close calls last year? They’re a lot higher now! If only this was an official single.
25. Charlotte Gainsbourg ft. Beck – Heaven Can Wait
I don’t know how I really love hearing this song and yet never really checked out Charlotte’s album.
26. Mike Tompkins – Only Girl / Ellie Goulding – Only Girl
These covers sound much better than original while still sounding much different. Another tie is yet to come.
27. Wisin Y Yandel – Irrestible
Every year, there has to be at least one reggaeton song, haha. I’m just really lazy at finding such.
28. Pink – Raise Your Glass
My friend told me about this song a little too late. You can’t go wrong with Pink.
29. Selena Gomez – Round and Round
I sort of wish I listened to her more last year. She’s quite great, one of my favorites from Disney.
30. Skyway Flyer – California Dorks
For the longest time, I refused to get the original and just listened to this. I still prefer this to some degree.
31. Darkstar – Automating*
I loved having this on repeat the last few months. I don’t believe this is a single but who cares?
32. Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
This is a single but the original video for this seems like it doesn’t do it justice, so I linked generic audio.
33. Roisin Murphy – Momma’s Place*
I thought this was a single but turns out there was no video for this  Roisin, make more music!
34. Washed Out – Feel it All Around
Chillwave? Regardless, good relaxing music… that apparently does not have an official video?
35. Sharon Van Etten – Don’t Do It
Another example of where there may have been a single but I liked another song a bit more.
36. Mux Mool – Night Court *
This is a great song to drive to… and another example of “is this a single or not?!”
37. BT – Always
Listening parties amongst friends always helps introduce new songs… here’s one of them.
38. Mike Posner – Please Don’t Go
I don’t know why I find this song so addictive. It was probably my most played song in the last few months.
39. Far East Movement ft. The Cataracs – Like a G6
Speaking of overplayed songs… this song is like my song when it comes to my friends. Ridiculous lyrics.
40. Down with Webster – Your Man
I don’t know why this song makes me feel so good when the lyrics are so bad. Still, great song.

Note: An asterisk (*) could signify a song that may have not been a single.

Best Of/ Albums of 2010

This has been one insane year. While music has played less of a role than previously, there are still albums and singles that remind me of certain moments, good and bad. This year’s title references a song that I really liked last year, “Embrace” by PNAU, because I think that best defines 2010 for me. Anyway, enough of the heartfelt introduction, time to start off the albums (both LPs and EPs are allowed) list!

cat who farts and hiccups at the same time presents

So I gave these albums an actual shot but my perception could not meet the actual talent that was presented.

Best Of/ Singles of 2010

brought to you by a saint or the most boring action figure you have ever seen

41. Blur – “Fool’s Day”
Blur = Awesome. I don’t know what else to say, other than that this song was a nice surprise.
42. Chemical Brothers – “Swoon”
Chemical Brothers are always a delight to listen to.
43. Best Coast – “When I’m with You”
The world is lazy but you and me, we’re just crazy. This song just makes me feel good, haha.
44. Matt & Kim – “Cameras”*
I almost had a chance to see them… and yet I failed
45. Steel Train – “Turnpike Ghost”*
I got to see them but I didn’t appreciate them as much as I should have.
46. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – “The Drop”*
Also another artist that is great and better live.
47. Beach House – “Zebra”
Surprisingly, Gossip Girl had this and it was just a nice feeling song.
48. The Walkmen – “Woe is Me”*
I know this is not a single but this was my favorite song from them, so I had to include it.
49. Uffie ft. Pharrell Williams – “ADD SUV”
This is probably the only song I heard a lot by Uffie that I actually did like a lot.
50. Real Estate – “Beach Comber”*
Thanks to someone’s obsession, I came to appreciate this.
51. The Pipettes – Call Me
I’m so glad I knew they had newer stuff out but other stuff overpowered them.
52. Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina – Stereo Love
Horrible ringback since it gets stuck in my head after each call. The accordion is beautiful though.
53. Sade – Soldier of Love
I like whenever I heard this randomly but that’s about it. Never could get into it on my own.
54. Toro Y Moi – Talamak
This made me think of Passion Pit and Animal Collective.
55. Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me*
Great movie with a very interesting/creative song that may or may not be a single.
56. B.o.B. ft. Rivers Cuomo – Magic
It’s magic, magic, maaggiic!
57. Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull – I Like it
The club is on fire. I like it. Tonight (I’m Loving You) should have came out sooner.
58. Gucci Mane – Lemonade
Oh man, so many memories associated with this song. This song/video worries me. GUCCI!
59. Timbaland ft. Justin Timberlake – Carry Out
I wish Justin would stop collaborating for other artists and make another album!
60. Sam Adams – Driving me Crazy
Super catchy, that’s really about it.
61. Cake – “Sick Of You”
I meant to check out the actual album but I checked out this song a bit too late.
62. New Young Pony Club – “Chaos!”
I had no idea NYPC had new material when I heard this… then I forgot about their new material.
63. Corinne Bailey Rae – “I’d Do It All Again”
As would I, Corinne.
64. Oliver North Boy Choir – “Teenage Lust”*
I’m not sure if this was a single but I loved this too much from Gossip Girl.
65. Christian Rich – “Hello Virgin”
Oh, my, goodness. Creepy/WTF song and video. I’m slightly annoyed but intrigued.
66. Hot Hot Heat – “21@12”
It’s pretty much the same deal as NYPC, except I was less excited here.
67. Broken Social Scene – “Texico Bitches”
Texico bitches, i hope you stick around.
68. Leighton Meester ft. Robin Thicke – “Somebody to Love”
I wish I heard more from Leighton Meester, outside of Gossip Girl.
69. Bruno Mars – “Grenade”
I’d take grenades for yaaaa! My friend first heard “fuck yeah” instead. Hilarious.
70. Taio Cruz – “Dynamite”
I was so close to being able to shove my way through a group screaming “I came to move, move, move!”
71. Kisses – “Bermuda”
72. TOBACCO ft. Beck – “Fresh Hex”
73. Wild Nothing – “Chinatown”
74. Frightened Rabbit – “Swim Until You Can’t See Land”
75. Band of Horses – “Laredo”
76. Adele – “Rolling in the Deep”
77. Local Natives – “Airplanes”
78. Samuel – “I Heart NY”
79. Maroon 5 – “Misery”
80. Sky Ferreira – “One”

Note: An asterisk (*) could signify a song that may have not been a single.