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Number Crunching...
04.26.04 (1:28 am)   [edit]
I have a [url=http://shadowmusic.tblog]friend[/url] who loves to classify, organize and rate music. He has such a gift for rating songs by genre, instrumentation, vocals and even position within his own personal top 1-million song list. For me... this type of thing can prove quite difficult. My response to music tends to be fairly emotional. My top ten songs change with my mood and usually have little/nothing to do with what is popular at the moment. However, for awhile now, I've been thinking of doing a weekly (or biweekly or at minimum somewhat regular) chart on here ~ in which we can post our current top songs. It would be like the Billboard Top 100 only without the RIAA breathing down our necks. :) Then I saw that a certain [url=http://blondebondgirl.tblog.c...]blonde blogger[/url] had done something similar, so I figured, I'd best get in on the action. But before I dive in....


Here's a look at Billboard's current top 9. (Right now, some of you may be asking, "why the top 9, juniperflux, as opposed to say, the top 10??" This like so many other questions in life, however, is destined to remain unanswered). It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the vast majority of these songs fall into the rap or hip+hop genres. To be perfectly honest, I have to admit that I am not much of a fan of either type of music. Although this is probably a subject for another time, I tend to have a bit of a problem with the violence and misogyny that seems to infect much of the lyrical content of both genres. Again... that's a topic for another time and place. In the meantime, I have to laugh when I look at this chart recalling music critics of the late 1980s and early 90s who proclaimed that rap was nothing more than a musical trend that would fade quickly and die without leaving so much as a fingerprint on the musical landscape... I can't help but wonder how those folks take their crow. Medium well??

So... here we go.

[u][b]The Juniperflux Top 9 [/u]
4-26-2004[/b]


9. Low: Half Life
8. Rufus Wainwright: Beauty Mark
7. The Cranberries: Electric Blue
6. The Von Trapps: Roller Coaster
5. Uncle Tupelo: Left In The Dark
4. Ann McCue: Crazy, Beautiful Child
3. Azure Ray: How Will You Survive?
2. Jem: They

~ drum roll please ~

1. Azure Ray: Safe and Sound

Ok... so now it's your turn. Let's hear it folks. Your top 9 songs at the moment. They can be current hits, oldies but goodies, completely obscure tracks and/or all of the above. Just whatever you're completely gaga over right now. If you can't think of 9... then we'll let you get by with as many as you can think of.

I'm looking forward to seeing what people are listening to.
 


posted by: chicalookate (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (6:11 am)

Okay these aren't listed in any particular order.
1)Belville Rendez-Vouz Triplets of Belville Soundtrack
2)One of Those Sometimes Is Now by Kitchens of Distinction
3)Political by Spirit of the West
4)When I was Drinking by Hem
5)Crucify by Tori Amos
6)The Dress Looks Nice on You by Sufjan Stevens
7)She Moves She by Four Tet
8 )Weakest Shade of Blue by the Pernice Brothers
9)Darker Days by the Connells




posted by: shadowmusic (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (7:32 am)

Here's 9 songs I've been listening to lately, in no particular order:
(1) Stars: "Life Effect"
(2) The Last Dance: "Silently She"
(3) KHz: "Traveling Over"
(4) Charlene: "Cathode"
(5) Kitchens of Distinction: "4 Men"
(6) Enemy You: "City of Lost Children"
(7) L7: "Packin a Rod"
(8) Amy Correia: "Life is Beautiful"
(9) Conjure One: "Manic Star"



posted by: Becca (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (11:03 am)

My top 9 come from my mood..and aren't in order, except for the number 1

9: "The Reason" Hoobastank
8: "I miss you" Blink 182
7: "8th world Wonder"
6: "Look to the Sky" DDR 6th Mix MAS
5: "Dam Dariram" DDR 3rd Mix
4: "Selfish Man" & "Devil's Dance Floor" By Flogging Molly
3: "Haunted" Evanescence
2: "Tourniquet" Evanescence

And my number 1, just by shear "I listen to it over and over and over again.." decision.

"My Immortal" By Evanescence..
That's this week..




posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (11:03 am)

Reply to: Becca

Meh, I meant 6th Mix MaX not Mas...



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (11:32 am)

I absolutely love :When I was Drinking" by Hem.

Great list! Thanks. :)



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (11:33 am)

Hey you! Welcome back to life! E-mail me soon! :)



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (11:33 am)

Reply to: shadowmusic


Oooops! That last comment was for you.



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 04.26.04 (11:35 am)

Reply to: Becca

Cool! Thanks for the comment!



posted by: chicalookate (reply)
post date: 04.27.04 (9:34 am)

Reply to: juniperflux

I can play that song over and over again. Maybe I need to make a cd of replays.



posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 04.27.04 (1:36 pm)

Reply to: chicalookate

I have several CDs like that... it's so decadent and wasteful, but some songs beg to be repeated over and over again. Personally, I love "betting on trains" from that Hem album. But they are a GREAT band.





posted by: blondebondgirl (reply)
post date: 04.30.04 (7:29 pm)

hmmmmmm this looks familiar! (lol)... let me see...



posted by: blondebondgirl (reply)
post date: 04.30.04 (7:39 pm)

my 9 fav songs right now:

1. "sickel cycle carousel" lifehouse
2. "fallen" sarah mclauclin
3. "re-offender" travis
4. "roses" outkast
5. "you give love a bad name" bon jovi
6. "ocean avenue" yellowcard
7. "naughty girl" beyonce
8. "yeah" usher
9. "the reason" hoobastank




posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 05.01.04 (8:44 pm)

Reply to: blondebondgirl


i just can't bring myself to listen to a band called "hoobastank."




posted by: juniperflux (reply)
post date: 05.01.04 (8:44 pm)

Reply to: blondebondgirl


i gave you credit, girl! :)

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