This was an interesting project for me. I thought it would be more of a challenge than it was. I had no problem coming up with 22 songs I like, and I enjoyed telling you stories about each song I was recommending. I also love doing an LJ post a day. I'm thinking about coming up with some kind of scheme to keep me on track with making a post a day ( Read more... )

There are a few love songs I considered for the Valentine's Day edition of 22 Days of Music. I love Shakira's "No Creo" off of her MTV Unplugged album, even though I sometimes think the lyrics are a little iffy in terms of what I think a relationship should be. Then there's the Lynden David Hall version of "All You Need Is Love" from Love Actually, ( Read more... )

Today is Chris's turn to be featured here on 22 Days of Music. I'm sure he's very proud. (I have to tell you that I set up a comprehensive Google alert for him, and since I have my LJ set to let Google index it, when I post about him, it shows up in my Google alerts the next day, and makes me laugh ( Read more... )

You had to know that Chris and Steve were up next. I just want you to admire my restraint - I could have cheated it and done four days of them with the letter but not spirit of the law argument that Steve Carlson, The Steve Carlson Band, Christian Kane, and Kane are four separate artists, but I resisted ( Read more... )

Wow, only three more days to go. I'm excited about the next two (surely you've guessed who gets to be last before Valentine's Day), and I continue to be indecisive about the last ( Read more... )

I was explaining this project and my downloading of fic soundtracks to a friend and trying to make him understand that I'm not one of those cool people who likes obscure music. But despite the inclusion of Paula Abdul and Vanilla Ice, I think this project doesn't really tell you how uninteresting my music likes are. So today's piece is a currently ( Read more... )

Today's song is a shout-out to all those old-school DamonAffleck fangirls still hanging around. I have this version of Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" on Live Planet & Beyond! (The EP), where the track listing lakeeffectgirl sent with the CD describes it as "(The Ballad of Matt & Ben As Teenagers)."


Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

A couple of years ago, I kept hearing Amanda Marshall's "Everybody's Got a Story" on the radio, and I liked it enough to buy the album of the same name. It's a good album. It has an interesting song about race, some good songs about love, and a handful of funny songs. The funniest of them is "Sunday Morning After," which seems appropriate for a ( Read more... )

I think I've mentioned that some members of my ballet class and I had fun making a game out of identifying what musical the instrumental versions of songs we dance to are from. I've leveled up now to the more advanced class, and our teacher doesn't use as many pieces of music from musicals, and the tone of the other students is a little too serious ( Read more... )

The two songs in close competition for my favorite pieces of classical music are Handel's "Joy to the World" and Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major." I love Pachelbel's Canon so much that I actually own Pachelbel's Greatest Hit, a CD that has eight different versions of the song on it. I've also been listening to "Alleluia (To Pachelbel's Canon in D)" ( Read more... )