I just spent a week with a bunch of Jonas Brothers obsessed girls. They pretty much convinced me that if one enjoys the vocal stylings of Neil Diamond, and wears a head lamp at the campfire in order to better see the socks she’s knitting, one is not hip. Even in the slightest. No doubt there is some kind of text messaging acronym associated with a serious lack of cool, but since text messaging seems just a tad beyond my ever-aging reach, I don’t have a clue what that acronym might be.
Waaaaaaay back in July, Mack It Up Matheson tagged me to do some kind of blog-esque chain letter list type thing. Thank your lucky stars it wasn’t “One Hundred Things I Have Eaten” or “Between my Toes: A Chain Letter in Pictures”. She has simply asked that I list 7 songs over which I am currently obsessing. Now if I was hip and in the proverbial know, I might call this a meme? Would I? Wikipedia? Can you help me out? Yikes, don’t click that link unless your last name is Hawking. Ah, Daily Meme. There we are. It IS a meme! See? I am hip-hop-oppotamus! Take that!
And just to prove my with-it-ness, I’d like to share with you my seven selections. Sadly, you might come to the very quick realization my taste in music does nothing to aid in my bid for the Merit Badge of Cool. Here it is, nonetheless.
1. No Place at All – Sarah Slean
This could be legitimately cool.
2. I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory – Kathleen Edwards
Again, earning a touch of street cred. Then it gets ugly.
3. Another Day (That Time Forgot) – Neil Diamond
Oh, songs with brackets in the title, how I love thee! See Adams, Bryan: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.
4. Super Trouper – Movie Soundtrack Recording
Can I get away with saying this is research for work? And not because one day I will be the star of Mamma Mia?
5. Salesmen, Cheats and Liars – Lowest of the Low
Boo yah! Here comes the cool, marching in to save the day!
6. Kathleen – Josh Ritter
Who? Exactly! Hip by default!
7. Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis
Maybe this is a step back in the eye’s of some, but crank it up and you just might find you agree.
I don’t know enough people in posession of a blog that I could possibly meme-along this bad boy, so if you’ve got the notion leave a comment re: your current favourite tune. Or most embarassing favourite tune. Please. The Merit Badge depends on someone having slightly more eccentric taste in music than me.
5 responses so far ↓
Lindsey // August 27, 2008 at 9:59 am |
So, yikes to the Jonas Brothers….should the “t” be capitalized? Are they that great yet? I think I’ll leave it in lower case for now.
Leona Lewis – Bleeding love is a great song…it would be in my 7 as well. If there is anyone that does not agree just watch the dance that Mark and Chelsea did to that song on So You Think You Can Dance…..you’ll LOVE IT!!! YouTube that sucka right away!
Without further adieu….
Here are my 7; (in no particular order)
1. Paul Simon – Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes (oh the good old days of listening to this song sitting on the hard, back seat hump of Zak’s old camaro, wing blowing in my hair…and a hint of pee smell….)
2. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
(copy cat)
3. Stabilo – Flawed Design
(I also enjoy the remix…weird…I usually don’t like when Dj’s take song and speed them up and then just yell at breaks in the song….WHA!!, YAY!!! This remix has no Dj yelling, fewwf)
4. Annie Lennox – Why
(I’ll tell ya why, Annie…)
5. Bon Jovi – You Wanna Make a Memory
(Oh Jon Bon….what can I say? I love you!)
6. Lady GaGa – Just Dance
(maybe it’s the name…I jusy like saying GaGa)
7. Hedley – Old School
(I enjoy this song even though I am not currently putting out fires or changing car tires…nor am I wearing black skinny jeans and shoes with skulls and cross bones on them…is it O.K that I’m still listening to this song?)
Dan // August 27, 2008 at 10:01 pm |
You’re the hip-hop-apotomus. Your rhymes are bottomluss.
Ah, Kathleen: “All the other girls here are stars, you are the Northern Lights” You can’t beat that.
I’m not going to follow your example, though. You’ve got the hip; I might break one.
James // August 28, 2008 at 2:27 pm |
Here’s a quick one:
1.Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream Part II (My Morning Jacket)
And I thought these guys played southern rock.
2.Girl in the War (Josh Ritter)
a)To prove that either I am hip or Kim is not
b)Because Matt Good closed his shows on his latest tour with it
3.I Got Mine (The Black Keys)
When they finished rocking this one on the Late Show, Letterman said “I love these guys!” I beat him to that one.
4.O Freedom (Billy Bragg)
The protest song tradition is alive and well.
5.T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. (The Hives)
Every band should have a singer named Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist.
6.Come All You Weary (Thrice)
Peak of the Alchemy Index concept project.
7.99% of Us is Failure (Matthew Good)
“Painful, and real slow…”
Tyreke // September 6, 2008 at 8:48 am |
Yo, it’s Tyreke and I’s got the best songs eva written right here!
1. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
2. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
3. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
4. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
5. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
6. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
7. NWA – Straight Outta Compton
WEST SYDE!
TYREKE OUT!
Kim // September 6, 2008 at 5:58 pm |
Tyreke, shouldn’t you be busying yourself with trying to stay outta prison, or trying to be the very best baby daddy there ever was?