After the monstrosity that was last year’s year-end top 28 albums list, I’ve found I don’t have the energy to ever do something like that again.
So I plan on taking the ranking out of it (everybody wins and everyone gets a participation ribbon) and just list 10 albums a day from 2008 that I enjoyed [...]
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Albums From 2008 That I Really Enjoyed
Posted in Music, tagged 2008, best of 2008, Entertainment, New Years on January 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Bomb Diggity Jams – Vol. 3 (Winter Edition)
Posted in Music, tagged bomb diggity jams, boys, Christmas, Entertainment, Family, girls, god, happiness, holidays, hopes, Love, Memories, mixtape, mixtapes, regrets, relationships, wishes on December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So it’s that time of the year again. The family’s all back together, the chestnuts are roasting, the air is cooler, the heart is warmer…
Yes, that’s right, it is time for another volume of Bomb Diggity Jams!
(Note: I’d like to apologize for missing out on the Fall edition…things were just TOO crazy this semester and [...]
Bomb Diggity Jams – Vol. 2
Posted in Music, tagged ben harper, blue scholars, bomb-diggity, calvin harris, coldplay, death cab for cutie, delta spirit, Entertainment, goldspot, good times, jack johnson, jason mraz, john legend, leslie feist, lfo, mixtape, muxtape, phantom planet, Rachel Yamagata, Rilo Kiley, sebastien tellier, simon & garfunkel, sondre lerche, summer, the decemberists, the kinks, the strokes, the virgins, wale, wilco on June 22, 2008 | 11 Comments »
It’s finally here! Bomb Diggity Jams – Volume 2, Summer ‘08 edition. This thing took a lot of time. I started working on it a few months ago, and I actually went through my entire library to compile 300-400 songs that had a “summer” feel to it. That’s an unprecedented number of candidate-songs for any [...]
Livin’ La Vida Coldplay
Posted in Music, tagged 42, a rush of blood to the head, brian eno, cemeteries of london, chinese sleep chant, chris martin, coldplay, death and all his friends, Entertainment, guy berryman, jonny buckland, life in technicolor, lost, lovers in japan, parachutes, pop, reign of love, review, rock, strawberry swing, the escapist, Violet Hill, viva la vida, Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, x&y, yes on June 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Sorry about the title, I couldn’t help it. I think it’s rather humorous.
To the delight/lament of music fans everywhere, Coldplay released their 4th album this week, with the Ricky Martin-inspired title, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.
Maybe it was just me keeping myself less exposed to it, but it seemed like there [...]
More Than ‘Money, Cash, Hoes’
Posted in Music, tagged black star, blackalicious, common, Entertainment, gangsta rap, hi-tek, Hip-Hop, jurassic 5, kanye west, lil john, Lupe Fiasco, mainstream, mos def, Plan B, Rap, Society, talib kweli, thug life on May 26, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Rap music gets a bad rap these days.:) Some of it is because of poorly constructed puns like that last sentence in the music, but it is more likely due, in large part, to the perceived “thug” or “gangsta” image. I’m not even going to attempt going into the social causes or origins of that. [...]
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