Romeo Responds to Taylor Swift by Moneyshot Cosmonauts. Because apparently Taylor Swift has a worse understanding of Romeo & Juliet than Smeyer.

My Michelle by Guns 'N Roses.

I got up in the middle of the night last night, so I listened to The Memory of Trees (but veeeery quietly so as not to wake my friend!). I think it helped in putting me back to sleep?

I’d forgotten how much I like Enya. Haha, such a geek :P

Dead Hearts by Stars

Across the Sea by Alex Day

Everchanging by Rise Against.

Off their first album, this is such an awesome warm-hearted, bittersweet falling-leaves anthem. I’ve listened to it about twenty times in a row so far.

The Song of Storms, played on a cello by one guy doing five parts. I want this version to be on my phone.

Found listening to music helps me concentrate on math. Lately, I’ve been listening to The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Scissors for Lefty, Debussy and Mass Effect 2 club music (hell yeah :P).

Oh my god, The Rocky Road to Dublin is amazing! Ireland, you’ve amazed me again!

I’ve been listening to the Digital soundtrack for hours now. Chip music is surprisingly productivity-conducive.

The “Tonight Tonight” song that sansa complained about might be the recent one by Hot Chelle Rae, although said song is pretty nice, IMO.
If you really want something that’s bad enough to give you violent urges, try Selena Gomez.

....ohh, that was harsh, even for me. XD

Because apparently Taylor Swift has a worse understanding of Romeo & Juliet than Smeyer.

Yes. Yes, she does.
And that’s saying something.

Also, I recently got “American Pie”.
The original version.
The original original version.
The Don Mclean version.
The 8-minutes-long version.

I love it to death.

@ Klutor: that would be the version to listen to.

I have it somewhere. Probably.

Weightless

Praise You – Fatboy Slim

Pure, distilled late-‘90s ‘tude – and impossibly catchy to boot.

The studio where I work had the drummer from Lynyrd Skynyrd come in and record yesterday (Artemis Pyle, who survived the plane crash in ’77). He has an insanely awesome drum kit, and man can he play that thing!

Paparazzi, Lady Gaga. The acoustic version.

I can play Rocky Road to Dublin on a bodhran. Ireland indeed is the musical mecca of brilliance.
Fireflies by Owl City. I mean, the environmental message is so- so powerful

SWEET MOTHER OF FUCKING GOD.

I just heard The Lazy Song and saw part of the video, courtesy of a Todd in the Shadows Pop Song Review.

My god it is even worse than I thought possible. BRUNO MARS NEEDS A PUNCH IN THE FACE.

@Willow: That’s why I love you. :D

From the weird part of YouTube

Fireflies by Owl City. I mean, the environmental message is so- so powerful

I hope you’re somehow kidding. >.> I hated this song as it was, and now you tell me it’s really one of those preachy Greenpeace things?

Nah, I’m from America. I like environmentalism as in don’t turn Earth into a giant parking lot. I’m not fond of radical environmentalism (the flavor that tells me I need to kill myself for the good of the planet), I think green products are generally a waste of time, I cordially disagree with PETA. So we may or may not be in opposition.

I honestly couldn’t make it all the way through. I’m a hardcore/alt-metal/punk kid, meself, so feel free to make fun of me.

I was being cordial.

In the sense in which “cordial” means “I’m really their viciously critical enemy but I am being civil and Victorian”.

But PETA made this masterpiece…

Older AFI, Rise Against, Linkin Park, Opeth, Nightwish, Rage Against the Machine, POD, Pennywise, Atreyu, Bad Religion, Breaking Benjamin, Offspring. I think that’s all of them.

I am now tuned to the classical station. Is shameless hipster

They like everything except what they think other people like, except those people are hipsters so they dislike that and then pretty soon it is cool to like anything and everything and everybody will be hipsters and there will be no levels of fashionable hobbies.
It’s currently someone’s “Gypsy Melodies.” In A Minor.

Neither do I.
I like Linkin Park’s older, rap/electro stuff better than their newer stuff. Like Session, and Hit the Floor. I also like Era’s Ameno, randomly.

Oh, so I’m not a hipster. Thank goodness.

Imagine by Herman Cain

Apocalyptica. Cellos have never been so metal.

Weirdly enough, until college I didn’t listen to anything more recent than 1976 or so. I was an Oldies station junkie. But Todd in the Shadows reviews/mentions more recent, hit music. And some of it stuck in my head. Gah.

I love the early 1960s pop- the Beatles, especially. I Wanna Hold Your Hand is another current earworm. And then late eighties folk pop, like Perfect by Fairground Attraction.

snerk

You should hear that YT parody of her done by a couple of guys whose handle I can’t recall. It’s the one that’s the Romeo and Juliet song, whatever it’s called, and he sings from “Romeo’s” perspective about changing the locks on his doors and buying a gun. It even rhymes the same way.

@ Inkblot: That sounds epic.

@ BlueMask’s gay comment

Oh, yeah, so not true.

But if he sings, the odds are higher. Sings and dances? Much higher. Sings, dances, AND is attractive? Girl, good luck.

Running joke with my boyfriend is that he was the only straight guy in his high school’s showchoir. I’ve seen pictures.

He isn’t exaggerating….

I sing… >.>

Okay, so my genre of choice is melodic hardcore. I definitely do not dance. And we are not going to discuss that time this girl I liked shanghaied me into DDR when I was twelve.

@ Inkblot & Willow: I totally posted a link to that song a while ago. I’m sure it’s in this thread somewhere…

looks Okay, maybe not in this thread, but here’s a link anyway.

And if that doesn’t work, just try Weird Al’s parody. That should work too.

Edit: Damn, that song’s a parody of “Love Story”. Ah well, it’s still funny.

Is snickering

Wow. And Inkblot, be not ashamed of DDR. DDR is awesome. Weirdly enough, it’s excellent for practicing footwork. My boyfriend’s martial arts footwork got crazy good when he started playing DDR in high school. Hell, when he visits me, our version of going dancing is heading out to an arcade that has a dance machine.

What is DDR?

I live in Mount Doom, actually. Once you get used to the lava and charred mutant-hobbit skeletons, its rather picturesque. You can stay in the guest-cave, although I accept no responsibility for missing fingers.
Ooh, that sounds fun.

blank stare
Wowzers.
That looks really…hard. But fun. Thanks for the link:)

But PETA made this masterpiece…

Goddamnit, Sansa. I had homework to do an now I must play that.

I beat it….about an hour later.

An hour well spent!

(it was harder than it should be)

But the video on that page takes the fun away from it.

But Neil Young is such a legend! Damm southern man.

Sorry, y’all, I don’t know the slang.
Yankee, then.

Pumped Up Kicks-Foster The People

This City- Patrick Stump and some other guy. I don’t know if it’s just bad sound quality or if it’s supposed to sound like someone’s clawing at glass plates in the background every time the chorus comes in.

Porcupine Tree- Drown With Me

I haven’t been able to get into PT before this point (though I love Opeth and Katatonia, who are good friends with PT) but now I think I may have changed my mind.

Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh.

The best part? I live near the Rocky Mountains, like two hours drive from Rocky Mountain National Park.