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    • CommentAuthorWiseWillow
    • CommentTimeDec 8th 2011 edited
     

    Marry the Night by Lady Gaga

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    I can acknowledge that Adele probably has a good voice. It just doesn’t do anything for me, emotionally speaking. Gaga herself would probably be the first to admit that Adele has the better voice, but to me, Gaga’s simply the more interesting artist, though Adele seems like a very nice person.

    But maybe that’s an unfair comparison to make. I think a better comparison would be to Fiona Apple, who was a singer-songwriter very popular during the 90s. Like Adele, she writes songs about crappy relationships in songs with a lot of piano that sound very soulful, but Fiona is my favorite by far.

    Like Willow, I’ve only listened to ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and ‘Someone Like You’, and I know nearly all of Fiona’s songs. Again, Adele might have the ‘better’ voice (I can’t say, because I honestly don’t enjoy the soul style all that much, except for Fiona) but Fiona has this searing intensity that makes her a really compelling, if completely insane, performer. Her songs tend to be about relationships, but often, the lyrics are really good, and look at things in an unexpected way. For instance:

    I opened my eyes while you were kissing me once, more than once. And you looked as sincere as a dog- just as sincere as a dog does, when it’s the food on your lips with which it’s in love.

    She can be pretentious at times, but when she hits on a really apt lyric, it’s amazing. The instrumentals are also inventive and completely off-the-walls, which I love- crazy drumming and time-signature shifts and some great piano lines. She’s just so interesting as a performer and as a person.

    As far as I can tell, I haven’t seen those things in Adele, but I guess it’s all about how you take the music and it affects you. I didn’t love Fiona Apple at first, either, though now I have a total girl-crush on her. It was really an acquired taste for me, because I’m used to heavier stuff, so maybe Adele is like that as well.

    Sorry to go on, this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but everyone looks at me weird when I say that I don’t love Adele. :P

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    Yeah, I’m not big on soul music either. My brother loves Fiona Apple, but I’m not very familiar with her. I’m not sure about Adele having a better voice. I think that’s too subjective. Honestly, I’d say that Gaga’s voice is better (going by when she sings acoustically, not, for instance, when she autotuned like crazy for some of her early stuff). But that’s my opinion, not a fact. Ah well.

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    By ‘better’ vocally, I meant more technically. Fiona doesn’t have all that much of a range- she can reach higher notes, but they’re not as powerful as Adele’s. Gaga is great acoustically, but she’s a completely different style, even though she does have a jazzy kind of voice. I like really strange singers, so I prefer them to Adele.

    All of Fiona’s albums are great, but When The Pawn… might be overall the best one. I’m sure your brother would be able to recommend songs as well.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 9th 2011
     

    YouTubes Fiona Apple
    Not bad, not bad…
    I have this opinion that the covers of Rolling in the Deep are always better. It’s a good song, but I think they drowned it in sound. Stripped back, with a piano and guitar and bass, it sounds amazing. And the Glee cover…is greatness.

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 9th 2011
     
    Armistice-Phoenix.
    I love the chorus so much.
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    Speaking of great female singers that grow on you, I present The Gathering (singer Anneke van Giersbergen). I mention them a lot, but this is because I love them so much- mostly because all their albums are so different in sound and tone that I am literally always in the mood for their music.

    Nighttime Birds

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 9th 2011
     

    Consequence-The Notwist

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    Ballade 1 in G minor, Chopin

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 12th 2011 edited
     

    First Link
    This song is crazy, but I love the video.

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    Nocturne 5 in F Sharp, Chopin.

    I would marry Chopin. <3

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 12th 2011
     

    Seconded. Although I’m more of a Tchaikovsky fan. It’s fantastical.

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    Seconded. Although I’m more of a Tchaikovsky fan. It’s fantastical.

    The 1812 Overture is kickass.

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    Rachmaninoff for me.

    Also, he has an awesome name.

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    Chopin is my favourite overall, but Pachelbel’s Canon in D is my favourite classical music piece EVER.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 13th 2011 edited
     

    I know…It’s a classic classical piece. However, my cellist friend disagrees. We played a stripped down version with violin and cello once, and she kept playing the violin part because she got tired of doing the same notes over and over again. The argument “But that’s what makes it sound so good” doesn’t exactly work on her.

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      CommentAuthorApep
    • CommentTimeDec 13th 2011
     

    I’d expect nothing less from someone who doesn’t play a bass ensturment. Just because it’s not the melody doesn’t excuse it being a boring part.

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    “The Honest Truth” by Typhoon

    ...because I read all the Cracked lists of eight things in 2011.

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeDec 13th 2011
     
    "Free Cello":http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/2111720687.html
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      CommentAuthorSoupnazi
    • CommentTimeDec 13th 2011
     

    In the Backseat, by Arcade Fire.

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    I’d expect nothing less from someone who doesn’t play a bass ensturment. Just because it’s not the melody doesn’t excuse it being a boring part.

    Same thing for altos. :P

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeDec 13th 2011
     
    Altos are usually the friends of the soprano, but are prettier and less stuck-up than the soprano.

    Die, sopranos, die; be purged from our brave new world ruled by the altos.
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    ...I take it you had a bad experience with sopranos?

    I used to be one myself (to be more accurate, I was a mezzo), but the girls in the alto section do tend to be nicer, for some strange reason. They are also better at reading notes. (However, in my experience, sopranos are pretty as well.)

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    How does a soprano screw in a lightbulb?
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    I would marry Chopin. <3

    Amen.
    I’ve just finished perfecting Nocturne No. 2 by him on the piano. His music is so brilliant! :D
    As for sopranos… I don’t think very highly of them either.

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2011
     

    I feel stupid for not being able to relate to all this :(

    Listening to Only this Moment by Royksopp. Been a while since I heard this one.

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    I’ve just finished perfecting Nocturne No. 2 by him on the piano. His music is so brilliant! :D

    So pretty!

    I’m in the process of teaching myself piano, half by making it up and half by reading the notes. I need a real teacher.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2011
     

    I had that on repeat all winter. I really want to learn it on the piano as well…but it looks kind of technically difficult.

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    It’s not really all that hard technically, but it’s a killer in terms of memory. After you get it down, it’s hard to forget, almost like a Bach invention.

    Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5, Second Movement

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    Marry the Night, Lady GaGa.

    Oh wait, now it’s You and I.

    Because GaGa = win.

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    Granger Danger

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    Canon in D, on Piano.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 14th 2011
     

    My brain just exploded.
    THERE’S ANOTHER AVPM FAN ON THIS FORUM??? Why have I not met you before?
    And, for the record, Stutter is stuck in my head.

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    12 Transcendental Studies by Liszt

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      CommentAuthorFalling
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2011 edited
     

    Is this songs that we are currently listening to? I never saw the previous thread so the OP is rather unhelpful…

    But if so,
    On the Fritz- Steve Taylor
    This guy has kinda been forgotten and got mired in some controversies for all the wrong reasons. But I love this guy’s satire and willingness to attack some pretty sacred cows in the 80’s to mid 90’s. This particular song was attacking certain Christian leaders leading double lives, which in the 80’s you just didn’t do. Closed ranks, solidarity all they way no matter the problem.

    His earliest stuff hasn’t aged very well, but starting with his live album in ’85 till the end still plays well in my opinion. He was always live band before studio band which I always admired.

    On The Fritz
    80’s New Wave style in mockery of conservativism looks rather strange from a modern perspective, but whatever.

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    THERE’S ANOTHER AVPM FAN ON THIS FORUM??? Why have I not met you before?

    Alas, there is an ocean between us. I love AVPM. AVPS is good too, but AVPM is better. I seriously doubt that no one else on this forum likes AVPM. I know other people here have at least seen it. I know a ton a IRL people who love it, and that’s how I was introduced to it, actually.

    Have you ever listened to wrock? It’s wizard rock, and it’s just a bunch of bands that write songs about Harry Potter. I don’t really like most of it, but some of it is good. I really like End of an Era and Open at the Close. The Bravest Man I Ever Knew is good too.

    Anyway, woo Harry Potter.

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    Bratja Always gets the nostalgia rolling.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 16th 2011
     

    Yep, I’m definitely a wrock fan. I write songs as well, mostly wizard-acoustic-folk, which I haven’t got a name for, and some country stuff.
    Those three are definitely some of the best. I also love the Ministry of Magic’s stuff as well, and some of the more electronica-style wrock.
    Anyway, yeah, I hope that they do a threequel. I’d love to get tickets. But, you know, and ocean and all that.
    I don’t know anyone IRl whose seen AVPM or AVPS. I know quite a few onliners who do, though.

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeDec 17th 2011
     
    Does AVPM stand for "A Very Potter Musical"? It didn't strike me as belonging to the rock genre.
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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 17th 2011
     

    Yes, AVPM stands for A Very Potter Musical. Me and NP were talking about something completely different. The genre of fan music known as wizard rock, started by Harry and the Potters.
    Oh, wait, do you already know what wrock is?

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeDec 17th 2011
     
    You said "wrock" was music written by fans of the Harry Potter books about the characters of the seven-book saga. This is the first time I have come across this term, and accept your definition by default. This definition is also affirmed by UrbanDictionary. However, what I was saying was that my (limited) experience of "A Very Potter Musical" would not have filed it in the record shop of my subconscious in the bin labeled "rock", but rather somewhere in the "Affectionate Parody Musical" bin, closer to say, "Little Shop of Horrors" or "Avenue Q" than even a so-called "rock opera" like "Tommy" or "RENT".
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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 18th 2011
     

    There are a few ‘gimmicky’ songs, but there are some actual good ones as well. Like Stutter, which, when done acoustically on a guitar, has a great meaning behind it. And Not Alone, which is one of the most popular. Darren Criss [who plays Harry] has just released a solo EP, and I think some AVPM songs are on there…? He wrote most of the songs, anyway. He always plays a character on Glee, and is pretty famous now. random offside
    Anyway, yeah, a lot of the songs are a bit shallow, but the ones that don’t mention HP of any other characters can stand on their own. Sorry, that wasn’t your question, was it? Um…no, not of the AVPM songs are rock. If they are, it’s the drums and keyboard of most low budget plays.

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    I also love the Ministry of Magic’s stuff as well

    I’ve found them to be the most consistently good. My only problem is that I would like the songs to have more verses instead of just repeating what was already sung earlier. Other than that, I really like them.

    I just can’t get into Harry and the Potters, event though their name is cool. I don’t like how they sound. Plus, I like the more serious-y songs, and theirs seem more silly a lot of the time.

    I write songs as well, mostly wizard-acoustic-folk, which I haven’t got a name for, and some country stuff.

    You do? Cool.

    I don’t know anyone IRl whose seen AVPM or AVPS.

    Aww… you need to get those other New Zealanders on board.

    @Mnemone

    I think what is confusing you is the use of the term wrock to mean wizard rock because you’re thinking of it being rock music base in Harry Potter. But wrock, I think, is just any music based in Harry Potter, regardless of the genre the songs would fall into otherwise. I think they just chose “wrock” because it worked well the silent W thing. “Wpop” or something wouldn’t look as good.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 18th 2011
     

    Yeah, I haven’t actually heard many of Harry and the Potters stuff. Draco and the Malfoys do some good songs about the fandom, though.

    • CommentAuthorWiseWillow
    • CommentTimeDec 18th 2011
     

    AVPM is okay. AVPS is okay too- I loved “It’s Not Over Yet” and “Days of Summer”.

    Only Wrock song I know is “Snape vs Snape”. I like it, depending on my mood.

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      CommentAuthorPuppet
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2011
     
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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2011
     

    Ooh, I’ll have to look that up, Willow.
    French music. Specifically, random french hip hop and rap on YouTube. Also, Edith Piaf.

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2011
     

    Saki Kaska – Callista

    I love this. I first heard it playing one of the Need For Speed games. I’m sure it was NFS Porsche. Okay, now I’m a little sad because I want to play that thing right now just for the heck of it. I like going back to the old stuff.

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2011 edited
     
    Piaf. I heard the best kind is made with wild rice.

    Beware the raggle taggle Gypsies.
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      CommentAuthorPuppet
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2011
     

    I’ve been listening to a lot of Japanese music from Detective Conan and some club songs from Mass Effect 2 as well.

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      CommentAuthorSoupnazi
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2011
     

    ALL OF THE ARCADE FIRE.

    I’ve been listening to them way too much lately. Though I just got the deluxe edition of the Suburbs which means two extra songs to listen to, plus I’m going and rearranging the songs in the Suburbs (which is difficult since most of them lead into each other).

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      CommentAuthorPuppet
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2011
     

    Thelonious Monk ( Columbia Records ).

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 22nd 2011
     

    snorts

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    So Happy I Could Die, Lady GaGa

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 23rd 2011
     

    Speechless, Gaga.

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    Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith.

    Jesus Himself wept for joy when he heard this song.
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    Speechless, Gaga.

    <3

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      CommentAuthorFalling
    • CommentTimeDec 23rd 2011
     

    Suspiria- Goblin. Progressive Rock can be so atmospheric.

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    The World That She Sees, Trans Siberian Orchestra

    sigh Christmas.

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      CommentAuthorFalling
    • CommentTimeDec 26th 2011 edited
     

    Aw yeah! Trans Siberian Orchestra. I love Carol of the Bells by them.

    Typical- Mutemath. Used to listen to Paul Meany when he was part of Earthsuit. Mutemath is awesome!

    Typical-Mutemath

    Oh yeah. Music video is one of those backwards played, but he sung it backwards too, so it kinda looks like he’s singing it forward?

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2011
     

    Armin Van Buuren-I Don’t Own You

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2011
     

    Taylor Swift- Never Grow Up
    Apart from being lullabyically beautiful and haunting, the lyrics just tug at my heartstrings. They almost perfectly describe my life.

    • CommentAuthorNo One
    • CommentTimeDec 30th 2011
     

    Let’s Go by G20 (or various K-pop artists). I like the English version better than the Korean version.

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      CommentAuthorTakuGifian
    • CommentTimeDec 30th 2011
     

    I have been positively binging on Les Mis. Especially Valjean’s release/ the prologue.

    “My name is Jean Valjean!”
    “And I’m Javert! Do not forget me!”

    :D

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeDec 31st 2011
     

    Passion Pit – Sleepyhead

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      CommentAuthorPuppet
    • CommentTimeJan 2nd 2012 edited
     

    When done well I really like classical + electronic music. Some good examples are soundtracks from Mass Effect 2, Tron and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Check out Icarus by Michael McCann.

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    I have been positively binging on Les Mis. Especially Valjean’s release/ the prologue.
    “My name is Jean Valjean!”
    “And I’m Javert! Do not forget me!”

    I BROKE A WINDOW PAAAAAAAAANE.

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      CommentAuthorSoupnazi
    • CommentTimeJan 2nd 2012
     

    Puppet: I see your Icarus with an Icarus and raise you a Hydra.

    Yes I know those aren’t the electronic-theme, I just wanted to share.

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    Tomorrow is Today, Billy Joel

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    “Still Alive” by GLaDOS

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      CommentAuthorApep
    • CommentTimeJan 2nd 2012
     

    Well, technically it’s by Jonathan Coulton, but whatever.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeJan 3rd 2012
     

    Everything by She and Him.

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      CommentAuthorClibanarius
    • CommentTimeJan 3rd 2012 edited
     
    Turn The Page by Metallica and The Unforgiven.

    "NEW BLOOD BLOOD JOINS THIS EARTH, IT QUICKLY IS SUBDUED."
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      CommentAuthorInkblot
    • CommentTimeJan 4th 2012
     

    One Day by Matisyahu.

    I find myself strangely absorbed in this white guy who sounds Jamaican. I want to sound like that.

    Also, I’ve got to rep Emery while I’m here. They’re a very unique hardcore/screamo band that alternate between loud and soft, and it’s a pretty cool sound. Specifically “Scissors” and “Addicted to Bad Decisions”.

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      CommentAuthorInkblot
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2012
     

    Of Monsters and Men: Little Talks

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeJan 7th 2012
     

    Listening to some stuff by Hans Zimmer. Oh my gosh.

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    Listening to Acts 2. From the Bible. ‘Cause I don’t feel like reading it.

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeJan 8th 2012 edited
     

    Time – Hans Zimmer
    The beginning’s really low for some reason, but it’s all still wonderful.

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      CommentAuthorBeldam
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2012
     

    Livin’ la Vida Loca, Animals by Nickelback, Danse Macabre, What You For by Gwen Stephani, Love Stoned by Justin Timberlake…the wierdest damn mix of songs to ever play one after the other, some I haven’t listened to in years, some I’ve never even heard, but they all work wierdly well together. While making pancakes.

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeJan 12th 2012
     

    Oh wow, that’s clever. That must have taken ages.

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      CommentAuthorFalling
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2012
     

    Somebody That I Used To Know- Walk Off the Earth

    I’ve seen one guy play 2 guitars (Michael Angelo Batio), but I’ve never seen 5 people play the same guitar :)

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      CommentAuthorBlueMask
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2012
     

    impressed

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2012
     

    Armin Van Buuren ft Sharon Den Adel – In And Out Of Love

    • CommentAuthorWiseWillow
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2012
     

    We Found Love- Rihanna

    Dangit. I do not like Rihanna, and the lyrics make no sense… but this song is PRETTY and CATCHY.

    Similar comments re: Tonight, Enrique Iglesias, Tonight Tonight, Hot Chelle Rae, and California Gurls, Katy Perry.

    Also, Let’s Go To The Mall, Robin Sparkles. For this one, however, there is no shame.

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      CommentAuthorSoupnazi
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2012
     

    Oh, everyone likes Let’s Go To The Mall. It’s national law over in Canada.*

    *Actually no.

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    Osgiliath Invaded by Howard Shore

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    I’m jealous, you have The Complete Recordings.

    Swallow the Fear – Immolation

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2012
     

    High Contrast feat Tiesto & Underworld – The First Note Is Silent

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    I’m jealous, you have The Complete Recordings.

    Get them, they’re SO AWESOME.

    • CommentAuthorSen
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2012
     

    David Guetta ft Sia – Titanium. There’s a name that I really like that looks a lot like Sia, but is spelled and pronounced a little differently and would have probably been my username had I not opted for this one. And this is the first time that I liked something by David Guetta this much. Not bad.

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      CommentAuthorInkblot
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2012
     

    I’ve always appreciated the power of rap and the spoken word. For that reason I’ve always despised artists who use the medium to promote a self-obsessed, wasteful, hedonistic lifestyle. I just found this guy named Macklemore, a rapper from Seattle, who is …an honest man. I’m impressed.

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    bq. For that reason I’ve always despised artists who use the medium to promote a self-obsessed, wasteful, hedonistic lifestyle.

    Agreed, I don't mind those sorts of songs as long they're a warning/lament for what you lose when you live that sort of life. But what I really hate is when an artist tries to be profound/artsy/poignant/ when they're the exact opposite, to me it's pretentious and it means they're selling out and just trying to be a crowd pleaser.
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      CommentAuthorInkblot
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2012
     

    True. As far as I can tell, though, this guy is really being sincere, which means a lot to me.

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    bq. As far as I can tell, though, this guy is really being sincere, which means a lot to me.

    Me too, sincerity is rare enough that we should treasure every bit of it. (Just my 0.02)
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    Le Casse de le Rue Plumet, from the French version of Les Miserables.

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      CommentAuthorInkblot
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2012
     

    Iridescent – Linkin Park

    This is a really great I’m-sick-of-being-depressed song. Just saying.

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    Who Am I, Les Miserables. I just love singing along to this one.