I know I said I was feeling good about this whole podcasting thing before, but after seeing everyone’s reaction, I am really feeling good about it now. Big shout out to everyone who downloaded and subscribed to the podcast. I really want to make it a constant feature. Continue reading →
How did this happen?! I’m nowhere near done with my shopping, I’m not ready for all the family festivities and worse of all, I didn’t do my “Is It Too Early For Christmas?” Christmas songs series. I guess I have some catching up do to.
Jason Mraz ft. Tristan Prettyman – All I Want For Christmas Is Us: This is one of my favorite acoustic boy-girl Christmas songs ever. Actually, this is my favorite acoustic boy-girl song period. Tristan’s and Jason’s voices are perfect Christmas song voices in a non-Tony Bennett way.
Coldplay – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas: Holla at KROQ for bringing this soon-to-be classic Coldplay rarity. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is one of my favorite Christmas songs ever, though I’m pretty sure “Jingle Bell Rock” takes the crown. Anyway, Chris Martin did good on this one. I sort of wish Prospekt’s March was a Christmas album now.
The Killers – Don’t Shoot Me Santa: This song certainly made my Christmas last year. Classic Killers song. Classic weird Christmas song.
Sufjan Stevens – Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day?: I wasn’t planning on writing about this one at all, actually. But I was shuffling through my Sufjan stuff on iTunes and “Did I Make You Cry…” popped up. I’m glad fate reminded me of this gem. Sort of embarrassing to admit, but I’ve found this song to be quite useful during Christmastime fights.
Death Cab For Cutie – Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home): I love whenever a band does a Christmas song to sound like something they would actually do. “Baby, Please Come Home” features traditional Death Cab keys, guitars and, of course, Gibbard’s angel-voice.
Now and then I like to mix up how I run things ’round here, Pretty Much Amazing. If you’ve been here for a few months, you may have caught the blog in a phase where I liked to mash one day’s worth of posts into one, extra-large post. I want to give that another crack.
Why? I guess you can say I’m not a huge fan of the monotonous life. This blog started out as a fun hobby, I’ll be damned before I let my hobby become monotonous.
Enough ranting, let jump into the music. I have some great mp3s for everyone including The Roots doing Weezy’s “A Milli”, Three (3) New WALE songs, and a KILLER Kanye West remix. Yeah, I bet you really wanna click that link down there, huh?
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I’ve always been interested in the music charts — I keep tabs on the happenings of America’s music charts via Idolator’s fantastic column, 100 and Single written by chart guru Chris Monalphy. But much more interesting is the Global Track Chart, which monitors the top songs in the world.
This week at the GTC, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl” takes the No. 1 spot for the 7th week running. As it turns out, Katy Perry’s bi-curious summer jam caught on late in Europe and Australia. Though “I Kissed A Girl” has dropped off to No. 31 in the US’ Top 100 singles chart (though her new single “Hot ‘N Cold” is currently sitting at No. 6 — expect that to chart worldwide in 2-3 months). The rest of the chart seems pretty straightforward: Rihanna, no surprises here, P!nk, Coldplay, T.I., Kanye West, Pussycat Dolls. The only thing I’d like to mention is Kid Rock’s appearance in the Global chart. In the US, Kid Rock’s radio-friendly “All Summer Long” wasn’t released on iTunes guaranteeing (and limiting) its charting position into the lower 30’s-40’s. However, in Europe, the single has been made available digitally.
With Katy Perry’s washed up single at No. 1 and Kid Rock’s anti-charting song in the Top 10, it’s clear that America’s music chart isn’t as dominating as I thought it was. Talk about reality check.
