Songs of 2014 - top 5 most played

Songs of 2013

1. 10 days in Lisbon

2. Who I am and how I feel

3. The concert I've been waiting for 3 years finally happened

4.  Two hearts beat as one

5. Someone said this was the song of the year... And I agree

Top 5 on Friday - The best of 2012 (part 2)

Albums

New adds

A Trip to Forget Someone

The Heavy

Gossip

Uno Moller

Strobo

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This is totally personal, I don't pretend to understand about music. It's just a piece of my life last year.

Songs

1.(it's the last post for this song, I promise)


2. (for this one too, but it only proves my point)


3. (also a replay)


4. (free download  at Molho Negro)


5. (I know, but I can't help)

Concerts

Mark Lanegan Band - I had a dream about this concert and decided to go on the last minute. The best decision I've ever made. Something has changed inside me since then.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Also magical. When he played "Don't look back in anger" it was cathartic. I had never saw so many men holding beers and singing out loud like that. It felt a little bit like London, I guess.  

Lou Donaldson - There's nothing like a great jazz concert for free. And he's pure charisma!

Strobo - Some bands only show how good they really are on stage and this is one of them. They have a good record but live it's something else. Already a fan.

Ian McCulloch - The most "I-do-what-I-want" concert I have ever been. He talked a lot and laughed and asked what songs we wanted to hear and denied most of the asks... it was fun.

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Top 5 songs with "Black" in the title

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Top 5 songs you are thankful to have discovered this year

"Thankful" is a strong word. I'm having some happy surprises and trying "new" bands along this year but I can say I'm particularly happy about discovering The Afghan Whigs. I admit I didn't really know about them until recently. 

I even resisted them for a while because I've been a die-hard fan of Greg Dulli and The Twilight Singers for a couple of years and this AW reunion came right after my favorite TS album, which tour I will never see... 

I know everything is backwards here (isn't it always?) but c'est la vie

So I tried it, I liked it and these are the AW's songs I'm happy to have discovered this year:

1.

(can someone explain why they're not playing this fantastic song on this tour?)
(oh, and by far, the best video of them)

2.

3.

4. 

5. 

AW - I'm A Soldier from TwiKid on Vimeo.

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Top 5 songs from the first half of 2012

According to Last.fm, this top 5 should be filled only by Mark Lanegan and The Twilight Singers... but picking up only one song from each artist, it looks like this:

1.




2.




3.

4.(wooooooooooow not even I believe!)

(This horrible video must have been so expensive but it's such a good song for dancing.. and the "Pumped up kicks" video is soooooooooo much better..)


5.

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Top 5 concerts you wish you could attend this summer

1. The Afghan Whigs - I wish I have seen them in Barcelona or Porto...

2. Veto - I will someday, and I'm pretty sure it will be amazing!

3. Norah Jones - I loved the first time I saw her in concert and it would be lovely to hear the last record live.

4. Fiona Apple - I'm very curious about the new record

5. Pearl Jam - I even planned going to Scandinavia to see them this summer but it didn't happen :(

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Top 5 albums you plan on listening to this weekend

1. Little Broken Hearts - Norah Jones (I'm totally in love with this album)
2. Descartes Highlands - Paul Thomas Saunders
3. Blues Funeral - Mark Lanegan
4. Not your kind of people - Garbage
5. The King of limbs - Radiohead (This record has finally hit me)

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Top 5 Songs You Must Listen To On A Roadtrip

It's hard to define songs I must listen to because they depend on mood, company, time, place.. and they all carry memories from moments when/how all these elements were combined. I selected 5 that have such a powerful attachment to those moments they just resume the trips

1. Light Years - Pearl Jam

2. The Scientist - Coldplay

(My mom has a cd in her car we always listen to where these two songs come one right after the other. Every time the cd reaches this point we stop talking and just enjoy..)

3. Erase/Rewind - The Cardigans

(Between 2000 and 2003 I did some trips by bus around the country, usually traveling at night, and I've loved to listen this song while watching cities passing through my window)

4. A place called home - PJ Harvey

(Going to and coming from Campinas, the whole year of 2004. Always the same bus and highways)

5. Undisclosed Desires - Muse

(Every single day in 2009, while going to and coming from work. Like the routine I've had in Campinas but in a different city)

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Top 5 songs from the Disco Era

(Don't really know much about the Disco Era but these songs are wedding parties' classics)

1. Dancing queen - Abba

2. I will survive - Gloria Gaynor

3. YMCA - Village People

http://youtu.be/CS9OO0S5w2k

4. Night Fever - The Bee Gees

5. Good Times - Chic

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Top 5 artists/musicians you wish hadn't died young

(No rank here, just 5 great guys who should have lived longer... RIP)

Ian Curtis

John Lennon

Renato Russo

Marcelo Fromer

Cazuza

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Top 5 songs from your last year of school

I'm assuming we're talking about high school because English-born people use "school" to different levels of education, which can be very confusing. 
So the year was 1997 and it was a great year, when electronic and rock produced some amazing songs with the widest sort of combinations from each style. These ones were easy and fast to remember since they were overplayed by all kinds of media back then (radio and MTV I mean) and I ordered them with that in mind

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Top 5 songs from a musical

Note: I thought I was able to fulfill this task as it was, but almost every song I thought were from musicals are actually from films about music, according with IMDB.
So I gave up with the musicals and here is my 

Top 5 songs from movies (somehow) about music

  


1. Transmission, from "Control"





2. "When your mind is made up, from "Once"





3. Mr. Postman, from "Backbeat"




4. Treat her right, from "The Commitments"




5. Fever Dog, from "Almost Famous"

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Top 5 catchy choruses

British bands have a special talent for chorus, so here you have just a sample of their potential (you must know all these bands, right?) 

This Top 5 is an opportunity to remember some bands I've been neglecting lately. And after searching for theses videos, I hope Franz and Muse will bring something new soon. 

I must tell you the songs here were disposed only by a chronological order, not by preference. That would be very hard to do (I'm not even sure these are my favorites choruses from each one of them...)

1. "Let it be / let it be / let it be / let it be / whisper words of wisdom / let it be"




2. "Sooooo Sally can't wait / she knows is too late / she's walking on by / my soul slides away / 'But don't look back in anger' / I heard you say" 




3. "No you girls will never know / Oh no you girls will never know / no you girls will never know / how you make a boy feel"




4. "They will not force us / They will stop degrading us /They will not enslave us / We will be victorious" (I once use this chorus as a theme for a strike)



5. "This could be para para paradise / para para paradise / para para paradise..." (This on really steaks)

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Top 5 songs by Irish artists

1. The Cranberries - Ode to my family (best video about Ireland ever)

2. The Swell Season - High horses

3. Bell X1 - My first born for a song (I just rediscovered this song) 

4. Fionn Regan - Hunter's map

5. The Corrs - Toss the feathers (I love Irish traditional music)

PS: Yeah, no U2 today :)

PS2: I love St. Patrick

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Top 5 videos you like better than the song

There's tons of music videos I love but most of them mainly because of the songs. It's pretty hard to remember the ones I liked for the video itself. Here's some.


1. (This video always breaks my heart)




2. (It doesn't need introduction)




3. (Impossible not to like this one) 




4. (Anton is a genius)




5. (Usually I prefer Bjork videos than songs. This one is perfect.)

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Top 5 songs by your favorite "heartthrob"

I think no artist would like to be recognized as a "heartthrob". However if you must name one, my will definitely be Paul Banks. His mates from Interpol are not far behind him actually, I must say too :)

I wanna take this opportunity and not just put a picture of a hot guy but give a proper space for this band and singer I love, having a huge importance as soundtrack for my personal history.

1. The favorite song

2. The song you couldn't get out of your head for months

3. One from another place and another time (I miss you Carlos D.)

4. The very first song you loved

5. One from a solo album

And if you are still hoping for a picture:

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Top 5 ways to survive without your mp3 player

1. Radio stations are still very helpful - after years depending strictly on my own choice and command I've found again the pleasures of listen to the radio. I actually turn off my playlist every once and a while to get the news, old songs, new stuff, or just to miss what I like a little bit =)

2. "Have this CD player been here this whole time?" - This sentence is not really my case but I know people who totally forgot they have other piece of equipment besides the i-something. Since I still buy cds and am even considering spend some money I don't have on a vinyl player, you can see I have some backup

3. Youtube - also a good help with the advantage of finding official videos, old and live material of great bands. The problem is to keep stimulating people to take their cameras to concerts and filming the whole thing, a very unpleasant and frequent experience these days.. 

4. Singing out loud - so you don't have any source of energy to plug any kind of device? Just sing! Are you in public? Start really quiet and try the tunes everybody knows. Maybe you will get a smile or someone to follow and make the backing vocals.

5. Any random music channel on TV - to me this is the poorest option but sometimes the only one. Just breath and have fun.

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Top 5 TV shows with the best music

1. House - Just the fact they put "Teardrop" as theme is enough for me.

2. Friends - Today I don't like the show that much anymore, but they had some great songs on the episodes, sometimes too good for the scene / situation. Like when they put Interpol's "Untitled" for a moment between Rachel and Joey (here to watch) What a terrible use for a song...

3. Grey's Anatomy - I've got tired of the show but they have a great selection of music. 

4. X-Files - I can not remember one song played on any episode, but I remember I had some good surprises

5. Scrubs - I also had good surprises on Scrubs episodes. I think Zach Braff always manage to put the things he likes, The Shins and Coldplay for exemple, ever project he's in.