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Playlist: Jen’s 30th birthday

A couple of months ago, my friend Jen turned 30 and I made a mix CD for her. When a bunch of us was over at her house for an early Thanksgiving dinner, she had the CD playing and casually reminded me that I haven’t written up any liner notes for her yet. Ooops.

So a couple of months late, but what better way for her to receive the playlist by broadcasting it over the Internet for everyone to read, right? As a bonus, if you’re one of the seven people out there using Yahoo! Music Unlimited with Yahoo! Music Jukebox, I linked the songs that are available.

Yahoo! Music Playlist: Jen’s 30th Birfday

1. SUMMER GODDESS - Soil and Pimp Sessions
2. This Time (I’m Gonna Try It My Way) - DJ Shadow
3. I Don’t Know Why (I Love You) - Brand New Heavies
4. Crazy - Ray Lamontagne
5. Sow Into You (Gilles Peterson Live) - Roisin Murphy
6. New Years - Asobi Seksu
7. Ta Douleur - Camille
8. Mushaboom - Feist
9. I’d Rather Dance With You - Kings of Convenience
10. Speeding Cars - Imogen Heap
11. Wouldn’t It Be Good (Acoustic Version) - Nik Kershaw
12. I Apologize - Krezip
13. LDN - Lily Allen
14. Behind These Hazel Eyes (VH1 Acoustic Version) - Kelly Clarkson
15. Move Along - All-American Rejects

And some thoughts…

• Once upon a time, I had a DJ boyfriend that would hook me up with new music. I obviously don’t have that anymore, so I’ve been relying on music blogs: Arjan Writes, Aurgasm, Hype Machine. That’s how I found a lot of remixes and covers.
• I like Gilles Peterson more than I admit; Track #1 is a Japanese jazz band that played on his BBC Radio Show. Track #5 actually comes from one of his CD’s. I have this thing for classic sounding R&B/Soul music, vocals, overall general smoothness. Considering I listened to jungle music and rave music six years ago… well, music tastes change over time, I suppose. At least I’m not listening to Dave Koz. Yet.
• The one major exception to this is Asobi Seksu, which I found while going to my friends MySpace page and having the MP3 play automatically. I HATE the fact that MySpace has music set to automatically play. Except in the cases where the music rocks.
• Don’t hate on the Kelly Clarkson. The acoustic version of Behind These Hazel Eyes is really good.
• To get the links to the songs on Yahoo! Music Unlimited, I use SongBlogger, which is a JavaScript based web-plugin for Yahoo! Music Jukebox that I wrote. This will amaze some people, who might not be 100% convinced that I actually am a programmer by trade, but just say I am so I can make fun of nerds during my off-hours. (That being said, I’m also open to suggestions, as I’ve been noticing some people actually use the plug-in, to my shock and horror.)

I *love* me some Kelly Clarkson. The woman can SING. And she’s got some damn catchy tunes on her latest album.

I will scratch the eyes out of anyone who hates on Kelly Clarkson.

There are people who hate Kelly Clarkson?

I loooove Feist.

Here’s a crazy fact.. I actually lived in the village just beside the village of Mushaboom for a year (it’s on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada).

What? No Jolin? Shame! Everyone knows that 舞孃 “Wu Nian” aka Dancing Diva rocks.