Well kids, it’s time for another bunch of YouTube links that I seem to regularly visit. I find that more and more I am using YouTube as a kind of mobile iTunes to listen to music when I’m away from my home computer, as well as to check out music that I may consider purchasing in the future.
The links that I’m sharing below represent a healthy smattering of what I’m listening to these days. Why should you care? Because maybe you might like some of this stuff too. And if that’s the case, perhaps you have better taste than you previously gave yourself credit for. Or perhaps I have worse taste than you previously gave ME credit for. Either way, why don’t you give some of these a listen, and see what grabs you?
While some of these links are actual music videos, many are simply still pictures or album covers that are just filling the visual space while the music plays. I chose these selections for the music, not the video, so keep that in mind.
This first one is a song I originally heard while I was on the plane on the way back to Qatar from Canada after Christmas this past year. Imogen Heap sang a song on the Narnia soundtrack that we used in our wedding ceremony, and since then I’ve been checking her out more and more. This song is my favourite track from her latest album:
This next song by The Waiting is 15 years old, but I only got a hold of this album recently. At least two friends of mine (maybe three?) toured with The Waiting doing lighting production back in the day, and even before that connection I was already a fan of their music and especially their lyrical talents. This song was stuck in my head for about 4 days straight after I listened to it recently:
I think I first heard E-Type on the radio in Canada when I was hanging out with a crowd of people from McMaster who were far more into the club and dance scene than I ever was. I’m very picky when it comes to liking Dance music, but if it’s catchy enough I can get into it. This song is not my favourite by E-Type, but right before Larissa and I went to Zambia last summer, this song was stuck in my brain constantly:
Yeah, another dance tune. This song is absolutely juvenile lyrically, and undoubtedly about sex, but man, the beat and especially the melody on the chorus must resonate with some particular chunk of my cerebral tissue, because I can crank this song and listen to it on constant repeat without getting tired of it. I’m guessing that the title “Tony The Beat” is based somehow in Cockney slang, but I’m not sure of the meaning. Can anyone enlighten me?
The first time I heard this next song by Lacuna Coil was when I was playing Rock Band at a buddy’s place here in Qatar. As soon as we were through the first chorus, I said to myself “Self, you need to find this song and listen to it again, because it is pretty much awesome.” I dig grindy guitar, melodic tunes, and female vocalists, and this song has a healthy blend of all three elements. My only complaint about this particular video is that the audio is a bit too quiet:
Back in our late teens, my friend Jed went through a phase when he used to walk around singing this song 24/7 (or at least the chorus). At the time I didn’t really care for it, but this past year I found it on YouTube, and I gotta admit, it’s one of the catchiest glam rock tunes in the history of teased hair and ripped denim:
It’s hard to keep up with the new North American TV shows when you’re in Qatar. However, I noticed on Facebook that a lot of my friends seemed to be getting excited about this Glee show, so I checked it out. This was the top YouTube song from the show, and after I listened to it I could hear why. An awesome rendition of a classic rock tune:
This song is almost 15 years old, and I know that I heard it back in the mid 90s when it first came out, but for some reason it completely disappeared from my head until recently, when I came across it as the background song to a video I was watching about a mall in Dubai. I love the energy in this song. The only thing I don’t like about this particular video is that it ends abruptly, but I haven’t found a comparable high-sound-quality version on YouTube yet:
Enon is a band that I’ve sampled very little of beyond their song Daughter in the House of Fools, which I came across a couple years ago through Relevant Magazine’s website. But one day YouTube suggested that I check out this other song of theirs called “Rubber Car”, probably because I had “Daughter” saved in one of my playlists. As I first listened to Rubber Car, I almost shut it off about 5 times before making it to the end, thinking that it was not for me. But then I found myself listening to it again. And again. And again. By the fifth listen, I liked it. Weird, eh? Guess it’s an acquired taste. Give it a listen or five and see if it happens for you too:
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