POLL! And music

[bubbles83]

[Poll #930099]

And really guys, I have no idea what I should spend my itunes money on. Rec me some music. Please.

Comments

[smittywing.livejournal.com]

Samoas for the win, dude.

Okay, music I am down with:

1) The Wallflowers. You know, the "One Headlight" band? Led by Bob Dylan's son? "Red Letter Days" is my go-to John Sheppard album. Particularly This Song (http://download.yousendit.com/87BA0E35123842B6). (For sampling purposes, of cours. You don't want to buy music you don't like.)

2) Regina Spektor. I hated "On the Radio" when I first heard it, but it's grown on me and I loved "Fidelity" and most of her other songs straight off.

3) Sarah Harmer. She's a Canadian singer/songwriter who is kind of a cross between Sarah McLaughlin and Sheryl Crow. "You Were Here" (as an album) speaks to me most of all of them.

4) Alexa Ray Joel. Billy Joel's daughter has a sampler album out and it's only available on iTunes and at Target. It's only $5 at Target and $6 on iTunes (6 songs.) She sounds a little like a cross between her father and Regina Spektor (because of the piano.)

5) The "Cars" soundtrack if you like rock with a little country. Yes, the Pixar movie. I have unholy love for it. It's also the only one of the things on this list I don't have

Also, I have fits of occasionally needing everything, or specific somethings, from U2, Barenaked Ladies, DMB, or the Piano Man himself.

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

Samoas are the best ever!

Thanks for the recs. I haven't listened to The Wallflowers in forever. I'll give that song a try. And I love Sarah Harmer. I'll have to see what's there that I don't have.

[smittywing.livejournal.com]

Why are the Samoas not winning? Is it the Canadians? Is it the weird name-switch?

OMG, someone else loves Sarah Harmer! I only know of her because reccea did one of those, "this song reminds me of you" memes ages ago and I was like, "...Who?" so I had to go buy that song.

Also, if the Wallflowers thing doesn't download or something, erm...let me know, I'll try again. I threw it up in another post because I was all, Hey, 99 extra downloads, that's plenty, and then it occurred to me that there may be more people than that on my flist. Not that they all want it, but it was meant for you so I wanted to make sure you got it. :P

I was thinking in terms of albums and not individual songs, but if you think you'd want to go that way, I could probably pick out a few of my favorites.

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

I don't know why the Samoas aren't winning. It's very upsetting. They are clearly the best.

Someone on my flist (geekwriter143 maybe) posted a bunch of Sarah Harmer songs once, and I fell in love with her.

I got the Wallflowers dl, thanks. :)

Albums are good. I can always go to amazon.com to see if they have previews if I want so hear a single song. But if you wanted to pick your favorites, I wouldn't complain.

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

Actually, the bext thing to do is take two of the shortbread girlscoutn cookies and put a thin mint between them. That's some good stuff. ;)

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

YUM! I'll have to try that.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

Your icon FTW!

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

Having been born and raised in Canada, I've never had Girl Scout cookies before lol.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

We have Girl Scout cookies here. We just have plain chocolate and vanilla and the thin mint ones.

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

Really? Huh...

... Well, I live in a small town in Manitoba and I've never had Girl Scout cookies before lol.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

That's not fair. I mean, personally I don't think you're missing out on much, the plain ones are just that and while the thin mints are good you can get others in stores that are similiar.

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

OMG. That is tragic. I am sad for you.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

I said Thin Mint. But that's only because I only know Thin Mint. Up here we just have the regular chocolate/vanilla and Thin Mints and OMG. I want the fucking others. GIMME.

What sort of music do you like?

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

That is so sad. Samoas are caramely coconutty goodness.

I like pretty much everything. I don't listen to a whole lot of rap or country, but everything else is good.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

I want those cookies. I want them now.

Don't you hate it when someone asks you a simple question like, 'Name a song - any song.' And all you can think of is 'Uhm. Well. Erm. Farmer in the Dell?'

Manalive crawfishpie.

*checks list of music*

Crowded House
Darren Hayes
David Wilcox
Jim Croce
Joe Cocker
Roch Voisine

(if you want me to upload any - I can)

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

You should hop the border and hunt down some Girl Scouts and force them to give you some cookies. That's what I'd do.

Thanks for the recs. You don't need to upload any(unless you want to), I'll check them out.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

I'd need to swim across the ocean a bit for my hopping the border but hey, it might be worth it.

[lunarknightz.livejournal.com]

In my area, Samoas are called Caramel De-Lites (I actually did some research to find out why in the hell there's a different name, and the reason is here (http://andrewsinclair.org/archive/samoas_v_caramel_delites.htm). But still, how can a samoa be called anything but a samoa? I digress!

What sort of music do you like?

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

A samoa by any other name is just as delicious. But called the wrong name.

I like all kinds of music. And I'm always willing to try new things.

[perfect-oasis.livejournal.com]

I will also admit that I dun know which ones Samoas are. But! Thin Mints kick all sort of ass. It's weird -- I'm normally not all that much of a mint person, but Thin Mints? Alllllways. Mmmmmmm.

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

Samoas are the ring ones with the caramel and the coconut. They are very very good. I love the Thin Mints too though. They're really good after they've been in the freezer.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

Samoas? Meh. Thin Mints, always and forever!

And if that doesn't destroy your opinion of my taste in cookies or otherwise, I'm always happy to proselytize on behalf of the man in my icon, Ruben Blades. When it comes to his albums, the indisputable must-have is Siembra, and deservedly so, but I'll add a couple of my personal favorites -- Agua de Luna and La Rosa de los Vientos.

But since this is iTunes and you can get individual songs, here are some highlights from those albums:

"Pedro Navaja" (if Siembra is the must-have album, this is the ultimate must-have track from it)

"Isabel" and "Claro Oscuro" (from Agua de Luna)

"La Rosa de los Vientos" and "Eres Mi Cancion" (from, of course, La Rosa de los Vientos)