Music mix

[cimorene]

This is kind of a seasonal playlist - my top picks for the past month or so. I always have a seasonal playlist at any given time, but I usually don't like them as much as this, and I even went to a lot of trouble to decide on a track order and everything this time, so I wanted to upload it to excuse part of that labour.

Late spring playlist 2007 [zip, mp3s and m4as, 182mb]

1. May - Sayonara no hizashi. Japanese. Pop-rock, retro. Mellow.


2. Utada Hikaru - Flavor of Life. Japanese. Pop-r&b. Upbeat ballad.


3. The Academy Is... - We've Got A Big Mess On Our Hands. Pop-rock. Catchy and quick.


4. Paperboys - Fall Down With You. Canadian indie Celtic-folk-country-bluegrass-rock. Mellow.


5. Indica - Ikuinen virta. Finnish. Pop-rock. Upbeat, catchy.


6. Tatu - Friend or Foe (album version). Pop. Upbeat and kind of... euro/dance music.


7. Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me. Pop-punk-rock. Very catchy.


8. Panic! At The Disco - But It's Better If You Do. Pop-rock with various retro swing and honky-tonk influences ("Punk cabaret" is their own term). Swingy and catchy.


9. Snow - Bleach. Japanese. Pop-rock. Wistful but forceful and insistently catchy.


10. Lee Hyori - Toc Toc Toc. Korean. R&B. Catchy and kind of, uh, sweaty.


11. Bloc Party - Blue Light. Rock. Simultaneously mellow and upbeat. 


12. PMMP - Taiteilia. Finnish. Pop-punk-rock. Loud and forceful and dancey.


13. Kokia - Someday when you love someone (anthem version). Japanese. Pop... I guess? This is a slow, slightly eerie, sweet ballad, gentle and wistful. Beautiful.


14. Ladytron - Another Breakfast With You. Electronica. Mellow, insofar as danceable electronica can be.


15. Utada Hikaru - Blue. Japanese. Pop-r&b. An upbeat ballad, with piano.


16. Zen Café - Piha ilman sadettajaa. Finnish. Pop-rock. Catchy. This song has been stuck in my head for weeks.


17. Gym Class Heroes featuring Patrick Stump - Cupid's Chokehold. Hip-hop, but melodic, with these really catchy bits of melody. 


18. The Killers - This River Is Wild. Rock. My favourite track from the album - kind of haunting.


19. Sarah Slean - When Another Midnight. Indie piano-driven Canadian folk rock. This is a fast, slightly sinister-sounding track.


20. Kokia - Moonlight Shadow. Rock. A simple cover with a lot of voice.


21. Bennie K - Moonchild. Japanese. Hip-pop. Sweet, infectious Caribbean-, Spanish-, and Latin-influenced female duo who combine rap and singing.


22. Autumn's Grey Solace - The Unshakable Demon. Eerie, kind of haunting, trancey music. The real name of the genre is apparently "ethereal shoegazer". Huh. 


23. Jorane - dit-elle. French. Classical-influenced, also rather eerie, voice and cello. Catchy, though.


24. Sugar Soul featuring Kenji - Garden. Japanese. Hip-hop. Kind of slow and mellow, but pretty and catchy. The more I listen, the more I like it.


25. Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down. Pop-punk-rock. Still incredibly catchy.


26. Bright Eyes - Take It Easy (Love Nothing). Typical Bright Eyes - insistent beat, angsty whiny singing, sort of awesome and hilarious.


27. The Academy Is... - Slow Down. Pop-rock. A song with a funny balance between slow and fast, driving catchy sections. Also has been stuck in my head for weeks.


28. Beyoncé featuring Shakira - Beautiful Liar. Pop. Tons of beat, oddly unmelodic, but catchy - typical Beyoncé.


29. Utada Hikaru - Uso Mitai Na I Love You. Japanese. Pop-r&b. Driving and insistent, mournful (fast) pop ballad. Minor key! My favourite song by her.


30. Snow - sign. Japanese. Pop-rock. Slightly funky, with a plinky little piano hook going through the entire thing. Catchy.


31. Arashi - Itsumademo. Japanese. Pop. Upbeat, cheesy, silly, catchy, sweet.


32. Kent - Mannen i den vita hatten (16 år senare). Swedish. Rock. Mournful and wistful and slow with a very long crescendo. Incredibly evocative. One of my favourite songs.


33. Bonus track! Utada Hikaru - Flavor of Life -Antidote Mix-. A remix of the second track.

This playlist is slightly less than half in English (8 Japanese, 3 Finnish, 1 each Korean, French and Swedish), so I also uploaded just the English tracks.

Comments

[norah.livejournal.com]

Downloading the English stuff, thanks! The baby and I can always use more music to dance to.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. I remember my mom dancing with me when I was a baby, suddenly. ♥

[ida-pea.livejournal.com]

This looks like a neat-o playlist; I'm going to download it. Thanks!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

ooh, looks great! am downloading! <3

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

hey, this is a really terrific playlist!! i listened to it on my walk to and from work today and i was totally loving it. thanks!!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I am ridiculously pleased that you liked it!

[axiom_of_stripe]

i downloaded this when you put it up but didn't get around to burning and listening to it until just a few days ago. wow! this is a wonderful mix. thank you. :)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for coming back to comment! I'm so delighted you liked it!