Happy First of May everyone!! It’s the beginning of the season .. what season, you ask? Listen and find out!

Alex Winston - “Sister Wife”

This is in response to Sarah (BrooceWayne) calling One Direction “Brother husbands”

Josh Osho - “Jesus Walks” (Kanye West cover)

Josh Osho is about to blow up. How does this video not have more views?

Song of the Day: tUnE-yArDs - “Powa”

Joel Mikkelsen - “payphone-bass”

I’m in love with a girl and she’s beautiful
Helen of Troy, I’m just a poor boy
I’m in love with a girl and she’s miles beyond me
But I’m still holding out hope

You said “Joel, I am so happy for you,
She sounds like just what you need.
I wonder when I’ll get the chance to meet her.
What’s her name?”

I said “Baby, don’t ask questions,
Unless you really want to know the answers.
Because if you do
I’ll tell you
I’m talking to her right now”

So in college I had this amazing friend named Joel. Everyone loved him. He occasionally could be found playing music in his room or at events on campus. At the end of freshman year Joel, who is Mormon, decided to go on his Mormon mission trip to Mexico.

At the end of saying goodbye I asked Joel if he had any music of his I could listen to when he was gone. He burnt me an MP3 CD with about 100 songs on it. It is kind of amazing how many of these are original songs and how many of them I really enjoy. This is one of the songs.

Yes, Joel returned two years later, but I was in California that fall, and I graduated that spring and moved away. I haven’t talked to him in a bit now but I still listen to his music and hope he is still playing somewhere. I did find his blog though…

Jamiroquai - “Spend a Lifetime”

Touch me in the night time
All I want from you is love
And I know you can give such sweet moments
To last me so long
Cos, you make me feel so strong
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Make it happen
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Oh girl
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Cos you make me that good
And nothing else matters
Until you’re in my arms, girl
And all those broken promises we made to each other
We have so much more to give
I know that we can do this
That’s how I want to live
Eternally, together
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
All I want to do is spend a lifetime with you, Baby
Will you make it happen for us now
Please this time
You know I need your touch honey
I want your touch honey
Like the morning sun has just begun
Girl, like the rain on my window pane
Girl, if I could make you stay
More than one day
Eternally together
Oh girl I need your touch
Oh girl I want your loving
Sweet, you know that we can make it happen
For you and for me to be
And eternally together we will be

Flynt Flossy - Cavities (Feat. Pretty Raheem & Whatchyamacallit)

Jump, Little Children - “Opium”

In honor of studying opiates for Pharmacology…

You don’t know me but I’m famous
You might even like me given a chance
I’m nervous and I’m shaking
I’m toasted and I’m still baking
From this drug that gives this evening such romance

“Do you smoke opium?” he said
Aas we walked into the early morning gray
With my hand upon his sleeve
Before I took my leave
I said “no and now I’ll be on my way.”

And I’m thinking about a woman
Who I would put no one above
I’m not looking to replace her
Just need someone to love

Amos Lee - “Night Train”

John Statz - Old Old Fashioned (Frightened Rabbit cover)

Chamberlain - “Lost in the World” (Kanye West cover)

1. Matt Ryd - Single Ladies (Beyonce cover)
2. The Beatles - Mother Nature’s Son
3. Ben Folds - Bastard
4. The Incomparable Shakespeare - 4.0
5. Jet - Bring It on Back
6. Musiq Soulchild - Momentinlife (Feat. Cee-Lo Green & Kindred the Family Soul)
7. Mates of State - Quit Doin’ It
8. Cody Chestnutt - Boylife in America
9. North Jordan - The Road
10. Noisettes - When You Were Young (The Killers cover)
11. Springbok Nude Girls - Stay (with Chamber Choir)
12. Nappy Roots - One Forty
13. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
14. Phantom Planet - Dropped
15. The Darkness - Friday Night
16. Jay Brannan - Beautifully
17. Sleeping at Last - Umbrellas
18. Samuel E. Wright - Under the Sea
19. Jason Mraz - Who Needs Shelter
20. Joss Stone - Dirty Man
21. Dashboard Confessional - Rooftops and Invitations
22. Blur - Country House
23. OutKast - Roses
24. Jack Johnson - The News
25. Childish Gambino - I’m Goin In (Bambini Remix)

Notes:

• The Beatles (3), Mates of State (2), and Barenaked Ladies (2) all came up multiple times but were only listed once
• North Jordan was a band my friends were in before they dispersed for college
• Samuel E. Wright was the singing voice of Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
• 20% of my iTunes is rap and 16% of this list is rap. It would have only been 8% if I used artists multiple times
• Of the top 10 most played artists from the past 3 months, according to my Last.fm, the following are not represented: KanYe West, Gorillaz, Das Racist, Girl Talk, & The Notorious B.I.G.
• Of the top 10 most played artists from the past 6 months, according to my Last.fm, the following are not represented: KanYe West, CunninLynguists, Das Racist, Gorillaz, & Mos Def
• Of the top 10 most played artists from the past 12 months, according to my Last.fm, the following are not represented: KanYe West, Gorillaz, Wale, M.I.A., & KiD CuDi
• Of the top 10 most played artists overall (since 2005), according to my Last.fm, the following are not represented: Stars, Gorillaz, Girl Talk, Third Eye Blind, KanYe West

(Source: bunnyring)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “Love Letter”

I hold this letter in my hand
A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
I kiss the cold, white envelope
I press my lips against her name
Two hundred words. We live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain
Love Letter Love Letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love Letter
Go tell her Go tell her
A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way
Love Letter Love letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love letter
Go tell her Go tell her
Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who’ll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
I’m going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in
The rain with a letter and a prayer
Whispered on the wind
Come back to me
Come back to me
O baby please come back to me.

donotcallmeashley replied to your audio post: BASTILLE - What Would You Do? (City High cover) I…

is this the same band that did Flaws?! I’ve been trying to find more information on them and I haven’t been able to!

Yeah same band .. here is their soundcloud

BASTILLE - What Would You Do? (City High cover)

I am a sucker for a cover that completely redefines the song’s original genre. This is just awesome.