pick me up…

love this…make the road by walking…by the menahan street band

pretty wings…

i love this song…i do. it’s my favorite song right now.
i love the warmth in the instrumentation and how the bass kinda mumbles along. so glad maxwell is back…and hey, because i AM heartbreak…i like the tragic nature of the lyrics.

maxwell’s ‘pretty wings’

love this song…

stranger in moscow…

ledisi’s ‘upside down’

Upside Down
Turn it around around around
Upside down
Got to change

World, are listening
World, pay attention
Oh World, where is your heart?
World, love gave us this start again

I see(everybody looking for)everybody’s looking for (the answer that we open the door)the answer that will open the door
(The key to everlasting life) to obtain everlasting life
Too much pain inside

Chorus

Leaders with your hands out
There are children with empty mouths
Preachers tell us about the lies
So we can learn live right

I see(everybody looking for)everybody’s looking for (the answer that we open the door)the answer that will open the door
(The key to everlasting life) to obtain everlasting life
Too much pain inside

Chorus

Do something
We got to make it better
What about the babies
Save the World, Save the World

Turn it around around
Turn it upside down
We got to turn it around

note to self: don’t die (ryan adams)

I’m as blue
I’m as blue as the ocean is true, it’s just reflections of the sky
I’m as cold
I’m as cold as the stories you told but never sick enough to die
Note to self: don’t change for anyone
Note to self: don’t die
Note to self: don’t change for anyone
Don’t change, just lie
I’m as sick
I’m as crass as the things in your past, you wished that you could let them go
Caged birds
Caged animals starving for class
In your house when you’re alone
Note to self: don’t change for anyone
Note to self: don’t die
Note to self: don’t change for anyone
Don’t change, just lie
Who do you call when you’re alone
Nobody, baby
Who do you want to be, figure out and just let me know
Don’t change, don’t change, don’t change
Just let me go
Just let me go
Just let me go

(album rock n roll)

michael jackson lyrics

i think people forget the depth a lot of michael jackson lyrics held. not only could you dance to the music and [try to] imitate the moves…you could also appreciate the empathy or politics behind them.

If you can’t feed your baby
Then don’t have a baby
And don’t think maybe
If you can’t feed your baby
You’ll be always tryin’ to stop that child from cryin’
Hustlin’, stealin’, lyin’, now baby’s slowly dyin’

(from “wanna be startin’ something” thriller 1982)

Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I’m tired of bein’ the victim of shame
They’re throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can’t believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don’t wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin’
He wouldn’t let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

Some things in life they just don’t wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin’
He wouldn’t let this be

(from “they don’t care about us” HIStory 1995)

As I, turn up the collar on
my favorite winter coat
This wind is blowing my mind
I see the kids in the streets,
with not enough to eat
Who am I, to be blind
Pretending not to see their needs

(from “man in the mirror” bad 1987)

Tired of injustice
Tired of the schemes
Life is disgustin’
So what does it mean
Kicking me down
I got to get up
As jacked as it sounds
The whole system sucks

Peek in the shadow
Come into the light
You tell me I’m wrong
Then you better prove you’re right
You’re sellin’ out souls but
I care about mine
I’ve got to get stronger
And I won’t give up the fight

With such confusions
Don’t it make you wanna scream

(from “scream” HIStory 1995)

missing michael jackson today

one of my favorite of many dance sequences:

be the best you!

audio-pational habit

apparently there’s this whole 70s movement taking over in the realm of alternative rock which is mos def cool to me. i love music flavored harmonically and melodiously. i love far-reaching, daydreaming music twilight dances and running through daisies. anything that will take me back to when i was such a carefree little kid and the majority of what i had to figure out was what kind of candy i wanted or what kind of new shoes someone else was gonna buy for me. or how to make coloring books more vibrant or who to wake up at nap time. ahh…anyway…a not so new but no so old new group…70s sounding and ish.

the fleet foxes…with a place i wanna go, mykonos.

and while i’m at it…i’m on this post-racial rumbling amy winehouse trip. watched her live concert on the palladia channel. this chick’s funky as hell and i like her…i do. what a voice!! i know she was BIG for a while, stumbled (heck, we all stumble over onto something or other…the most important reason is to survive or be a better survivor) and i hope she’s doing better with whatever she was stumblin’ about on or over…i’m getting back into her music BIG-like.

mixtapes

i deliriously make more mixes than i get. and i give out less and less the older i get.

i did get a super special one…and i’d like to share it with you…and get the ‘maker’ back their review.
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here goes
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jill scott-come see me-besides being one of my most favorite sangers of all, i love this song. it’s supersexy and super jazzified…the horns remind me of an old al jarreau tune. i like how they glide.

usher-can you help me-tryna get his grown man on. a beautiful classic ballad. it’s nice. it’s smooth. it has just the right style to be so in the middle. it lets the lyrics breathe quite beautifully. i love it. i love the music. the piano. the imagery. his voice is perfect. the chorus is killer and makes the song swing.

mario-do right-i like the beat. it grabs me immediately. i also dig the bounce. mario is underrated to me. the hop in the beat yield to the nice “right, right, right.” very cool.

conya doss-the one-i found out about ohioan conya thru myspace. i love her more refined, restrained r&b sound. i love this. it’s real nice and chill. i think she’s underrated as well. she dope. the bass reminds me of an old isaac hayes joint.

jill scott-all i-awesome. so grown up, so jill. the bass slides so cool. a definite song for slow dancing. a most definite. this is so good it’s naughty. i love it. she got that fever.

robin thicke-sweetest love-robin thicke matures like wine. i love his voice and this song. robin thicke is r&b, to me…more than most out there. everything about this song is sugary sweet. it’s almost at times stevie to me.

janet jackson-can’t be good-this song could perfectly be a cool ambient groove by the beginning vocals and the drums. i love it. i’ve never heard this tune, i don’t think. i love how it unfurls, musically. when i hear this song, i think of love and hand holding walking central park during spring. it’s breezy and love solid. she sings, “can’t be good” but it is good. ah…therein lies the problem. the sweet problem.

floetry-lay down-floetry is always that group that takes it there…right there. they have this inherent gift. this song…no different. great romantic, sensual poetics…and that’s why i super-dig floetry.

force mds-tenderlove-awesome classic. awesome. awesome. awesome. i could listen to this song for 24 hours nonstop. this song reminds me both of a saturday night and a misty sunday morning.

john legend-i love, you love-a testament to the struggles of love, breaking forward to yet a newer love. i got this guitar part…u got the bass? love this. even better live. john’s voice is soooo beautiful right here. his vocals remind me of chris martin from coldplay and sorta…bob marley.

tamia-officially missing you-nice. nice. this song is perfectly crafted about some kind of distance. my favorite part is the “oooooh, can’t nobody do me like you.” is sweet and i love the guitar.

ennio morricone-barn-awesome. breathtaking and beautiful. this song makes me want to go on a vacation and open my window so that a soft breeze will blow through the drapes as i look out.

hope-who am i to say-nice, delicate song. it’s so soft and longing.

joan armatrading-willow-i like the attitude in the guitar play/vocals. what a voice! ok, i wanna learn the guitar part. i like the lyrics. they are unconventional, yet very…we are all looking for a willow.

maxwell-know these things-one of the most beautiful voices ever. i like the soft tension in this song. this so is gorgeous and yet he’s singing about such vulnerability.

702-you’ll never know-this is cool and soft. i like it. it’s very sweet and understated. it can easily get by you as average subject matter until you really tune in to the lyrics…they get me every time.

adele-best for last-reminds me of brett dennen. i clutch my heart at this new sound. really really digging this a lot. it’s so different and fun and i love her voice. this is awesome.

kem-say-this song is all kinds of luscious. i somehow feel it is me. moody, jazzy, yearning. he sings, “say you’ll never lose faith in me.” that’s what love is all about. i love the music…also.

oh justin part 2

and as for my unsatisfaction about justin timberlake and kid rock being the motown sings-people for ‘fashion rocks,’ here are a few of my suggestions for next year.

remy shand-can someone find this brother?
john legend-beautifully talented singer.
jon b-i love this cat.
maxwell-why would i need to explain?
chris cornel-nuff said.
d’angelo-why would i need to explain, again?
rahsaan patterson-april’s kiss (nuff said).
raheem devaughn-ill lyrical…vocal prowess.
paul wall-bangin screw…one dope single.
eminem-i’d much rather support while glowing thru an old aretha tune.
joss stone-her last album was ill.
robin thicke-one of my most favorite new artists.