2008: A Year In Review Music
Thursday, 4 December 2008
So... It's been a long year for me. Many ups and downs. Many highlights and lowlight and just lights. But the one constant in my life has been my music. Over the past year, but ipod grew by a massive 793 songs! That's quite a lot considering that to date, I only have 1391 songs on it. Which means that my ipod expanded by 57% since the 1st of January, 2008. Wow. Now, considering my year has been full of these ups and downs, it seems suitable that my songs should reflect certain moods, crazes, emotions etc. Here is an explanitory list of the songs which made my year the one it was.
My musical year started in a little town in Sardinia. With no other forms of amusement, my music became a god-like form. Music such as Maroon 5's album
It Won't be Soon Before Long which I'll come back to later and, of course, Michael Buble with his song
Lost which was a reminder of home. Whilst over there, I also became a fan of some Italian songs which have faithfully helped me with "Italian Study" ever since:
Niente Paura -- Luciano Ligabue
Non Siamo Soli -- Eros Ramazzotti & Ricki Martin
Dare to Live -- Laura Pausini & Andrea Bocelli
Dalle Pelle Al Cuore -- Antonello Venditti
Grande -- Paolo Meneguzzi
La Casa del Sole -- Pooh
Ti Voglio Bene -- Tiziano Ferro
Se Vuoi Andare Vai -- Vanilla Sky
L'immenso -- Negramaro
Sono Come Tu Mi Vuoi -- Irene Grandi
Io Canto -- Laura Pausini
L'amore -- Sonohra
Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore -- Sugarfree
Suicidio d'amore -- Gianna Nannini
A benefit of being in Italy is that I got to hear all these awesome European songs which hadn't found there way over to Australia yet. For example:
Picture Of You -- The Last Goodnight (Which I heard before everyone else!!)
Goodbye, Philadelphia -- Peter Cincotti
Falling Down -- Duran Duran
Karaoke Plays -- Maximo Park
Whilst I counted down the days until my return to Australia, one of the things I was most looking forward to on arrival home was my new The History Boys Soundtrack. Songs like
Blue Monday by New Order,
This Charming Man -- The Smiths and
Mustapha Dance -- The Clash still make me smile every time I listen to them.
My first phase of the year began on the 22nd of February when I enter a stage of massive appreciation for English Indie Bands. Memorable songs include:
Worst Case Scenario -- The Hoosiers
Charlotte -- Air Traffic
Australia -- The Shins
Wondering -- Dirty Pretty Things
Love it When You Call -- The Feeling
Local Boy -- The Rifles
The begining of March made me a fan of the Whitlams. Of course I had listened to their music before (they are a fantastic Aussie band after all!) such as
Blow Up The Pokies but it wasn't until their concert, me falling in love with Tim Freedman and getting his signature that I actually became a fan. Memorable songs from their concert for me included
You Sound Like Louis Burdett, No Aphrodisiac, You Gotta Love This City, Made Me Hard, Thank you (For loving me at my worst) and
Royal in the Afternoon.I then entered another phase, but i can't think of a word to umbrella this movement in my life. But my new songs included:
Hours In Between -- LANSDOWNE
Back Again -- Boy Kill Boy
The Pieces That Mattered -- The Panic Division
My next concert for the year was Maroon 5. Now, that was an experience! Their back-up artists were just as good too. I fell in love with the song
The Story by Brandi Carlisle and OneRepublic (whom I had heard their songs a little before and only at that moment realised that that was actually them!!). So the songs
Stop and Stare and
Apologize were also added to my ipod.
With the induction of Lloyd into our group at school, my English based songs grew with the Stereophonics'
Dakota and
Maybe Tomorrow and Enter Shikari's
Adieu. With some more influence from my friends, Stacey showed me the movie "Once" and since then I have loved the songs
Falling Slowly, The Hill and
When You're Mind's Made Up which are powerfully emotional songs.
School (more specifically Music class) also influenced my songs. I downloaded
The Right Time by The Corrs for our term one performance (It took quite a bit of convincing to get me to like this song form those deaded car trips from Kalgoorlie to Perth with their casset on REPEAT when I was younger-- the thoughts still haunt me to this day) and every possible version of
Eleanor Rigby (originally by the Beatles). Also on the note of school, Maths became a fantastic preparation for Australian Idol for Sam and I as we *tryed* to sing songs in maths such as
Naughty Girl by Mr G (we changed the lyrics to "A to G" in memory of the exercise we were working on),
Spiderman Theme Song sung by Michael Buble,
See You Again -- Miley Cyrus,
Black and Gold - Sam Sparro and
No Air -- Jordin Sparks. Note: some actions were included too.
Behold my next phase of music for 2008: pop. Yes, I know it's sad: but true. Songs I *hearted* included:
Are You With Me -- The Potbellez
Black and Gold - Sam Sparro
Disturbia -- Rihanna
Forever -- Chris Brown
I'm Yours -- Jason Mraz
Just Dance -- Lady GaGa
Shake It -- Metro Station
My next concert was Panic! At The Disco. Wow. Where to begin. This concert was AWESOME! I love these guys... thanks to Sam! Some of my favourite songs from their new album "Pretty. Odd." Good album. Very, VERY different from their first album, but still quite good. Some of my favourite songs include:
We're So Starving, Nine in the Afternoon, Mad as Rabbits and
That Green Gentleman (Things have changed for me). The back-up artists were also very good too. Cobra Starship was good and some popular songs they played included
Guilty Pleasures and
Smile For the Paparazzi.
A difficult period on my year changed the arrangement of the songs I listened to. When alone, each of the following songs are good. But when put together in a playlist, you can find a dynamic insight into how I really felt about things etc.
Better That We Break -- Maroon 5
Dakota -- Stereophonics
Falling Slowly -- Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
The Hill -- Marketa Irglova
Into the Fire -- Thirteen Senses
Iris -- The Goo Goo Dolls
Lost -- Michael Buble
Not Falling Apart -- Maroon 5
Why Does It Always Rain on Me -- Travis
Between all of my year, songs have come and songs have gone. Some lasting longer in my life than others. Such as
Coldplay's
Violet Hill and
Viva la Vida which Sam keeps asking me when I'm going to "get over them". And songs remind me of good times. Such as:
I Kissed a Girl -- Katy Perry (the song officially dedicated to Stacey and I)
Blow Up The Pokies -- The Whitlams (for inspiring a great and possibly my best impromptu Rostrum speech in my history)
The Phantom of the Opera -- Andrew Lloyd Webber (for a good time picking apart the musical with Sarah)
Gold Digger -- Kanye West (an unprovoked arguement from me to Woolgar -- I'm sorry, man lol)
Midnight Escape -- Larry Neek (GREAT concert band song! Sarah and I can play the whole thing *minus* our instruments!!)
You Give Love a Bad Name -- Bon Jovi (BARNEY'S GET PSYCHED MIX! You've gotta love 'How I Met Your Mother')
Spiderman Theme -- Michael Buble (Actions for "spider" and "man"are quite tireing after a while!!)
Many more songs have contributed to my year, but it would take me a whole extra year just to write about them all. So I hope this has been a comprehensive insight into my year.
Laterz! xx
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