The Rules: I reset the play counters for all the songs currently on my iTunes. Then at the end of every week, I check to see what the top five most played songs are. Whatever happens to be in this top five are then presented in order here from most played to least. If I have posted a particular song in the past, then I will bypass that song and post the next in line. If one artist dominates the list, then I will write about that artist in lieu of a Top Five list.
Well, President Obama made it past his first 100 days. Obama has been a pretty busy guy… I’m so glad his family FINALLY decided on what kind of dog to get. Man, that was weighing on my mind more than the current economic recession. I kinda miss hanging out with Obama (or “Obi-Ama Kenobi”, as I call him)… I kind of wish he would call me more, but I understand… he’s the PRESIDENT now, after all… no more time for playing Grand Theft Auto all day anymore. I miss those days… we’d sit around, driving and crashing our cars through Liberty City, doing insane jumps… good times.
Obama still has time to check out This Week’s Top 5 Most Played Songs From Swap’s iTunes, though… so let’s get on with it!
She’s Gone (live acoustic) – Hall & Oates
The duo Hall & Oates brings back so many memories for me. I can still remember fighting with my brother to see who would be Hall and who would be Oates… he always won, of course, because he’d go off complaining to my mom who would look at us and say, “What you to talking about?” Then my brother would make up some extravagant lie about how I tricked him into cheating on his history test and that’s why he should get to be Daryl Hall.
My mom bought it, of course, even though it didn’t really make any sense.
“She’s Gone” is off of their 1973 album, Abandoned Luncheonette, and is what Hall calls the best song the two ever wrote together. I must admit that it’s one of my favorites in their collection… primarily because of the awesome chorus that lets me sing falsetto.
She’s GOOOOOOOONE!
I LOVE belting that part out!!!!!
Anyhow, my brother always got to be Daryl Hall, but I got to be John Oates… the highest paid backup singer in the history of Rock. At least that’s what he called himself.
I played this live acoustic version of “She’s Gone” fourteen times this week… and sang every word of it.
Your Dig-It Download:
Download: She’s Gone (live acoustic MTV Unplugged)
The Promise – When in Rome
Sure, I’m an 80′s junkie. I’m proud of it, too.
And I’m even prouder to say that this song by When In Rome is the song that got me my girlfriend in high school. Melissa Marvins had no idea I liked her until the day I walked up and said those magical words:
Baby, If you need a friend, don’t look to a stranger. You know in the end, I’ll always be there. And when you’re in doubt, and when you’re in danger, take a look all around, and I’ll be there.
She was putty in my hands after that. PUTTY.
My friends were amazed at this… when I told them the secret, they tried it with the girls THEY liked… and it worked, too!
One of my buddies actually got to THIRD BASE by reciting the most powerful lines from the song: I gotta tell ya, I need to tell ya, I gotta tell ya, I gotta tell yaaaa
PUTTY IN OUR HANDS.
Go ahead… I know you want to try it.
I played “The Promise” twelve times this week.
Your Dig-It Download:
Download: The Promise
Lille (demo) Lisa Hannigan
I’ve written about Lisa Hannigan before… and I probably posted this same demo of “Lille” before… but I don’t care. I totally dig this song and it kept me company for most of the week. Hannigan’s soft, beautiful voice does wonders for me during long study sessions of stuff that my professor isn’t even going to test me on.
Man, that irritates me when that happens. I study the stuff that the professor suggests we focus on, and then when I see the test, NONE of it is there. ZILCH. I look at my classmates who, incidentally, have the same “WTF????” looks on their faces, and then bite the bullet and dive in.
The classic student “WTF?????” look doesn’t leave out collective faces until we get home and scream obscenities for about half an hour.
I know that this doesn’t have anything to do with Lisa Hannigan, but it DOES have everything to do with her song, “Lille.” And when I figure out what that is, I’ll tell you.
Until then, just be satisfied in knowing that I played this demo eleven times this week.
Your Dig-It Download:
Download: Lille (demo)
I See – Letters to Cleo
Back in the 90′s when I rocked out with a swell cover band called The Federales, the drummer suggested that we do our own version of “I See” by Letters to Cleo. I wasn’t familiar with it at the time, so he played it for me…
WOW I dug it, especially the chorus. I begged him to make me a copy of the album (he made me an audio tape of it… AUDIO TAPE) and I went home a happy boy.
Turns out we never did cover the song… instead, we chose to go the death metal route and covered the entire Torsofuck catalog.
True story.
Man, you should have heard us… we nailed every note off of Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy. F**KIN’ NAILED IT.
Your Dig-It Download:
Download: I See
Arms Wide Open (Creed cover) – Foo Fighters
Speaking of covers, here’s one of Creed‘s “Arms Wide Open” as done by The Foo Fighters.
David Grohl’s spot-on impression of Scott Stapp is quite impressive… he correctly duplicates all of Stapp’s vocal characteristics… take a listen and be wow-ed.
I’m totally kidding.
This hilarious performance was recorded somewhere, sometime ago. I don’t have any details about this other than it’s frikkin’ funny.
Hey, I needed a study break at some point. These little nuggets keep me laughing… they remind me that if I had millions of dollars, I’d do funny stuff like this, too.
Man, I wish I had a million dollars.
Your Dig-It Download:
Download: Arms Wide Open (Creed cover)
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David Grohl doing Creed, now that’s funny!!
She’s Gone… oh I, oh I, that will be stuck in my head for a while. I’d love to see the Lee Brother’s version!
Nice write up about Lisa, er wait, about troubles at school.
The Promise is AWESOME. I heart the 80′s.
And number 5 made me smile :)
ah yes, still remember being sweat upon by Daryl Hall in 1980 I think. It was so not appealing.
(P.S. first row of gen. adm. concert squashed against the stage, what didja think? LOL)
Great acoustic version.