Monday, April 11, 2011: MC Solaar - A La Claire Fontaine

Sometimes, it's better if we don't try to understand things.

I mean, why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? I would like an explanation, actually. Or who, indeed, did write the book of love? And do they get royalties?

And it's these types of questions that, when you get started thinking about, just gets a person tied up in knots.

Mondays can be a drag at the best of times, so I want to encourage you to just turn off your worries, shut down your thinking caps for a couple of moments, and get into the flow.

So, I figured I would start us off this week with Claude M'Barali, AKA MC Solaar, a master of the flow. He was also born in Dakar, Senegal, raised outside Paris, and studied languages at the Jussieu university campus, and was a post-graduate in philosophy.

Trust me, let MC Solaar do all your mental heavy lifting this morning.

Happy Monday.

Enjoy

Sunday, April 10, 2011

No blogging on a Sunday.

See you Monday!

Saturday, April 9, 2011: Kaskade & Deadmau5 - Move For Me

Another night out. Another dance floor.

Friday, April 8, 2011: Snow Patrol - Run

To hell with Leona Lewis.

This is the real deal, the original, and still the best by miles and miles

It's Friday. It's been a long week.

Run.

Thursday, April 7, 2011: Yoko Ono - Yang Yang

Yes. CSOTD is featuring Yoko Ono today.

Because Yoko is cool.

I know, I know, haters gonna hate.

But I always feel the need [for speed?] to shake things up a bit.

CSOTD Bonus Edition: Rachel Sweet - Shadows Of The Night

Yes, THAT Shadows Of The Night. A full year before Pat Benatar's version was released (and won 1982's Grammy for Best Song), Akron, Ohio's own Rachel Sweet released this song, the opening track on and the third single from her "...And Then He Kissed Me" album.

This song is an original composition by D.L. Byron that Rachel gets a co-writing credit on.

It's blasphemy, I know, but I really like this a lot better than the bombastic, overblown, big 80's style of Benatar's version.

Listen for yourself, and I think you'll find the slight restraint in her voice and the overall production serve the song a lot better.

But, hey, that's just me and I might be wrong

Wednesday, April 6: Pat Benatar - We Belong

A children's choir is usually the death knell of a pop song.

Mike and the Mechanics' The Living Years, anyone? God in heaven, I would rather jump naked into a swimming pool filled with shards of broken glass than listen to that song.

Ok, I'll grant you Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, Part II, though the kids were more shouting than singing, to be honest.

You Can't Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones is another contender for survivable pop song with children's choir, though they did their bit in the beginning and got the hell out before they became really annoying.

Then there's the brilliant People Ain't No Good by The Cramps. But, honestly, who's ever heard of that?

Which leaves, really, only one decent song left.

Enjoy.