snow patrol - You could be happy

Snow Patrol is an Irish rock band that formed in 1994. The intro of this song makes me cry.

Nellie McKay - David

Nellie McKay is an English-born American singer-songwriter. The reason I know about her is because one day I saw this comment a guy left on Jason Marz's song Lucky on youtube. That comment were accusing Jason Mraz for ripping off Nellie's song David, which is the song I am sharing today, for his song Lucky. I have to say I am a HUGE fan of Jason and I simply could not believe that he would steal things from others so I tend to think whole thing is just a coincident, however, I also could not deny that I do think both songs share lots of similarities. I am going to post both songs, and you can tell me if you think this is more like a coincident or a rip-off.

By the way, i really like the doctor who music video,LOL

Hooverphonic - Tomorrow

Hooverphonic, a Belgian trip hop group that formed in 1995. They are one of the earliest bands that their music style is categorized as Trip Hop, therefore it makes them become the one of the icons of trip hop music just like the other band Massive Attack. The song that I am introducing today, Tomorrow, is a song from their double-disks album (No)More Sweet Music in 2005. The interesting thing about this double-disks album is each disk contains a different version of a same list of songs, the first disk is grander, which uses more classical instruments, whereas the second one is darker and uses more computer generated sounds for the songs. The video that shown below is a live version of the grander version, enjoy~

PS, the vocalist in this video had left the band since 2008

Still Sia, Sia - Lentil

This album of her is just amazing, let me show you an other song in the album.

Sia - Academia

Sia Furler, aka Sia, is an Australian Singer-Songwriter. She has her own solo career but she is also a consist vocal provider for the famous UK downtempo music group Zero 7 . Its very hard to characterize Sia's music genre since it has a bit of everything (isn't it what the trend in music industry is right now) like jazz, trip hop, soul, rock...etc. The song I am introducing today, Academia, is from her forth solo album Some People Have real Problems, enjoy~

Duffy - Smoke Without Fire

Just watched An Education. When the movie ended this song started to play. I can't believe my ears and I was like "What? How come I've heard this song of Duffy!? This song is amazing!" Then I realize Duffy just recorded this song for the movie sound track, which is not surprising at all since the movie is made by BBC and Duffy is the new official diva of England now.

Duffy is an English singer-songwriter who was born in 1984. She is famous for having very fine black voice, which is what Amy Winehouse sort of famous for as well. The rise of Duffy was after the several embarrassments of Amy Winehouse caused in 2007, a year that Amy was really famous and fucked up. Therefore when Duffy appeared, there were lots of rumors about it was because UMG worried Amy would die every minutes so they wanted Duffy to take over her career. To be honest, I found it very unfair when people compare this two like that because their voice and music style has lots of fundamental differences. I like both of them and I would probably write a lot more about them later, so please stay tooned! now please turn anything that would make noise off and listen to his beautiful song.

Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me

Adam Lambert, an runner up of the 8th-season of American idol, the first openly gay American mainstream pop singer and the first guy who gives a gay kiss on the stage at a major American music award show. I finally have a chance to finish the whole album recently and I like it a lot. Honestly I don't listen to this kind of Rock n Roll music a lot but this guy really amazes me. The only song that I have heard before I listen to the whole album is For Your Entertainment, which sounds just like an other mass-produced pop songs, Therefore I didn't really have much expectation in the album. However, after listening to the whole album, Although the arrangements of the songs are somewhat generic, I found his voice so enchanting that makes me play those songs again and again. There is so much power in his voice and I just love it. I would love to see how long this power would last since most of the singers can only keep this kind of power in their first album, I will wait and see, Adam