The Sound of Music to Our Ears

Since both of our jobs require us to be slaves to the computer screen, we both typically make good use of grooveshark.com. If you're not familiar with the site, we strongly suggest that you enlighten yourself. It's an online archive of just about every song known to man - and it's free. With grooveshark, you don't have to commit to actually buying a new album before you know if you're going to like it. You can just search the album and create a playlist with all of it's songs. In fact, it made this post on Kanye West's new album possible. So now that you know how we get our music, here's what we've each been listening to this week.


Mallory's Playlist

The Beatles were pro-Christmas

Now that Thanksgiving's no longer standing between me and Christmas, I feel fully justified in having an all Christmas-song playlist even though we're only two days into December. I guess I've outgrown Christmas carols and I get bored with the crooners singing the classics. The past couple of years I've found myself drawn to what the classic rock genre has to offer. 

• "Please Come Home For Christmas" The Eagles
• "Merry Christmas, Baby" Bruce Springsteen
• "Santa Baby" Madonna
• "The Little Drummer Boy" Bob Seger
• "Thank God it's Christmas" Queen
• "Wonderful Christmastime" Paul McCartney
• "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" John Lennon & Yoko Ono
• "Christmas All Over Again" Tom Petty

Thin Lizzy was pro-Leprechaun

Justin's Playlist

So my playlist is more just regular music, but with a couple of Christmas songs to boot.  If there are any that might be explicit I'll mark those in red.  You've actually probably already heard one of these songs recently in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. It's really a mix of old and new songs, but all are songs I'm listening to quite a bit at the moment.

• "Doggin' Around" Michael Jackson
• "Cowboy Song" Thin Lizzy
• "Dark Fantasy" Kanye West
• "Radioactive" Cee Lo Green
• "O Children" Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
• "I Pray on Christmas" Harry Connick Jr.
• "Oh Holy Night" Apocalyptica
• "Jailbreak" Thin Lizzy

We thought we'd also pass along this link to the top 10 best albums of the year according to KCRW the biggest radio station out of Los Angeles.

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