Kath Leomo
24 June 2009 @ 08:46 am
DISCLAIMER: I am a total sap. Which explains a lot of the reasons why these songs are here. The thing is that my emotions dictate why I will like a song. A song becomes my favorite if it elicits a good emotion from me.

Getting on with the program. The 100 songs meme is one started by Baddie, right here, and is said to be the songs you would want your future children to listen to. Friends who are also doing this meme are here, here and here. Drop by their pages for their ongoing count, as well. The entirety of my list here: the 100 songs meme.

From some of my favorite male bands in the planet. Here we go:

31. The Shins - Kissing the Lipless
I remember being in an island paradise earlier this year and swinging in a hammock listening to this song--LSS-ing to this song. I did not want to do anything that afternoon unless after I satiate my need to listen to this song right here.

You've got too much to wear On your sleeves It has too much to do with me (very definitive of my "love life" or lack thereof)

32. The Postal Service - Nothing Better
A little side story: I have this thing for words. This year, I decided to go out on a date with this guy on the account that he used "I gather that" in a conversation. Words, they affect me!

Your heart won't heal right If you keep tearing out the sutures

one: the imagery of sutures appeal to me, two: its use is just very appropriate. One also has to consider the fact that this is a song, a conversation, between a couple (Jenny Lewis and Ben Gibbard in vocals, ftw!) They do not make songs like these anymore. Duets are <3

33. Death Cab for Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed
Death Cab for Cutie makes some of the most lyrically exact songs. Exact in the sense that they could be any one's story. The 1min+ intro makes me want to tap my chest and grip it. Listen to the lyrics. There is a part of me fearful that maybe someday I will end up with this story. Painful as it is, I think most of us are condemned to this.

You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be


Side note: the words "Break Away from the Concrete" (if you wanna leave a comment on this blog) and "Landlocked Lovers" (for those who have left a comment) are from this song.

34. Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
This song will play in my wedding, assuming of course I will feel like getting married.

35. Pinback - Fortress
One of my favorite words: Fortress, because I have been told I wear a lot of them.

36. The Magic Numbers - Take A Chance
(Sorry not the full version)
The Magic Numbers may not always make the most cohesive and lyrically brilliant songs, but they sure make the most catchy tunes. This one makes me want to take of my shoes and dance.

37. Bloc Party - I Still Remember
Two of my favorite Bloc Party songs are in one album, FTW! I think of this song to be the background music to Seven Years Later, Driving Home, a poem by Justine Camacho.

38. The Decemberists - Oceanside
This song makes me blush. The sexual innuendo is controlled and very orgasmic. Sexual banter in sexy, sexy form.

If I could only get you ocean side/To lay your muscles wide/It'd be heavenly.

39. Wilco - I am Trying to Break Your Heart
For a while, this has been my twitter profile. Because I am like this. Because I subscribe to love the way this song describes it to be. I will not say anything anymore at the risk of giving out too much about myself.

40. Muse - Starlight
I named my camera after this song. Starlight is just so catchy, that if it gets played on shuffle more often than not you will not hit the next/skip button. The first few second just kills. The clapping and the tapping is just very infectious.
 
 
The Night Starts Here: OSI - 134
The Very Thing: productive
Celebration Guns: Wilco - Cars Can't Escape
 
 
Kath Leomo
18 June 2009 @ 09:22 am
Getting on with the program. The 100 songs meme is one started by this guy right here, and is said to be the songs you would want your future children to listen to. Friends who are also doing this meme are here, here and here. Drop by their pages for their ongoing count, as well.

Considering that the last list was a bit too diverse and unorganized, the next few ones will have a little more order in them.

I am not a huge fan of solo female acts. While they may make intense and great music, I just cherry-pick some of the songs that I like from their albums and in they go to my iPod. Here we go, female vocals.

21. Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Believe it when they tell you that Joni Mitchell never lies. Her lyrics are honest confessions of what one refuses to say but strongly feels. Every single one of her songs are gripping with truth and accuracy one could only be shocked with the recognition. Help Me is one of her lighthearted love songs. One of her less somber ones.

Im in trouble
cause youre a rambler and a gambler
And a sweet-taiking-ladies man
And you love your lovin
But not like you love your freedom

Can anyone honestly tell me they have never been in this part of their life?

22. Lisa Hannigan - I Don't Know
My soulmate song. This is the song I will sing to my potential soulmate at the hopes that we will know each other better. If you are reading this and you think you might stand a chance, rate here. The song makes me want to bop my head and skip the Ortigas streets all smiling.

I assume that your heart's been bruised I know I'd like to know you you don't know if I can draw at all or what records I am into if I sleep like a spoon or rarely at all or maybe you would do? maybe you would do.

I like how the song is very inviting and simple.

23. Meiko - Boys with Girlfriends
Story of my life. I know better than to be friends with boys with girlfriends.

24. Feist - Limit to Your Love
Limit To Your Love is just so sexy and graceful. It makes me want to sprawl on the bed and try to reach both ends with my body. Better with a lover underneath. I remember drinking in Mogwai with A and this was blaring in the background. It was very heart-wrenching.

25. Regina Spektor - Consequence of Sounds
(sorry not the full song. Couldn't find it online)
Regina Spektor, along with Meiko and Feist, is one of the few female artists I can listen to a lot of their songs to. I like how weird and quirky and unapologetic ReSpekt is. She is one of the most brilliant-lyrically and everything else about music-musicians I have ever listened to.

Consequence of Sounds sounds more like ReSpekt rapping, however, I like her play with words and that piano. sigh

26. Emiliana Torrini - Sunny Road
This song feels like a dusty Sunday afternoon, the good kind. I like how her voice sounds so husky and sincere. I like the guitars and the very soft vocals.

27. Heather Nova - London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)
(I only found the acoustic version)
While Heather Nova sounds a little too needy, I still adore this song. I think of Baguio when I hear this song.

And when somebody knows you well
Well, there's no comfort like that
And when somebody needs you
Well, there's no drug like that


Baguio <3

28. Aimee Mann - High on Sunday 51
A monkey knows how you'll react
Creating want by holding back
Some reverse pyromaniac


Baby please let me begin
Let me be your heroine
Hate the sinner but love the sin
Let me be your heroine


This song is just so, so sexy and sad and desperate. I feel like undressing to this song and all its neediness. Let me be your heroine I imagine sitting at the corner of a bed and smoking while naked and listening to this song. Only your collarbones are showing while you are under the sheets, your hair messy from being in bed while dreaming of your lover.

29. Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go
Stalker song and I adore it. I imagine having the biggest crush on this boy, and this is my song to him. swoon. I can not seem to come up with a good description to help you understand how this song makes me all happy and smiling and giggly.

30. Kat Flint - Anticlimax
This song is just so catchy, the guitar, the clapping in the background and her folksy, folksy voice is just perfect.

As stories go, I don't know
I could be your happy ending
I'm a long shot at the best of times
But then you never know, stay and see
How you might be waiting for me
And stranger things have happened and see


This could be like the disclaimer song. I could wear a sign in my head that might say: I could be the anticlimax of your life.

The links are clickable so you can listen to them and cherry-pick the ones you might like as well. Listen to the ongoing playlist via Blip.FM
 
 
Celebration Guns: Kat Flint - Anticlimax
 
 
Kath Leomo
15 June 2009 @ 07:49 am
For some of you who had just tuned in the program, the 100 songs meme is one started by this guy right here, and is said to be the songs you would want your future children to listen to. Working on the assumption, that I want any future children of my own, here is the list of songs for my very wonderful awesome children should listen to. In continuing with what has been started, songs 11-20. Here we go:

11. Muse - Sing for Absolution
Absolution is one of my favorite words. I like how it can be so encompassing, the idea of forgiveness. Muse's Sing for Absolution is one of the reason's why sinabsolution is my handle in most my internet accounts.

12. Supreme Beings of Leisure - Strangelove Addictions
Electronica/Trip-hop is one of my first loves when it comes to music. In fact, the first few songs scrobbled in my Last.FM account are songs inspired by the Bristol sound. Best played when trippy and high on alcohol and when you feel like dancing and getting crazy.

13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Wait, they don't love you like I love you. Best cued in when the one you love is about to get on the bus bound to his hometown. At the risk of bastardizing the beauty of this song, I would like to tell you that every single line in this one is epic love.

14. Bloc Party - The Prayer
Is it so wrong to want rewarding? To want more than is given to you? Law school song. No song can get me pumped up and excited over a law school recitation than this one. Affirmation gets hyped the moment I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle them with my wit gets sung.

15. The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
I like how the words come out of Colin Meloy's mouth roll out. Birkenau. I like all the war innuendos and the way how this feels like an accidental love song.

16. Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Maroon 5 is my guilty pleasure. So sue me. Sunday Morning really does feel like a lazy Sunday morning to me. Best played on a car bound to the north, on a sleepy Sunday morning-preferably around 6am. Perfect when holding hands.

17. Aqualung - Pressure Suit
The soundtrack to the biggest secret of my life (the reason why I am getting a tattoo) is this song. Don't wanna be forgiven. Maybe I will get two spinning spheres on a bed of stars as a tattoo. Maybe. 

18. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
All Music Guide dubs this song as the best song ever written. While it may be arguable, I like how this song can be one which stands the test of time. Listening can induce smiling and recounting many nights of being infatuated.

You always get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win

19. Meiko - How Lucky We Are
When Pandora opened the box, and all hell broke loose, there was only one thing left inside of it: hope. Which is exactly what this song is about. During my mother's stroke and hospital stint, I had this song singing in the background. I remember singing it while cooking for my sister's graduation party (in the hospital room of my mother) and crying. When all things seem to be in chaos, this song grounds me and makes me hope. Plus Meiko is one of the few female singers who I can actually stand listening to her entire album. Along with Feist and Regina Spektor.

20. Télépopmusik - Don't Look Back
I remember listening to this song and thinking: beautiful music must have beautiful images accompanying it. It sounds so light and dreamy. I can think of several images to attach to this song.

Ang labo ng list na ito. However, I would like to think of it as a result of diverse music taste. hehehe

Listen to this via Blip.FM

 
 
Celebration Guns: The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
 
 
Kath Leomo
10 June 2009 @ 08:00 am
This is an internet meme. One which has been inspired by One Tree Hill and started by this guy right here. It had continued and is continually being played by internet whores such as myself. Considering that a lot of my friends: here, here and here had been doing it, and I could only be as kilig when I am reading them, I am now writing my own list.

I will be the first to admit that I know nothing much about music. I remember being in Mogwai, Cubao X with two of my friends as we were sitting by the bar and they were choosing what songs to play on the iPod by the bar. They had decided to play Skid Row's I Remember You. Every single song they played, I have very little knowledge of. One of my friends would ask whether I know the song they chose, and I said no. He asked me what I listened to when I was younger. When I was younger I listened to a lot of jazz and music from the 70s. Which would explain some of the songs on this list. 

This list is the ten songs which I absolutely adored growing up (read before I turned 18.) Not that these are the only songs I listened to when growing up, but then this has got to be the most definitive ones. So here we go:

1. Little River Band - Reminiscing
This has got to be my most favorite song of all time. It manages to have the same effect on me from the first time I heard it to some 15 or so years later. While it may have a tall order in its head, it is one of the reasons why I still believe that true love may still be out there. It makes me feel all hopeful and smiling, and wishing that perhaps one day, this too shall be my love story.

2. The Manhattan Transfer - Soul Food to Go
Sunday morning music. I grew up listening to the Manhattan Transfer being played on the radio by my mother. Every Sunday morning, the ritual is to play a cassette tape while we had to do our Sunday morning chores. The Manhattan Transfer was one of them. Jazz remains to be my first love and continues to stake a claim in my affection until now.

3. Foo Fighters - Generator
This is sex. I remember watching Dave Grohl on MTV while he was singing this song into that tube like thing by the microphone. I felt what the Divinyls might have been singing about when they say "When I Think About You I Touch Myself." Can't you hear my motored heart? This song would have to be included in the songs I would like to be frisky to.

4. Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
Anyone who is from the Philippines who would tell me that they do not know this song is a pretentious liar who must be shot in the head. Like first love, this song is so innocent and unassuming.

5. The Cardigans - Lovefool
I was 13 when I got my first email address. Guess what? This was my first email handle. Prior to this, I cared nothing about how songs are made and then I heard that they made this song with synthesizers. Holy fvck what are synthesizers? My love for dream pop songs with electronic influence was born.

6. Fat Larry's Band - Zoom
Angels? Yes. Heaven? Yes. Heart going boom? Yes. Filled and well-ridden with cliches, I do not mind. This song makes me want to turn into water and evaporate and then fall down the ground as dancing raindrops during high noon.

7. The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Like number 2, the Beatles is a staple in our Sunday morning music. If you sing me this song while I am very sad I will love you unconditionally. I know this song for its perfect timing. The people I love would dedicate this song to me right around the darkest parts of my life, and I loved them each time. (hello, [info]joiundefined )

8. The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular
Remember all those brownouts in the 90s? Well right here is my brownout music. One of the staples in my very old iPod. Everybody wants to be special here. This makes me want to find a very dark field while I lie down on the grass and wait for the sky to fall down, while waving a candle or a lighter. Perfect too when lying beside someone and saying nothing. (Similarly, this song is also in one of the earlier seasons of One Tree HIll)

9. Andy Williams - Music to Watch Girls Go By
This song made me feel like I was born in the wrong decade. I would like to wear skirts and sit in a diner and listen to this song. The 1960s is so full of awesome goodness.

10. Portishead - Glory Box
I heard this first in a TV advert. Young and impressionable, I thought this must be what human sexuality feels if put into song. Human sexuality has never been this distinctly captured. It makes me want to run my hands all over myself to understand the somberness in Beth Gibbon's voice. Sure enough, I did.
 

In the tradition of the beautiful Nikki, I am putting this in BlipFM.
 
 
Celebration Guns: Portishead - Glory Box
 
 
 
Kath Leomo
23 January 2009 @ 09:47 am
  • MEME:
 
Here's the deal:

1. The first 5 people to respond to this post will receive something made by me. LJ users, non-lj users altogether now!
2. My choice for you.
- you will get an 8 song mixtape from our extensive mp3 collection at home. drop me a line on what theme you might want to get. your mixtape will include a cover, and a title. :)
- I will make no guarantees that you will absolutely love what I make you.
- What I create will be just for you.
- It will be done before Valentine's.

3. The catch: You need to post this in your journal as well. C'mon people. It's a new year. We can all afford to share a little creative wealth. It's okay if you do not have a journal, you can comment here and I will still make you your Valentine Mix-tape. :)

Send me your mailing address at: yoursunshinegirl [at] gmail [dot] com
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