Quittin Time Podcast and My Top Five Multi-instrumentalists
Sorry about the late podcast, this weeks is all about finish up work for the week. Download it here.
Up next, we have My Top Five Multi-instrumentalists! By that I mean bands and/or songs which feature a plethora of instruments working in unison to win our hearts. Here are mine, what are yours?
5. Los Campesinos, Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats
4. Rilo Kiley, Execution of All Things
3. Stars, Your Ex-lover is Dead
2. Sufjan Stevens, The Man of Metropolis Steals our Hearts
1. Go Team!, The Wrath of Marcie
Angry Podcast and My Top Five End of Working Week Songs
GRRRR! Some fantastic angry suggestions for the podcast! Check it out here!
I also asked for some suggestions for some new Top Fives and Jenna! delivered the goods with a few classics. So since it’s almost Friday as I write this I thought we’d do My Top Five End of Working Week Songs. The songs can be about the weekend or getting paid or freedom or just make you feel good after a hard week of toil. No rules! Here’s my five what are yours?
5. Vampire Weekend, A-Punk
4. BSS, Major Label Debut (fast)
3. Art Brut, Good Weekend
2. Easybeats, Friday on My Mind
1. The Cure, Friday I’m in Love
UPDATE: I’ve got some free tickets for Little Wings, in Whelans next week. All you gotta do is head over to Dublin Metblogs!
Space Podcast and My Top Five Anger Songs
We had an eclectic mix for the space podcast going from Elton John to Kraftwerk. Check it out here!
For next week, we’re looking for your ANGER songs! If you’re like me, there’s nothing more therapeutic when you’re in a bad mood than putting on your headphones and putting on some angry music. So here’s My Top Five, what’s yours
5. Test Icicles, Circle Square Triangle
4. Death from Above 1979, Blood On Our hands
3. Untrust Us, Crystal Castles
2. Nirvana, Territorial Pissing
1. Killing in the Name of, RATM
P.S What other Top Fives do you want to see in the future?
Money Podcast and My Top Five Songs about Space
Sorry about the slight delay this week. Here is the Songs about Money podcast. It’s a particularly good one, well done people! Download it here
Next week we’ll be doing My Top Five Songs about Space! Crazy drug addled musicians have always looked to the stars for inspiration and now it’s your turn. Here are my five what are yours?
5. Girl From Mars, Ash
4. Spacelab, Kraftwerk
3. Knights of Cydonia, Muse
2. Intergalactic, Beastie Boys
1. Space Oddity, David Bowie
Places Podcast and My Top Five Songs about Money
UPDATE: Sorry for the delay in podcasting, I’ll try and get it down this evening!
Thanks for your favourite songs about places. You can download the podcast here.
For next week, we’re looking for your Top Five Songs about money. They can be about being broke, rich, making money, wanting money, spending it, whatever you like! Here are mine what are yours.
5. Rilo Kiley, Moneymaker
4. Flying Lizards, Money (That’s what I want)
3. Notorius BIG, Mo Money Mo Problems
2. Pink Floyd, Money
1. Barenaked Ladies, If I had $1,000,000
Sleeping Podcast and My Top Five Songs about a Place
Zzz…. I’m drifting off thanks to lovely podcast you guys made. Check it out here.
I’m away for a week but the next theme is going to be My Top Five Songs about a Place. It can be any kind of place; a street, a city, a country. It can be your hometown, a favourite a holiday, a place of particular signifigance or just evoke a certain feeling in you. Anyway, here are mine what are yours?
5. Eustace Street, Delorentos
4. Walcott, Vampire Weekend (I went to Cape Cod on my J1, ah memories!)
3. London Calling, The Clash
2. Waterloo sunset, the kinks
1. Sufjan Stevens, Chicago
Cunning Linguist Podcast and My Top Five Songs to Fall Asleep
Thank you all for sharing your cunning linguists with me. Check out the tasty podcast here.
Next week theme is inspired by a post on the Pulp and Circumstance blog where Jenna described a study to find the best songs to fall asleep to. Well I can think we can do better than a lousy science experiment and make our own list. Here are my Top Five Songs to Fall Asleep, what are yours?
5. Bon Iver, The Wolves
4. Feist, The Park
3. The Frames, Plateau
2. Sparklehorse, It’s a Wonderful Life
1. Arvo Part, Spiegel in Spiegel
Pride Podcast and My Top Five Cunning Linguists
We got an amazing response for the PRIDE podcast (we broke the site records for hits in a day twice)! Thanks for all your suggestions and hope you enjoy your collective efforts.
Download it here
For next week, we’re looking for My Top Five Cunning Linguists. These are people who can sing in foreign languages. At the moment I’ve chosen all non-English speakers who sing in English but you can go the other way too if you like. So here are mine what are yours?
My Top Five Cunning Linguists
5. Phoenix, Long Distance Call
4. CSS, Music is My Hot Hot Sex
3. Deerhoof, The Galaxist
2. I’m From Barcelona, Treehouse
1. Jens Lekman, Black Cab
NEWS: I’m giving away free tickets to Damon & Naomi at Dublin Metblogs
MT5 Intro Podcast and My Top Five PRIDE songs
We have a new jingle! It was very difficult choosing between all the great ideas (and Queen). Check out the songs here.
For next week, I’ve been told it’s the Dublin Pride Festival. So we’re going to do a Top 5 Pride Songs. I’m not really sure what constitutes a gay pride song but I’m open minded to how you want to interpret it. I’ll be leaving the Top 5 to a few esteemed members of Dublin’s Gay Music Snob community but I’ll leave some suggestions in the comment box too.
Story Podcast and My Top Five My Top Five intros
Kudos people! (Or Golf Claps if you’re Jenna) I really liked your suggestions for the Songs that tell stories podcast.
Download it here
For next week, to celebrate 6 months of My Top Five, we are looking for a new intro jingle. So send us your suggestions! It can be any style, any genre, any part of a song (need about 10 seconds so specify where). It can be the intro, a vocal part, a riff or solo, trumpet blast, ANYTHING! As long as it sounds good we’ll take it on board.
For example, here are My Top Five My Top Five new intros
5. Silver Lining, Beulah. The cool surf guitar and trumpet intro after the bass
4. Always New Depths, Bloc Party. Another catchy little guitar riff intro.
3. Pencil Rot, Stephen Malkmus. The weird intro that sounds like a guitar synth spaceship attack
2. Korobeiniki (The “Tetris” Song), Ozma. The chorus?
1. Alternative Ulster, That slow, itchy guitar build up at the very beginning.
NEWSFLASH:
My Top Five Regular Senor Pedro Monscooch has made his own mashup mixtape. Check it out here.
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