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Short List: Rhymes with Orange Songs

1. O, Valencia! – The Decemberists

2. Sweet Tangerine – The Hush Sound

3. Clementine – The Decemberists

4. Tangerine Speedo – Caviar

5. Apples and Tangerines – The Phoenix Foundation

6. Clementine – Pink Martini

7. Mi Otra Mitad de Naranja – Tosca Tango Orchestra

8. Orange Moon – Erykah Badu

9. Jaded Mandarins – Jesus Christ Superstar

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11. Blood – Dispatch*

*lots of other songs with blood in the title

**She Don’t Use Jelly – Flaming Lips

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January 9, 2012

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Short List: Collard Greens Songs

1. Veggie Tales Theme Song – Veggie Tales

2. A Cautionary Tale – The Decemberists

3. Collard Greens, Fish and Cornbread – Anthony Hamilton

4. Collard Greens – The Yin Yang Twins

5. Collard Greens and Cornbread – Fantasia

6. Christmas in Hollis – Run DMC

7. Rapper’s Delight – The Sugar Hill Gang

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January 9, 2012

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Short List: Plastic Songs

1. Plástico – JD Natasha

2. Plastic Jesus – Flaming Lips (or Cool Hand Luke)

3. Plastic – Portishead

4. Boots of Chinese Plastic – The Pretenders

5. Barbie Girl – Aqua

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January 4, 2012

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Short List: Paper Songs

1. Paper Bag – Fiona Apple

2. Paperback Writer – The Beatles

3. Paper Doll – Louis XIV

4. My Paper Heart – All-American Rejects

5. Papercuts – Gym Class Heroes

6. Paper Planes – M.I.A.

7. Pretty Paper – Roy Orbison

8. Sellotape (Pencils in the Wind) – Flight of the Conchords

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January 4, 2012

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Short List: Keyboard Key Songs

1. Return – OK Go

2. Enter Sandman – Metallica

3. Great Escape – Guster

4. Escape – Enrique Iglesias

5. Lose Control – Missy Elliott

6. Sweet Escape ft. Akon – Gwen Stefani

7. Return to Sender – Elvis Presley

8. The Great Escape (Theme) – Elmer Bernstein

9. I Saw It On Your Keyboard – Hellogoodbye

*Home, End, Space, Tab, Shift, Function, Delete, Caps

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December 28, 2011

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My Favorite Music in 2011

Albums:

1. Janelle Monae – ArchAndroid* (2010)

Tightrope, Cold War, Sir Greendown, Wondaland, etc

2. Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart* (2011)

Nobody Loves You Like Me, Nemeses, Want You Gone (Elegant Too Remix) Today With Your Wife, The Stache, etc

3. They Might Be Giants – Join Us* (2011)

Spoiler Alert, You Probably Get That A Lot, You Don’t Like Me, When Will You Die, etc [and then suddenly…]

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December 28, 2011

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Short List: Composers I Love

1. Frederic Chopin (Minute Waltz, Nocturnes, Waltz No 3. in A Minor etc)

2. Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, 1812 Overture etc)

3. Sergei Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf, Romeo & Juliet)

4. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lost Suite for Jazz Orchestra #2, Music Box Waltz)

5. Henry Mancini (James Bond, Peter Gunn, Pink Panther, Romeo & Juliet)

6. John Williams (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Batman, Mission Impossible etc)

7. Danny Elfman (Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish etc)

8. Jon Brion (I <3 Huckabees, Punchdrunk Love, Extraordinary Machine etc)

9. Nathan Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom)

In Summary: Chopin, Russians, waltzes, and movie soundtracks.

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December 22, 2011

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Musicians I Haven’t Seen Live, But Could and Would Like To

Because of my last.fm account, I can see which music I listen to the most. Out of that I can cross out which musicians that I have not seen and who are not possible to see live (The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Neverhood Soundtrack, Traveling Wilburys, etc). I’ve skipped some I haven’t seen but could, because I’d really need to be in the gushy-mushy-lovey part of a relationship and have a boy to see Jack Johnson or Coldplay live, for example. I’ve been to a lot of good concerts, and I’m very grateful for that. See my PDX Concerts list if you’d like to be indie jealous. So if money were no object, and it’s a big object, this is who I would still like to see: [and then suddenly…]

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December 21, 2011

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