16 posts tagged “john mayer”

Artist - Song - Album

• Ray Charles - Halleluja I Love Her So - Ultimate Hits Collection: Ray Charles
• The Roots - Complexity (ft. Jill Scott) - Phrenology
• Coldplay - Speed Of Color - X&Y
• Kanye West - Flashing Lights (ft. Dwele) - Graduation
• Relient K - Forgiven - Five Score And Seven Years Ago
• John Mayer - Who Did You Think I Was - Try! John Mayer Trio
• Jamiroquai - Hot Tequila Brown - Dynamite
• Brat - Big Shot Pimpin' (Billy Joel vs. Jay-Z) - Best of Bootie 2005
• Fort Minor - Remember The Name (Album Version) - Fort Minor: We Major
• Radiohead - Electioneering - OK Computer
• Simian Mobile Disco - Love - Attack Decay Sustain Release
• Linkin Park  - Step Up / Nobody's Listening - Underground  V4.0

Where The Light Is:John Mayer Live In Los Angeles

John Mayer

Playlist: @ Big D Radio - WOKI 91.4

Artist - Song - Album

• John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change - Where The Light Is - Live in Los Angeles
  
• Linkin Park - FRGT/10 (Alchemist ft. Chali 2NA) - Reanimation

This song features one of my favorite Hip-Hop lyrics of this decade spit by none other than Chali 2NA of Jurassic 5 fame.

I'm here at the podium talking, the ceremonial offerings
Dedicated to urban dysfunctional offspring
What's happening
City governments are eternally napping
Trapped in greedy covenants, causin urban collapsing
Bullets that scar souls, with dark holes, get more than your car stole
Some hearts be blacker than charcoal
For real, this society's deprivation depends not on our differences, but the separation within

Fancy Footwork

Chromeo

No preparation is made, limited aid, minimum wage
Livin in a tenement cage where rent isn't paid
Tragedy within a parade
The darkness overspread like permanent plauge
I'm the forgotten

• 311 - Beautiful Disaster - Transistor
• James Brown - Try Me - Star Time (Disc 1)
• Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Single Edit) - Feel Good Inc. - Single
• Blues Traveler - But Anyway - Blues Traveler
• Madonna - Secret - Secret
• Chromeo - My Girl Is Calling Me (A Liar) - Fancy Footwork

This Chromeo album is great. Retro seems to be the new fad in music right now but Chromeo's retro sound is a cut above the rest. It's retro yet modern all at once.

• Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit - Underground V 5.0
  

Make Sure They See My Face

Kenna

The first best lyric Friday proved to be much more of an undertaking than I thought it would be. It took me all day to complete in between calls here at work. With that in mind I'm scaling it down a bit. I'll only put up my absolute favorite lyrics from a select number of songs in the list. Let's begin.

Playlist: @ Big D Radio - WOKI 91.4

Artist - Song - Album

• Kenna - Loose Wires / Blink Radio - Make Sure They See My Face

CANT YOU SEE THE EPISODES
THE RENEGADES
WITH DIRTY WAYS
DANCIN TO THE BREAK OF DAY
ITS TENSION IN HERE
CANT YOU SEE THE LASER PASS
RIGHT THRU YOUR GLASS
DON’T HAVE TO ASK
ITS GREEN AS GRASS
AND BEEN PASSED
ITS SO THICK IN HERE
IN HERE.

• Madonna - Jump - Confessions on a Dance Floor
• Something Corporate - Hurricane - Leaving Through The Window
• Linkin Park - Session - Meteroa
• OneRepublic - Tyrant - Dreaming Out Loud
• Eminem - Mockingbird - Encore (Deluxe Version)
• 

  OK Computer

  Radiohead
  Radiohead - Paranoid Android - OK Computer

please could you stop the noise i'm trying to get some rest?
from all the unborn chicken voices in my head?
huh what's that
when i am king you will be first against the wall
with your opinions which are of no consequence at all
huh what's that
ambition makes you look very ugly
kicking squeeling gucci little piggy

• Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around...Comes Around (Ultimix Pt. 1) - UltiMix 131
• John mayer - Belief - Continuum

Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching under water
You never can hit who you're trying for

Some need the exhibition
And some have to know they tried
It's the chemical weapon
For the war that's raging on inside

Playlist: @ Big D Radio - WOKI 91.4

Afrodisiac

Brandy

Artist - Song - Album

• Brandy - Sadiddy - Afrodisiac
• Blake Lewis - How Many Words - Audio Daydream
• Daft Punk - Digital Love - Discovery
• John Mayer - In Repair - Continuum
• Justin Timberlake - Take It From Here (Medley) - FutureSex/LoveShow - Live From MSG
• Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) - Rhino Hi-Five: Coolio
• The Fugees - Killing Me Softly - The Score
• Lady Sovereign - Those Were The Days - Public Warning
• Dave Matthews Band - Stay (Wasting Time) (Live) - The Central Park Concert
• Trick Daddy - Sugar (Gimme Some) - Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets
• Dave Matthews Band - Halloween - Before These Crowded Streets
  

I love music. It is a constant part of my daily life. At any given time during my day there is rarely a minute where I’m not either listening to, singing along with or thinking about music. One of the things I love about music is there’s always something new to hear and discover. This works on a couple of levels. The shear volume of music is ever increasing. Artists release new music every day so there is always something new to hear. There is also new music to discover within the music you already know and love. It could be a chord progression you’ve never noticed or maybe a secondary rhythm that’s always been there but seems to magically spring to the forefront the 50^th time you listen to a song. I tend to get so locked into the music side of songs (which in my mind means the actually rhythms and sounds and notes that are being played) that I filter out the other half of the equation: the lyrics. It’s always refreshing when I stumble across a lyric that jumps out at me. It makes the music seem fresh all over again.  

Tonight while listening to Stop This Train by John Mayer the following lyric struck a cord with me:

So scared of getting older

I'm only good at being young

This struck me as a very 30-something thing to say which happens to be exactly where I’m at right now. I can readily identify with the feeling it conveys. I’ve been scared about getting older for years. The fear comes from not knowing what lies ahead. Some (maybe most) may find that exciting but it tends to terrify me. The only thing I’ve ever been is young. What do I know about being old?

Thankfully those feelings have begun to subside somewhat. Life is forcing me to grow up and move forward. For the first time in my life (if not ever) I’m looking forward to what the future holds. Growing old seems like a wonderful thing now that I have someone to grow old with. Dreams of having kids, making a home and just living life in general seem to pop into my head whenever I have a moment to sit down and let my mind wander. Those are very comforting thoughts. I may only be good at being young right now but day by day I’m learning how to grow old. Maybe some day I’ll be good at being both young (at heart) and old (in maturity and life experience). Maybe.

Things we don’t get: John Mayer - Entertainment on Shine

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Call me ignorant, but I do not understand the fascination with John Mayer. I suppose he’s somewhat attractive. I know that his smash hits like “Your Body is a Wonderland” and “Waiting on the World to Change” are supposed to get under my skin with their tender and positive messages. But there’s something I can’t get past. It’s not that his voice irritates me, or that I think he’s undeserving of his Grammy awards. It’s not that the specific male pop singer/guitarist thing has never appealed to me (if a guy does pop, I’d prefer he was more straight up about it a la Justin Timberlake)—there’s just something about John Mayer’s overall person that annoys me beyond description. He seems arrogant, cocky and completely phony. Between his narcissistic blogs about the “poignant statement” that is his new 80s-style feathered haircut, charging fans $10 for a photo op, and the mysterious gossip about his exceeding abilities in bed, it’s more than I can stomach. His seemingly all-knowing and romantic treatment of women via his lyrics on songs like “Daughters” actually comes across as disingenuous to me. Does anyone else see where I’m coming from? He’s climbed his way up the celebrity dating ladder from Jennifer Love Hewitt to Jessica Simpson to Jennifer Aniston, and it troubles me that many other women are in fact charmed by him. After doing my research I do feel badly, because, yes, John Mayer did work for over a year at a gas station to save up for his first guitar and yes, he has been involved with a number of charities as well as starting up his own non-profit. So maybe he’s not the worst dude in the world, but it doesn’t mean I have to like him, or his music. Now you tell me: what’s your take on John Mayer?

Why you hating on my boy John Mayer? Don't hate. Appreciate. He can't help if his game is smooth like butter. Coincidentally his song just came on the Black Negro. JM's game is so tight he need not speak in his own defense. His songs do the work for him. Yeah, his new doo is a bit out there but I still like him a lot. Is it just me or does he look like Marc Anthony's younger, slightly less malnourished/emaciated looking brother?

Graduation

Kanye West

Playlist: @ Big D Radio - WOKI 91.4

Artist - Song - Album

• Boyz II Men - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - Cooleyhighharmony
• Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly (Remix feat. Slim Thug) - Most Known Unknown
• Kanye West - Stronger - Graduation
• The Commodores - Machine Gun - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Commodores
• John Mayer - Dreaming With A Broken Heart - Continuum
• Tom Novy - Your Body (Feat. Michael Marshall) - Ministry of Sound - The Annual 2006
• L.A. Symphony - Less Than Zero - Disappear Here
• Alicia Keys - Lesson Learned (feat. John Mayer) - As I Am
• Common - The Food (Live) - Be
  

Under the Blacklight

Rilo Kiley

Playlist - @ Big D Radio WOKI 91.4

• A Plus D - Beethoven's Fifth Gold Digger (Kanye West vs. Beethoven vs. Walter Murphy) - Best of Bootie 2006
• Rilo Kiley - Give A Little Love - Under The Blacklight
• Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin' (Official Remix feat. Lil' Wayne)
  
• Bloc Party - I Still Remember - A Weekend In The City
• Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSound - FutureSex/LoveSounds
• Gnarls Barkley - Necromancer - St. Elsewhere
• Snap! - Do You See The Light (vs. Plaything) - Snap! - The Cult of Snap! 1990 >> 2003
• John Mayer - 83 - Room For Squares
• Common - Be (Intro) - Be
• Linkin Park - By Myself - Underground v.3.0
• John Mayer - Clarity - Heavier Things

Soulife

Anthony Hamilton

The Black Negro decided it wanted to act up this morning. (Actually I'm sure I pressed a button or something while putting him in pocket or something but whatever.) When I put him in the dock on my desk this morning and hit play it had started over at song number one in the playlist. Since it's a randomly shuffled playlist it started with a different song than I originally heard when I got up this morning. As a result I lost the list of songs I've been listening to so far this morning. What's listed below is the list of songs that have played on the Black Negro since I've been here at work plus what I could remember playing early this morning and on the drive to work. The sun is out this morning. It's cold but beautiful. No blah today. Let's get to it.

Playlist: @ Big D Radio - WOKI 91.4

Artist - Song - Album

• Anthony Hamilton - Icing On The Cake - Soulife
• Boyz II Men - Motownphilly - Cooleyhighharmony
• Linkin Park - Kyur4 Th Ich - Chairman Hahn - Reanimation
  
• Ray Charles - Drown In My Own Tears - Ultimate Hits Collection Disc 1
  
• Coldplay - Talk (Jacques Lu Conts Thin White Duke Remix) - Talk Including Francois K Dub Vinyl
• Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Shop Around - Motown Forever
• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message (12" Single Version) - The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five 
  

  Stand Up
• Breakestra - Recognize - Hit The Floor
• Beastie Boys - The Move - Hello Nasty
• Hanson - In A Little While - The Best of Hanson
• Dave Matthews Band - Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back) - Stand Up
• will.i.am - Over - Songs About Girls
• Alanis Morrissette - All I Really Want - Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
• Linkin Park - Don't Stay - Underground v. 3.0
• Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin - Hail To The Thief
• Janet Jackson - Rain - Janet
• Linkin Park - RNW@Y (Backyard Bangers ft. Phoenix Orion) - Reanimation
• Dave Matthews Band - Grey Street (Live) - The Central Park Concert
  
• Linkin Park - In The End - Hybrid Theory
• Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin Vol 2.
  
• Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man (Jake Ridley Remix) - Ain't No Other Man
  

  Coco
• John Mayer - I Don't Need No Doctor - Continuum (Limited Edition) (Disc 2)
• Colbie Caillat - Tailor Made - Coco

I wonder is she made/wrote this song before I Love New York 2 was broadcast. Did New York steal the name from Colbie? Or vice versa? Inquiring minds want to know. Or maybe not.

Feeling very blah this morning. The weather is blah outside. Everything is just blah over all at the moment. Here's the mix...blah.

X&Y

Coldplay

Artist - Song - Album

• Coldplay - Twisted Logic - X&Y
• Bend Folds Five - Brick - Whatever and Ever Amen
• Third Eye Blind - How's It Going To Be - Third Eye Blind
• Rihanna - Who Ya Gonna Run To - A Girl Like Me
• Metallica - No Leaf Clover - S&M (Disc 1)
• Coldplay - A Message - X&Y
• Ace of Base - Young and Proud - The Sign

Ahhhh.... High School memories. 1994. Dang I'm getting old.

• Smashing Pumpkins - Neverlost - Zeitgeist

The fact that this song came up in the random mix is funny. I did get lost this morning. I tried to get fancy and maneuver around an oncoming train and ended up getting lost. If had simply made the left turn like I do every morning and waited at the railroad crossing like everybody else I might have made it to work on time. But no I had to turn right and try to circle the block the other way thus avoiding the railroad tracks and "saving" a few minutes. Unfortunately it didn't work out that way. My "quick" detour ended up taking me about 10 minutes out of the way. I ended up frustrated and late for work. I'll never do that again. Or at least not until I've fully mapped out the detour route. I obviously made a wrong turn somewhere in there. My manly sense of direction was severely bruised this morning.

John Mayer - Continuum

• Beck - Gehettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes) [Remix by 8-Bit] - GameBoy Variations 
  
• Martin Page - In The House of Stone and Light - In The House of Stone and Light
• John Mayer - I'm Gonna Find Another You - Continuum
• Fort Minor - Right Now - The Rising Tied