Okay, I downloaded Morcheeba's new album, The Antidote, off iTunes a couple days ago. C'est assez bien ("It's pretty good", for you frenchiephobes). I especially like: "Wonders Never Cease", "Ten Men", and "Like a Military Coup" (which is #1). I really only downloaded it because I heard that they were similar to Astaire, but I guess I'm glad that I did.
If I had to rank Ivy, Astaire, and Morcheeba, it would go:
1. Astaire
2. Ivy
3. Morcheeba
Not that I don't like Morcheeba (I do! Uh. . . really!), but it's not as breathy and simple as the other two. Morcheeba's genre is hard to describe. iTunes has it as "electronic", but that's not really accurate. It's more a rockish/poppish at times/funkish/bordering on R&B a little. If I had to give it one, I'd say funk, but you've got to hear it to believe it.
Which reminds me, I never did a post on Ivy, did I? I recently downloaded their new album, In the Clear, too. It's a 3-man band (well, 2 men and 1 woman) in the same vein as Astaire. Rockish/poppish europop. I'm very picky about my favorite music, so usually the songs I like are 1. sung by a female vocalist (check), 2. pop/rock with that little dash of another genre (check), 3. about love (check, although this is more of a preference than a requirement).
Other artists that meet these requirements that I know of: Diana Anaid, Feist, Tegan and Sara. (I recently listened to Tegan and Sara's new EP (I think). I hated it. Walking With a Ghost is the only song of theirs I like.)
These are all the songs in my "Favorites" playlist right now:
360 -- The Humble Brothers
Amazing Race Theme -- John Keane
Breakdown -- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Ch-Check It Out -- Beastie Boys
Cold As Ike -- Thomas Newman
Design -- Fiction Company
Four in the Morning -- Ivy
Great Life -- Goat
I Just Wanna Live -- Good Charlotte
I Predict a Riot -- Kaiser Chiefs
Jerk It Out -- Caesars
Jimmy Neutron Theme -- Bowling for Soup
Keep Moving -- Ivy
Kids in America -- No Secrets
L-L-Love -- Astaire
Last Thing -- Diana Anaid
Like a Military Coup -- Morcheeba
Mail Myself to You -- John McCutcheon
Ocean City Girl -- Ivy
One Evening -- Feist
Rhyme the Rhyme Well -- Beastie Boys
Stairway to Heaven -- Led Zeppelin
Time After Time -- Sparklemotion
Triple Trouble -- Beastie Boys
Walking With a Ghost -- Tegan and Sara
What Makes the Monkey Dance -- Chuck Prophet
26 songs. One iPod to rule them all.
By the way, I hate Lord of the Rings.
Bye now.
