Completely Blown Away

Every once in a while I'll shuffle through songs  in iTunes or on my iPod and will be completely blown away by a song that I hadn't heard before.  I will find just a kick ass song  that is so good and wonder why I hadn't been playing it every single day. Sense I have been working at home, I don't have the bandwidth to stream music and run all of the programs that  I need to at the same time, I have been coming across these mind blowing songs off of my iPod more often.  So I though I would share a few that I have managed to mark and highly recommend.

• "Park Avenue"  The A-Sides
• "I.C.E" Antibalas
• "All the Truth" Bear is Driving
• Tears from a gun" The Black Ghost
• "Veloso Odeio" Caetano Veloso
• "Love Me in the Morning" Clare Burson
• "The Satisfier" Eli 'Paperboy' Reed
• "Captain Captain" Haley Bonar
• "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe" Okkervil River
• "Fear" Paddy Casey
• "Tonight I Have to Leave It" Shout Out Louds
• "When you Were Young" Astrid Swam
• "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo" Jens Lekman
• "Let's Try This Again" Sara Gazarek
• "Jade Like Wine" Six Organs of Admittance
• "Passages" Passages
• "71943676_75b9ec81" Unknown artist

The last two are all the information that I have. "Passages" is smooth jazz, which I don't usually like, but has this nice blues twist.  The last one is a fantastic version of Death Cab for Cutie's, "I Will Flollow You into the Dark," but done with a piano and a female voice. 

Some have asked where I get my music from, so here are the the places my digital music come from (all very legal mind you);

• iTunes- both the free weekly songs, make sure you find the discover tune which is usually next to the free regular song in the "free on iTunes" box at the bottom of the home page, and paid for
• 7digital.com- I get all of my European music here that hasn't been released in the states for whatever reason. I pay for them, but its in pounds so you'll have to pay the exchange rate and what ever fee you bank charges you to do it.  This usually makes out for what ever I buy to be about twice as much as if I would have bought it form iTunes. Great for those artist who you have bought their American stuff and want that song that wasn't included but is on the European on or those Canadian artist who don't release there stuff here but do in other countries. Although they do have stuff for free if want to be on the artist' mailing list.
• linktvstore.org- part of the uber liberal cable channel Link TV, which if you have it you should be watching they have some fantastic documentaries. But back to the music, there store basically supplements there global music show. They have stuff for free and stuff you can buy.  I have done both, but for whatever reason cannot download stuff from them onto my Mac.  PC has always worked though. Great music ever sing time, exceptionally if it doesn't really matter to you if it is in english.
• wxpn.blogspot.com- From a fantastic NPR station, great to play during the day.  They play the stuff that wouldn't necessarily be played on normal radio but should be on it plus with a nice mix of the older stuff that isn't really genre focused. . The music can be found under "My Morning Download" (a shameless take on My Morning Jacket.)  I have always found there stuff to be just ahead of the curve with music and ever song just as good as the last. And its free so even if you don't like the song, you're not out anything and you add to you play count.