Totally Awesome Tunes Tuesday: Road Trip Music

It's time for another Totally Awesome Tunes Tuesday! Last week I asked you to send me your favorite songs to drive to and I have to say that you all have such excellent taste! Love the oldies here. I tend to go back for good road trip music too, as you'll see...Check out the road trip song picks from this week:

From Meghan at Wishful Thinking:

Click to hear: My Favorite Game by The Cardigans

From Christina at The Olive Tree:

Click to hear: Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson

Click to hear: I Want You Back by Jackson 5

 From Emmet Katherine at Hippie Lace:

Click to hear: Any tunes by Joel Plaskett

From Hannah at Culture Connoisseur:

Click to hear: Impossible Germany by Wilco

Click to hear: Killer Queen by Queen

Click to hear: The Long Black Veil by Johnny Cash

Next week's topic is Christmas themed! I want your all-time favorite Christmas tunes, even the silly ones that people might point and laugh at you for. 

Email the link to the  YouTube song to me at culture_connoisseur(at)yahoo.com

Totally Awesome Tunes Tuesday| Sad Songs

It's time for another Totally Awesome Tunes Tuesday! Last week I asked you to send me your favorite songs to cry to and I was delighted to find my inbox full of good tunes. These songs are all new to me, so I'm so excited that my little plan to music swap is actually working! Check out the sad song picks from this week:

Autumn from Stay Gold, Autumn shared:

November by Azure Ray

Demie from Punctuation Mark shared:

Problem Queen by Danger Mouse and Norah Jones

Amanda from Simple Girl, Simple Pleasures shares:

Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson

World Spins Madly On by The Weepies

This week's Tuesday Tunes topic: "Road Trip Playlist." I want all the tunes you can't drive 5 miles without!

Send me a link to the YouTube video for the song and a picture of the artist and I'll post them here next Tuesday for another music swap day!

Email all entries to culture_connoisseur(at)yahoo.com.

Totally Awesome Tunes Tuesday

Good day dear friends!

It has been many a moon since I shared some of my favorite music with you all. It is something I used to do quite frequently, but forgot all about until last night when I remembered some great tunes on my iPod and took a little trip down the memory lane of my favorite artists. It dawned on me that not everyone may be aware of their awesomeness, and it was my duty to share them with the world! Here's some of my all-time favorites through the years (click on the link under the picture to listen):

Revelate by The Frames

Everything is Free by Gillian Welch

Oslo in the Summertime by Of Montreal

One Fine Day by John Darnielle

Whiskey in the Jar by Thin Lizzy

The Greatest by Cat Power

Sari by Nellie McKay

PROJECT:

Send me a song (a picture of the band/artist and link to the song on YouTube) to culture_connoisseur(at)yahoo(dot)com and I'll pick my faves and post next week on Totally Awesome Tunes Tuesday! 

The theme for this week is sad songs. So pick your favorite tunes to cry over and send them my way!

Funky Funky

I've been on a trip down memory lane ever since one of my favorite hip hip stations did a throwback day Friday afternoon on my way home from work. I've been playing Naughty by Nature round and round in my head since then and recently found this video. I forgot how great this song was. 

Where were you when this song came out?


 

Dare You Not to Dance, Pt. 3

Every now and then I like to share some new music with you folks. In keeping with the cultural theme of this blog, a lot of it is International. And of course I can't help but throw in a few English songs that I'm digging at the moment...just for kicks. I really think that music has a way of letting us experience culture from right where we are. It brings the world to our doorstep and right into our ears. As a whole, America has done a really bad job incorporating sounds from around the world into our everyday tunes. I'm on a mission to change that...



Cuando Me Enamoro by Enrique Iglesias and Juan Luis Guerra

Comme des enfants by Coeur de Pirate





Mundian Tu Bach Ke by Panjabi MC



Temple of Love, feat. Ofra Haza by Sisters of Mercy



L.E.S. Artistes by Santogold



Dare You Not to Dance, Pt 2



Una Musica Brutal by Gotan Project





Kix by The Real Tuesday Weld



Soltane Ghalbhaa (Autumn Leaves) by Darya Dadvar



Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura



Dare You Not to Dance, Pt. 1



Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov





Bande a Part by Nouvelle Vague





Blood by The Middle East




Ruby by Silver Apples