Don’t Cry Over Spilt Water

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 on 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
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

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Playlist: @ Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

Artist – Song – Album

• “Weird Al” Yankovic – White & Nerdy – Straight Outta Lynwood
• Snoop Doggy Dogg – Interlude 1 – Doggystyle
• Michael Jackson – Remember The Time – Dangerous
• School House Rock – Figure Eight

I loved this song as a kid. Still do. What other song combines a beautiful string arrangement, multiplication tables and a cautionary tale about skating on thin ice?

• Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Off The Wall
• Radiohead – Nice Dream – The Bends
• Martha reeves & The Vandellas – Heat Wave – Motown Forever

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I’m not really feeling the Joakim remix and the Emperor Machine edit but the Skateboard remix hits the spot.

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Playlist: @ Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

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

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Playlist: @ Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

Artist – Song – Album

• Blake Lewis – I Got U – Audio Daydream

• Michael Jackson – Wanna Be Starting Something – Thriller

This song always makes me want to move. I couldn’t move all that much this morning though. I would have fell over and busted my butt in the shower. I was dancing in my head though. Believe that.

• Gnarls Barkley – Feng Shui – St. Elsewhere

• Mariah Carey – Make It Happen – Mariah Carey – Unplugged

I miss this Mariah. The sweet, wholesome acting, clothes wearing Mariah. This is Mariah before she got all diva-fied. The new Mrs. Nick Cannon needs to go back to her roots. And put on some clothes.

• Brandy – Who I Am – Afrodisiac

I’ve slept on this album for a long time. Last month I rediscovered it on iTunes. After reading numerous positive comments I decided to give it a listen. It’s very good. Not quite as good as her best album so far, Never Say Never, but it’s not bad at all. I think the discovery that Timbaland did a lot of the beats on the album helped swing my opinion of it. I guess I just wasn’t ready for it when it first came out. It’s a different sound from Brandy but now that I’ve had 5 more years of music listening under my belt (and a new found love of all things Timbaland [musically at least]) I think I was ready to be open my mind to a different kind of Brandy album.

• Another Bad Creation – Jealous Girl – Coolin’ At The Playground Ya Know

• Corinne Bailey Rae – I’d Like To [Weekender Mix] – Corinne Bailey Rae (Deluxe Edition)

• Mylo - Muscle Cars – Destroy Rock & Roll

• Moby – Life Me Up (Mylo Mix) – Remixed

• Boyz II Men – Vibin’ – II

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This dang computer is getting on my last nerve. This is post attempt #4. I’ve been trying to make this post all day. Keep having computer problems. Here we go yet again…

Playlist: @ Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

• Gym Class Heroes – Boys In Bands (Interlude) – As Cruel As School Children
• Chris Brown – I’ll Call Ya – Exclusive
• Beck – Loser – Mellow Gold
• David Crowder Band – A Quiet Interlude – A Collision
• Staind – For You – Break The Cycle
• Digitalism – Apollo-Gize – Idealism
• Another Bad Creation – Playground – Coolin’ At The Playground Ya Know
• Zero 7 – I Have Seen – Simple Things
• Kanye West – Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Bonus Track) – Late Registration
• Gym Class Heroes – Viva La White Girl – As Cruel As School Children
• Estelle – American Boy – Shine

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Playlist: @ Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

Artist – Song – Album

• Hanson – With You In Your Dreams – Middle of Nowhere
• Sean Kingston – That Ain’t Right – Sean Kingston
• David Crowder Band – Our Happy Home – A Collision
• DC Talk – Day by Day – Jesus Freak
• Linkin Park – The Little Things Give You Away – Minutes To Midnight
• Wyclef Jean – Fast Car (Feat. Paul Simon) – Carnival Vol. II Memoirs of an Imigrant
• Lasgo – Blue – Some Things
• Prince – Fury – 3121
• Michael Jackson – Man In The Mirror – History
• Zero 7 – Somersault (Danger Mouse Remix) – Somersault
• Coldplay – Politik – A Rush of Blood To The Head
• Ray Charles – Mess Around – Ultimate Hits Collection Disc 1
• DC Talk – Jesus Freak (Reprise) – Jesus Freak (10th Anniversary Edition)
• David Crowder Band – Thank You For Hearing Me – Can You Hear Us?
• Radiohead – Myxamatosis – Hail To The Thief

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Here's Wikipedia's list of every song featured in one of Apple's iPod commercials, including the date, artist and model. So, just in case you forgot to download one, here's your chance.

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Playlist: @ Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

Artist – Song – Album

• The Killers – Bones – Sam's Town
• Sean Lennon – Bathtub – Into the Sun

This song was rather fitting considering that I was taking a shower (standing in the bathtub) while it was playing

• tobyMac – Ill-M-I – Welcome To Diverse City

TobyMac's new CD came out yesterday. I tried to snag it at Wal-Mart this morning on the way to work but they didn't have it. Wal-Mart used to be the place for buying new releases from Christian artists but no more. At least not the one that's near work. It's on the outer edge of the hood. They specialize in edited R&B/Hip-Hop and Latino music. Lots of Latino music.

• The Click Five – Lies – Greetings From Imrie House
• Madonna – Let It Will Be – Confessions On A Dance Floor
• Sam Cooke – Cupid – The Man Who Invented Soul
• Lupe Fiasco – Trials And Tribulations – Food And Liquor
• india.arie – There's Hope – Testimony, Vol. 1: Life & Relationship
• Stars – Elevator Love Letter – Heart
• Wilco - Jesus, Etc. – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Imogen Heap – The Walk – Speak For Yourself
• Janet Jackson – Velvet Rope – Velvet Rope
• Pigeon John – The Grand Ol' Waltz – Pigeon John Sings The Blues

This is refreshing. You don't hear many songs in popular music today with a 3/4 time signature. Most everything is in 4/4 time. I had flashbacks to beginner band in 8th grade and piano lessons when we first learned about counting time. 1-2-3, 1-2-3. 3 beats to a measure. 1-2-3, 1-2-3. My non-accelerator foot and fingers just naturally started tapping to the beat while driving. I couldn't help it. It was engrained in me through years of musical training.

• Cake – No Phone – Pressure Chief
• Hoobastank – Don't Tell Me – Every Man For Himself
• Janet Jackson – janet – Where Are you Now

Very eclectic mix today. I made a tweak to my linked smart playlist system over the weekend. It's made for a vast improvement in the song selection on my radio playlists. That in turn is leading to more songs in the list that I want to hear and less skips. I've been using this system for about a year. It's really improved my ipod listening experience. Over that time I've come across a flaw in the system based upon how the logic is set up. The method of linking the playlists is designed to move new songs into the playlist automatically. The problem is when I skip a song it stays in the playlist instead of cycling out. So I'd end up with some new songs on the playlist each day (or every few days depending on how often I update) and a bunch of songs I didn't want to hear or didn't feel like hearing at that time languishing there for days or weeks. I got tired of skipping the same songs each day.

The advent of skip counts in iTunes 7.10was the answer to my problem. I added a toggle to my exclusion playlist to exclude any track skipped in the last 2 weeks. With that in place any track I skip today or whenever is banished to exclusion temporarily. That way I'm getting a larger group of fresh songs populated to the playlist each day when I sync. The system is more efficient at cycling in new songs to replace ones that have already been played or skipped that day now. That translates into a more enjoyable listening experience for me and less battery drain for Gordo Negro (a.k.a The Black Ninja) since I'm not having to skip every few songs.

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It’s Friday. Ain’t got nothing else to do. Might as well get high… on music. Time for a random mix.

Playlist: Big D Radio – WOKI 91.4

Artist/Group – Song – Album Title

• Morningwood – Televisor – Morningwood
• Cake – Wheels – Pressure Chief
• DJ Topcat – Dec. 4th, Oh What A Night (Jay-Z vs. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons) – Best of Bootie 2006
• Ace of Base – Wheel of Fortune – The Sign
• Radiohead - Optimistic – Kid A
• team9 – The Money Song (Hard-Fi vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers. vs. Flying Lizards vs. Abba vs. Jay-Z)
• Christina Aguilera – Ain’t No Other Man (Radio Edit) – Ain’t No Other Man
• Switchfoot – 4:12 – Oh! Gravity
• Frou Frou – Must Be Dreaming – Details
• TV On The Radio - Snakes and Martyrs – Return to Cookie Mountain

The iPod did alright this morning. I had a couple of skips here and there but overall it and I were groovin’ today. This is an interesting list. Notice the distinct absense of people of color this morning. I guess G.ordo N.egro S.ugoi (My iPod’s official name even though my fiance just calls it the Black Negro) was feeling the white folks this morning. Two Swedish super groups were in the mix, Abba and Ace of Base. You see Frou Frou with Imogen Heap on vocals. I love her voice. The new Switchfoot is in the house. I haven’t had a chance to really sit down and digest that album yet. GNS seems to like smashups that include Jay-Z. Gotta have at least one brother reppin’ for the people.

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