Jinks the Hijinksed

SOTD: Third Eye Blind ( @3eb ) - Jumper





I love this entire (eponymous) album. If you’ve never listened, I suggest you do so ASAP. (It contains the song Semi-Charmed Life, which you will recognise from the radio in the late ‘90s, although there will be some lyrics that you don’t recognise because apparently it wasn’t considered ‘done’ to play songs about how awesome crystal meth is on radio.)

This song in particular is just kind of perfect. I can't justify that exactly, but if you listen you'll know what I mean.

SOTD: The Cure – Burn




"Just paint your face" the shadows smile
Slipping me away from you
"Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep a while you must be tired... "

(Okay, so today’s SOTD was going to be Tori Amos’s Cornflake Girl, but it’s not on Grooveshark so I’ll have to upload the entirety of Tales of a Librarian at some point and do that one another day.)

SOTD: The Cure: The Loudest Sound



I love this song. The music is almost-but-not-quite melancholy, almost-but-not-quite an emotion which is nearly happiness, but comes closer to ‘smiling a little bit’, and lands almost directly on ‘wistful’. The lyrics land quite solidly on the ‘sad’ side of wistful:

“Side by side in silence they pass away the day. So comfortable, so habitual, and so nothing left to say. Nothing left to say. Nothing left to say. Side by side in silence his thoughts echo ‘round. He looks up at the skies, yeah; she looks down at the ground…stares down at the ground. Stares down at the ground. Side by side in silence they wish for different worlds: she dreams him as a boy, and he loves her as a girl. Loves her as a girl. And side by side in silence, without a single word. It’s the loudest sound. It’s the loudest sound. It’s the loudest sound I ever heard.“

I completely forgot to do this yesterday, so today you’ll get two.

Here is a song which reflects how I’m feeling regarding the whole Maine vote thing:

SOTD1: Black Eyed Peas – Where Is the Love?



Just the lyrics, though. If you want music that adequately reflects what I’m feeling (that wasn’t written by a synaesthetic Welsh dude in a basement) this is the song that’s been getting me through the morning:

SOTD2: Busta Rhymes Ft. Linkin Park VS. Chris Cornell – Part Of Me Made It

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=27

(the link to play is about half way down the page).

Thing #39478303 you probably don’t know about me: I am a TOTAL mashup!whore. Well done mashups are my crack, for serious. My friend allmadhere recently linked me to a blog where there are around 20-30 mashup albums, on each of which are around 15 tracks.

Today’s SOTD is from one of them. You’re going to look at it, and think that I’ve gone crazy, but (other than one or two phrases which are a little out of sync, timing wise) it is AMAZING.

SOTD: Nena vs. Jay-Z – 99 Luft Problems (DJ Morgoth’s German Edit)




What made me think of this was that I woke up with the Glee Cast’s version of Don’t Stop Believing a few days ago, and then ended up going through a few of them, and then listened to the mashups that they did, which are amazing and awesome and mindblowing and I’ve linked below because NNNNNGH, okay.





And for good measure:



So you can all get it in YOUR heads!!