Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters

Song: God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
Artist: Moby
Album: Everything Is Wrong
Genre: Eclectic, Electronic, Neo-Classical
Year: 1995

Everybody knows Play, 18 and Hotel albums (the three last ones), but not this one. And it's a real pitty because it contains such amazing tracks as this one, which can be considered as the perfect song.


It can be listened, for example, at Heat on the last sequence of the film or at Syriana's trayler (the last George Clooney's film).

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David Gray - Please Forgive Me

Song: Please Forgive Me
Artist: David Gray
Album: White Loader
Genre: Rock
Year: 2000

As an Amazon review explains: this album is pure beauty. And it's true.

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Late Night Alumi - Empty Streets

Song: Empty Streets
Artist: Late Night Alumi
Album: Empty Streets
Genre: Electronic, House
Year: 2005

This summer, a girl gave me a dj session where appeared this song as the third track. I spent a lot of time trying to find which was it's title until yesterday, when I listened it on the radio for the first time. I have to admit it's worth listening to the hole album even though you don't like dance or house music because you'll be pretty good surprised. You'll find a lot of genres well mixed: from chill out to house music, passing by trip-hop.

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Jose Gonzalez - Hints

Song: Hints
Artist: José González
Album: Veneer
Genre: Folk
Year: 2005

To be lucky is important in life. And if a big company like Sony thinks that one song (Heartbeats) from your last album is pefect for his last tv spot (the one where they throw 250.000 coloured balls on a San Francisco street), then you'll have a lot of free advertising. Above that marketing intro, we have to admit that this is an incredible folk album. It reminds me too much as Damien Rice - o.

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South - Paint the silence

Song: Paint the silence
Artist: South
Album: From here on in
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2002

I've had this track for so long time but I don't get tired of listening it. I just have this tune of the band and I'm always begging for more but, at the end, everything gets out of my mind. They published another album in 2003. I guess it's time to take a closer look.

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Staind - Price to play

Song: Price to play
Artist: Staind
Album: Shades of Grey
Genre: Hard Rock
Year: 2003

This band started really strong, supported by Limp Bizkit's leader, but they felt down as time passed by (at least on Europe). Even though, they made really good songs. On this track, I love the pain restrained that livens up the air while room's temperature reaches it's top at the end when everything explodes. Wow!

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Scissor Sisters - Mary

Song: Mary
Artist: Scissor Sisters
Album: Scissor Sisters
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2004

Retro look and 60's disco beats. This album was one of the best surprises of last '04 summer. I wanted to post the slow tune of the album 'cause it reminds me somehow to Elton John early begining.

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Pepe Deluxe - Salami Fever

Song: Salami Fever
Artist: Pepe Deluxe
Album: Beatitude
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2003

A frenetic rhythm impregnates this song. Playing so many different tempos and beats (as the album title reflects) but structured on the right way. Quite funny too. I discovered it thanks to a Ray Ban tv spot.

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Ok Go - You're so damn hot

Song: You're So Damn Hot
Artist: Ok Go
Album: Ok Go
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2002

A happy and funny rock song, thinking about 70's when everybody was cool!

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Madonna - Get Together

Song: Get Together
Artist: Madonna
Album: Confessions on a Dance Floor
Genre: Dance
Year: 2005

The Queen of Pop came back a few weeks ago with a new album... and do we have to add her a new qualification as the Queen of Dance ? What an incredible tribute she has done to Dance music! Wow! It was long time ago since I enjoyed not a Madonna's album so much! I guess that no one on this planet has the hability to re-invent himself as much as Madonna does, continuously adapting her music with new times. I love the idea of mixing all tracks as if it was just only one session.

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Ernestine Anderson - It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)

Song: It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)
Artist: Ernestine Anderson
Album: Hello Like Before
Genre: Jazz
Year: 1989

I gues it's Jazz time, because it's the fifth consecutive post of this genre. This time, it's a well known song. Do you know any jazz singer who hasn't versioned this tune? I gues not. The one that concernes us, it's a dizzy and quite fast played version. Very funny and pefect for dancing (except for me, I'm not able to move that way!).

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Nina Simone - Tell me more and more and then some

Song: Tell me more and more and then some
Artist: Nina Simone
Album: After Hours
Genre: Slow Jazz
Year: 1995

From one Diva to another. Isn't it cool? The title of the album is perfect to describe those emotions. Imagine you are sitting on a dive bar after a really hard-bad day, drinking a whisky all alone. Then, a big black woman starts singing on the scene while an old black man plays his black grand piano. Well, certainly that would be the song you'll be hearing.

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Carmen McRae - T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do

Song: T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
Artist: Carmen McRae
Album: Best Of
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Year: 1995

One of my Jazz Diva's par excellence. This song is old, really old, and it appears on a lot of albums. But I've wanted to post this version 'cause I think it's the best one. Why? Well... you have to listen it to realize what I'm talking about. First of all, the song really worths it. Second, because The Diva is completely engaged with the song. And last one (and the most important too): it's live and there's a tremendous complicity between diva and public (you maybe will not listen such an incredible complicity again).
Enjoy it.

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Bobby McFerrin - Thinking About Your Body

Song: Thinking About Your Body
Artist: Bobby McFerrin
Album: Spontaneous Inventions
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1990

You won't believe it until you hear it! There's only one man singing on this song. No instruments. No electric effects. Just his versatile voice and percusion on his body. Funny but incredible at the same time. You'll love it.

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Charlie Hunter Trio - Greasy Granny

Song: Greasy Granny
Artist: Charlie Hunter Trio
Album: Bing, Bing, Bing!
Genre: Instrumental Jazz
Year: 1995

Great song (I've listened it today for the fist time, even though it was on my iPod for a long time). Perfect to be used as a show anthem. You'll realize why when you listened to it.

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Franco Sansalone - Amore, Amaro

Song: Amore, Amaro
Artist: Franco Sansalone
Album: Wolf's Rain O.S.T. 2
Genre: Soundtrack, Blues, Italian
Year: 2004

I don't know much people who know about this man and this song. A dark piano and hoarsed voice singing on italian. Isn't it a sensation of pure sadness? Darkness? Loneliness? It's the second time that I post a song of this album, but I thought I had to do it!.

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Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood

Song: Knock On Wood
Artist: Eddie Floyd
Album: Knock On Wood
Genre: Soul
Year: 1991

Everybody has listened to it. You've listened too. Don't you?

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Herbie Hancock - A Song For You

Song: A Song For You
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Album: Possibilities
Genre: Pop Rock
Year: 2005

The new album of a piano/keyboard legend, now helped with some friends(?) voices. At this song, Christina Aguilera makes her best (we all know that she has an incredible voice, even though she doesn't know how to compose a song).

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Beady Belle - When My Anger Starts To Cry

Song: When My Anger Starts To Cry
Artist: Beady Belle
Album: Cewbegappic
Genre: New Jazz
Year: 2004

The new jazz has come by the hand of this woman (she's not the only one, of course). Classic jazz with some electric music on the background. Some parts of the song even reminds me to some chill-jazz (quite strange, isn't it?). Time changes... and jazz is not an exception.

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Pastora - Desolado

Song: Desolado
Artist: Pastora
Album: La Vida Moderna
Genre: Spanish, Pop Rock
Year: 2005

This second album of this spanish band has just been published, but this song has been on my ming for months since the first time I listened it. I love the sweet piano and guitar that accompanis the dramatic voice and the lyrics. Maybe this album is quite more personal than the first one, which was a little bit more pseudo-electronic.

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The Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day/Reach For The Sun

Song:Light & Day/Reach For The Sun
Artist: The Polyphonic Spree
Album: The Beginning Stages
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2003

I don't know what this song has. I don't know why... but every time I listen to it, a reaction fills my body. I guess it's its melody, or its chorus, or its voices or its lyric. Or maybe it is the mix of all of this things. I don't know why... but everytime I listen to this song, it makes me smile!

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Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky

Song: Orange Sky
Artist: Alexi Murdoch
Album: Four Songs
Genre: Folk
Year: 2003

The title of the ablum couldn't be more explicit: It is the number of songs that you'll find on it. A disc with just four songs? Yes. Strange, but don't get confused: As many songs an album has, doesn't mean they are better. In fact, the song that concernes this post is reason enough to listen the others (eaven though they are quite few). Get yourself relaxed listening its melody. It was used too on The O.C. Soundtrack (the tv serie; I don't know exactky when or where it sounds, I just discovered it on the soundtrack).

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Phoenix - Too Young

Song: Too Young
Artist: Phoenix
Album: United
Genre: Pop Rock
Year: 2000

High Pop-Rock quality. This band is full of vitality and you've already heared them but you don't know it. If you have seen Lost In Translation, you've heared this song. And if you watch tv, you've heared another songs on tv spots. They are just starting (only two albums and another live) but they are kicking with their compositions.

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Echobrain - We Are Ghosts

Song: We Are Ghosts
Artist: Echobrain
Album: Echobrain
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2002

This is the first album of Metallica bass-man with his new band a few years ago. And this song deserves a post. Why? Please, listen it carefully and then judge by yourself (that's the best advice anyone could tell you). On my opinion, the despair of melody and voice are so evident that sadness cropps up suddenly.

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Blue October - Calling You

Song: Calling You
Artist: Blue October
Album: History For Sale
Genre: Rock
Year: 2003

No. It's not a Jevetta Steele song's version. It has nothing to do with it, above it's title. This song is perfect to be heared on a swimming pool party wth your friends while everybody is loughing and shouting.

I don't like the cover of this album at all... really ugly, isnt it?

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Eve 6 - How Much Longer

Song: How Much Longer
Artist: Eve 6
Album: Eve 6
Genre: Alternative Rock, Punk
Year: 1998

I've heared nothing else about this group band except this album. I love the track that opens it, quite energic. Above all it's chorus.

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Kings Of Convenience - Misread

Song: Misread
Artist: Kings Of Convenience
Album: Riot On An Empty Street
Genre: Folk Rock
Year: 2004

To be considered as the new Simon And Garfunkel are some big words. I think they still have to improve a lot to be described with that qualification, but this second album is quite amazing.

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The Cardigans - For what is worth

Song: For what it's worth
Artist: The Cardigans
Album: Long Gone Before Daylight
Genre: Pop Rock
Year: 2004

Simply song made effective. I love how the play with words: " For what it's worth... I love you. And what is worst... I really do. Oh what is worse... I'm gonna run 'till the sweetness gets yo you. And what is worse... I love you ". Isn't it really cool?. They have just published a new album.... I guess I'll have to check it soon!

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Faithless - Crazy English Summer

Song: Crazy English summer
Artist: Faithless feat. Zoe Johnston
Album: Outrospective
Genre: Electronic
Year: 2001

The band of Maxi Jazz (voice), Sister Bliss (keyboards and electronic rythm) and Rollo (underneath the surface, mixing) composed this sweet lovely song full of sadness. Pain of the heart under english summer rain.

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My Vitriol - Always Your Way

Song: Always Your Way
Artist: My Vitriol
Album: Finelines
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2002

I don't know why this band hasn't already done another album. It's a mistery to me... 'cause this album is awesome! Just the opposite english band as some more sentimental like Coldplay or Travis, the critics of this album were all praises. So, check out this track as an example if you don't know them. You'll be hearing it on and one for days.

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