When She Walks It’s Like a Samba

Hello there readers. I finally blogged!! I’m so proud, you see, I’ve been sick these past few days. And today I feel better so I figured “Why not blog? It’s better than watching maury” Which brings me here. Well, actually, what brings me here is the fact that my “Happily Listening To Music Time” was interrupted.

You see, every now and then I get strange urges to leave my usually 80’s/70’s rock/pop and listen to something else. This time it happened to be saxophone music. Along with clarinet, piano, and some Classical, but still. Mostly saxophone.

Since the majority of music we have belongs to my father (he collects CD’s, has about 600 now), I had to go to the garage to find some. While I was in there, I found music I haven’t seen in forever. So I just grabbed whatever I could find and went back into the house to put them on my ipod, which then went into my ipod speakers.

And the I laid on the floor in front of the fan, as my fever was acting up again (wood floors are really cold- it was heaven. So for about an hour, I listened to the musical stylings of (listed as name-occupation-songs):

Stan Getz (Brazilian saxophonist): “Girl From Ipanema” along with many others

Astrud Gilberto (Brazilian Jazz Singer): “Girl From Ipanema”, “Fly Me to the Moon”, “Look of Love”, others

Joao Gilberto (Brazilian Jazz artist): Numerous duets with Stan Getz

Dave Koz (American Saxophonist): Oh my god, he did a version of one of my favortie songs, “Careless Whisper”!! Except instead of singing the 2nd and 3rd chorus, he just plays the sax. Really lovely cover.

Chet Baker (American Jazz Artist): “Stella By Starlight” with Stan Getz

Vanessa Mae (Asian-British Violinist): “Minuet” and “Firefly” aka, “Hotaru’s Lalala Theme” from Sailor Moon. Yeah, she did Sailor Moon music.

Debussy (Classical Musician [Twilight fangirls, cream your pants]): “Claire de Lune”, “Reverie”, “Nocturne”, “Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra 

Frank Sinatra (you’re shitting me if you don’t know who this is): Numerous songs. Found my dad’s “Frank Sinatra: Duets” CD in the garage and have stolen it.

Kenny G (American Saxophonist): Mostly listened to ”All the Way/One more for My Baby” on the Sinatra duets CD. He plays kickass saxophone music.

Bono: Not a big fan of U2 or Bono, but he sang the song “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” with Sinatra, so he can’t be that bad

Mozart (Communist who played piano at the whitehouse in 1960): “Violin Sonata in D”, ”Clarinet Conceirto in A”

Beethoven (pioneer of the electric guitar): “Violin Romance”, “Moonlight Sonata”

The Rippingtons (Jazz band, played with Dave Koz): “Moonlighting”, “Open All Night”

Antonio Carlos Jombim (Brazilian Jazz artist): “One Note Samba”

Sailor Moon (Don’t know the name of the artist, just that it was in sailor moon): Numerous Piano covers of famous Sailor Moon songs. Also some off of the “Brass Fantasy” album, which are also covers, but done is brass instrumentals.

Vince Guaraldi (American [?] jazz artist): Famous for composing a lot of the “Charlie Brown TV Specials”. Listened to the song “Fur Elise”, off of his christmas album.

Carpenters (See any entries under: http://nosuya.wordpress.com/category/my-music-is-where-id-like-youto-touch/ for info on them) “Touch Me When We’re Dancing”. It has a beautiful sax solo. 

Michael Frank (American Pianist, i think): No Saxophone, just piano, and something else I can’t out my finger on… Listened to his song “Popsicle Toes” which I loved when I was little, but never knew what it meant. Listening to it now, about 7 years later, I realize it is about a guy saying he can “warm up” his freezing girlfriend by having sex with her, so she will no longer have popsicle toes. Ew.

Annie Lennox (of Eurythmics fame): “Love song for a Vampire” It’s like a slow song, but techno-y. And it talks about Love and Blood, but never mentions Vampires.

And that was it. I was just lying on the floor, letting all of the smooth jazz, brazilian jazz, and classical music that in my “Recently Added” playlist surround me.

I of course forgot that playlist has everything I added in that past week. Imagine My surprise when I hear this:

“MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD”

Oh yeah… I totally forgot I added that just yesterday…

And thus, my easy listening ended, and I then listened to horrible slutty music that shouldn’t even be on my ipod, including:

“He Loves Me He Loves You Not” Dream

“Milkshake” Kelis

“Don’t Cha (Wsh your girlfriend was a freak like me)” Pussycat Dolls

“Want Me, Want Me” Namie Amuro (sluttiness in another language!!)

That song that goes “More, More, More, how do you like it how do you like it”

“Buttons” Pussycat Dolls

“Girlfriend” Avril Lavigne

“Candyman” Christina Aguilera

“Girls on Film” Duran Duran (couldn’t help myself)

“I Wanna Sex You Up” Some rapper from the 90’s

“Like a Virgin” Madonna

“I kissed a Girl” Katy Perry

“Obsession” Animotion

Ahhh. Lovely skanky songs.

Edit: I originally kept going on and on about different topics in this post, but I’m just going to move them to a new post.