My Best Friend

I made a mixtape for my best friend the other day.  Good news:  she loves it!!

1. I Woke Up In A Car - Something Corporate
2. My Best Friend - Weezer
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
4. I Miss You - Blink-182
5. Rock 'n' Roll High School - The Ramones
6. Ode to Sleep - twenty one pilots
7. Skin - BOY
8. Afraid - The Neighbourhood
9. Sex - The 1975
10. Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore
11. Miss Jackson (feat. Lolo) - Panic! at the Disco
12. 21 Guns - Green Day
13. Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy
14. Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
15. Money - Pink Floyd
16. Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
17. Time of Your Life - Green Day

Proud of Your Boy

Just when I think I have learned so much about music I learn something completely new.

I was looking through a list of songs on the website CollegeCandy and saw the song "21 and Invincible" by the band Something Corporate.  I was intrigued by the sound of the tune and just had to Google the group.  Apparently, Lauren Conrad's fiancé William Tell was a former member of this band!

You learn something new every day.

I also learned from BuzzFeed that "Part of Your World" was almost cut from The Little Mermaid.  How could they have even considered cutting that song from that movie?!

I swear my mind just keeps getting blown.

And I also learned, from that same article, that "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" was cut from The Lion King and Elton John told producers to put the song back in the film when he watched it with the piece removed.

I'm sorry the Disney facts are going to continue due to the BuzzFeed article.

John Lennon denied Disney's requests for The Beatles to provide the vultures' voices in The Jungle Book.  That would've been cool to hear their voices in that film!

A song called "Proud of Your Boy" was cut from the movie Aladdin but is in the Broadway musical.

Christina Aguilera's debut single was "Reflection" from Mulan.

Sirens

Cher Lloyd's first single off her upcoming album Sorry I'm Late is definitely worth the long wait.  It's such an addicting song.

The song was released on iTunes not too long ago and is a little different from what we're used to getting from her.  Her songs usually contain rap but this one doesn't at all.  It's actually a beautiful song and she sounds amazing as well...as usual.

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All the Small Things

Because who doesn't like Blink-182?

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Take A Walk

I definitely have not lived up to my potential these past few months with the infrequent posts.

But I should begin posting more.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I spent the day with my friend yesterday and as we were driving to our destination, she put in a Passion Pit CD.  I'll be honest:  my Music Rookie was really showing, because I for the most part had absolutely no idea who they were.

Passion Pit are an indietronica group from Massachusetts.  The band consists of Michael Angelakos (lead vocals and keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards and guitar), Xander Singh (synthesizer and samples), and Jeff Apruzzese (bass and synth bass).

They have released two CDs, Manners (2009) and Gossamer (2012).  They have also released two EPs, Chunk of Change (2008) and Constant Conversations (2013).

Nine singles were released from 2008-2013 such as "Sleepyhead" from their album Manners and "Take a Walk" from Gossamer.

My favorite song so far is "Take a Walk."  It's a fun song that was called the third-best song of 2012 by Rolling Stone magazine in January 2013.

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