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Archive for June, 2012

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU5LMG3WFBw Hammer to Fall By: Queen What’s not to love about Queen? Freddie Mercury’s incredible voice and theatrical style, Brian May’s clean and wailing flanged guitar sounds, a capella vocals, and a band that understands the soul of rock ‘n’ roll. I could go on for pages and pages and still not even scratch the surface of this […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJ4O-nSveg Lightning Crashes By: Live I still remember the day I purchased the Throwing Copper album. My mother was working at a music store in Calgary, and I used to go in with her sometimes for singing lessons. The lessons themselves were only an hour long, but I cherished them (I had a massive crush on my […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW8J4fWCeaY Name By: Goo Goo Dolls Arguably one of the best hits of the 1990s (written by one of my favourite bands from the 1990s), Name is a song that holds lasting appeal. Although Johnny Rzeznik wrote the song about his past and being raised by his sisters after his parents died, the lyrics are obscure enough […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQg4C5l9aPk Switchback By: CellDweller If you can forgive the goth porn/epilepsy inducing music video, the song is really quite catchy (if a bit on the angsty side). There are a few reasons why I really like CellDweller. Today, for fun, I’m going to present my reasons in the format of a bullet list. There’s nothing […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-QKFbNU2CY Details in the Fabric By Jason Mraz Well, this one speaks for itself in many ways. I’m not a big Jason Mraz fan, but when I’m feeling low this song has a pretty strong and uplifting message. Everybody needs a few of those in their playlist that they can seek refuge in during times […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRGvJ6ep_G0 Masterpiece Theatre 1 By Marianas Trench It seems odd to follow up a classic band like the Eagles with a modern pop-punk group from Vancouver, but this blog series is about music that has inspired me or touched my life somehow, rather than just artists that have withstood the test of time. The group […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUevY8GHLiw ‘Hotel California’ By: The Eagles It took me a while to decide which Eagles song to include in this blog series. I’ve had a long and involved relationship with this band over the years, and their own history as a band has been tumultuous, but it’s hard to deny their obvious talent and broad […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GteUS553vI ‘Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture’ By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky And now we reach my absolute favourite classical composer, the expressive and bombastic Tchaikovsky. To me, he represents the best elements of the Romantic period in classical music – his melodies are clever and compelling, his compositions are grand in scale and they build steadily in […]

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