26 Responses to “Life (or Something Like It) Through Other People’s Songs: Part 1”

1. MEH on April 16th, 2008 12:50 am

   Shane Bernard - Waiting Room

2. MEH on April 17th, 2008 1:37 am

   Lauryn Hill - Adam Lives in Theory
   Grits - My life be like (Oh Ah)
   Stevie Wonder - Dancing to the Rhythm (of Your love)
   Brad Killman - Desperately Distant

3. MEH on April 17th, 2008 2:22 am

   Caedmon’s Call - This World
   The Roots - Clock with No Hands

4. Ryan Scott on April 17th, 2008 11:18 am

   Big Dispatch fan, huh? I love Dispatch, but I don’t find too many people who even recognize the name.

5. MEH on April 17th, 2008 7:01 pm

   Yeah. They’ve made a mental resurgence.

6. MEH on April 17th, 2008 11:30 pm

   Caedmon’s Call - I just don’t want coffee
   Pigeon John - Deception

7. smalls on April 18th, 2008 1:19 am

   No order, just a mid-night mission to create a new playlist…

   Dream About Flying, Alexi Murdoch
   Not the Land, Caedmon’s Call
   Brand New Colony, The Postal Service
   Children’s Story, Tom Waits
   God Bless the Child (1956 Version), Billie Holiday
   It Takes Time to Build, Beastie Boys
   Waiting for My Real Life to Begin, Colin Hay
   Psalm 19, Shane Barnard
   Prelude [Cello Suite No. 1], Yo-Yo Ma
   Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
   Papercut, Linkin Park
   Drunkard’s Prayer, Over the Rhine
   Break Me Through, Bebo Norman
   Angry Rant, 5 O’clock People

8. MEH on April 19th, 2008 12:39 am

   All Along the Watchtower {Take your pick}

9. MEH on April 19th, 2008 1:26 pm

   Atmosphere(Slug) - The Jackpot

10. MEH on April 22nd, 2008 11:34 pm

    Chris Tomlin - Holy is the Lord
    Lauryn Hill - He’s like the Water

11. MEH on April 25th, 2008 8:08 am

    Oh Holy Night

12. MEH on May 2nd, 2008 12:58 am

    John Mayer - Stop This Train
    Guster - So Long
    John Legend - Ordinary People
    John Legend - Used to Love You

    (s’up E ?)

13. MEH on May 2nd, 2008 1:11 am

    (Funny when you read the lyrics to a song after they cross your mind. Esp. in the midst of private jokes.)

    Guster - Parachute

14. MEH on June 19th, 2008 12:53 pm

    Matchbox 20 - Bent
    Sting - Seven Days
    Ludacris - Slap
    Feist - How My Heart Behaves

15. MEH on June 19th, 2008 8:58 pm

    DMB - Grey Street (the original version done at concerts the summer before and record on the Lillywhite Sessions)

16. MEH on June 21st, 2008 6:10 pm

    Counting Crows - Long December

17. MEH on June 22nd, 2008 2:25 am

    Green Day - Time of your Life (Good Riddance)
    Martin Sexton - Where Did I Go Wrong
    Fiest - So Sorry

18. MEH on June 23rd, 2008 9:50 am

    Guster - Either Way
    Alanis Moriesette - Perfect
    Maroon 5 - Must Get Out
    Dave Matthews Band - Captain (Lillywhite Sessions)

19. MEH on June 28th, 2008 3:45 pm

    Carbon Leaf - Life Less Ordinary

    Sting - Saint Augustine in Hell

20. MEH on July 3rd, 2008 8:58 pm

    One Republic ~ Say (All I Need)

21. MEH on July 15th, 2008 10:35 pm

    Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

    mostly the end

22. MEH on July 18th, 2008 11:48 am

    Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
    Postal Service - Brand New Colony
    (Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight)
    8thW1 - A Fool’s Lullaby
    (Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight)

23. MEH on August 18th, 2008 10:48 pm

    The Roots - I Will Not Apologize
    Sting - Someone to Watch Over Me (Remixed Cover)
    Stevie Wonder - I’m More Than Happy (I’m Satisfied)
    Ani DiFranco - Hell Yeah

24. MEH on August 24th, 2008 12:01 pm

    Nickel Creek -(I hope you find)Somebody More Like You

25. MEH on September 24th, 2008 10:44 pm

    Death Cab for Cutie - I’ll Follow you into the Dark
    Allison Krauss - Down to the River to Pray

26. MEH on February 21st, 2009 1:19 pm

    FACEBOOK:

    “Think of 15 (or 25 or 30) albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world.”

    No particular order …

    1. Roots - Game Theory
    2. Dave Mathews Band - Recently
    3. Dave and Tim (live at luther college) - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
    4. Counting Crows - Across a Wire: Live in NYC
    5. John Mayer – Room for Squares (Original Aware release)
    6. John Mayer - Continuum
    7. The Fray - How to Save a Life
    8. Alanis Morrissette - MTV Unplugged
    9. Stevie Wonder – Hotter Than July
    10. Stevie Wonder – Journey through the secret lives of plants
    11. Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
    12. Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar
    13. A Brentwood Jazz Tape (couldn’t tell you name, long gone)
    14. Commissioned – The Ordinary Just Won’t Do
    15. Vince Guiraldi – A Charlie Brown Christmas
    16. Modest Mussgrosky – Pictures at an Exhibition
    17. James Taylor – The Best of James Taylor (2003)
    18. Nickel Creek – This Side
    19. Dispatch – Silent Steeples
    20. Tonic – Lemon Parade
    21. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
    22. Gruvis Malt – Sound Soldiers
    23. DJ Danger Mouse – Grey Album (Jay-Z/Beatles Mashup)
    24. Jay-Z – Black Album
    25. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
    26. Indigo Girls –Retrospective

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