Happy New Year

Some songs which I feel are worthy to hear on this big day!

Points for  the  creative  music video! 
Cake – Short Skirt/Long Jacket



Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros know how ! 


Top 3 by anjAlba
 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Carries On
 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Janglin
 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream


This song  is like a dream, only it's real. And  it  makes  me  happy. Repeatedly !
There is a reason why this page has the same name as this song..

A dreamer’s holiday

What is the same as having a holiday and be able to listen to lots of music every day?
-And to do exactly what you want? (no  work  and  no  school!)
  
Lovely!
Jon and Roy – Boon 'elm





Hah, cool! (song and video)
The Black Keys – All You Ever Wanted
The Black Keys – Tighten Up





YACHT, never  disappoint.
YACHT – The Summer Song
YACHT – Psychic City - Classixx Remix
YACHT – Psychic City

And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while.

The Airborne Toxic Event is an American indie rock band, named after a section of the book White Noise.
 I’m a fanatic for strings, lyrics, and broken hearted love songs. This one have all  the three properties. Then it's probably not surprising that I am captivated by this..




Top 3 by anjAlba
The Airborne Toxic Event – Half Of Something Else - Acoustic Version
The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight
The Airborne Toxic Event – Innocence

When I fall in love ...

... I listen to old songs. Imagine if I lived than . What a wonderful world.

Top 3 Etta James by  anjAlba
Etta James – At Last - Single Version
Etta James – Don't Cry Baby - Single Version
Etta James – Stormy Weather

 

Here are my 250 favorite LP versions from 1956-1968.
LP Subscribe on Spotify, and it's yours, forever.

If I was a man, I would look like this.

And be married to her...

 

All the pictures in "If I was a man, I would look like this" posts are taken from 

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

- that has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Tio 100 Design Influencers

I can’t believe that guy’s married to her. I would get her so pregnant.

Holiday, at last! Ok, let's go

I've always thought that the songs themselfes was maybe a little weak, and I would most likely had forgotten them. If it wasn't for the videos. The videos remains rather fantastic!

Spotify
OK Go – Here It Goes Again
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass




Ok, here it goes again!

Dance yourself clean

For the eye and the ear!
Three cool songs and three cool dances.

Yelle, belle, do you want to ring my bell?



Hardcore Girls, and maybe one not-so-hardcore boy? 



The Coaster. Yeah, I guess this must be for the eye ... (although I love the song!).

My heart longs for Roskilde ..

As you might see (if you had read my blog), there were several bands that charmed me at Roskilde Festival.
Beach House, was one of them.

Spotify:
Beach House – Zebra
Beach House – Norway
Cool story about how they made the song "Norway". After a visit in Bergen, they got challenged to make a song on the train journey from Bergen - Stavanger. And they did! Hence the title, Norway.





Broken Bells is another band who did the same with me, charmed me completely.
Broken Bells – The High Road

They heard me singing and they told me to stop

.. did they?! Well, I don't.
What a song. What a text. What a group. They know how!

Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock ..



We run away, but we don't know why

On repeat

The four songs that have been on repeat the last days... and it won't stop.

The Shins – Sleeping Lessons - the song for today. Listen and be captivated!
The Raveonettes – Last Dance
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
and High Highs - Open Season (the song from yesterday)

Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

My new favorite!

While I let it spin, I lean back and start dreaming away. To the time in Hawaii...

May it be

North Shore ... What else is there?

Confessions

As I hate to like what everyone else seem to love, I must make a confession ...  or two

My heart really do skip a beat when I'm listening to The xx.

A cool version I stumbled over!
+ OMD - VCR (rough mix)
 



Top 3 by anjAlba
The xx – Crystalised
The xx – Heart Skipped A Beat
The xx – Shelter


and Florence + The Machine ... oh my. No wonder the video has had 6,281,668 views.



Florence + The Machine – Dog Days Are Over

OK, one more ...

The Australian electronic music duo band, Empire Of The Sun (that formed in 2006), still move my body and my soul after the first time I heard them two years ago.



Spotify:
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (Van She Tech Remix)
Empire Of The Sun – Standing On The Shore
Empire Of The Sun – Half Mast
Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People (Shazam Remix)
Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People (We Are The Cagedbaby Mix - UK Edit)
Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People

When I fall in love

There is Chris Martin, there is Justin Vernon, and then there is .... Matt Berninger!



Top 3 by anjAlba
The National – Anyone’s Ghost
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
The National – Terrible Love

If I was a man, I would look like this.

And be married to her...

All the pictures in "If I was a man, I would look like this" posts are taken from 

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

- that has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Tio 100 Design Influencers

I can’t believe that guy’s married to her. I would get her so pregnant.

Svensker ass...

Jag gillar!

Pallers – The Kiss

For the ear ...

This is quite different (and much better) from the electronic universe I normally associate with Trentemøller.

+Sycamore  Feeling (Trentemøller Remix)
This remix of Sycamore Feeling is brilliant, but the rest…???

The Brooklyn trio does it all: psych-pop, post-Apocalypic new wave to epileptic space disco.


+Fever
Spotify
Sensual Harassment – Fever

When everything he says is wrong and all you want to feel is “gone” ...

... say no to love.




+Say No To Love

Spotify
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than The Stars
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction

For better and for worse.

It became a spontaneous favorite when I heard The Kissaway Trail the first time a year ago.
So now it must be honored. Congratulations you have been with me for a year!
And I will be with you for better and for worse....




Top 3 by anjAlba
The Kissaway Trail – SDP - Radio edit
The Kissaway Trail – New Lipstick
The Kissaway Trail – Enemy

If this is the last dance, then save it for me baby

Does this imply that the Danish duo is about to become ... mega big?
I, as a fan of texts with delicious phrases and words, could not ignore these great ones here:

I adore you
I always have
And everytime you overdose
I rush to intensive care





+Suckers
+ The last dance
Spotify
The Raveonettes

Heart skipped a beat ..

... when I heard that Kings Of Leon is playing at Roskilde this year.
See you there,  in 205 days!

Ok, det skal vel litt mer til før jeg drar. Men kommer en av disse skal jeg love deg at du finner meg i et telt i sommer! :
Coldplay
Bon Iver
Arcade Fire
Empire Of The Sun
The xx
Kings Of Leon
Prodigy (ja, igjen)
Kordan
M83

Top 3 by  anjAlba
Kings Of Leon – Fans
Kings Of Leon – Cold Desert
Kings Of Leon – Radioactive

My heart longs for Roskilde ..

Top 3 by anjAlba
Local Natives – Wide Eyes
Local Natives – Airplanes
Local Natives – Sun Hands

If I was a man, I would look like this.

And be married to her...

All the pictures in "If I was a man, I would look like this" posts are taken from 

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

- that has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Tio 100 Design Influencers

I can’t believe that guy’s married to her. I would get her so pregnant.

Svensker ass...

Hand clapping!

 


Hiv de på spotify lista di
The Tough Alliance – Neo Violence
The Tough Alliance – Koka-Kola Veins

Dårlig tid.
Så da velger jeg å gjøre det enkelt. Min spotify liste og mine kjære favoritter: anjAlba

Teaser:
The Kissaway Trail – New Lipstick
Crystal Fighters – At Home
The Bewitched Hands – Hard To Cry - (album version)
LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
Gorillaz – Empire Ants (Feat. Little Dragon)
The Count & Sinden – Hardcore Girls - Feat. Rye Rye
Flunk – Common Sense
Shout Out Louds – Fall Hard
Don Henley – The Boys Of Summer
Beach House – Norway
The xx – Crystalised
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Carries On
Johnny Neon – Hearts
Band Of Skulls – Cold Fame
Kings Of Leon – Radioactive
America – A Horse With No Name
Etta James – At Last - Single Version
Matthew Dear – Deserter
Sad Day For Puppets – Long Gone
Blur – Tender
Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Lovesick
Tocadisco feat. Lennart A. Salomon – Better Begin
The Clean Shaven Grins – Level
Estelle – Freak [feat. Kardinal Offishall]
We Have Band – You Came Out (Stereogamous Remix)
Caribou – Odessa
Black Strobe – I'm A Man
Passion Pit – Dreams
Tellusalie – Kick it back
The Shins – Sleeping Lessons
Broken Bells – The High Road
Sigur Ros – Glósóli

Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

Can't quite fathom why I'm not in Hawaii this Christmas as well.
It`s difficult to describe Hawai`i in so few words. It probably wouldn`t be fair.
But at this moment in time, I would say ... it's better than my best dreams. It's real.

All the pictures in "Freeze this frame" posts have been taken by me.

Relief washes over me in an awesome wave ...

..when The Drums do their thing.
This reminds me that there do exist a carefree and beautiful world.

The Drums – Let's Go Surfing
The Drums – Me And The Moon



Here are also my playlists on Spotify, take care
anjAlba

Hello, I love you

Is there something I simply love it must be to love this band..

The Temper Trap – Fools
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition



Disse australske gutta boys har holdt på siden 2005. Et råd: ikke stopp!

P.S. Who's Justin Bieber?????

Svensker ass...

No less than breathtakingly beautiful!

Jonathan Johansson – Aldrig ensam(Boeoes Kaelstigen remix)
Jonathan Johansson – Aldrig ensam

Når jeg må ta en pause fra Bon Iver (ikke fordi jeg er lei, men fordi det finnes tross alt andre artister der ute som fortjener en spinn) da er andre valget lett -vår norske Gud.

 

Om du ikke har de på Spotify lista fra før, da vet du hva du må gjøre
Thomas Dybdahl – a love story
Thomas Dybdahl – one day you'll dance for me, new york city

With all your lies you're still very lovable

I toured the light so many foreign roads ... men det er forsatt Bon Iver som kaprer meg. Og jeg liker det.
Justin Vernon is the lucky one who carry one of my favorite voices.

"Bon Iver" is an intentional misspelling of the French for "good winter", certainly with a purpose that we ordinary people do not understand.






Top 3 by anjAlba
Bon Iver – For Emma
Bon Iver – Skinny Love
Bon Iver – Lump Sum

Don't believe the hype... or

Because everyone else seem to enjoy it (and because I’m such a dickhead), I really want not to like it. At least be able to say "don't believe the hype." Hands down. My first experiences with Arcade Fire was beyond positive. Fuck ...

+ Wake up

If I was a man, I would look like this.

And be married to her...

All the pictures in "If I was a man, I would look like this" posts are taken from 

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

- that has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Tio 100 Design Influencers

I can’t believe that guy’s married to her. I would get her so pregnant.

Mr. Sandman bring me a dream

This is for you girls, thank you, The Chordettes

 


Here are my 250 favorite LP versions from 1956-1968. Listen to these makes me wish I lived back then.

LP
Subscribe on Spotify, and it's yours, forever.

If I was a man, I would look like this.

And been married to her ...

All the pictures in "If I was a man, I would look like this" posts are taken from 

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

- that has been selected as one of Time Magazine's Tio 100 Design Influencers

 I can’t believe that guy’s married to her. I would get her so pregnant.

No One Ever Really Dies

Pharrell Wiiliams may be a N.E.R.D., but he mos def make som SEXY music. In this case with Nelly Furtado.

Spotify
N.E.R.D. – Hot-n-Fun
 

Hands down. Lykke Li, you make me lykkelig.

The Swedish indie pop artist Lykke Li released this song on her debut EP in 2007.
I was not thrilled the first time I heard it, not at all. And not even when it had its place on the hit lists. It took three years before, I not only liked it, but fell in love with it. 




Spotify er tingen
Lykke Li – Little Bit

Og den nyeste av Lykke Li fortjener også en plass på Spotify listen min, og din
Lykke Li – Get Some

Kordan skal man ikke like KORDAN, kordan?!

Legg den inn på SPOTIFY lista di, du vil ikke angre

Top 3 by anjAlba
Kordan – Fantasy Nation
Kordan – Mirror
Kordan – Closer