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(06/JAN/08) The Dykeenies - New Ideas (3,19 MB)

Reason: I've got the wealth of new ideas
This is such a great song to start the year with. It's so true, if I rip off the chorus from all the rest. I have so many new ideas, I can totally relate to it. So so so many new ideas. And when I think of my friends, who are asking, show me, show me, show me all your new ideas so often that I can go like okay, now look at this ^___^ - happy!

New Ideas lyrics

(13/JAN/08) Catatonia - Mulder and Scully (4,75 MB)

Reason: And what does someone do without love?
Catatonia, oh I love her music. She really rocks and a Catatonia MP3 of the week is really overdue. This song is the first I ever heard of her - yes, surely because of my long X-Files history BUT besides of Mulder and Scully, this is really a great song!

Mulder and Scully lyrics

(20/JAN/08) Laura Marling - Ghosts (5,27 MB)

Reason: "These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you."
I just stumbled over this song today and this one line gripped my attention, I really like it, I listen to the song just to hear this line. However I also like this part "Lover, please do not fall to your knees, it’s not like I believe in everlasting love" - it is so sad. I like it, even though I do strongly believe in everlasting love ...

Ghosts lyrics

(27/JAN/08) Black Kids - I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you (5,93 MB)

Reason: You are the girl that I've been dreaming of, ever since I was a little girl. One! I'm biting my tongue. Two! He's kissin' on you. Three! Oh, why can't you see? One! Two! Three! Four!
This song brought me through the whole past week! I cannot stress enough how much I love this song. The lyrics are fabulous. Finally one of the rare songs about girls loving girls. You do not find them too often - especially not performed by a male lead singer. I'm not gonna teach him how to dance with you - it's like, okay, I cannot have you, but I won't tell your boyfriend how to treat you as you like it, even though I know. I would be so the same. Haha. It raises my mood with every tune. Especially shouting dance dance dance dance with the song is so much fun. :)

I'm not gonna teach him lyrics

(03/FEB/08) The Do - Playground Hustle (4,93 MB)

Reason: We are not crazy, we are not afraid of you grown-ups!
We'll go talk to the king of this kingdom, if you won't let us play with dolls!
More power to the kids, you know you want it. We all want it. Since I am a child at heart and won't grow up in this life ... let's go for a revolution. It's such a sweet but strong song. The music is so cool. This is basically a fun song, go run to the playground and teach the children. I so much love to hear children singing. :)

(10/FEB/08) Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song (5,67 MB)

Reason: Play me a sad song, 'cause that’s what I want to hear.
I want you to make me cry.
Well, what can I say about this song, but the two lines above? It actually speaks for itself. Everyone knows the feeling of a goodbye ... so ... "You’ll find out so take me with you always."

Sad Song lyrics

(17/FEB/08) 28 Days Later - Theme (8,96 MB)

Reason: John Murphy is such a wonderful soundtrack composer, he's among my favorites. This is the theme song of the movies 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, which are great horror movies, if you like to be scared and find pleasure in it. When I hear the song I am so totally inside the spirit of the movies, it's almost scary to listen to it.

(24/FEB/08) The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson (5,86 MB)

Reason: This time it was so hard to decide since I wanted to feature so many at once, but I made the decision to pick this one because of the melody and tune of the whole song. I am really no particular fan of Miss Johansson and you do not have to be to like this song nevertheless, I can tell, believe me. The song is so pretty and sweet, you can relate it actually to anybody else, if you want to. I especially adore the melody of the refrain "You don’t believe in monogamy. Im not jealous scarlett will you mary me. All you’ve got you can like it. But what i am you will love it" It is so beautiful. Enjoy this song.

Starlett Johansson lyrics

(02/MAR/08) Jens Lekman - A Postcard To Nina (7,69 MB)

Reason: "I can be your boyfriend so you can stay with your girlfriend. Your father is a sweet old man but it is hard for him to understand that you wanna love a woman. Don't let anyone stand in your way.
What a cute flower power song :p music-wise. I like the song, it is so funny and sweet and so positive too. Well depending on the point of view at least. It's really a true cheer-you-up song. It's so funny. Like for example "we're having dinner with your family now keep a steady look at your left eyebrow. If it's raised, it means yes, if it's not it means take a guess. Hey! You! Stop kicking my legs! I'm doing my best can you pass the eggs?" And I so much love the musical part starting at 3:43 ^^

A Postcard To Nina lyrics

(09/MAR/08) Tori Amos - Bouncing off Clouds (5,95 MB)

Reason: Bouncing off of Clouds we were Is there a love Lost and Found
For Janine, because I love her and she loves this song so much. And it is indeed a wonderful song, with so many beautiful parts and melodies. Janine just got Tori Amos' new album and it makes her very very happy and I thought making this song my MP3 of the week would make her very happy too. I'm a good friend. ^^

Bouncing off Clouds lyrics

(16/MAR/08) Radiohead - Just (6,23 MB)

Reason: You do it to yourself, you do and that's what really hurts You do it to yourself, just you you and no-one else
I heard this song in a restaurant for the first time and I just got hooked by the refrain and even thought I know quite many songs by Radiohead, this one I must have overheard or something? I was so surprised but happy it was a song by Radiohead. Weird but I guess sometimes things go like this. :)

Just lyrics

(24/MAR/08) Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs (4,45 MB)

Reason: Will somebody wear me to the fair? Will a lady pin me in her hair? Will a child find me by a stream? Kiss my petals and weave me through a dream.
This song is so beautiful. The lyrics are but also the music is. And yes, flowers are indeed beautiful, there should be more songs about them. For all of these simple things and much more a flower was born. It blooms to spread love and joy faith and hope to people forlorn.

Les Fleurs lyrics

(13/APR/08) Sweeny Todd - Worst Pies in London (3,29 MB)

Reason: These are probably the worst pies in London!
So I finally saw the movie and really liked it, so I thought I could add two of my favorite songs of the movie as MP3s of the week. I totally love the rhythm and melody of this song, it's so great and really remains in your ear for such a long time.

Worst Pies in London lyrics

(20/APR/08) Sweeny Todd - Johanna (3,29 MB)

Reason: I feel you Johanna
I'll steal you Johanna
Such a sweet and emotional song, I like the lyrics a lot, but the melody is so pretty too. And who would not want to steal their love?

Johanna lyrics

(27/APR/08) New Radicals - You get what you give (6,88 MB)

Reason: Don't let go, I feel the music in you!
I adore this song, it's one of my all time random favorite songs. EVERY time I listen to it my mood automatically rises to unexpected heights. It's such a great and gifted song. Sometimes you need a song to cheer your heart up and this is definitely among them. And I feel so common by saying this, but it's true - you get what you give, it is just like that.

You get what you give lyrics

(04/MAY/08) Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (5,72 MB)

Reason: Hey hey, you you, I don't like your girlfriend
No way, no way I think you need a new one
Hey hey, you you, I could be your girlfriend
A little mainstream but still ... I like Avril Lavigne :) I think the song is really cool, it's hip and a happy song and get's me singing with it all time long.

Girlfriend lyrics

(11/MAY/08) Gotan Project - Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre) (10,19 MB)

Reason: I have no idea why I like this song, because I actually do not like ... tango o.ö?!??! Really, I don't! But this song is really cool! You may know it from TV probably. I do not know, I like the rhythm, the remix, the melody. Since I enjoy listening to the song now and then, I thought of uploading it. It's really something different from what you are used to get from me weekly ... but still. It has got something ... don't you think?

(18/MAY/08) Stephen Speaks - 1500 miles (2,95 MB)

Reason: Nothing can keep me away from you, no distance is too grand, I would travel the ocean, to be there to hold your hand.
I thought that was a sweet song in Janine's honour because she's gone for two months. It's a pretty romantic song but I can still very much relate it to her, she's my best friend, so of course I do feel that way for her and I know she feels the same for me. That what makes a best friendship a best friendship :)

1500 Miles lyrics

(25/MAY/08) Ben Lee - Numb (2,68 MB)

Reason: So if you're asking me, what you mean to me. This is a dream to me, a theme for me, I gotta believe in what you're telling me. I refused to get numb
I am still a fan of happy songs after all, this song is incredible happy, I think. Well music-wise. It's a song you can listen to when being on the road and shake your head with the melody all along. It's also very innovative with regard to lyrics. Let the music come.

Numb lyrics

(01/JUN/08) Keren Ann - Lay your head down (4,35 MB)

Reason: It seems like every story told about us isn't meant to be You fly on wings of gold all the way back home to me
The lyrics are very very pretty. That is why this song is this week's MP3. Very short reason, just listen :)

Lay your head down lyrics

(08/JUN/08) Hide - Good bye (3,60 MB)

Reason: This is one of the songs that have been introduced to me this weekend. And I had it in my ear the whole drive back home. It is sooo very pretty and sad, yes, I must say that. You do not even have to understand a single word of japanese, it's sad nevertheless. For me this good bye currently suits various occasions.

Good bye lyrics