Phil’s Faves: Songs, December 4, 2011

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.

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“Paradise” by Coldplay ends up topping both the video “faves” as well as this week’s song “faves!” The Black Keys enter with a really cool song, and even a Christmas “cover” makes its way on. Of course, it’s the time of year when things like that can happen……………
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of December 4, 2011

1. Paradise–Coldplay
2. We Owned the Night–Lady Antebellum
3. A Thousand Years—Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
4. (I Want To) Come Home–Paul McCartney (From the movie “Everybody’s Fine”)
5. Sparks Fly–Taylor Swift
6. The Trouble With Girls—Scotty McCreery
7. Lonely Boy—The Black Keys
8. Long Hot Summer-Keith Urban
9. Santa You Can Drive My Sled—The Fab (Beatles tribute band from Las Vegas)
10. Down at the Plaza–Pat Bergeson (featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro)

1) “Paradise”—This is such a great “simbie!” It goes through my head a lot even when I don’t want it to!
2) “We Owned the Night”—A solid song that didn’t seem like it had the legs to hang around this long!
3) “A Thousand Years”—One of the best haunting melodies of the year!
4) (“I Want To) Come Home”—Paul drops from the top spot. Let’s see if I hear it enough to hang around………
5) “Sparks Fly”—Taylor moves up another notch again! You just can’t count her out at any time………
6) “The Trouble With Girls”—This song has a solid chorus that gets under your skin! (Scotty had a little problem, though, with his Thanksgiving Day parade performance. The dude can’t even lip synch?!!!!)
7) “Lonely Boy”—Oh, yeah! The first single from “El Camino” is another solid smash from the boys that brought you the gritty “Tighten Up!”
8) “Long Hot Summer”—Keeping me warm as the weather gets colder!
9) “Santa You Can Drive My Sled”—Not only is this an incredible spot on cover of The Beatles’ “Drive My Car,” but it’s one of the best entries ever of a Beatles song being used as a Christmas song! I heard this one on “Dennis Mitchell’s Breakfast with The Beatles,” and it will stick around on my list—but only if I get to hear it some more. After all, those are the rules………..
10) “Down at the Plaza”Tom Roady was laid to rest, and unfortunately, this song is also ending its run. I personally hope that Tom is up in heaven playing drums in the best band ever! What would you expect for one of the best?!

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One Response to Phil’s Faves: Songs, December 4, 2011

  1. Marija says:

    Eleanor Rigby is a minute and easy to learn your feingrs have a easy flow this is because the chords are not major jumps I know this since in gr6 we did acoustic guitar my teacher gave us a book and showed us chords and we had to play a song I suck at guitar but I aced eleanor rigby and got a five outta five

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