www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9GhsRKfwc

I would like to dedicate this to all those large corporations out there that are ruining people's lives in the pursuit of profit and greed.

Don't agree? Please watch "The Corporation" (2003) and report back here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xet6an_the-corporation-the-corporation_shortfilms

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rLlVWrvO-Q

I heard an excerpt of this on TV, the weather channel in fact, and I needed to hear it all. To me listening to R.E.M. is like going home.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• 10,000 Maniacs
• Radiohead
• The Smiths

I also suggest the music genre:

• College Rock

Click here for more info on R.E.M. – Reckoning – "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)".

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R.E.M. - Reckoning

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSCJJkFgt_w

She drives me crazy
like no one else
She drives me crazy
and I can't help myself

…really it is so hard to change yourself. Probably one of the hardest things to change!

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Duran Duran
• Prince
• Tears For Fears

I also suggest the music genre:

• New Wave

Click here for more info on Fine Young Cannibals – The Raw and the Cooked – "She Drives Me Crazy".

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Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and the Cooked

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvi4iA3PnKE

I always thought this was about a relationship, but apparently it is supposed to be about an earthquake. I guess the two are synonymous though!

This is the song my band was supposed to be practicing. We thought it would be an easy one to duplicate. We seem to have trouble forming any coherent band practice schedule. Perhaps I should work on that.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• R.E.M.
• The Smiths
• Sonic Youth

I also suggest the music genre:

• College Rock

Click here for more info on The Pixies – Doolittle – "Here Comes Your Man".

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The Pixies - Doolittle

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuo4RwZzSMs

I'm considering a move to Memphis.

No, not really. I've never been to Tennessee actually. Most of the states all around it, but somehow I've missed that one.

What I am considering is a move from wordpress.com to somewhere else, probably my own hosted wordpress blog, just not at wordpress.com. I am still researching my options and weighing the pros and cons of moving away from the warm safe but restrictive bosom of wordpress.com. This is all very uncomfortable for me but staying within wordpress.com will not grant me the control I would like to have (ever it would appear). So be it. I must spread my wings and take flight.

This song has been my theme song as I sit here scouring the web for information and "how to's" on the subject. As part of the move I am also reviewing my registered domain options. The dot-com for MSotD appears to be taken by some proxy registrar. In other words, it might as well not be available, ever. So I may have to go with something else entirely. I may have to give my blog a new name to match too.

As always, I am open to any suggestions you may have on the topic OR any suggestions of what you would like my blog to include too! I am here for myself, but I also want all you peeps out there to be happy campers too with my "song a day" and "album a week" services. As a "DJ" or sorts I will drive the musical bus, but I am am flexible to requests and your thoughts.

PS: Up to this point I have only referred to myself as being in the Northeastern USA, but this song and the band is from my hometown so I'd like to pay tribute to my home town, Rochester, NY, where Chuck Cuminale and his band "Colorblind James Experience" created this song.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Cake
• Joeyess
• They Might Be Giants

I also suggest the music genre:

• College Rock

Click here for more info on Colorblind James Experience – The Colorblind James Experience – "Considering a Move to Memphis".

I have no idea where you can buy the CD or MP3, but you can always listen to the song here…

Colorblind James Experience - The Colorblind James Experience

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3QRyfT_qM

Work has gone so well this week, I think this needs to by my song of the day. I can't believe it is only Wednesday. Only two work days have past yet I feel a year older. Damn.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• The Cure
• The Pixies
• The White Stripes

I also suggest the music genre:

• Post-Punk

Click here for more info on Violent Femmes – Add It Up – "Dance, Motherfucker, Dance!".

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Violent Femmes - Add It Up

Many of you may know this as the opening song to the show "Chuck", but the real fans knew it well before then. I've always thought Cake's spoken word singing, but not rap, was well executed. They always have a good bass line going too! (Perhaps that is why G is frequently playing it. She is s sucker for a good bass line these days.)

The German dude at the end of the video sums it up best. "It Rocks!"

If you want to hear it without the commentary from the listeners, here is the song on its own:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Gorillaz
• Death Cab For Cutie
• The White Stripes

I also suggest the music genre:

• College Rock

Click here for more info on Cake – Comfort Eagle – "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" .

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Cake - Comfort Eagle

This is not my week. My iPod has stopped working. It appears to be so low on power it cannot make it all the way through the boot up process (at least that is what my research tells me) and the best way to fix it is to charge it in an outlet charger instead of the USB cable. Unfortunately I don't have one of those, and so now I am waiting for it to be shipped to me.

Then G's laptop stopped charging entirely because it is a Dell and the adapter has a special wire that tells the computer it is a Dell adapter and it is probably either borken or fried due to our insufficient use of surge protectors (or at least that is what my research tells me, once again) and so we are awaiting a new adapter too, though she can use her laptop still, just the batter refuses to charge unless the adapter is Dell. Annoying as hell and the adapter is stupidly expensive but it gets better.

Then last night between 6 and 8 PM my computer's hard drive dies. I spend all the remaining hours that any electronics store is open trying to see if I can get it to come back to life, but no. (My research tells me) I am screwed and my best bet if I care about anything on the drive is to go buy a new drive and set up the old one a a slave. I've done that before, but now it just seems like maybe I should not be touching any computers for a while.

I am fearful of what computer or electronics component will fail next. I did nothing to cause any of these (except perhaps the iPod… I let it get too low.) Perhaps the router will die next? The DVD player? Our TV?

As the saying goes "when it rains it pours". "When It Rains It Snows" seems like a nice twist to it though. Because I don't even feel like I have time to deal with this because I already had a weekend full of plans. Excuse me now as I go and scream! (And then go to the store to buy a new drive!)

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Gorillaz
• The Pixies
• R.E.M.

I also suggest the music genre:

• College Rock

Click here for more info on They Might Be Giants – Miscellaneous T – "When It Rains It Snows".

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They Might Be Giants - Miscellaneous T

This was the second album I bought. Ever. Crazy that I remember, but I stand by my purchase to this day. They Might Be Giants' is definitely a favorite of mine to this day. I have seen them in concert enough times I've lost count.

Their songs are clever, funny, fun, quippy, and easy to sing along to. They are musical geeks and as a geek I appreciate them immensely. They are arguably one of the fathers (if not THE fathers) of "Geek Rock". Over the years they have solidified their geekiness by producing songs, and entire albums, packed with facts and trivia. On top of that they wear their quirkiness on their sleeves and show it in their dancing (just watch the "Birdhouse in Your Soul" video) like geek heroes!

This, their third album, is the one to start with. You'll be singing it in the car in no time, just like Olive Snook and Aunt Vivian Charles in the show "Pushing Daisies".

Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "Birdhouse in Your Soul" being my favorite. Definitely check out the "Tiny Toons" videos for "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Particle Man".

Track 2: Birdhouse in Your Soul
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=52033958

Track 4: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2213270

Track 7: Particle Man
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2213366

Track 10: Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kU7ifODMnU

Track 12: Minimum Wage
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/730860/minimum_wage/

I admit, I've been holding out on by not posting any TMBG up until now. More to come for sure! And yes I chose the 47 seconds long "Minimum Wage". It is just brilliant. Nay… genius! I'm still geeking out about it.

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They Might Be Giants - Flood

This song is great. A celebration of the present. "Our Time In Eden" is a great album too. It is really the apex of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, together or separate. I recall it being a bit of a scandal when she left the band, especially just as they "made it" and were on MTV Unplugged and all. The songs I've heard by either after the break up do not measure up, though I cannot say I've heard the latest albums at all.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Fleetwood Mac
• Sarah McLachlan
• R.E.M.

I also suggest the music genre:

• Jangle Pop

Click here for more info on 10,000 Maniacs – Our Time In Eden – "These Are Days".

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10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden

G has a really bad cough at night. Only at night though. Basically it has meant no sleeping for either one of us. I feel like Michael Stipe looks in this music video. I am all zombified today.

Click here for more info on R.E.M. – Up – "Daysleeper".

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R.E.M. - Up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB3VTX0pxoE

I am biased. This was the first album I bought. I clearly remember riding in my brother's car as we were driving through the mountains, this album playing on tape, when it hit me: I loved music and I needed this album as soon as I could get my hands on it. It was not long before I had acquired all the albums R.E.M. had produced and to this day I think of R.E.M. as "my favorite band", though I must admit I am partial to the pre-"Up" albums.

Lots of people do not like R.E.M. and it usually falls one of two ways:

1. "all their music sounds the same" – They definitely have a sound that is common to multiple songs, particularly on their albums before "Out of Time". Also Michael Stipe's voice is not hard to pick out. I suppose to the casual listener, yes, it all sounds "the same" but the same could be true of most musicians then from my point of view. If you like that sound, as I do, then I fail to see how this is an issue. If you do not like the sound, I can't help you there. Listen to something completely different I guess, like this, that, or maybe even this

2. "shiny happy people, everybody hurts, and emotional themes" – I use to work with this big tough guy who was indeed a big and tough guy, and we would discuss music on occasion. He basically could not get over the overt happiness or sadness expressed in these songs without the cover of a heavier rock or country sound to make it sound more masculine and tough. For these men in R.E.M. to write these revealing and compromising emotional songs is part of what is endearing to me though. I feel I have always been able to relate to the awkwardness and uncertainty in life they portray. I suppose they are not a band for those who cannot handle it, relate to it, or would rather hide a facade.

I suppose there is probably a 3rd complaint regarding the ambiguous sexuality of some lyrics, and of Michael Stipe himself over the years. (May I suggest some reading so you can understand your problem: http://www.bidstrup.com/phobia.htm

Moving on…

In my book they're one of the best bands out there and my eyes teared up when I saw R.E.M. up on the big screen in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "Losing My Religion" being my favorite.

Track 2: Losing My Religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB3VTX0pxoE

Track 4: Near Wild Heaven
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/near+wild+heaven/video/xrkwy_rem-near-wild-heaven_music

Track 6: Shiny Happy People
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/shiny+happy+people/video/xkkud_rem-shiny-happy-people_music

Track 8: Half A World Away
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6400630/R_E_M_Half_a_World_Away

Track 9: Texarkana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP–MxYzTuo

PS: Check out "Texarkana". Everyone has heard "Losing My Religion" and "Shiny Happy People", but "Texarkana" is so cool and yet unknown.

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Click here for more info on R.E.M. – "Out of Time".

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R.E.M. - Out of Time