New(?) Songs & a Rating Scale

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Okay, I know they might not be "new" per se but they're new to me. Heard these and found out who sang them on Sounhound. I put them on the random songs list.

PLAYLIST or just click the individual songs below. They're awesome. As usual. Which leads me to the next item of business.

I've been trying to develop a rating system for things. Just so there's a bench mark for y'all to sorta "standardize" my ramblings. I know I already call most everything awesome. I mean, I try to only post awesome songs in the first place but there are varying degrees of awesome-ness. The only thing is, I haven't quite figured out a "solid" scale yet. In previous posts I've mentioned a scale of "Not to Awesome" but somethings are awesomer than awesome... like THIS, or THIS.

I've also thought about a scale for recommendations. Something like if you should buy just the tracks you like, get the whole album or skip it all together. Sort of like, "Track it," "Buy it," or "Skip it." This could go for Artists as well. "Skip 'em," Like 'em" & "Love 'em." Skip 'em would be like, only a few tracks are worth it. "Like 'em," would mean you should listen to most, if not all, their stuff & "Love 'em" would mean you should become obsessed with them and see them in concert if you can. I'll keep thinkin' about it and we can polish it as we go... I'm open to suggestions though!

Tonight- Seether (Never thought I'd like a Seether song but this wasn't too screamy and actually felt happy)
1- Joy Zipper
Whirring- The Joy Formidable
Harlem- New Politics
Hoppipola- Sigur Ros (this one's on a lot of soundtracks it seems...)

Kinda Celtic

So this is probably one of the more interesting mixes so far. Alt. pop rockers, The Script and Celtic masters The Cheiftains... I'll explain later. But first!...

The PLAYLIST

So, this started out as a post on The Script. I'd heard their songs on the radio and thought I should listen to the rest of their stuff. I thought, "that one song is awesome, that means they're all cool, right?" Wrong. Well, semi-cool anyway. Just not as cool as I'd hoped. The first album only yielded one song I cared for and that was the single they played on the Radio. Their second album was sadly like the first, just one song and I'd already heard in the radio. I started listening to their third and most recent album but I noticed over half of the songs were tagged as explicit... Had I liked their other stuff more, I might have listened to see if I could edit them and make them "appropriate" but with only two songs in their favor, I decided to just skip it.

Which left me in a jam because I was not expecting this. I was fully expecting to find awesomeness, not "not-awesomeness"... So, instead of finding an alternate contemporary album I did the only rational thing... I decided the write about an album that's almost 20 years old! Why you ask? Surely there's a higher purpose, some grand, universal connection.... well, I'll tell you. They're both Irish. Yup. That's it. I created a Celtic station on Pandora today (I call it "ookch-aye!" in honor of David Tennant) and I had Scotland & Ireland on the brain. I figured that was enough. Also, the Cheiftans are awesome. My mom loves Celtic music so I grew up listening to these dudes, seen them in concert twice, they're basically the Gaelic version of the Shiz.

So here's one of my favorite albums of theirs, The Long Black Veil. It's actually pretty cool. Almost every song is a collaboration with another famous artist from the UK. My favorite is the first one with Sting. The last one "Rocky road to Dublin" is the Stones as the backing band (in case you didn't catch the "No Satisfaction" hint). And I threw the TWO Script songs on there for good measure but they're the only ones I like.

Also, here's The Who's Roger Daltrey singing "Behind Blue Eyes" with the Cheiftans. Enjoy!