My thoughts at the end of the decade - in musical form!

Think of this as a compilation describing my thoughts, feelings and inspirations over the course of the last decade. It starts out rather dark (much like the decade itself) but we begin to see a glimmer of hope about halfway through. Or at least, that was the intention with this project. So I say goodbye to all that 2000 - 20009 gave us, the good and the bad - from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to Barack Obama to Susan Boyle to Glee - it certainly will go down as one of the tumultuous decades since the 60s. I've already done one compilation entitled The Mad Blood Stirring - and the thought has crossed my mind to make this a double disc and just combining the two...but that's a project for another day....

1. The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning - The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary
3. 9/11 Presidential Address to the Nation - George W. Bush
4. America - M83
5. Hunting for Witches - Bloc Party
6. Hurt - Johnny Cash
7. American Idiot - Green Day
8. Fragile - Sting
9. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
10. Umbrella - Rihanna feat. Jay Z.
11. Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
12. The Long Road - Eddie Vedder feat. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
13. Rehab - Amy Winehouse
14. A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
15. Election Night Victory Speech - Barack Obama
16. I Dreamed a Dream - Susan Boyle
17. Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
18. Leave Me Alone - Michael Jackson
19. Halo - Beyoncé
20. The Money Song - team9
21. Don't Stop Believin' - The Cast of Glee

From me to you...

Merry Christmas...

Brittany Murphy, Star of Clueless, Uptown Girls, 8 Mile, and King of the Hill, Dead at 32

November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009

Merry Fucking X-Mas: Music for the Rest of Us - FanboyQ's First X-Mas Album!

1. What a Wonderful World - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (feat. Shane McGowan)
2. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Hole
3. Winter Like My Life Is Passing - Arthur Greenslade
4. Making Christmas - Rise Against
5. Cold - Annie Lennox
6. Lonely Siberian Winter - DJ John
7. The Rose - Bette Midler
8. Funky Christmas - Brat
9. Come Undone - Duran Duran
10. It's Cold Outside - The Choir
11. White Christmas - Corporal Blossom
12. Soon Forget - Pearl Jam
13. The Bitter End - Placebo
14. Candle: Coventry Carol - Tori Amos
15. The Lovers of December - Rod McKuen
16. In the Bleak Midwinter - Sarah McLachlan
17. Imagine Santa - DJ BC
18. New Year's Back at Sunset - Glenn Close and Christopher Hampton

Pic(k) of the Day

A rare find...

Art Deco Series: Can't Help Lovin' That Man

1. Can't Help Lovin' That Man - Bud Freeman & His Orchestra
2. Masculine Women, Feminine Men - Merritt Brunies & His Friars Inn Orchestra
3. Help! - Earl Gresh & His Gangplank Orchestra
4. Right Kind Of Man, The - Golden Gate Orch.
5. He's My Kind Of A Man - The Flamingo Melodians
6. He's So Unusual - Fred Rich & His Orchestra
7. Man I Love, The - Sam Lanin's Famous Players
8. I Want To Be Bad - Ray Ventura & His Collegians (previously unreleased)
9. Gay Love - Bing Crosby
10. Am I Blue? - The Travelers
11. Can't We Be Friends? - The Georgians
12. In My Little Hope Chest - The Clevelanders
13. He's A Good Man To Have Around - Dick Cherwin & His Orchestra
14. I Got Rhythm - Harold Lem & His Orchestra
15. What Wouldn't I Do For That Man? - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
16. But I Can't Make A Man - The Travelers
17. One That I Love Loves Me, The - Meyer Davis & His Orchestra
18. Buy, Buy For Baby - The Columbians
19. He's My Secret Passion - Danny Yates & His Orchestra
20. Love For Sale - The Hotchkiss Dance Orch.
21. Can't Do Without His Love - Joe Haymes & His Orchestra
22. Hold Your Man - Will Osborne & His Orchestra
23. Pu-Leeze! Mr. Hemmingway - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
24. Come Up And See Me Sometime - Cliff Edwards (previously unreleased)
25. Beach Boy - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

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