Music 2010

1. Josh Ritter - Rattling Locks

Influenced by classic songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, Idaho native Josh Ritter began writing songs while attending Oberlin College, where he changed his major from neuroscience to folk music. After relocating to Boston, Ritter started getting his name out through a self-released eponymous debut album and near-constant gigging. Since then, he's become a star around the world — known as a folk-rock singer of substance, he's received widespread acclaim in Ireland, America and beyond. Opening slots on tour with both Dylan and The Frames netted Ritter a good deal of attention, and even led to his own sold-out headlining tour of Ireland. His growth as a songwriter and a musician continued unabated, with 2003's Hello Starling and 2006's The Animal Years each displaying a different facet of Ritter's complex musical world. The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter followed in that tradition, and his sixth album, titled So Runs the World Away, came out earlier this month. WC

Rattling Locks

There was a time I had the right key
Rolled the tumbler slid the bolt on every wandering eye I caught
But something has changed this is all wrong
I'm out here in the cold with a wet face rattling your locks
There ain't nothing new about the world
That I aint' learned from just standing here in this spot

Ain't nothing new about the world
That I ain't learned from just watching you go by
I tell myself people are cold and strangers pass
Separate themselves from love by building walls a hundred thousand miles high
Frostbite and heartsickness ain't neither one of them so bad if you can understand the
Reason why

Black hole, black hole are your eyes as empty as they look?
Black hole, black hole, are your two eyes as empty as they look?
All along I thought I was giving you my love but you were just stealing it
Now I want every single thing you took

I had a dream that I was dying
But it wasn't a nightmare I was real peaceful as I fell
And if I was falling into heaven
Heaven must be hotter than the bible tells
I woke up sorry I was living
Rather than rattling your locks I'd rather spend another night in hell.

2. Cee-Lo-Green - F--- You
Great vocals, music & lyrics.

"Now I know, that I had to borrow,
Beg and steal and lie and cheat.
Trying to keep ya, trying to please ya.
'Cause being in love with you ass ain't cheap."

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3.   Candy Claws - Silent Time Of Earth

The album is a delightful, gauzy trip through an aural wonderland. Ryan Hover and Kay Bertholf say they hadn't a clue how to play the synthesizers they used to create the record, so they just started making stuff up. Their willingness to embrace the unknown led them into some wonderfully rewarding territory. Each track contains parts of all the other songs on Hidden Lands(name of the album,) and the lyrics were taken from Richard Ketchum's 1970 nature book The Secret Life of the Forest. npr

4.  Seu Jorge & Almaz - Everybody Loves The Sunshine

 

Original Recording Artist: Roy Ayers

Original Release Date:  January 1, 1976

Label: Polydor

My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine
Everybody loves the sunshine, sunshine, sunshine
Everybody loves the sunshine,  sunshine, sunshine
Folks get down in the sunshine, they really love sunshine
Sunshine, sunshine, folks get brown in the sunshine

Just bees and things and flowers
Just bees and things and flowers...