Sara Bareilles – Brave

Thanks to YouTuber SaraBareillesVEVO

Katy Perry – Roar

Thanks to YouTuber KatyPerryVEVO

I’m a very big fan of Sara Bareilles and Brave came out before Roar, by like, weeks.  Once Roar was released, and really, only the opening notes are similiar – I was and still am, super disappointed when Roar airs.  Of course, Katy Perry is the more famous of the two ladies, so her song is played more.  At least, it was back in 2014, just the other day, Brave came on the radio and that was awesome.

I’ve been really getting back into Barenaked Ladies, one of my wife’s favorite bands. I keep coming back to

Thanks to YouTuber SonyPicsHomeEntNL for hosting the video.

This is from episode 2×15 – Early 21st Century Romanticism

Now that Walker Dennis is in my life, I have been on a quest to find songs for him.  The Barenaked Ladies were nice enough to release a Children’s CD – Snacktime!  They only made a few official videos for it.

7 8 9 being the best

Thanks to YouTuber NetwerkMusic for hosting the video.

Thanks to YouTube, and their suggesting various videos – I have discovered Ed Robertson’s Bathroom Sessions.

The best song, and it will tear me up everytime is . . . Things

Thanks to YouTuber Barenaked Ladies (official) for hosting the video.  It is only 47 seconds long but I simply love the lyrics –

There are things that make me mad
You are not one of them
There are things that make me sad
But you are not one of them

There are things that make me, dad
You seem to be all of them

Thanks to MetroLyrics for having the lyrics.  I like to sing it to my son, from time to time.

Raisins is also a fun song

Another Barenaked Ladies official hosting.

YouTuber Warner Bros. Records hosts several of their hit official videos

One Week

A song that references both Aquaman and Sailor Moon, who could have helped not becoming a fan back in the 90s of this Canadian indie rock band with their two Billboard Awards.

The Old Apartment

When my wife and I graduated from NAU-Yuma, my graduation present to her was tickets to see BNL in Phoenix, which was pretty fun.

Be My Yoko Ono

Brian Wilson

I should mention that they do the theme song for Big Bang Theory – which has way too many DC references for me – but that makes sense as Warner Brothers produces it.

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Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife!

Thanks to YouTuber In The Backyard for hosting the video.

This is another song that Hastings played on a regular loop.  I just really like this song.  The video isn’t the one that they played, but that’s okay.

Working at Hastings exposes one to various genres of music and musicians – for better or worst.

One of the better songs have been George Ezra’s Listen to the Man.

The video co-stars Ian McKellen, which is very fun.  My only problem with it is that the video stops in the middle of it to address McKellen, I sort of want to hear the song in its entirety.    Which I imagine that Ezra would rather I sought out the song on iTunes and buy it but I just wish for the full version and happy with what I get for free.

Thanks to YouTube GeorgeEzraVEVO for hosting these videos.

This song, Budapest, is referenced in the other video.  It isn’t that bad of a song, it sort of sounds like the other song, which might be Ezra’s style, which sort of kills my buzz to try other songs of his.

Thanks to RihannaVEVO for hosting the video!

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of any of three, but this song is sticking with me.  Maybe three mediocre tastes do add up to something amazing.  This has to be the first Kanye song that I’ve liked or even listen to for its entirety.

Rihanna gets a decent song and the radio just overplays it to the point of disinterest.  There was one song that I sort of liked, saw her performance on Saturday Night Live and it killed my interest of it, then the radio kept playing it.

Paul McCartney, is a legend, but I haven’t yet my moment of going back and really appreciating the Beatles, though I do like “Say Say Say” with Michael Jackson.  The Beatles’s Let It Be, is an absolute superb song and I like a few others but I wouldn’t say I’m a big fan.  I chalk it up to my favorite being a huge Elvis Presley and Beatles fan,s o it was always ‘his music’ and so I rebelled against it.

I must admit, there is something about how obvious Rihanna isn’t wearing a bra, that I find mesmerizing.  But then I see her stomach tattoo and it throws me off.

My favorite moment, though, in the video, is the Rihanna eye roll at the beginning of the video.

I read somewhere online how cool it is to see all three artists at the same time, and it is pretty cool.  Except for that last time you see them, with Kayne is all bent at the knees, getting ready to riot.

I really do love how Kelly Clarkson has this rock anthem vibe to most of her songs.  Makes them instantly likeable.

Another fun thing?  At the moment, most of her music videos have a quick ad for Citizen Eco-Drive watches that feature Kelly Clarkson.  That is some good synergy!

Thanks to kellyclarksonVEVO for hosting these videos!  I’m going to embed a few other songs of hers that I enjoy.

Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)

That dancing she starts doing around the 2:40 mark, so fun!

Because of You

Since U Been Gone

To think it all got started because she won the first American Idol and had her first hit song with

A Moment Like This

She was announced as the winner on September 4, 2002 and she has the staying power like none other!

As I know the ad won’t always start the videos, here it is

Thanks to YouTuber Citizen Watch US for hosting this video.

I do like the idea of a watch that doesn’t run on a battery.

I’m on record of saying (perhaps joking at the time) that Kelly Clarkson performs the songs that my heart would write, if my heart could write songs.

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Edit to add, as I wrote this apparently a very long time ago.

Piece By Piece is an amazing song.  From her American Idol appearance to

the official video itself, simply amazing.

Thanks to YouTuber Sebastian Monsalve for hosting the Ameircan Idol appearance video.

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Thanks to YouTuber Robin Schultz for hosting the video

I thought this song was Jewel coming back but it wasn’t.  The band is Lilly Wood & the Prick and Robin Schultz.  I wish the video was better.  I’m hoping one day, someone would make a good tribute video using the song.

Steven Curtis Chapman’s I Will Not Go Quietly

Thanks to YouTuber Daniel Curtis for hosting the video!

This song is off of Robert Duvall’s opus, The Apostle, where he produced, directed, wrote and starred in the film.  I still need to watch it but I somehow came across this song in the 90s and have loved it ever since.