Updates from September, 2009

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  10 Unique Album Covers

  Fantikerz 12:40 am on September 3, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  The art on the cover of an album reflects the style of the artist and what their music sounds like. I don’t know if it’s coin­ci­dence, but I find that a lot of really great songs are accom­pa­nied by some equally great album art. Per­haps that’s because I’m totally anal about my album art (I can’t stand hav­ing place­holder cov­ers in my library). Any­way, I just thought I’d share a few that always seem to pop out when­ever I’m scrub­bing through my library. Who knows, some of these might give you some ideas for a cre­ative project.

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  Version 13

  Fantikerz 4:24 pm on August 4, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  Woop, new site design. How excit­ing. The only rea­son why I’m writ­ing this is so that I can test the said design to the fullest extent. I might as well elab­o­rate on some things in the process. As you may know, this is based upon the won­der­ful Word­Press appli­ca­tion and a heav­ily mod­i­fied P2 theme. I was reluc­tant to move over to Word­Press, but I’m now way over that and am itch­ing to make some of my own plu­g­ins and other exten­sions like that.

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  19 Provocative Tracks

  Fantikerz 5:09 pm on May 24, 2009 | 2 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  I call a song provoca­tive when it pro­vokes you to think about or do some­thing. The best ones even evoke some sort of emo­tion or mem­ory, but those are rare and vary depend­ing on the per­son. In this long over­due post, I out­line some of my favourite provoca­tive tracks. These usu­ally get my juices flow­ing — be it for work or for play — I tend to do bet­ter after lis­ten­ing to these. Lame sound­ing, I know, but it’s true.

  There’s a lot of gen­res here, and one of them is prob­a­bly going to spike some of your inter­est… just take a peek inside.

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  10 More Awesome Songs

  Fantikerz 7:23 pm on October 11, 2008 | 8 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  Since my last post about out­stand­ing songs, my col­lec­tion of the said genre has grown (almost dou­ble!). So, on this gloomy day, I thought I would take the time to share them with you. Unlike last time, let’s jump in right away, and I’ll explain why each song is great as we go.

  These songs are in no spe­cial order, and as always, I’ll try and make the selec­tion as diverse as pos­si­ble. If you don’t like one song, just keep going though the list and you’ll prob­a­bly find some­thing you can enjoy.

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  11 Catchy or Feel Good Songs

  Fantikerz 10:09 pm on August 24, 2008 | 7 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  All this post is about, is feel good , and catchy, songs. As a music junkie, I come across them quite often, and I even have a playlist of them on my iPod that’s 150-ish songs deep.

  What makes a song catchy? A nice beat, of course, with some­times clever lyrics. The same thing goes for the feel good songs, which will prob­a­bly have some more mean­ing­ful lyrics.

  I fig­ured some of you might enjoy some songs on this Sat­ur­day morn­ing. Here are some of the bet­ter ones, after the break…

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  BT: You're F*cking Awesome

  Fantikerz 8:10 pm on August 22, 2008 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  It seems that lately, all I’ve been post­ing is things relat­ing to music. Why you ask? Well, why not? I can do what­ever the hell I want to! If you don’t care about that, then come on it, and take some candy.

  Alright, so let’s talk about the title. BT: he’s amaz­ing and he’s f*cking awe­some. Alright, so that cov­ers the title. Now, let’s talk about why he’s f*cking awesome.

  Well, it only just occurred to me 10 min­utes before writ­ing this, that I hadn’t estab­lished myself as a total BT fan­boy on my blog yet. I couldn’t let that stay, so, here I am. Now, more to the point. BT is a musi­cal force that has been pwn­ing for years. So many years in fact, that you might even know some of his songs. Flam­ing June, Sim­ply Being Loved, etc., being some of them.

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  Run Lola Run!

  Fantikerz 2:18 am on July 23, 2008 | 5 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  

  It’s been a while since my last post, but it doesn’t mat­ter, since no one reads this thing. Of course I’ve been busy with Mech­So­ci­ety, but I’ll save you the pain of that blog post for later. I’m actu­ally here, on your inter­nets, to whine about a Ger­man movie with lucid music and a red haired run­ning chick.

  If you’re a nor­mal per­son, you wouldn’t know who Franka Potente is, but alas, I do. She’s the main char­ac­ter in the movie Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt in Ger­man), which I haven’t, and prob­a­bly will not see. Don’t be con­fused though, I do want to see it, but because it’s a for­eign film, it’s kinda hard to find.

  Why do I want to see it? Well, from clips on teh YouTubes, you can see the sim­ple, but immerse sto­ry­line, cou­pled with music by Franka Potente and friends. Really, it’s just one, gigan­tic Ger­man music video.

  The music is the best part, and is why I yearn to see it, though. Take a lis­ten to the song below, and tell me what you think.

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  Coldplay

  Fantikerz 4:33 pm on May 12, 2008 | 4 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  I’ve finally found my new favorite band, Cold­play. I’ve liked their music for a while, just not this much until recently. With their 4th album to be released soon, it’s hard to believe they’ve made so many great songs. Their music is light hearted, deep, and all entan­gled within an awe­some beat… most of the time

  I’ve pre ordered their new album, Viva la Vida which promises to be promising.

  Of course you’d never want to take my word on some­thing, so take a lis­ten to some tracks (includ­ing their lat­est one) for your­self, after the break.

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  Next RSMV: Harder to Breathe

  Fantikerz 1:29 am on March 30, 2008 | 20 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  Yea, the song is Harder to Breathe, by Maroon 5. Some peo­ple out there absolutely hate Maroon 5 with a pas­sion, and I don’t really under­stand why. I mean, their music is good, depend­ing on what mood you’re in. The same thing goes for Fall­out Boy, only because their songs are sort’ve catchy. Their lyrics are crap though.

  Any­ways… pre­view the song and read a lit­tle more after the break.. Just hit the Con­tinue Read­ing link.

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  Emo Trance: New Genre of Music?

  Fantikerz 6:35 pm on March 20, 2008 | 3 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  I stum­bled upon an awe­some Flight Sim X video using some music that I can only guess is of the tribal music genre.. I bet there’s a bet­ter way of describ­ing this type of music, but it really doesn’t mat­ter. If you think about it, and lis­ten to it, it could be an Emo form of trance… O_O

  Want an exam­ple of what I’m talk­ing about? Give the song below a whirl.

  Wish — Franka Potente
  
  Hit up the Read More link for more songs, the video I was talk­ing about, and some thoughts…
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