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Kaleidoscope Tekulo

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So, I've kinda been stressing out a bit lately. The holidays are coming and with them, my job demands that I single handedly come up with and bake of a dessert menu for around 450 people. That is just for Thanksgiving. I also work all day Xmas Eve, Xmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's day. It's no picnic because I miss out on quality family time, but at least the perk of selling my soul is that I get holiday pay for three days (I don't think they count eves iirc).

 

That wouldn't be too bad, but our house is also a wreck, I was lazy this summer so I still don't have a driver's liscense (which is my fault), our house is a wreck and because I was lazy this summer I have to start cleaning it out (which I've been doing, actually), and I'm still not totally over all of my issues regarding depression stuffs, I'm still overweight (and I've not started an excercise regiment, so go me, I suck), and I am still kinda terrified of Five Nights at Freddy's from Halloween (Typical November paranoia. But hey, it's been around a week since my last panic attack in the middle of the night brought on by the fear of animatronic animals breaking into my home and screaming in my face, so yaaaaay).

 

So, what do I do when I go into creepy stress mode and start to re-evaluate my life for like the hundredth time? I listen to music to help me be somewhat productive and to help me get a grip! 8D SO LET'S BLOG THESE SONGS! Well, artists. Doing this by artist will be so much easier.

 

Here is everything currently on my iphone (my main music player because I never really had a CD player or a working music device unti very recently).

 

a-ha - Just Take On Me because it's catchy.

Adele - I owe my sanity to this woman. Longish story.

Alan Menken - Tangled soundtrack! Woo!

Alexander Rybak - I'm in loooove with a fairy taaaale~

Anya Marina - Vertigo is the best song for mellowing out without a care in the world.

Apeture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratory - Need I say more?

Artificial Fear - Zelda songs in metal version. It's kinda totally weird.

Azumi Inoue - Sekai no yakuzoku <3

Berlin Philharmonic - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite for the holidays

Bing Crosby - Silver bells (for Xmas, durr)

OC Remix - Zelda remixes

Zreo - More Zelda remixes

Bob Acri - Sample music that came with my college laptop. They're actually nifty.

Caramell - Caramelldansen (a must)

Christina Perri - Human (just human)

Krewella - Human (also just human)

Coldplay - Viva la Vida

Cristin Milioti - La Vie En Rose (HIMYM because omg I love her version)

Ella Fitzgerald - Baby it's cold outside <3

Various other Miyazaki songs

Erik Satie - Gymnopedie no. 1 (all of my love)

Evanescence - Bring me to Life among others

Fall Out Boy - The Phoenix (I only really like this song for like one line in its lyrics XD)

Friendship is Witchcraft - So much lifting of my spirits

GAME FREAK - Team Plazma Battle (the good one)

Glee Cast - much to my chagrin, I actually do like one song from the entirety of the show.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - opening songs

Goldspot - Rewind

Gronnoc - Pokemon remixes

Hahli Husky and Janus - BIONICLE Comic readings (I haven't gotten rid of these yet and I prolly never will)

Hasbro, Inc - This Day Aria

Hera Björk - Je Ne Sais Quoi (from Eurovision)

Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am (greatest love song ever?)

Jeremy Zuckerman - Legend of Korra music (greatest love song ever?)

Joe Hisaishi - Merry Go Round of Life (Okay, it's from a Miyazaki film, but I really like this one, okay?)

Johan de Meij - Orchestrated music based on The Hobbit (book, before the movies came out. It is amazing)

Journey - Don't start unbelieving!

Judy Garland - The Trolly Song

Kelly Clarkson - Since you've been gooooone!

King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight

Lena - Satelite (from Eurovision. It's simple but it's fun, okay?)

Lostprophets - Rooftops

Masafumi Takada - Dangan Ronpa songs

Memphis Jazz Orchestra - Oh You Beautiful Doll~

Michael Giacchino - Music from UP

Minimusicman - Crazy La Paint

Nanne - Hall Omg Mig

P!nk - 8D

Price Tag - Love this one.

Queen - This is a must, even though I rarely listen to them =P

R. Master - Japanese Opening to Case Closed (Detective Conan)

Insert Bonkles music here

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - A couple songs from Swan Lake

Sara Bareilles - Out of all the artists I listen to, none have been quite so interesting as this one in my opinion. Her songs weigh heavily on the "moral of the song is not subtle" but her music is super catchy and relatable. I've listened to songs and gone "meh" and then gone back and grew to love them. She's one of my favorite artists.

Shinedown - Second Chance

Slovak Radio Symphony - Coppélia (just one song)

Starkid - A Very Potter Musical and Twisted

SPIRIT - Makuta singing to himself with Lewa walking in on him. How do I still have this?

Stephen Sondheim - Music from Into the Woods

They Might Be Giants - Experimental Film

Toshihiko Horiyama - Guilty Love from Apollo Justice

Val Rosing - Teddy Bear Picnic (creepiest song ever?)

Vanessa Williams... - More Into the Woods stuff, okay?

Frozen - It has Idena Menzel. Idena. Freaking. Menzel. End of discussion.

VisualArt's - Clannad, Dango Daikazoku and the first intro because I love them. I love the Dango more, though.

Professor Layton - Music from The Eternal Diva

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - More Disney whee

101 Dalmations - More Disney whee

Anastasia - Actually, this one's Fox Pictures, not Disney.

The Looking Glass - Brandy You're a Fine Girl (love this one)

Wicked - More Idena Freaking Menzel

Nightmare Before Christmas - Watch this any time between October and December

Ultimate Piano Classics - The Maiden's Prayer

Legally Blonde The Musical - I regret nothing

Debbie Reynolds - Would You? (unused version) from Singing in the Rain and Tammy

Sara Barielles and Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song (The feels)

Les Misérables - I Dreamed a Dream by Anne Hathaway

 

For the sake of something, I shortened this list slightly.

 

So, yeah, this is mostly just me jotting down what I'm into now and it might be interesting to look back at this in a few years and see how my tastes have changed.

 

If you want to discuss this, I just ask two things. No "Eww, you like x, gross!" because even when in jest, I find this annoying and no "You absolute MUST start listening to y or else I will hate you forever." Recommendations are fine, but please no being over-the-top with telling me what I should and should not listen to. It bugs me, okay?

 

"I don't care about dukes or commoners or His Royal Highness Lionel of Cornwall. I'm not afraid anymore, mother."

 

~The Duchess Aprroves <3

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Gymnopédie No. 1 is great but the ninth chords in No. 3 are just spectacular. The melody in No. 1 is the best of the three but for harmony, No. 3 all the way.

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I do like the other Gymnopédies, but my favorite is no. 1 for the melody and the feeling of melancholy which the others don't quite capture in my opinion. Seriously, I love listening to it while looking out on a quiet day in the middle of winter with a cup of tea. Soooo peaceful. (I'm weird, okay?)

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I'd think you weird if you didn't do that when listening to Satie.
 
What's always struck me as funny is that Claude Debussy didn't think that the second Gymnopédie could be suitably orchestrated, even though stylistically it's absolutely no different than the other two. (The only pieces by other composers that Debussy ever orchestrated were the first and third Gymnopédies.)
 
SPEAKING OF SATIE: I'm also a big fan of his Nocturnes. He wrote five towards the end of his life and in my opinion the first one is just as melancholy as Gymnopédie No. 1.

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I suddenly realize that I've never actually listened to the instrumental pieces on the Hunchback of Notre Dame album. I should really change that before I'm forced to hand in my Alan Menken Fan card.

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I recognize a lot of these, for better or worse. 

 

I also have mixed feelings on Bareilles. I like the messages of her songs, but her voice doesn't seem to blend with the background tune as well as I would like. It sounds campy, not really polished - I feel like that was the intent, though. (I can see why you would like her, and I mean that in a good way. :))

 

I'm used to Clarkson, though, in terms of refinement. Since U Been Gone is sooo negative though, despite having Kelly's catchiest tune. I much prefer her more positive works - although not the really really recent cheesy stuff. More like "Catch my Breath." :P 

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@v1p2 - Hunchback is pretty intense. How did they give that story a happy ending again? (I call hacks. Haaaaacks)

 

@fishers64 - I'm not a fan of all of her songs, but I definitely listen to her work the most out of any artist. Her music video for Gravity has really cool visuals and Manhattan is my favorite song of hers right now. As for Clarkson, I admit I haven't followed too much of her work and I only have Since You've Been Gone because it was playing everywhere when I was a kid and nostalgia made me do it. =P

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@fishers64 - I guess that makes sense since those are the ones I've noticed most in the media. But, hey, no worries. Everyone's entitled to their own views and all.

 

@Taka - Normally I listen to very different music than pretty much everyone I meet in real life. XD. But yes, Swan Lake <3

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