Thieves By Tuesday*

First in all of my Weeklies posts is this romance-tinged version. Most of the tracks are a bit old but certainly there is a track here we can relate to.

Weeklies - She's Mine.zip

♫ Day Too Soon - Sia
♫ Forget Me Not - Lucie Silvas
♫ Baby Come Back - Firefall
♫ Don't Break My Heart - Kate Walsh
♫ Postcards From Italy (Beirut Cover) - Florence And The Machine
♫ She's Mine - Brett Dennen
♫ Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
♫ Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins) - Amie Miriello
♫ I Heard Love Is Blind - Amy Winehouse
♫ Lovely Day - Bill Withers
♫ My Heartbeat - Annie
♫ Ça plane pour moi (Original 1977 Version) - Plastic Bertrand
♫ The Giant Illinois - Andrew Bird (from Dark Was The Night)
♫ White Sky - Vampire Weekend
♫ With A Girl Like You - Troggs

I know there are a lot of times I may not be a woman of my word, but today I just want to share . There's this new 'Teenage Dream' song I've heard from Katy Perry. The song stays true to its title with Katy singing in falsetto. She croons innocently about her true love and 'Valentine' who makes her feel young again. She sounds like she's ready to take that relationship further.

This one I am certain you will love to bits. There is something about Posner and his musical competence that plain and simply appeals. And for real, with his talent he will surely go places. A few months since graduating from Duke University and beginning his full-on pursuit for his music career, by February 2010 he had released his single 'Cooler Than Me' which hardly loses momentum if not dominates the radio and charts for months. This new one from him makes this frat boy's turn from the kegger to the stage hard to ignore.



"Your songs remind me of swimming,
Which I forgot when I started to sink
Drank further away from the shore,
And deeper into the drink.

Sat on the bottom of the ocean,
A stern and stubborn rock
Cos your songs remind me of swimming,
But somehow I forgot…"

This one woman-band just made my day with this song. I listen to her cover of Beirut's 'Postcards from Italy' and am reminded by the raw emotion of her voice. This song gives me a mental image of people who, with all the craziness around, lose track of what is important. They keep themselves busy trying to make ends meet, and somehow along the way, when they look at their faces in the mirror, they see a different person. This is probably one of the sad realities of life. I'm not saying it's inevitable, but at one point of our life we go through this phase. Some get caught up in, stagnant while others shake themselves up in that rut and dare to be.

* Nothing La Roux-related in the post, sorry to disappoint. I just love that line from her song too much I had to have it for a title. Below are more stuff from Kaskade, Michelle Branch and a collab of Enrique Iglesias and Lil Wayne. I'd love to talk some more but I'm way behind my work. Gotta bounce. Until the next post. :)

♫ Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
♫ Michelle Branch - Crazy Ride
♫ Mike Posner - Please Don't Go
♫ Enrique Iglesias - Push (feat. Lil’ Wayne)
♫ Florence and The Machine - Swimming
♫ Kaskade - Fire In Your New Shoes (Extended Mix) (feat. Dragonette)

The playlist was titled as such because of my utmost love for Noah and the Whale's Blue Skies (The Twelves remix) track. Ergo, the title. I'm feeling so generous these days also because I am feeling so blah today (must be the rain) and I was hoping this little Weeklies Playlist I mixed up for you will give me a happy day tomorrow and that something I was hoping for that I'll find out if I'll get tomorrow. Plus another report coming up. I hate reporting, I always feel a bit awkward in front of an audience. Plus my nerves have never been any help to me at all. [End rant]

20 surefire tracks to pump up that otherwise eventless day so, here's for a happy one for you guys (and me)! Ciao loves!

♫ Crystal Castles - Suffocation (Memory Tapes Remix)
♫ Warpaint - Billie Holiday
♫ Cold Cave - Life Magazine (Delorean Remix)
♫ Hoodie Allen and Mike Posner - Evil Woman (remix 1)
♫ Hoodie Allen - Long Island Iced Tea
♫ Major Lazer - Never Good Enough (The Killabits Remix)
♫ Crystal Castles & Outkast & Raekwon - Skwede Sympathy (Skratch Bastid remix)
♫ Teenage Bad Girl - Tonton Funk (Les Petits Pilous Remix)
♫ Foxy Brown - Foxy Bells
♫ Zola Jesus - Manifest Destiny
♫ Mustard Pimp & Hot Pink Delorean - Rock
♫ M.I.A. - XXXO feat Jay-Z
♫ Eve - Gotta Man
♫ The Drums - It Will All End In Tears
♫ CFCF - Monolith
♫ Kylie Minogue - All the Lovers (XXXChange Remix)
♫ Florence and the Machine - Heavy In Your Arms
♫ M.I.A. - Stepping Up
♫ Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
♫ Major Lazer & La Roux - Cover my Eyes (Costra Nostra Edit)

Florence + The Machine, who is nominated for 3 awards in the 2010 Brit Awards (Best British Female, Best British Album, Best Breakthrough Act) plays coy in this cover of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love. Included is her old (not to mention loud) cover of Beirut's blissfully wonderful track, Postcards from Italy. Listen and download the original, below. Artists make mistakes and Florence's cover is one. There are songs just hard to do and sorry to say this but her cover doesn't showcase anything new or original. In any case this song is too unique, and Zach Condon (of Beirut) should be lauded for making the song before the age of twenty.

Florence + The Machine Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer cover)
Florence + The Machine Postcards from Italy (Beirut cover)
Beirut Postcards From Italy

And she goes wild! This is a pretty good cover on a Beirut favorite. Check it out (and download it if you dig)