Today's Music - August 16

Woke up today in a good mood, dunno why. I guess it's because I had upbeat music to start my day, which was a very, very, damn-it's-only-11am?! kind of day.

This song by Minus The Bear (My Time) captured my mood today. It's upbeat, infectious, clearly scandalous with its lyrics. I've been playing this tune the whole day and I'm listening it now while blogging.

In the afternoon it rained like crazy, so I put in music from Trapt (Lost Realist) and Trading Yesterday (One Day). Channeling my K-Lite music phase (when they were the only radio station putting up music like this), at that time of the day when it was raining and I was in sentimental mode (the effect of talking about a breakup that happened 1 year ago... 1 year!).

After a good run tonight, some late night music to keep me awake from work. I don't know if this classifies as wake-up music, but Under The Influence Of Giants' funky "Mama's Room" should give you ideas. Heads up on this one, the ladies are hot.

If not in the mood for that kind of music there's always this fantastic, nay, uber-fantastique and baby-making cover of Daft Punk's "Something About Us" by Balance and the Traveling Sounds. Heard this last week, and I've suddenly tapped an interest in disco funk and jazz that I would normally reserve for Incognito and Brand New Heavies.

Till the next blog... enjoy the music.

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