FØØ http://www.foomusic.com My "Favorite" Songs of Each Year Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:44:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en F008.25 Quarterly Report http://www.foomusic.com/f008/f00825-quarterly-report/ http://www.foomusic.com/f008/f00825-quarterly-report/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:44:51 +0000 admin http://www.foomusic.com/f008/f00825-quarterly-report/ Today is March 29, which means I can do a rolling 3 month playcount to get a rough approximation of what F008 would look like if published today.

  1. The King’s Singers - Veronika, der Lenz ist da - the one you may be familiar with from Degen’s YouTube video
  2. Bola de Nieve - Drume negrita - not the Arturo Sandoval one from F007
  3. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke - because we bought a Stevie Wonder greatest hits CD over Christmas
  4. a spanish classical guitar version of Hava Nagila
  5. Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween
  6. The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
  7. Craig Armstrong - Introduction to Romeo
  8. Mocean Worker - Right Now (Album Version)

Okay, I’ll stop there, because we’re not far enough in the year to have much statistical validity beyond this point.

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Title

Artist

If you like this song, we recommend this album

Men Martin Mull American Comedy Box 1915-1994: But Seriously… Disc 1 cover Love You More Stevie Wonder; Kimberly Brewer A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 5 cover New Math Tom Lehrer That Was the Year that Was… cover Mambozart (Symphony No. 40 in G Minor) Klazz Brothers; Cuba Percussion Classic Meets Cuba cover Everybody’s Talkin’ The Beautiful South Carry on up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South cover Steak and Shrimp Veggie Tales Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie cover If I Fell Maroon 5 1.22.03.Acoustic cover The Audition John Bird; John Fortune Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy cover Song of the Patriot Johnny Cash; Marty Robbins Essential Johnny Cash cover Lonely Man Theme
[from “The Incredible Hulk”] Joe Harnell Fantastic Television!!   Just the Way It Is, Baby The Rembrandts The Rembrandts The Vatican Rag Tom Lehrer That Was the Year that Was… Give Said the Little Stream Matt Harding The R.M. Every Season Nicole Nordeman This Mystery   Beautiful Savior BYU Men’s Chorus Awake My Soul I Hope They Call Me on a Mission Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand The R.M.   Jung Hwa Ban Jum (The Restaurant) Louis Maldroit.com   Your Smiling Face James Taylor Greatest Hits II cover Fat Fingers The Simpsons   Honey Moby Play cover Jim Henson’s Dead Stephen Lynch A Little Bit Special That’s Life Frank Sinatra Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years Hava Nagila (techno) You Raise Me Up Josh Groban Closer The Grand Finale Danny Elfman Edward Scissorhands   Why Must the Good Die/Free at Last Kenneth Cope My Servant Joseph   Onward Christian Soldiers Stretch Armstrong The R.M.   ]]> http://www.foomusic.com/f004/6/feed/ F003 http://www.foomusic.com/f003/f003/ http://www.foomusic.com/f003/f003/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:23:44 +0000 admin http://www.foomusic.com/f003/f003/

Title

Artist

If you like this song, we recommend this album

Tribute (edited)

Tenacious D

Tribute Single

cover

Sage of Lamberéne

Kurt Bestor; Sam Cardon

Innovators

cover

African Alphabet

The Muppets; Ladysmith Black Mambazo

35 Years of
Songs from the Street

cover

Ode II Joy (Symphony No. 9)

Opera Babes

Beyond Imagination

cover

James Bond Theme

Moby

Tomorrow Never Dies

cover

A Little Less Conversation

Elvis Presley

Elvis vs. Junkie XL
A Little Less Conversation

cover

537 C.U.B.A.

Orishas

A Lo Cubano

cover

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Adam Sandler

   

Dig It

D-Tent Boys

Holes

cover

God Gave Rock & Roll To You

Kiss

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

cover

Bridge Over Troubled Water

King’s Singers

   

Waltzing Matilda

Tom Waits

   

Viva Las Vegas

ZZ Top

Greatest Hits cover

Vivir Sin Aire (MTV Unplugged)

Maná

Maná Unplugged

cover

Loch Lomond

King’s Singers

   

Solitaire

Clay Aiken

Invisible / Solitaire

cover

Across the Universe

Rufus Wainwright

I am Sam soundtrack

cover

Your Smiling Face

James Taylor

Greatest Hits II

cover

The Star Spangled Banner

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

God Bless America

cover

Honey

Moby

Play

cover

Goodnight

Erasure

Other People’s Songs

cover

]]> http://www.foomusic.com/f003/f003/feed/ F002 http://www.foomusic.com/f002/f002/ http://www.foomusic.com/f002/f002/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:37:02 +0000 admin http://www.foomusic.com/f002/f002/ 2002 we got married, and there was still a grey-ly-legal way of discovering new music via filesharing.  As we were young and poor, our old computer got older and at times it seemed like we only used it as a music server to play music around the house.  Our music was incredibly varied because of Kazaa or whatever it was back then, and we listened to it constantly.  I was also starting a magazine, and the emotional rollercoaster of that required a pretty anti-work catharsis at the end of each day…

Title

Artist

If you like this song,
we recommend this album

My Joy is Full

Sam Cardon

Book of Mormon Media Soundtrack

If I Had a Million Dollars

Barenaked Ladies

Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001

cover

“Don’t Ever Ever Ever Ever Ever Ever Ever Come By Here.”

Chris Tucker

quote from “Friday”

Choppin’ Broccoli

Dana Carvey

from live concert

Brian Wilson

Barenaked Ladies

Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001

cover

We Will Rock You

Queen

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

cover

Floop’s Castle

Danny Elfman

Spy Kids Soundtrack

cover

Muh Nuh, Muh Nuh

Space Ghost

Space Ghost’s Musical Bar-B-Que: 25 Hickory-Smoked Harmonies

cover

“I Don’t Like My Job, and I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore”

Ron Livingston;
Jennifer Aniston

quote from “Office Space”

  

I Sing The Body Electric

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Are a Drag

cover

I Write the Songs

Barry Manilow

Ultimate Manilow

cover

“C” is for Cookie

Cookie Monster

“C” is for Cookie

cover

Why Does the Sun Shine?

They Might Be Giants

Why Does the Sun Shine?

cover

Oye Como Spy

Danny Elfman; Los Lobos

Spy Kids

cover

One Week (Live)

Barenaked Ladies

Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001

cover

The Power of the Gospel (Live)

Ben Harper

Live from Mars

cover

Stayin’ Alive

N-Trance

Happy Hour

cover

Superman

Goldfinger

Hang-Ups

cover

We Are the Champions

Queen

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

cover

This is the Moment

  

Jeckel & Hyde

cover

Intergalactic

Beastie Boys

Hello Nasty

cover

Fire and Rain

James Taylor

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

cover

The Burning Bush

Hans Zimmer

Prince of Egypt

cover

Romanza

Andrea Bocelli

Romanza

cover

Goodbye Goodbye

Oingo Boingo

Best O’ Boingo

cover

Minky Boodle

Space Ghost

Space Ghost’s Musical Bar-B-Que: 25 Hickory-Smoked Harmonies

cover
]]> http://www.foomusic.com/f002/f002/feed/ What is Foo Music? http://www.foomusic.com/f00/what-is-foo-music/ http://www.foomusic.com/f00/what-is-foo-music/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:15:03 +0000 admin http://www.foomusic.com/2007/12/22/what-is-foo-music/ Foo, FØØ, F00, whatever you call it…  In the summer of 2000 I discovered the Play Count column of Windows Media Player.  I was in college, heading home for the Christmas break and was excited to show my sisters and parents all the neat music I had discovered since I had seen them last.  I needed music for myself and music to show them, and that turned out to be 20 CDs I was bringing home.  I didn’t want to take up suitcase space for that, so I went into Windows Media Player, sorted by playcount, and burned a CD of my most heard music that year.  Because it was the Fall of 2000, I scribbled “FØØ” with a black sharpie on the disc.  This quickly became my favorite mix-CD.  My friends wanted copies, and their friends wanted copies.  Eventually there became a ring of people who referred to the CD, and eventually the process, as “foo.”  Search google for it and link here… And so we are here, on the weekend I am burning “foo seven,” spelled FØØ7.  And people love this one…

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