My Top Five…

Zzz…. I’m drifting off thanks to lovely podcast you guys made. Check it out here.

Sleeping Podcast.mp3

I’m away for a week but the next theme is going to be My Top Five Songs about a Place. It can be any kind of place; a street, a city, a country. It can be your hometown, a favourite a holiday, a place of particular signifigance or just evoke a certain feeling in you.  Anyway, here are mine what are yours?

5. Eustace Street, Delorentos

4. Walcott, Vampire Weekend (I went to Cape Cod on my J1, ah memories!)

3. London Calling, The Clash

2. Waterloo sunset, the kinks

1. Sufjan Stevens, Chicago

Thank you all for sharing your cunning linguists with me. Check out the tasty podcast here.

Cunning Linguist Podcast.mp3

Next week theme is inspired by a post on the Pulp and Circumstance blog where Jenna described a study to find the best songs to fall asleep to. Well I can think we can do better than a lousy science experiment and make our own list. Here are my Top Five Songs to Fall Asleep, what are yours?

5. Bon Iver, The Wolves

4. Feist, The Park

3. The Frames, Plateau

2. Sparklehorse, It’s a Wonderful Life

1. Arvo Part, Spiegel in Spiegel

We got an amazing response for the PRIDE podcast (we broke the site records for hits in a day twice)! Thanks for all your suggestions and hope you enjoy your collective efforts.

Download it here

Pride Podcast.mp3

For next week, we’re looking for My Top Five Cunning Linguists. These are people who can sing in foreign languages. At the moment I’ve chosen all non-English speakers who sing in English but you can go the other way too if you like. So here are mine what are yours?

My Top Five Cunning Linguists

5. Phoenix, Long Distance Call

4. CSS, Music is My Hot Hot Sex

3. Deerhoof, The Galaxist

2. I’m From Barcelona, Treehouse

1. Jens Lekman, Black Cab

NEWS: I’m giving away free tickets to Damon & Naomi at Dublin Metblogs

We have a new jingle! It was very difficult choosing between all the great ideas (and Queen). Check out the songs here.

Intro Podcast.mp3

For next week, I’ve been told it’s the Dublin Pride Festival. So we’re going to do a Top 5 Pride Songs. I’m not really sure what constitutes a gay pride song but I’m open minded to how you want to interpret it. I’ll be leaving the Top 5 to a few esteemed members of Dublin’s Gay Music Snob community but I’ll leave some suggestions in the comment box too.

Kudos people! (Or Golf Claps if you’re Jenna) I really liked your suggestions for the Songs that tell stories podcast.

Download it here

Story Podcast.mp3

For next week, to celebrate 6 months of My Top Five, we are looking for a new intro jingle. So send us your suggestions! It can be any style, any genre, any part of a song (need about 10 seconds so specify where). It can be the intro, a vocal part, a riff or solo, trumpet blast, ANYTHING! As long as it sounds good we’ll take it on board.

For example, here are My Top Five My Top Five new intros

5. Silver Lining, Beulah. The cool surf guitar and trumpet intro after the bass

4. Always New Depths, Bloc Party. Another catchy little guitar riff intro.

3. Pencil Rot, Stephen Malkmus. The weird intro that sounds like a guitar synth spaceship attack

2. Korobeiniki (The “Tetris” Song), Ozma. The chorus?

1. Alternative Ulster, That slow, itchy guitar build up at the very beginning.

NEWSFLASH:

My Top Five Regular Senor Pedro Monscooch has made his own mashup mixtape. Check it out here.

Well I think we jinxed the weather by announcing the bbq podcast but it turned out pretty great and hopefully the weather will too!

Download it here

Barbeque podcast.mp3

For the next podcast we’re looking for your top songs which tell stories. They can be funny, romantic, depressing or relate to something that happened to you. Here are My Top Five, what are yours?

5. Barenaked Ladies, The Old Apartment

4. Daft Punk, Digital Love

3. Bright Eyes, At The Bottom of Everything

2. The Beatles, Rocky Racoon

1. Johnny Cash- A Boy Named Sue

Woah! There was so many suggestions for the instrumental podcast I squished in 12 songs to make it the longest podcast so far. For the people I missed out, I PROMISE I will play something for you next week.

Download the Instrumental Podcast here

Instrumental Podcast.mp3

For next week, the Barbeque season is well underway and I’m the one who always makes BBQ mixtapes so I thought I might share some of my favourites. Here are My Top Five Barbeque Songs, what are yours?

5. Feel Good By Numbers, The Go Team!

4. Love Me Like You, Magic Numbers

3. Fresh Feeling, Eels

2. Score from Augusta, Beulah

1. If She Wants Me, Belle and Sebastian

Another week, another bunch of great songs, thanks guys! Listen to your Soundtracks Podcast here

Soundtracks Podcast.mp3

Keeping in similar lines to the soundtracks, this week we’re looking for instrumental tracks. Sometimes you don’t want lyrics (like studying or reading) and other times the music is so fantastic you don’t need lyrics. So let’s listen to the musicians shine, here are My Top Five Instrumental Tracks

5. Halo Benders, Rebels Got a Hole in it

4. Super Extra Bonus Party, Propeller

3. Metronomy, You Could Easily have me

2. Nomo, Nu Tones

1. Mogwai, You Don’t Know Jesus

Thanks for the solo/side project suggestions! I was surprised (but secretly happy) not to see Thom Yorke.

Download the podcast here

SoloSide Project Podcast.mp3

This week promises to be another monster of a podcast as we are doing My Top Five Soundtrack Songs! There are so many, I could have done a Top Five on John Williams alone. So here are My Five (I really struggled to get it down to 5 but you don’t have to), what are yours?

5. Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters

4. Yen on a Carousel, Ocean’s Twelve

3. Clubbed to Death, The Matrix

2. Gabriel’s Oboe, The Mission

1. Indiana Jones Theme, Indiana Jones

There’s nothing we appreciate more than a well made mixtape. So it’s no surprse we’re well impressed with Nialler9’s summer mixtape.

Check it out here.

MyLeftVentricle has her latest Lolomix out too here. It’s about Sleep.

Any other mixtapers I’ve forgotten? Graham Linehan does one occasionally.