Category Archives: Music

Music nostalgia

I’m pining away for Ibiza now whilst simultaneously wishing winter away and wanting to be in Miami for the music conference.

As I’m running so much, I’m also spending a seriously large amount of time listening to music and the sparkle on my collection is starting to fade. I’m not sure if the effect of SOPA is starting to be felt or if it’s just the time of year but the amount of preview music released to blogs has taken a nose dive. The days of legally pre-seeding tracks to generate some buzz seem to be well over.

So… I’ve created some new playlists. The big tunes of 2009 and 2010 to be precise. They contain the top 150 tracks of each year ordered by most plays. Top of 2009 was Major Lazer – Keep It Goin Louder and top of 2010 was Florence + the Machine – Swimming. If you have no choice but to stick to what you know, those aren’t a bad place to start.

Roll on Miami and Ibiza. I’m all excited to get some fresh tracks to provide the backing to my race training.

 

Two massive tunes

These are making me so impatient for summer and also massively jealous of everyone who’s getting to go to Miami. One day… one day.

Both are out on 13 February.

My tunes of 2011

I’ve added 709 songs and listened to about 98 days of music so far this year. I know what I like though. The iTunes play count doesn’t lie!

  1. Avicii – Levels
  2. Jai Paul – BTSTU
  3. Joe Goddard – Gabriel
  4. Robyn – Indestructible (A-Trak Remix)
  5. Cassius - I <3 U So
  6. Calvin Harris ft Kelis – Bounce
  7. Cocknbullkid – Asthma Attack
  8. Alex Kenji, Starkillers & Nadia Ali – Pressure (Alesso Remix)
  9. Friction ft McLean – Someone (The Prototypes Remix)
  10. ADELE – Rolling in the Deep (Villa Remix)

And the top 5 guilty pleasures… I have no problem sharing ;-)

  1. Pitbull ft Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything
  2. Mochi Beats ft Avicii + Big Boi + Nicki Minaj - Blessed Bass
  3. The Black Eyed Peas - Don’t Stop the Party
  4. The Cataracs ft Dev - Top of the World
  5. Rihanna ft Calvin Harris – We Found Love