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What a relief! Next up, orientation week! :D Anybody going to be a freshman at UWaterloo?

Bieber vs. Shaq. Pretty entertaining stuff :P

I’ll let you in on a little secret — when it comes to R&B, all I really look for is sex. You know, the type of sleaze that made R. Kelly so iconic in the early and mid 90s. Contemporary artists like The-Dream and Drake understand this and bring the right balance of cocky swagger and sexytime to the track. I’ll be completely honest here and just say that my familiarity with Trey Songz’ work peaks somewhere around his high-profile, high-swagger collaboration with Drake; “Successful” from Drizzy’s So Far Gone mixtape. On “The Usual”, Trey Songz is reunited with Drake to make up what is shaping up to some sort of R&B dream team making dream sex jams, just how I like. Hear/download the song below:

Trey Songz f/ Drake – “The Usual”

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This is your Daily 2% – Chilled and Ready to Serve. We will try to bring you one “chill” track every day. This is for when you get home and you are trying to unwind. You reach for that glass of wine or that unlit Black & Mild or maybe you reach for something more herbal. This track is for those times. We will try to bring you at least one a day. We are just your milkmen and I’m here to make a delivery. Chill…..

Today’s delivery is brought to you by Thievery Corporation. If you walk into a down-tempo lounge and you ask the DJ if they have any Thievery Corporation songs and they reply “No”; you aren’t really in a lounge but maybe a burger king or something. Thievery is synonymous with “chill” and with reason because they have carved out a perfect niche for themselves and have had awesome success over the years. The track I’m bringing to you today is called “The Glass Bead Game” and its from their debut album back in 1997 but doesn’t seem dated at all. I would suggest not listening directly to the track because it may get “boring” but instead use it as background noise to calm you down and chill you out. You could even use this track on your local public transportation commute to help chill out your anxieties?

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]Download: Thievery Corporation - The Glass Bead Game

For the second day in a row, a ‘new’ Madonna song – ‘If You Go Away‘, in this instance – has leaked. We say ‘new’ because it’s not new at all; (a) it’s a cover, and (b) it’s some track from a musical that never happened, ‘Hello Suckers‘.

‘If You Go Away’ is an English adaptation of Jacques Brel’s ‘No Me Quitte Pas’ and has been performed by many great performers like Marlene Dietrich, Cyndi Lauper, Nina Simone and Barbra Streisand.

We’re quite fond of Dusty Springfield’s version.

Madonna’s version

Click here to view the embedded video.

Dusty Springfield’s version

Click here to view the embedded video.

Cyndi Lauper’s version

Click here to view the embedded video.

For the second day in a row, a ‘new’ Madonna song – ‘If You Go Away‘, in this instance – has leaked. We say ‘new’ because it’s not new at all; (a) it’s a cover, and (b) it’s some track from a musical that never happened, ‘Hello Suckers‘.

‘If You Go Away’ is an English adaptation of Jacques Brel’s ‘No Me Quitte Pas’ and has been performed by many great performers like Marlene Dietrich, Cyndi Lauper, Nina Simone and Barbra Streisand.

We’re quite fond of Dusty Springfield’s version.

Madonna’s version

Click here to view the embedded video.

Dusty Springfield’s version

Click here to view the embedded video.

Cyndi Lauper’s version

Click here to view the embedded video.

Russ Chimes - Midnight Club EP (Part 2: Tertre Rouge) from Russ Chimes on Vimeo.

…photo by ME MONSTAH of course.

I found this little diddy in the great bloggearth, and I have been cranking it in my auto ever since.  I like this sound- dude with guitar…but wait??!! what’s that?  Some sort of oingy-boingy electronicy delicious sound?  Yes please…not too much mind you- but just right.

I hope you like it, too.  I was once lucky enough to live in SF- and I miss it!!!  WHY did I leave?? Not sure, but I get to go back with songs like this:

Barbara- San Francisco

SIDE NOTE! I also have a song by Steve Tannen, “San Francisco” (remember back when he wasn’t the Weepies and they weren’t putting out sub-par albums?)

It’s on O_otunes….It’s pretty good if you like the sing-y dude with guitar stuff.  I would share it, but mine is password ‘tected, so yeah.  99 cents buggars!

xx!

DanaMonstah