QotD: Can't Stop Listening to...
Today is Repeat Day, so we want to know: what song do you have currently have on repeat? Bonus points if you share it with us!
I have K'naan's whole album on repeat at the moment, but two songs in particular, Waving Flag and Fatima. This album really is fantastic. While K'naan has mainly been labeled as hip hop before, he sings many more of the songs on this album, and he has a wonderful voice. This album has also been labeled as folk, due to the political and social messages in it, and I think this is one of its strongest points, K'naan has written some really poignant songs that are powerful without being cliched or sentimental. These two songs are getting some radio play on CBC, and I've heard other tracks from this album on hip hop stations, but I'm not sure how much other play he is getting. At any rate, these tracks are fantastic, and I'd strongly suggest taking the time to listen to them. Waving Flag is a repetitive freedom ballad; Fatima is a sweet, catchy song that actually tells quite a sad story. I was in tears by the end of it when I listened to it the first time, and then nearly fell over when K'naan said at the end of the song, "Hey, don't cry! This song is a celebration!" I try not to cry, but it gets me every time.
I don't know how to embed tracks (Rockr/Junkii, help me out here!) so I'll put in links to clips from QTV's session with K'naan and another from Youtube.
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and i blame <a href="http://grooveshark.com/>grooveshark</a> for getting the back catalogue of 808 state into my head:
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-jjv.
second try:
may not be able to embed mia's pp -- i blame some radio station for playing this a few days ago and getting it into my head.
and i blame grooveshark for getting the back catalogue of 808 state into my head.
-jjv.
As for embedding, do you mean embedding audio files instead of video - because you seem to be okay with embedding video. You just need to find a site that plays audio files, like Deezer.com (although a lot of their music no longer seems to be available - I'm wondering if they're having legal issues) like Youtube plays video files. Most of them should have an embed code you can copy and paste. When you're writing your post, just hit embed tab (In the same area where you insert photos or videos) and then paste the embed code in the pop-up window.
Easy Peasy.
That's ok, ABC isn't my favourite song from the album. It's really radio-ready hiphop, do you know what I mean? Which is quite different from the rest of the album.
And that's exactly the info I was looking for, I'll try that!