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It has been decided. The often trashy/glamorous Kate Moss is the new Muse.

Something about her rep. and beauty is alluring.

She's the new muse, well for now...

I Don't Really Care What You Have To Say But...

#30- Eminem

Gateway Song: "The Real Slim Shady"

Love Affair: "The Way I Am", "Stan", "Without Me", "Cleanin Out My Closet" and "Kill You".

Fav. Album: The Marshall Mathers LP

I can't shake this one along with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. Classic.

All We Do Is Party!

#29- MSTRKRFT

Gateway Song: "Easy Love"

Love Affair: "Paris", "Bounce" and "Fist Of God".

Watch this! Don't you have the urge to stroke that mustache?

Dear Music, This Is The Best...

#28- TV On the Radio

Gateway Song: "DLZ"

Love Affair: "Golden Age", "Dancing Choose", "Staring At the Sun", and "Wolf Like Me"

Fav. Album: Dear Science

Certainly Not the Last...

#27- The Beatles

Gateway Song: "A Hard Day's Night"

Love Affair: "Hello Goodbye", "Paperback Writer" and "Across The Universe".

Fav album: By Personal Choice- Sgt.

Peppers

By Music Excellence- The White Album

Watch- Help! The Beatles (1965)

Who Doesn't Like This?

#26- Bob Marley and the Wailers

Gateway Song: "I Shot the Sheriff"

Love Affair: "Is This Love", "No Woman No

Cry", "Could You Be Loved", and "Jamming"

I'm Alot Like You...

#25- Neil Young

Gateway Song: "Heart Of Gold"

Love Affair: "Old Man", "Alabama", "The Needle and the Damage Done"

Fav. Album: Harvest

Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire

Today is Jimi Day: #24- Jimi Hendrix

Gateway Song: "Purple Haze" or "Foxey Lady"

Love Affair: "Fire", "Hey Joe", "All Along the Watchtower", "Crosstown Traffic", and "Little Wing".

What Ever Happened?

#23- The Strokes

Gateway Song: "Juiceboxx"

Love Affair: "I Can't Win", "Reptilia", "Electricityescape", and "Ize Of the World".

Fav. Album: First Impressions of Earth

I was a late bloomer in Strokes World, But please Strokes come out with a new album!

This Does Not Make Me Gay...

#22- Coldplay

Gateway Song: "Yellow"

Love Affair: "Clocks", "Don't Panic", "Trouble", "Fix You" and "Talk".

Fav. Album: Parachutes

"You're Watching TV, I Stay Up All Night"

I'm a little behind on this, but I must press on with this Month Of Music...

#21-Death From Above 1979

Gateway Song: "Romantic Rights"

Love Affair: "Blood On Our Hands" and "Pull Out".

And now that they are disbanded this Love Affair has led to MSTRKRFT. epic.

Fav. Album: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Swedish Birds

#20-The Knife

Gateway Song: "Lasagna"

Love Affair: "Silent Shout", "Pass This On", "You Take My Breath Away", and "Heartbeats".

Fav. Album-Deep cuts

Watch This

They Only Want You When You Are 17, When You're 21, You're No Fun

#19-Ladytron

Gateway Song: "Movie"

Love Affair: "Seventeen", "True Mathematics", "Cracked LCD", "Destroy Everything You Touch"

Fav. Album: Light and Magic

It's The Times Of The Season...

#18- The Zombies

Gateway Song: "Time Of the Season"

Love Affair: "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "The Way I Feel Inside".

Watch: Dear Wendy (2005)

Keep On Telling Me These Little Lies

#17- Fleetwood Mac

Gateway Song: "Book Of Love" and the album Mirage (1982)

Love Affair: "Hold Me", "Can't Go Back", "Go Your Own Way", "Rhiannon", "Dreams", and "Little Lies".

Fav. Album: Personal choice- Mirage

Music Excellence- Rumours

He's Not Selling Any Alibis

#16- Bob Dylan

Gateway Song: 'Blowin' In the Wind"

Love Affair: "Like a Rollin Stone", "I Want You", and "Lay Lady Lay"

Watch: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) and I'm Not There (2007)

Just like A Paper Tiger...

#15- Beck

Gateway Song: "Sea Change"

Love Affair: "Paper Tiger", the Modern Guilt album especially "Gamma Ray", "Youthless", and "Profanity Prayers".

Only By This Night...

#14- Kings of Leon

Gateway Song: "On Call"

Love Affair: "Closer", "Use Somebody", "My Party", and "Charmer".

Fav. Album: Only By the Night

It's As Soft As Your Pillow...

#13-Radiohead

Gateway Song: "High and Dry"

Love Affair: the album In Rainbows, "How to Disappear Completely", and "Creep"

Fav. Album-Personal choice-In Rainbows

Music Excellence- Hail to the Thief

Oh Seduce Me Now With Your Loafers.

#12-Patrick Wolf

Gateway Song: "The Libertine"

Love Affair: "Wind In The Wires", "Tristan", and "Overture".

Fav. Album- Wind in the Wires

This is some of the most beautiful, creative music, I have ever heard- Watch This

With Flowers in Her Hair...

#11- The Byrds

Gateway song: 'Turn Turn Turn"

Love Affair: "Eight Miles High", "Renaissance Fair", "Have You Seen Her Face", and "You Ain't Going Nowhere".

I am highly impressed by The Byrds. Their music, which also spawned from/Off- Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and The Flying Burrito Brothers, is iconic 60's and 70's frolic type music.

Of All the Warnings That You Gave Me-

#10 The Mars Volta

Gateway Song: More like the album De-Loused In The Comatorium. "Roulette Dares..." had me hooked.

Love Affair: "Ouroboros", "Ilyena", "Eria Tarka", and "Viscera Eyes".

Fav. Album: By personal choice- The Bedlam in Goliath.

By music excellence- De-Loused In The Comatorium.

Watch this: Omar teaches The Mars Volta class a lesson.

Useless Fact: I met Cedric in a mall once. Epic.

Hop aboard the Crystal Ship...

#9- The Doors

Gateway Song: "Light My Fire"- classic

Love Affair: "Spanish Caravan", "You're a Lost Little Girl", "Waiting For the Sun", and "Love Street"

Fav. Album- Waiting For the Sun

Read:

No One Here Gets Out Alive- The Biography of Jim Morrison.

Watch: The Doors (1991)- Val Kilmer plays Jim.

Random fact: The name the Doors comes from the Book- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.

I Have a Date With the Night!

#8-The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Gateway Song: "Maps"

Love Affair: "Y Control", "Date With the Night",

"Gold Lion", "Honeybear", and "Zero"

Fav. Album: Fever To Tell

Karen O is an Amazon Warrior!

A New Sky

#7- Oh my THE PRESETS!

Gateway Song: "My People"

Love Affair: "Kitty In the Middle", "Talk Like That", "Are You the One?", "Pretty Little Eyes",

"If I Know You- Tom Middleton Remix"

Fav. Album: Apocalypso

How Are Things On the West Coast? They Are Just Fine.

#6- Interpol

Gateway Song : "NYC"

Love Affair: "Obstacle 2", "Evil", "Slow Hands", and "The Heinrich Maneuver".

Fav. Album: Antics

Check this...

The Sound of Silence- or Music?

#5- Simon and Garfunkel

Gateway Song: no doubt it's "Mrs. Robinson"

Love Affair: "The Sound of Silence", "Scarborough Fair/ Canticle", "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "The Boxer", "America", and "Me and Julio Down By the School Yard."

Watch The Graduate (1968). Simon and Garfunkel songs are the soundtrack.

All Of My Love...

#4- The Legendary Led Zeppelin

Gateway Song: "Immigrant Song" not "Stairway To Heaven"

Love Affair: "D'yer Maker", "Communication Breakdown", 'Tangerine", "Houses of the Holy", and "Kashmir"

Fav. Album: By personal choice- Houses of the Holy

By music excellence- LZII

_Read Hammer of the Gods_

Rock Lobster

#3- The B-52's

Gateway Song: "Private Idaho"

Love Affair: "Rock Lobster", "Mesopotamia", and "Summer of Love".

I just discoverd this useless fact: The B-52's were in the 1994 live action Flintstones movie. Except they were listed as the "BC-52's".

Fly Away On My Zephyr...

#2- The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Gateway Song: "Otherside"

Love Affair: "Get on Top", "Scar Tissue", 'Right on Time", "Can't Stop", "Minor Thing", "Dosed", "The Zephyr Song", and "Charlie"

Fav. Album: one of my all time top 10 - Californication

An Artist A Day Keeps The...

The month of August is now proclaimed as the Music Month. Everyday is now music monday. Each day there will be a post of one of my fav. bands/artists. I believe that much like drugs, there are gateway songs that get you interested in the artist/band. Once you are hooked, there are songs that really continue the love affair you have with the music and the artist/band.

So here's the first one:

David Bowie

Gateway song: "Suffragette City" and the entire album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Love affair: "Life on Mars?", "Rebel Rebel" and "The Man Who Sold the World"

I just want to dress up like one of Bowie's' personas and parade around. Glam, Bam, Thank you Bowie for the androgyny.