So, the site was shut down today for copy­right vio­la­tions. It’s back up now that I’ve removed all the music. I guess this means no more Week­ly­TRACKS until I find a bet­ter solu­tion. (a legal one)

Mom fig­ured it out! Now feel free to add your favorite key changes in the comments.

more exam­ples: Penny Lane, And I Love Her, Ain’t No Moun­tain High Enough, Take My Breath Away, Build Me Up But­ter­cup, Knocks Me Off My Feet, I Just Called To Say I Love You, I Wanna Be Sedated, My Gen­er­a­tion, every­thing by Barry Manilow

I ran across a demo of Lady Gaga’s Tele­phone this week, only it wasn’t by Gaga, it was by Brit­ney Spears. Appar­ently Gaga had writ­ten the song for Brit­ney, but it never got released, so Gaga released it her­self. I really like the fact that Bey­oncé isn’t in this ver­sion, but over­all I still pre­fer the orig­i­nal. If you really liked the orig­i­nal, you should watch this video (thanks Daniel for send­ing that to me).

In other music news, I found out that Madonna song Don’t Tell Me was orig­i­nally by her brother-in-law. On his album, it’s called Stop. You can give it a lis­ten below.
that’s right, brit­ney, gaga & madonna all in one week­ly­tracks post. EPIC!
I don’t really have a third song to post today, but, if you’re a LOST fan and want to know who built the statue, I’d rec­om­mend lis­ten­ing to this week’s Offi­cial Lost Pod­cast.

Brit­ney Spears — Tele­phone

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Joe Henry — Stop

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That Naomi com­pi­la­tion video may be ter­ri­ble qual­ity, but that song is just plain infec­tious! I decided to look it up and it turned out to be from the british rock group The Motors. Here is the song and a few other hits by them.
Check out the fancy new cuoulu­ours!
The Motors — For­get About You

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The Motors — Airport

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The Motors — Danc­ing The Night Away

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First we got Pan­dora, then Last.fm, then Spo­tify came along, even Youtube became a jukebox.

Do your­self a favor, check out Grooveshark.com <—Seri­ously.

p.s. image is from last nights Lit­tle Boots show.

I never wrote about how awe­some Ed Banger’s 7^th Anniver­sary After­party was. Well, it was awe­some. Just watch the video above. I can’t believe old peo­ple actu­ally think this is just “noise”. I feel so sorry for them. This lit­er­ally went on for five min­utes, but don’t worry, he played real music after.
With all the upcom­ing releases, I feel like March can’t get here soon enough. First there’s Gold­frapp, then She & Him, even Lit­tle Boots’s first album Hands gets a US release next month (though I assume most of you have acquired it by ‘other’ means). The Postelles also release their first EP some­time early March, and don’t even get me started on Final Fan­tasy 13 (or God of War III for that mat­ter). Either way, Boots is kick­ing off her US album launch tour here in NY on March 2^nd, and you bet your ass I’ll be there. Plus, Neon Indian is play­ing the fol­low­ing week, so March is look­ing to be pretty awesome.

Here are a few songs that have caught my atten­tion recently. There is no rela­tion between the songs but you’re wel­come to try and con­nect them some­how. The first is from a 60’s Mad Mag­a­zine album called “Twist” Rock ‘N’ Roll. The sec­ond track has been stuck in my head a lot recently, it’s from the soul­ful elec­tro pop duo Quadron. Both mem­bers were part of the Boom Clap Bach­e­lors. The last song is an epic 11 minute ride based on an opera about Darwin’s Ori­gin of Species. It fea­tures vocals by Royksopp’s “This Must Be It” and “Tricky Tricky” singer Fever Ray.

Mad Mag­a­zine — (She Got A) Nose Job

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Quadron — Pressure

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The Knife — Colour­ing of Pigeons

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It’s been a great week for music leaks, first we got “Frag­ile” from Daft Punk’s upcom­ing Tron Legacy sound­track, and now I see that two of my favorite girls, Gold­frapp, and Zooey Deschanel are releas­ing sin­gles for their new albums! Check out “Rocket” from Goldfrapp’s new album Head First, and “In The Sun” from what’s sure to be this sum­mers musi­cal block­buster She & Him’s Vol­ume Two. Above and below are pro­mo­tional videos for Danger’s upcom­ing EP.

Gold­frapp — Rocket

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She & Him– In The Sun

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there needs to be a pret­tier youtube player, i’m get­ting sick of these bor­ders.

Ques­tion: What do the songs “Since U Been Gone” and “My Life Would Suck With­out You” by Kelly Clark­son, “Girl­friend” by Avril Lav­i­gne, “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot N Cold” by Katy Perry, “Right Round” by Flo Rida, “TiK ToK” by Kesha, and “Party in the U.S.A.” by Miley Cyrus have in common?

Answer: Aside from all being stuck in my head at some point, they were all pro­duced by Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald.

It’s no secret that good pop music has been on the decline over the last decade. I have always thought of my mid­dle school years as a golden age of pop, the end of which I mark by the release of Usher’s “Yeah!”, which held the #1 spot on the Bill­board charts for a whop­ping 4(!) months. But there’s a chance that my golden age is still alive. If you look at the work of gifted pro­duc­ers like Dr. Luke and Greg Kurstin, you’ll find that they’re still churn­ing out catchy sin­gles that grab a hold and don’t let go. No doubt, I’ll be keep­ing a close eye on this year’s Bill­board charts, in hopes that catchy pop will reclaim it’s golden throne.

TiK ToK (Original)

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Party In The USA (Original)

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Party In The USA (Feat. Noto­ri­ous BIG)

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I know I’ve been kind of lazy about updat­ing, so to mark my tri­umphant return to Week­ly­TRACKS, I am pleased to debut WoodyJANG’s first ever POWER HOUR post! Yes, that’s right, 60 1-minute motown tracks for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure. (some of which aren’t really motown, but I just couldn’t resist)
This all started one day when I googled “motown pow­er­hour” and got noth­ing. I was dis­ap­pointed in google, the inter­net, and soci­ety as a whole. I took my sor­row and fun­neled it into Garage­Band along with all my favorite motown tracks, cre­at­ing a 2GB hour-long mon­ster of a sequence.

So here it is, com­plete with some sexy album art star­ring our best friend hel­vetica neue. [Option+Click To Down­load File 58.1 mb]

POWER HOUR: MOTOWN

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Major points for any­one who can iden­tify the tran­si­tion sound effect!

I would have liked to see this artist have a go on Gizmodo’s 3D etch-a-sketch…
I’ve always loved the drums on The Five Stairstep’s one-hit-wonder Ooh Child. After some googling, I found out the drum­mer for that par­tic­u­lar track was Bernard “Pretty” Pur­die, appar­ently the most recorded drum­mer in his­tory. Most of us have heard him drum on clas­sic tracks like Respect by Aretha, and Cold Sweat by James Brown, but I was a lit­tle sur­prised to find him on less than clas­sic tracks like She’s Gone by Hall and Oates.

Any­ways, Pur­die and The Five Stairsteps did a cover of Dear Pru­dence, feel free to check that one out. Plus, new Thao album! I remem­ber hear­ing this song Body at her last con­cert, so I’m glad to have the recording.

Hall & Oates — She’s Gone

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The Five Stairsteps — Dear Prudence

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Thao — Body

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