Mix

I'm hopeful. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but for the first time in a while, hopeful.

Comfort - Carbon Leaf
Hold You In My Arms - Ray LaMontagne
Stop the Bus - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Dreaming - Sara Wheeler
Song for You - Alexi Murdoch
Walk With You - Dispatch
Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles

Hype

Tax Season

I just finished my taxes - Ugh. The 1040 form is supposed to be one of the most logical forms around, but it's just a pain. I am getting a return, which is nice, but paperwork = evil. Ugh.

Taxman - The Beatles
Money - Pink Floyd
My Mathematical Mind - Spoon

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iTunes Free Music of the Week

This week's free selection from iTunes:

Shake It - Metro Station

Yo No - Carina Ricco

Ticket To Ride: Interviews - Audio Book (Interview suppliment with the Beatles)

C&O

This week's cover and original is of a Beatles song that I paticularly like. The Beatles seem to be the band that has the most songs covered, and it's sometimes hit or miss with the various versions out there. There's entire albums, such as the I Am Sam soundtrack, or the new Across the Universe Soundtrack, and there's random efforts on a number of other artists who've covered the band. Here, the Dave Matthew's Band has their own version of I Saw Her Standing There.

I Saw Her Standing There - Dave Matthew's Band

I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles

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C&O

This week's Cover and Original is of another Beatles song, with a couple of pretty good covers to go along with it. I was going to do something different this time around, but this song fits with my mood for the time being. (The getting better all the time part anyway)

Getting Better was first written in 1967 and was on the landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. Here's two covers by Gomez and the Kaiser Chiefs.

Getting Better - The Beatles

Getting Better - Gomez

Getting Better - The Kaiser Chiefs

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Cover & Original

Come Together - The Beatles

The Beatles are one of my favorite bands, let's get that out of the way right now. They've got some of the best songs out there, one of them being this one. It's got such a fun sound and tone that it's hard not to like.

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Come Together - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Grace Potter is an artist that I'll probably get to in due time, but in the meantime, I was thrilled to find that she covered Come Together at a concert, and was even more thrilled to find that she did a good job with it.

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Come Together / Hey Jude - Carbon Leaf

Carbon Leaf's also one of my favorite bands, and like with Grace Potter, I was thrilled to find that they'd covered this song - it's not one of the ones that they usually do, and they've brought not one, but two great songs to your ears.

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