SIRIA’S SEPTEMBER PLAYLIST
This is the last time I’ll say this. I’m so glad Summer is over.
Ok, I’m done, I promise.
Well, maybe just once more…
YAY!!!!!! Summer is over!!!!!!
Ok, now I’m really done. Really. Pinky swear. All done.
I’m not sure if Fall will be any better, as when I went to check my e-mail inbox I had 666 unread emails (yeah I know, and this email account isn’t even the account that gets spammed, newsletters, nor most of the Facebook/Myspace alerts).
On a brighter note, here is some wisdom that was subliminally imparted upon me this morning via a song playing on KCRW that I thought I’d enlighten you with (I don’t know the song name and won’t look it up, as I actually didn’t really enjoy the song all that much), “the road doesn’t move, you’re the one that moves.” All thanks to Jason Bentley and his efforts in making my morning eclectic.
Alright, September’s 2:05pm list…here we go.
The Who – ” So Sad About Us”
I actually can’t decide if I like this original or The Jam’s version better. I think I’m going to go listen to this song as soon as I’m done posting this.
Also, have you ever seen The Who cover “Heatwave”? This song is one of my favorites for bands to cover. The New Fidelity still do the best live cover of this as far as local bands go.
Sea Wolf (more…)
Heroes Don’t Die – ACM Artist of the Decade
Note: I promise not to overrun TRAffIK with Country 24/7 as I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but humor me on this one
The George Strait Special honoring him as the Academy of Country Music Artist of the Decade (an honor that only four other artists have earned to date) aired tonight (or last night technically) on CBS. As anyone who knows me well (or anyone who has read my Guide to my playlists–warning not a short read) can confirm, George Strait is one of my all-time favorite musical artists. The man has released 87 singles to date with 44 of those going to number one. I’m willing to bet I can sing along to about 80 percent of his songs.
I chose to stay in, which was a good thing considering how many late nights and early mornings I’ve had lately, to watch tonight’s tribute as opposed to just recording it to watch later. This show reminded me of how much I love this man and his quiet unassuming no b.s. yet completely confident demeanor, he’s a guy’s guy made up of some of the same stuff that made people love Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. He carries himself with pride and dignity, which not too many bonafide stars do today, the respect he doesn’t blatantly ask for but somehow commands from his peers is admirable. It also reminded me of how much I like hearing him sing and perform his own songs. I tuned in about 20 minutes late and I believe I missed performances from Brooks and Dunn, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, Sugarland, and possibly Faith Hill, and maybe a few others– I was able to catch most of the others.
I hadn’t pre-viewed any of the performances prior to watching them tonight and wasn’t sure what to expect. I was a little wary, only because these are the songs I grew up on. Seriously it could go either way, the artists could stick to covering his songs in the same no frills style he sings and performs them in or they might try to make them their own and completely lose the essence of the song.
My Soundtrack – A Guide to Siria’s Playlists (Future, Past, and Present)
A Guide to the Eclecticism of Siria’s Playlists to come…
…I don’t listen to anything because I think it’s cool or because someone else does. As with everything else, I like what I like. 
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With that said below is my attempt (in as close to chronological order as possible) to help you understand what for better or worse has led me down basically down every musical path I’ve chosen to explore.
George Strait ”The Chair” -
The very first tape I bought all by myself was George Strait’s Something Special at the age of four (yes really). Prior to that I sometimes got to pick stuff out whenever my dad would buy music (which was often – I scored such gems as The Chipmunks Christmas, Fairy Tale Princess Stories, The Story of Rapunzel, etc., etc.) but this one I bought all by myself with the allowance my parents gave me ($5 a week). I actually at the moment can’t even recall exactly what drew me to it, but every morning for the next two weeks I would make sure to have my George Strait tape with me as I was dropped off at the babysitters house and hand her the tape asking if we could play it.
Every day for two weeks she would conveniently forget to play it 
. That’s okay I played it enough on the way home from the babysitters, on the way to the babysitters, and at home. It took a little while for this tape to actually grow on me and was starting to think maybe my purchase that had left me without ice cream truck money for a whole week hadn’t been so wise after all. Thankfully I discovered “The Chair,” which is basically a song about a guy in a bar attempting to pick up on chicks with a lame pickup line that to this day I can listen to over and over. Yes there were others that should have this spot (see Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Chris LeDeux, Willie Nelson, and of course Buck Owens), but George Strait was my introduction to country music and has been a constant in my life. I am pretty confident that he stands alone in being the only musical artist that I can sing along with at least 30-40 of his songs and know a majority of the words.
This man heads my list of those who in my eyes can do no wrong musically which I refer to as ”Untouchables” (he spends time here with Lou Reed, Roy Orbison, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam, Joe Strummer, Tom Petty, and Ian Mackye to name a few.). It’s no wonder he is to be honored with the Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music next week, an honor that only four other acts (Marty Robbins, Alabama, Loretta Lynn, and Garth Brooks –no offense but Garth? Really? Before George? WTF?!)have receivedto date.
Stacey Q “We Connect” -