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LET ROCK BE ROCK

another mixdisc i made but this time im mixing familiar modern rock tunes rather than those obscure alternative and indies...

1. BULLETS FOR MY VALENTINE- Waking The Demon

2. DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?- We Are Rockstars

3. RADIOHEAD- Jigjaw Falling Into Place

4. FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS- Whoah Oh!

5. FALL OUT BOY- I'm Like A Lawyer...(me and you)

6. COLDPLAY- Violet Hill

7. NINE INCH NAIL- Discipline

8. RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS- Damn regrets

9. FLOBOTS- Handlebars

10. DURAN DURAN- Skin Divers

11. DRIVE BY TRUCKERS- Two Daughters and A Wife

12. GNARLES BARKLEY- Going On

13. FOO FIGHTERS- Cheer Up Boys

14. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE- I Will Possess Your Heart

15. BAND OF HORSES- No One's Gonna Love You

16. SANDWICH- Betamax

17. HILLSONG UNITED- Point of Difference

18. UNTIL JUNE- Sleepless

Inside My Musical Head

I'm awake taking a break from studying
pre final exam tomorrow and so i might
as well post anything silly..

and silly it is,here's what's spinning
in my headphone;

1.OVER THE RHINE- If Nothing Else

2.THE FRAY- How To save A Life

3.TEDDY GEIGER- Confidence (for You I
Will)

4.BRIAN LITTRELL- Welcome Home (You)

5.FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE-Hung Up On You

6.OLD 97's- Lonely Holiday (imaginary
friend)

7.JASON BLAINE- What I can't Forget

8.CHRIS TOMLIN- Amazing Grace(My
chains Are Gone)

9.HYPERSTATIC UNION- Praying For Sunny
Days

10.PLUMB- All My Tears

11.BEYONCE-Irreplaceable

12.NADA SURF- Always Love

13.TIM McGRAW- Last Dollar

14.MICHAEL ANTHONY CURAN- Franny I'm
Sorry(demo)

15.HAWK NELSON- Everything You Ever
Wanted

16.RELIENT K- Fallen Man

17.JOJO- Too Little Too Late

18.RYAN ADAMS- Come Pick Me Up

19.NICKEL CREEK- The Fox

20.CHRIS THILE- Dead Leaves and Dirty
Ground

21.SWITCHFOOT- Crazy In Love

22.JARS OF CLAY- Water Under The Bridge

23.LINKIN PARK- Nobodys Listening

24.NAS ft. Will.I.Am.- Hiphop Is Dead

25.AKON Ft. EMINEM- Smack That

26.DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL- Don't Wait

27.CAEDMON's CALL- The Story

28.dc TALK-Between You And Me

29.SNOW PATROL-Hand Open

30.HILLSONG UNITED-What The World
could Never Take

31.WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART- The
Marriage of Figgaro (as performed by
the LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA)

32.CHRIS THILE & BELA FLECK- Bach
Variation (live medley)

33.THE SHINS- Phantom Limb

dont just stare there. go to itunes music store and get them stuff..they're good for the ears and for the mind (except that AKON track. i just love the beat!!!)

THE REAL EMO PART TWO

plus whoever invented that
hairstyle?...

lot of people thought when u got that
kind of hairstyle ur emo...and yeah i
see lots of kids like this (im even a
kid myself) who dress black with a
print MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and wear
their hair like the drummer of
UNDEROATH and then they call
themselves emo...and when ask what
does Reinventing Your Exit by
Underoath means and why it is EMO,they
dont even know...they cannot tell
you..Why? becasue these kids are not
really emo,they're just being
victimized by todays trend (which is
de to media) and we kids wanna be
cool..we don't wanna be outdated..

that's why u can see my peers today in
the mall dress like Eminem(hiphop)
pretending they can relate to him and
doesnt even know how to rap..

or dress like UNDEROATH and doesnt
even know what their songs mean..

lets face it folks, EMO is not define
by looks or infact no music should b
defined by looks...i mean music is
music...

MU CHEMICAL ROMANCE is a great emo
punk rock and DASHBOARD is emo
acoustic but looking at their
publicity photos they doesn't look
like EMO at all,,, i respect band like
these who doesn't comform to what the
label told them...

and Ryan Adams and Jack Ingram are
very country but they look like EMO
kids than My Chemical Romance...

lets give music a chance to b what it
is...

and i dont care if u dress like
underoath or eminem or tim mcgraw or
even dress like *NSYNC(are they still
alive?) for as long as ur comfortable
and NOT BECOZ U WANNA BE THE NEXT BIG
FREAK !!!

Currently Listening: Not All Who Wander Are Lost By Chris Thile Release date: 09 October, 2001

Currently Listening: This Is It (Advance Listening Party) By Jack Ingram Release date: 27 March, 2007 Currently Listening: Not Too Late By Norah Jones Release date: 30 January, 2007 Currently Listening: It's Hard to Find a Friend By Pedro the Lion Release date: 16 October, 2001

THE REAL EMO PART ONE...

i dunno what's wrong with today's
major label a.k.a. THE BIG FOUR
(EMI,MCA-UNIVERSAL,WARNER,SONU-BMG).
i mean they really lost it...

back then in the 90's when grunge
music was popular suddenly they're
marketing bands like Matchbox Twenty
(WARNER),SISTER HAZEL(sonybmg),etc as
grunge when these bands doesn't even
qualify to grunge lyrically and even
musically (cmon we all know SISTER
HAZEL is a folk rock band,...
..and now they never change...

marketing people are really out of
their mind..they don't even know what
music really is..

Take a look at the RnB chart. Almost
everything with programmed
beats,hype,and a little rap is in the
RnB category to the point that drum
and bass song "My Humps by Black Eyed
Peas is considered or marketed as
RnB...WHAT???? !!! God help us all..we
must be either tone deaf or we doesnt
really know what RnB is...

true enough their are real RnB artists
today that incorporate hiphop and
popin their sounds (e.g.
Ashnati,aaliyah,Kyla,Alicia Keys,Craig
David)

But to call Promiscuous Girl and My
Hump rnb? give ua a break!!!! Nelly
furtado is not even an RnB singer (for
all u info she's a folk singer from
canada but somehow made a hiphop/drum
& bass album,not RNB)...

and here comes the nice part...

EMO music or emotional rock is
suddenly rising nowadays for some
unknown reason.

but back in the late 80's and the
90's,this genre is unknown to the
masses..only those underground
alternative rock fans knew this type
of music.( and yes,there are some emo
in the 90's that's marketed as
grunge...funny isnt it?)

u might recognize names like Blue
October, Pedro The Lion, Jimmy Eat
World,Bright Eyes,Switchfoot..these
are bands in the 90's with deep
emotional lyrics and also uses emotion
in thier performances...

..but here's the catch, switchfoot is
not considered emo during the
90's..heck,nobody even knows they
existed..

..but now,they're being marketed by
SONY as emo-rock (maybe due to their
hair) and yes jon forman does sing
with emotion but compare their lyrics
today than their lyrics before...which
is more emo?

..and the Wiki also define emo as a
subgenre of punk rock but really if u
come to realize it Bright Eyes is not
even Punk Rock..Dashboard Confessional)
Chris Carraba) maybe fronting a
Christian punk band FURTHER SEEMS
FOREVER but his Dashboard project is
really far from punk. he even admit
that during spaces between FURTHER
SEEMS FOREVER TOUR he sits down in his
bedroom and recorded what would become
as the first DASHBOARD project because
he didn't feel it fit to his punk band.

..and that was the beginning of what
we now call as commercial EMO..but
dont get me wrong,dashboard was not
making that side project for
commercial purposes.its like his audio
diary but somehow it was
different,while the EMO's of the late
80's and 90's deal with darker themes,
dashboard deals with pain but also
with coping up.in other words,his
sound is in the positive light (no
wonder,He's a christian and christians
have joy even in pain).

and then as kids noticed him,major
label begun looking for band that
sounds like either Dashboard or
Further and marketed them as emo.

one example is Fall Out Boy.when they
started emo was not even on their
mind. They were just plain hardcore
and punk rock band but somehow the
label considered them emo..and so they
released their first major album which
until now i cannot still understand
why it is emo.i just can't feel the
honesty and emotion.

The only band i can think of that
major label gt bullseye is MY CHEMICAL
ROMANCe...i may not understand some of
their lyrics as they sing but as i
read them, its really emo... plus
their performance is emo too...

truth is EMO should not be stereotyped
as punk rock ssubgenre becasue i know
a lot of artists that are EMO as can
get,both lyrcally and in performance.
examples are:
Andrew Osenga,Nickel Creek,Bright
Eyes,Griffin House,

but if u wanna hear real emo,then one
artist comes to mind...HANK WILLIAMS.

Currently Listening: Electric By Jack Ingram Release date: 04 June, 2002

Currently Listening: Live Wherever You Are By Jack Ingram Release date: 10 January, 2006

Currently Listening: Crashings By Falling Up Release date: 24 February, 2004

FEED MY COUNTRIFIED SOUL

Lately i've been listening to aother genre than country and it struck me how we can connect those genre(rnb,punk,hiphop,jazz) into country music...

i mean look at ryan adams,he breaks boundaries when he incorporated punk into his country.

Look at Bright Eyes' emo folk incorporated country...

Look at Jars of Clay's alternative rock incorporated country...

Look at Cowboy Troy and Chance's hiphop incorporated country...

Bon Jovi's rock incorporated country...

Leann Rimes' pop incorporated country...

and of course there's the MUZIK MAFIA's RnB incorporated country...

i mean the lists could go on...

what im trying to say is why stereotype?

Heck,its just music and as long as its not crap (like rachelle ann go or william hung),then i think our ears can handle it..

...But then again in this corrupt society crappy stuffs are getting more airplay than the real one...

u dont have to believe me,all u have to do is listen to the radio and hear songs about CIRCLES (lingin).:-)

P.S.

im not bias in country music by the way. u might think i am but im not. truth is there are lots of country crap out there...

Currently Listening: Life Is Calling My Name By Shane Yellowbird Release date: 26 October, 2006

Currently Listening: Viridian By Greencards Release date: 06 March, 2007

Currently Listening: For Me It's You By Train Release date: 31 January, 2006

Currently Listening: Place Where You Belong By Normals Release date: 09 April, 2002

A Song Written On A Bo's Coffee's Tissue Paper... friends,you'll b d 1 to decide the title

words/music:michael anthony curan
genre: slow punk rock

VERSE ONE:
i met her last november
she was sitting at my favorite diner
few talks and then its gettin' better
we became closer to each other

PRE CHORUS ONE:
and i started to treat her like a real friend
like the one who'll stay in the end
never realized i was just a mere acquintance
never saw the look in her eyes

CHORUS:
maybe this is my life
maybe its who i am
always trust a friend
and later it will be broken down
all i did was to be
a real friend to (CENSORED-NAME INCLUDED).just think of something that rhyme with the word "be")
but all she did was lie to me
she never realized
how deeply im hurtin' inside...

VERSE TWO:
As far as i remember
She's the only one i can relate to
but i never felt something special
just to be a close friend is all im asking

PRE CHORUS TWO:
but why do i cry evrytime she told me lies
and why do i reacted this way
am i crazy, do i still want friendship
am i stupid pls tell me ok?

(REPEAT CHORUS)

BRIDGE:
i still treasure the friendship that we have
even though i mean nothing to you
u can still count on me when people turn you down
when there's no one around
and no (CENSORED AGAIN-NAME INCLUDED) to be found

(REPEAT CHORUS)

I'll be a friend u can hold on
standing in the middle of pain

2007 michael anthony curan

FEBRUARY 21 at around 11pm at Bo's coffee Cebu Doctor's university branch on a piece of tissue paper and a bartender's ballpen which eventually i took home with me..

im so sorry i forgot to return it...maybe tomorrow if ever i still...am never mind..

Good night cowboys!!!

Currently Listening: Smile, It's the End of the World By Hawk Nelson Release date: 17 August, 2006

Currently Listening

For those of you who wonder,nope im not lying with those cd i posted.im not a liar. i am really listening to those cd whether on a cd player,computer,or mp3 player..it doesnt matter what format but those are really the cds for the day...

that's how i discipline my ears.hehehehe

Currently Listening: Smile, It's the End of the World By Hawk Nelson Release date: 17 August, 2006

Too Sensitive To Know

(michael anthony curan)

feb.6,2007 at around 3:30 AM at ryan's room and on ryan's computer

I thought im sensitive

but im not

cause if i am

then i should have known

that something is up on you

and that your heart is fragile and blue

but look what i've done

acting like nothing

not realizing

and seeing things in love's perspective

i did see the way you treated me

is far more beyond friendship

but i refused not to see them as that

i chose to be blind

and stray my focus to the outside

so here i am happy

with the life i live to be

and there you are

pretending to be happy too

but im too sensitive to know

that tears are what's inside of you

or am i ?

i know that you know

that i didn't love you

but it's not an excuse to hurt you

cause even if my heart don't beat for you

i should have sense what if you are me and i am you?

2007 michael anthony curan/jumpintoconclusion.com

I'm Halfway Done...

Current mood: as usual,brokenhearted
Category: as usual,brokenhearted Life

yes i've been working a new song lately and i'm halfway done.she needs a little norturing and beautification and a little bit of fresh air.soon enough she will be recorded and i will put her on myspace...

what i need now is to get back home(in Bohol) to refresh myself and to think over the things that's been buggling on my mind.are they real? or just another trick to make me sway off the path?

and not to mention to encode all this information needed for next month's exam in my head...

sometimes i wonder if next week is really a vacation or consimisyon?...

chao,
see ya'round next year,
michael

Currently listening : Lonely Grill By Lonestar Release date: By 01 June, 1999

COUNTRY Rap

HEY GUYS !

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS NEW TREND CALLED COUNTRY RAP WHERE RAP AND COUNTRY ARE COMBINED.WELL,YOU PROBABLY HEARD SOME ON THE RADIO (COWBOY-KID ROCK, OVER AND OVER- TIM MCGRAW AND NELLY)..fOR ME THIS IS AWESOME !!!! YOU CAN CHECK AN ARTIST BY CHECKING WWW.CMT.COM AND LOOK FOR COWBOY TROY.YOU CAN HEAR HIS FULL LENGHT CD !!! ENJOY