So, on Nov. 1, KOSY started playing Christmas music, right? Well, my boss went to change the station, but rather than changing it straight to KODJ (the oldies station) as we’d discussed, she went to KSFI instead, which is a near-clone of KOSY. It wasn’t as dramatic a change as I’d hoped, but while they played a lot of the same songs, they also played several that KOSY never did, and they didn’t seem to repeat artists and songs as much as KOSY did. I was satisfied.

Until I came to work on Monday, only to discover– TA DA! KSFI has switched to Christmas, too! GAH. Although they weren’t as annoying as KOSY’s Christmas– they stuck mostly to old-school stuff like Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole and Andy Williams and the Carpenters. So I didn’t have to hear any rendition of “Last Christmas, I Gave You My Heart” before Alyson got in, realized that yes, they were playing the Ringalingalinga Ding Dong Ding version of “Sleigh Ride,” and we’d better change the station again. So she did, and this time she went straight to KODJ.

Oh my heck, you guys. What a difference! There’s still some overlap– KOSY was big on 70s soft rock, and KODJ plays it too (they call themselves a Super Hits station, which means they play 60s and 70s music rather than their original format of 50s and 60s), but in a much greater variety. So while I hear Neil Diamond several times a day, it’s a much wider range of his songs (“Forever in Blue Jeans”! “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show”!). KODJ knows that ABBA and Frankie Valli and the Beach Boys had more than one hit– shocking! And they mix up the stuff I’ve heard a lot of lately with stuff I haven’t heard in ages– “Happy Together” by the Turtles and “Hooked on a Feeling” by B.J. Thomas and “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees and “The Mighty Quinn” by Manfred Mann and the original Supremes version of “Can’t Hurry Love” instead of the mediocre Phil Collins remake, and– it’s fantastic, people, it really is. It’s all I can do not to sing out loud when “Sherry” comes on, and I walked into work yesterday filled with glee when I realized that I wouldn’t have to hear “Before He Cheats” or “How to Save a Life” or “Chasing Cars” or any Celine Dion. At all! Not until January, at least! Although my boss has gotten such good comments on the station, that I have a sneaking suspicion she might leave it here, even after KOSY abandons the Christmas Overload format.

I’m sure I’ll get sick of it eventually, but right now I’m so giddy about the music, it makes the day go faster and leaves me SO much less cranky at the end of the day. So I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

Quick Facts:

Each day there was at least one song played twice. On Wednesday 10/17, two songs were played twice. On Wednesday 10/10 and Monday 10/15, the same song (“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol) was played twice; in other words, the same song was played twice twice.

Each day except Tuesday, at least one artist had their songs played 4 times. Most days there were multiple artists with 4 plays.

On Friday 10/12, a whopping 16 artists had multiple plays, including 4 artists with at least 4 songs played.

14 artists had a song played on each of the 6 days. Of those 14, 5 of them had only one song played, and one artist, Michael Bublé, had one song (“Everything”) played all but one of his plays, making it 6 songs that were played each day for 6 days.

13 artists had songs played 5 of the 6 days. Of those, 2 had the same song played. One group (Rascal Flatts) had one song (“My Wish”) played 5/6 days, in addition to other songs.

Elton John was the most played artist, with 20 plays (13 unique songs). Following close behind were Celine Dion and Phil Collins, who each had 17 plays, with 10 unique songs.

In addition to the 27 artists mentioned above, 126 artists were played more than once. Of those, 70 had only one song played (some of these were one-hit wonders; most were not).

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Wednesday 10/10

Artists with multiple plays:
Billy Joel (4)
Bread (2)
Celine Dion (3)
Elton John (4)
Faith Hill (2)
Neil Diamond (2)
Phil Collins (4)
Rascal Flatts (2)
Shania Twain (2)
Snow Patrol (2)

Songs with multiple plays:
“Chasing Cars,” Snow Patrol

Thurs. 10/11

Artists with multiple plays:
Celine Dion (2)
The Eagles (4)
Elton John (4)
Five for Fighting (2)
Kenny Loggins (3)
Mariah Carey (2)
Matchbox 20 (2)
The Pointer Sisters (2)
Rascal Flatts (2)

Songs with multiple plays:
“My Wish,” Rascal Flatts

Friday 10/12

Artists with multiple plays:
Billy Joel (3)
Bread (2)
Bryan Adams (2)
Celine Dion (4)
Elton John (4)
Faith Hill (4)
Fergie (2)
James Taylor (2)
Jim Brickman (2)
Mariah Carey (3)
Martina McBride (2)
Neil Diamond (2)
Phil Collins (2)
Rascal Flatts (2)
Rod Stewart (2)
Whitney Houston (2)

Songs with multiple plays:
“Big Girls Don’t Cry,” Fergie

Monday 10/15

Artists with multiple plays:
The Backstreet Boys (3)
Celine Dion (4)
Elton John (3)
Enya (2)
Maria Carey (2)
Michael Bublé (2)
Savage Garden (2)
Snow Patrol (2)

Songs with multiple plays:
“Chasing Cars,” Snow Patrol

Tuesday 10/16:

Artists with multiple plays:
Bette Midler (2)
The Eagles (2)
Elton John (2)
Fleetwood Mac (2)
Josh Groban (2)
Kenny G (2)
Kenny Loggins (2)
Martina McBride (2)
Phil Collins (2)
Rob Thomas (2)
Toto (2)

Songs with multiple plays:
“Little Wonders,” Rob Thomas

Wednesday 10/17

Artists with multiple plays:
Billy Joel (3)
Celine Dion (3)
The Eagles (2)
Elton John (3)
Faith Hill (3)
The Fray (2)
Kenny Loggins (2)
Phil Collins (4)
Rascal Flatts (2)
Richard Marx (2)
Shania Twain (2)
The Beach Boys (3)

Songs with multiple plays:
“How to Save a Life,” The Fray
“Good Vibrations, ” The Beach Boys

Artists who were played every day (# of plays/# of songs):
[If the artist only had one song played, it is listed after]

Bread (8/5)
Carrie Underwood (6/1) [“Before He Cheats”]
Celine Dion (17/10)
The Eagles (11/8)
Elton John (20/13)
Faith Hill (12/7)
The Fray (7/1) [“How to Save a Life”]
John Mayer (6/1) [“Waiting on the World to Change”]
Kenny Loggins (10/5)
Michael Bublé (7/2) [all but one play was “Everything”]
Neil Diamond (8/5)
Phil Collins (17/10)
Rob Thomas (7/1) [“Little Wonders”]
Snow Patrol (8/1) [“Chasing Cars”]

Artists who were played 5 out of 6 days:

Bettle Midler (6/3)
Billy Joel (12/9) {I have a sneaking suspicion that he actually was played 6/6 days, but I missed writing it down.}
Fergie (6/1) [“Big Girls Don’t Cry”]
James Taylor (6/3)
Lee Ann Womack (5/1) [“I Hope You Dance”]
Lionel Ritchie (5/3)
Mariah Carey (9/6)
Matchbox 20 (6/3)
Rascal Flatts (9/3) [“I Wish” played 5/6 days]
Richard Marx (6/4)
Shania Twain (7/4)
The Beach Boys (7/3)
The Carpenters (5/2)

Artists played Multiple Times (# of plays/ # of songs):
[If the artist only had one song played, it is listed after] {Bold indicated 4 or more plays, italics 3 plays}

ABBA (2/1) [“Dancing Queen”]
A-Ha (3/1) [“Take On Me”]
Air Supply (4/3)
Alabama (3/1) [“Feels So Right”]
All 4 One (3/2)
America (4/3)
Amy Grant (2/2)
The Backstreet Boys (5/4)
Ben E. King (3/1) [“Stand By Me”]
Berlin (3/1) [“Take My Breath Away”]
Bill Withers (3/2)
Bob Seger (3/2)
Bonnie Rait (2/2)
Bonnie Tyler (2/1) [“Total Eclipse of the Heart”]
Breathe (3/2)
Brian McKnight (2/1) [“Back at One”]
Bryan Adams (2/2)
Carl Carlton (3/1) [“Everlasting Love”]
Carly Simon (3/1) [“You Belong to Me”]
Cars (2/1) [“Drive”]
Cat Stephens (2/1) [“Wild World”]
Cher (3/2)
Chicago (4/3)
Christina Aguilera (3/1) [“Beautiful”]
Christopher Cross (2/1) [“Ride Like the Wind”]
Climax Blues Band (3/1) [“I Love You”]
Colbie Caillat (2/1) [“Bubbly”]
Collin Raye (2/1) [“In This Life”]
Commodores (2/2)
Cranberries (3/2)
Dan Fogelberg (3/2)
Dan Hill/Vonda Shepherd (3/1) [“Can’t We Try”]
Daniel Bedingfield (2/1) [“If You’re Not the One”]
Daniel Powter (2/1) [“Bad Day”]
Deniece Williams (2/1) [“Let’s Hear it For the Boy”]
Des’ree (2/1) [“You Gotta Be”]
Diamond Rio (2/1) [“One More Day”]
Dido (2/1) [“White Flag”]
Eddie Rabbit/Crystale Gayle (2/1) [“You and I”]
Edwin McCain (3/2)
Enrique Iglesias (4/1) [“Hero”]
Enya (5/2)
Eric Carmen (2/2)
Five for Fighting (4/3)
Fleetwood Mac (5/4)
Foreigner (2/1) [“I Want to Know What Love Is”]
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (2/1) [“December 1963 (Oh What a Night)”]
Garth Brooks (2/1) [“To Make You Feel My Love”]
Gary Wright (2/1) [“Dream Weaver”]
Genesis (2/2)
George Benson (2/1) [“On Broadway”]
Gloria Estefan (4/2)
Gloria Gaynor (3/1) [“I Will Survive”]
Gnarls Barkley (3/1) [“Crazy”]
Hall & Oates (4/3)
Heatwave (2/1) [“Always and Forever”]
Jackson Browne (3/1) [“Somebody’s Baby”]
James Blunt (2/1) [“You’re Beautiful”]
Janet Jackson (3/2)
Jets (3/1) [“You Got it All”]
Jewel (2/1) [“You Were Meant for Me”]
Jim Brickman (3/2)
Jim Croce (2/1) [“Time in a Bottle”]
Jimmy Cliff (2/1) [“I Can See Clearly Now”]
Joe Cocker (4/3)
John Waite (2/1) [“Missing You”]
Josh Groban (5/2)
Journey (3/2)
Kenny G (3/2)
Kimberley Locke (2/1) [“Change”]
Kool and the Gang (3/1) [“Celebration”]
LeeAnn Rimes (3/2)
Lifehouse (2/1) [“You and Me”]
Little River Band (2/2)
Lonestar (3/2)
Madonna (2/1) [“Crazy for You”]
Marc Anthony (2/1) [“I Need to Know”]
Martina McBride (6/3)
Matthew Wilder (2/1) [“Break My Stride”]
Mercy Me (3/1) [“I Can Only Imagine”]
Michael W. Smith (3/2)
Mike and the Mechanics (2/1) [“The Living Years”]
Monica (2/1) [“For You I Will”]
Naked Eyes (3/1) [“Always Something There to Remind Me”]
Natalie Imbruglia (2/1) [“Torn”]
Natasha Bedinfiel (3/1) [“Unwritten”]
Norah Jones (2/1) [“Don’t Know Why”]
Olivia Newton-John (2/1) [“I Honestly Love You”]
Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark (2/1) [“If You Leave”]
Orleans (4/2)
Patrick Swayze (2/1) [“She’s Like the Wind”]
Patti Austin/James Ingram (2/1) [“Baby Come To Me”]
Patti Smyth/Don Henley (2/1) [“Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough”]
Paul Davis (3/1) [“Cool Night”]
Peter Cetera (4/3)
Pointer Sisters (4/2)
REO Speedwagon (3/2)
Restless Heart (2/2)
Righteous Brothers (2/1) [“Unchained Melody”]
Roxette (2/2)
S Club 7 (2/1) [“Never Had a Dream Come True”]
Sade (4/2)
Santana/Michelle Branch (3/1) [“The Game of Love”]
Sarah McLachlan (3/2)
Savage Garden (2/2)
Seal (2/2)
Sheena Easton (2/1) [“Morning Train”]
Sheryl Crow (2/1) [“All I Wanna Do”]
Sixpence None the Richer (2/2)
Sophie B. Hawkins (2/1) [“As I Lay Me Down”]
Spandau Ballet (2/1) [“True”]
Steven Bishop (2/1) [“It Might Be You”]
Sting (2/1) [“Fields of Gold”]
Styx (3/2)
Sugar Ray (2/1) [“Someday”]
The Bee Gees (3/2)
The Police (2/1) [“Every Breath You Take”] {Note: Technically, this means that Sting was played 4 times; two of these were on the same day (10/11)}
Tim McGraw (4/1) [“Live Like You Were Dying”]
Toni Braxton (2/1) [“Unbreak My Heart”]
Toto (4/3)
Uncle Kracker/Dobie Gray (4/1) [“Drift Away”]
Vanessa Carleton (4/1) [“Thousand Miles”]
Vanessa Williams (4/2)
Wham! (2/1) [“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”]
Whitmey Houston (5/3)
Wilson Phillips (2/2)

So, what does all this prove? Well, it proves I’m not dreaming– they really do play the same songs and artists over and over again. It also proves that I probably don’t have enough actual work to do at work.

But it has had one good effect, beyond my own satisfaction in proving my thesis correct:  my supervisor has taken an interest, agrees that it is indeed annoying to listen to the same thing over and over again, and also agrees that if they keep this up when they switch to Christmas music on Halloween (yes, I know!)– and they will, because they always do– that we can change the station. So, soon I’ll get to listen to the Oldies station for a while. They play the same music over and over again, too, but at least it’ll be *different* music. For a while.

Anyway. I’m just going to post some random things that I’ve either been doing or thinking lately. ‘Cause my life has gotten rather boring lately.

I’m thoroughly sick of listening to KOSY 106.5 for 40 hours a week. They play the same dumb songs every day. And even when they play a song I like– a Carpenters song, or a few that I’ve got on my iPod– I’ve heard them all so much lately that I don’t even enjoy them any more. And why, why, do people remake stupid 60s songs? There are lots and lots of really good songs that came out of the 60s, but do people cover them? No! Instead we get “Groovy Kind of Love” and “On Broadway” and other such songs that weren’t that good to begin with, and certainly don’t improve with a modern cover. Just. . . stop, people. If you were taking these mediocre songs and making them better, I wouldn’t complain! But instead, you’re making them worse.

And if I never hear another Elton John or Rod Stewart song, it’d be too soon. Unfortunately, they play at least 3 a day. Hmph.

Vanilla Coke is back (well, it’s now “Coca-Cola Vanilla” and “Coke Zero Vanilla”, but it tastes the same). This is both wonderful and terrible news. Wonderful because I love Vanilla Coke. Terrible because I try not to drink caffeine, and I haven’t been drinking as much of it since Vanilla Coke was discontinued. Woe.

My nails and cuticles look terrible. I just bought some cuticle cream to try to whip them into shape. I don’t have much hope though– I’ve never been able to make them look anything but terrible. And my nails are so brittle. I guess I need more Vitamin E in my diet or something. Anyway, these horrible horrible cuticles have been catching on my knitting lately, so something must be done.

Speaking of knitting, I’ve been working on a silk shawl as a gift for Jen’s wedding (which was on Wednesday and which was beautiful and at which I cried and which I still haven’t recovered from, and all I did was serve cake for an hour and a half) and it’s turning out absolutely beautifully. Here’s a pic I took with my cellphone camera when I’d only done a few repeats. It’s much bigger now. I was trying to get it done for the wedding, but hurrying made me make stupid mistakes, which took more time to correct than just taking my time in the first place would have, so it didn’t get done. I am glad that I did the practice shawl (most of it, I still have to do the edging on two of the sides) beforehand, though, because if I hadn’t already had experience with the kinds of aggravating things that happen when knitting lace, I think I would have given up on it long ago. Anyway, I think I might be able to finish it by the time she gets back from her honeymoon, though. Or shortly thereafter.

Once I get that finished, I’ve got baby House sweaters for the niece and nephew to knit in time for the DH release, Lisa’s Hufflepuff scarf to finish in time for the OotP premiere, and then– I’ve got so many lovely projects on tap! For my birthday I requested gift certificates and/or money to spend on knitting things. So, in the past few weeks, I’ve bought lace blocking wires, 4 more sets of Knitpicks Options needle tips in the sizes I use most (6, 7, 8, and 9, if anyone was wondering) as well as another set of 24″ cables and a new set of 40″ ones (and it’s a good thing, too, because I certainly need the length for the shawl!), a set of wooden cable needles, and a magnetic chart keeper. And those are just my notions! I also bought the book No Sheep for You, which had good info on silk and also has a lot of cute patterns that I want to make. And yarn! I got three balls of this lovely, lovely DK-weight merino superwash wool that I can’t remember the name of to make an Irish Hiking Scarf (hence the cable needles– I haven’t done cables yet, and this is my project to learn), a ball of sock yarn to make my very first pair of socks with (haven’t decided what pattern to use on that yet), two skeins of a burgundy-colored laceweight merino wool to make Christmas-present shawls for my grandmothers (I’m planning on using the Shetland pattern from Victorian Lace Today for them), a cone of laceweight 100% silk yarn in Citron from Colourmart for a shawl for my mom (we haven’t decided on a specific pattern yet), and two cones of heavy-laceweight silver gray yarn from Colourmart for a Cap Shawl from VLT for me. And I still have two balls of Rowan Kidsilk Haze that I bought in Laguna Beach that’s wanting to become a Victorian Ruby scarf from VLT. But I don’t know when I’ll actually get to that.

Luckily, I still have a lot of time to knit at work. Because I’m still trying to work on my thesis at home. Which is hard. And which I haven’t done much of. Next week, I shall buckle down. Yes, I will.

And who knew that when I decided to learn how to knit so I could make myself a Ravenclaw scarf, that it would turn into this? I certainly didn’t.

I still haven’t written up my trip to Laguna, or to New York. But I have uploaded my pictures to my Flickr account. Laguna is here and New York is here. Haven’t finished writing up descriptions for all of them, though. I think some of my “artsy-fartsy”-type landscape and scenery shots turned out rather well, even with my point-and-shoot digital. One of these days I’ll bring my SLR on a trip. I hardly ever have room for it. Not that I really know how to use it, anyway.

I really need to reserve my copy of Deathly Hallows. I’ve been putting it off because plans were still hazy, but there’s not much time left! Less than a month! EEK!!

I need to see Pirates 3 again. I’ve only seen it thrice! Not nearly enough.

The owner of my place of employment comes in rarely, but he never fails to make me feel like he thinks my IQ is significantly lower than it actually is, and that I’m doing everything wrong (when I’m not). One of the drawbacks of doing a job that’s below my skill level, I suppose.

Speaking of work, they’ve been asking me to create more and more specially-formatted documents lately. And all I have to work with is Word, which SUCKS when what you’re really doing is desktop publishing, not word processing (actually, it sucks for word processing, too, but that’s another rant). When my boss gets back (she and half the rest of the company are on vacation/at conferences this weekend), I might ask if they’d be willing to spring for something rather better– especially if they’re going to do that newsletter that they’ve been talking about since I was hired. I don’t suppose InDesign would be a viable option, but I might be able to talk them into Publisher. Which would be better than nothing.

The other day in a fit of boredom I read The Mysteries of Udolpho on Project Gutenberg. Now, I knew from past experience (and several classes discussing the Gothic Novel) that Ann Radcliffe’s brand of Gothic is more of the Scooby-do type (where everything that seems supernatural has a rational explanation), but her style of giving these explanations is maddening. At one point, the heroine, Emily (and as a nitpick– if the heroine were really in 16th-century France, as the novel purports, her name would have been spelled Emilie. Just sayin’), lifts a black veil covering what is supposedly a picture, and faints dead away. She then spends the rest of the book nearly fainting with horror over what she saw. But the reader doesn’t even get to know what it was that she thought she saw until almost the last page of the book, and then it’s explained in the same breath as what it was she actually saw. Which felt a lot like being conned rather than tricked. I didn’t get that feeling with The Romance of the Forest, though. So maybe it’s unique to Udolpho. Anyway, I’m glad I read it, as I now understand the references to it in Northanger Abbey that much better, but it’s a horrid book– and not in the sense Catherine uses it, either.

And “horrid” is a word that we Yanks don’t use much. Which is a shame, because it’s much more compact than “horrible.” I always think about this fact when listening to the Keane B-side “The Way You Want It,” because they use “horrid,” and it’s just another sign of their Britishness coming out. Which I love.

I’ve been helping my mom find and plant (we both do the finding, but I’ve been doing most of the planting– mom’s back has been bothering her. The doctors think she has a herniated disc, which stinks) perennials in our yard lately. It’s quite fun. Right now we’ve gotten mostly shrubs and ornamental grasses, but we’re hoping to plant some flower seeds in the fall. In the meantime, our strawberries ripened, and they were (and are, since we made jam and froze them) delicious. They were kinda dinky, but so much sweeter than the big ones you get in stores. Mmm. Now to plant some raspberry bushes. . .

My other BFF Nicole is in town for a family reunion and for Jen’s wedding, and tomorrow we’re going to go to Kneaders for lunch. I’m really, really looking forward to it. MMM, fresh roasted turkey on foccacia with Kneader’s sauce. And I’m saving my WW points so I can indulge in a mini Key Lime tart, too. Or maybe a mini strawberry tart. We shall have to see when we get there.

Speaking of points, I’ve re-lost about half of the weight I regained between all my vacations and starting work full-time (which at first meant eating out every day, although I’m getting better at that). Slowly but surely, the weight will come off! Although it’s leaning more towards slowly these days. I bought an incentive dress the other night, though. It’ll look great about 10 pounds from now. The new Kashi frozen entrees are absolutely delicious, are very filling, and a nice change of pace from Lean Cuisines (which I rather overdosed on, hence the eating-out-too-much phenomenon). Snacking on sugar snap peas is also a good thing. The new Hostess 100 Calorie chocolate cupcake packs are only 1 point per package (if you only eat one. If you eat two, then it’s 4 points for both :P), while the yellow cake ones are 2. Packs of mini Pringles are 3. I’ve been enjoying all of them in moderation lately.

It occurs to me that this post would be more effective when broken up over several days. I bet I’d get more comments that way.

Maybe that’ll give me the incentive I need to post more.

In any case, between school and work and root canals, I became overwhelmed last week. I was assigned another 1000-page novel in my Victorian lit class (The Pillars of the House by Charlotte Yonge), 4 chapters of The Road to Middle Earth for my Arthurian Tolkien class, and had a paper due in said Tolkien class on Friday. I’d done my best to budget my time to accomplish all of these, but There ended up being simply too little time in the week. With almost no dilly-dallying other than a couple of odd half-hours, I still managed not to finish the novel though I stayed up till 2:30 the night before it was due in the attempt, and had to get an extension on my paper. I hate getting extensions; I hadn’t had to ask for one since I was in high school and got bronchitis over spring break when I’d planned on writing a research paper. There was no other choice, however; it was Friday, that paper hadn’t even been started, and my teeth hurt.

They still do, actually. I think if the root canal had been anywhere but on my front tooth that serves as one end of a bridge, it would have felt better by now. As it is, it gets bothered too much. I’ve been popping ibuprofen along with my antibiotic. If it doesn’t improve by Wednesday I’m going to call again. It’s quite annoying. The root canal was supposed to make it stop hurting, not the other way around.

Friday night we had a family Looney Tunes party at my uncle’s. It’s always more fun to watch cartoons with a large group of people who have the same twisted sense of humor. We saw lots of good ones– “Rabbit Seasoning” (would you like to shoot me now, or wait till you get home?), and “The Rabbit of Seville” (Don’t look so perplexed, why must you be vexed, can’t you see you’re next?) and “One Froggy Evening” (Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal) and “A Bear for Punishment” (G-U-N P-O-W-D-E-R. Duh. . . tobacco! I am a good speller, I am! C-A-T: dog. B-A-T: Rhode Island) and many more. Much fun was had by all. My stomach hurt the next day from laughing too hard. We watched cartoons for a good 3 hours and didn’t get to half the good cartoons. It’s obvious we must have another installment.

Another great thing to happen this weekend: I have the new Real Group CD!!

*dances*

I know I’ve raved about The Real Group before, but really, folks, you’ll never hear anything like these 5 Swedish singers. Their newest album, The Middle of Life is one of their best yet. I’m completely in love with several tracks. Like Words. And Spring is Coming. And Are You Coming to Me?. And The Grass is Greener. And The Perfect Life. And. . . oh, heck. The whole CD is amazing. And best of all, it’s all in English. Not that I don’t like their Swedish stuff, even though I can’t understand a word. I could listen to R??ster all day, especially as it was my very first introduction to The Real Group, even though I have no better idea of what they’re saying now than I did when I first heard Pippi Langstrump-Potpurri (other thn the fact that it’s about Pippi Longstocking) back when I was 16. Maybe I could get to teach me Swedish.

Anyway, if you ever feel like broadening your musical horizons, check out The Real Group. You can order all their CD’s (except the Asian imports)through Primarily A Capella here in the states, or some of their stuff is available on Amazon.

*walks away singing “words, a letter and a letter on a string”*