月亮代表我的心 (The Moon Represents My Heart)

My eldest son, almost six years old, loves music. And his latest favorite song is by Teresa Teng. Well, OK, I like it too.



Good thing we're sending him to Mandarin lessons. Maybe he can exposit the song to me soon. ;)

At the Chinese restaurant tonight, they must have been playing one of her Greatest Hits albums because the song came on a couple times. Each time he excitedly asked, "Daddy ask the waiter to turn it up!"

"Are You Ready For Some Football?" 2

For all you honky tonk fans out there, the title of the last post was a reference to Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends (Are Comin' Over Tonight)" which was/is the opening music to Monday Night Football for a number of years. (I haven't watched MNF in ages.)

It'd be pretty cool if the NFL released a CD box set of all the songs Hank did for MNF. Each week, the lyrics would be customized to fit the two teams playing that night.

If you haven't heard the original "All My Rowdy Friends" here it is.



Yes, that's Animal from the Muppets!

My Favorite Twila Paris Songs

Here's the link to my Twila Paris iMix on iTunes.
Looks like they only list the songs which can be purchased on iTunes.












Here's the complete (unordered) list via screenshot of iTunes. Click to enlarge it.

Favorite Steve Green Songs

I've been loading all my music in iTunes lately so I can finally really put away the CD's into the garage. There are a few where I have the box, but not the CD. *sigh*

Anyways, the exercise has allowed me to continue to re-discover old favorites. I shared earlier about my Contemporary Christian Music Greatest Hits. Here are my favorite Steve Green songs...

Of course, you could be my friend on SimplifyMedia and you could stream them for free to check them out!

Stay tuned- my favorite Twila Paris and Amy Grant songs are coming soon!

Simply Streamin' myTunes

SimplifyMedia is really cool. It allows you to stream your music in iTunes between your computers and between 30 friends as well!

Now I have access to my entire iTunes library anywhere my laptop can get an Internet connection! I got Lkwan to sign-up and we messed around streaming tunes.

Needed fixes and enhancements-

• 1. Sometimes it freezes iTunes completely and I had to kill the process.
• 2. It drops the connection for no apparent reason. Sometimes even killing my connection to the network.
• 3. It can't browse your music from other computers via CoverFlow.
• 4. Can't listen to friend's songs purchased in iTunes that has DRM unless my computer is authorized.
• 5. Would be neat to be able to see what my friends are listening to from my library.
  

Anyways, let me know if you want to be my friend on SimplifyMedia.

Update:
SimplifyMedia has some awesome customer service. Paul Joyce, the co-founder, answered some of the items above in the comments. Click below.

Also, in a prior post I mentioned my favorite Christian artists. Well, if you're my SM friend, you can sample them from my iTunes!

Update2:
Appears that it doesn't work through VPN. Bummer.

My "Contemporary" Christian Music Greatest Hits

Steve Green's song "Guard Your Heart" came to mind today. The lyrics are so beautiful. He sang such powerful songs- listening to them now send chills up my arms and down my back. The melody, the arrangement, and the lyrics really uplift my spirit.

Contemporary Christian music is so different now compared to twenty years ago. (duh!) My all time favorite singer is Twila Paris- her ethereal voice is angelic plus she writes all her music and lyrics. Steven Curtis Chapman's pretty awesome. So you know their duet "Faithful Friend" is doubly good.

Amy Grant's early stuff was really good before she crossed over. Basically anything pre-"Lead Me On", pre-Vince Gill. The stuff she wrote herself is very good.

So for you youngsters out there, check 'em out.