Recently my blog has featured a current tunes feature that I am using in order to display the current songs in my "Mix" playlist. This is a playlist that I am certain that most people would have and its basically something that I can flick on and know I am going to get a collection of songs that I will enjoy listening to. As I get tired of songs or as new ones are released, I will update it so it's always good to listen to.

So for this blog post I though I might go through some my list and explain why they are currently in my Mix list.

The first one I am going to jump to is ironically the first on the list. White and Nerdy by "Weird Al" Yankovic is just a great song all round. Taking a format such as rap and turning into a song about being...well....white and nerdy is just brilliant.

The next one I am going to jump to is Dream On by Matthew Morrison and Neil Patrick Harris. This song is an Aerosmith cover for the TV show "Glee" which has a lot to answer for thanks to reviving Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and making it a nightmare for any pub worker. However Glee saves itself by taking random songs and turning them equal to, if not better, than the original. Having never heard the original song of "Dream On" it's hard for me to pass judgement on whether or not the song is better but it is brilliant nevertheless. Matthew Morrison and Neil Patrick Harris both have fantastic voices and this song stretches them to the limit, particularly with those high notes towards the end.

Next on the list is Josh Groban's "My December". Now strictly speaking this is a Linkin Park cover but the overall feel of the song is much better in my opinion to LP's version. Now this song has made its way on and off my Mix list for as long as I discovered Josh Groban did this cover for two simple reasons - "My December" is my favorite song of all time and Josh Groban is my favorite solo artist. Combining the two results in much joy but it goes beyond that. You hear from judges on shows like "Insert Country Here Idol" that you can't sing a song without at least understanding the lyrics in a song, if not feeling the same way. I can fully understand every single lyric that is in that song and it's why it's still perserveres on my list. The same goes for February Song. Whilst this was only released on Groban's latest album, it is such a beautiful song that I love to listen to it over and over.

Now onto Lifehouse's "Everything". This song was originally written by Jason Wade when he was in a Christian band and the song is about, what could only be, God. However having only discovered this recently, I prefer to interpret the song somewhat more New Agey and believe it to be about that one special person in your life, the one you can't live without. You can take whatever meaning you life out of that, the fact of the matter is....it's an unbelievably beautiful song.

Lastly I would like to mention Linkin Park's "Breaking The Habit" This song written by Mike Shinoda was originally written about a close friend's drug addiction but I don't relate to the song that way. I prefer to relate in more in a sense about any habit that destroys you and that you want to break.

Now some may look at my list of songs and go "WTF is that doing on there?" Stuff from Leona Lewis and "Bad Romance" from the Glee cast springs to mind but the simple fact of the matter is that I like those songs. I don't criticise people for their music taste because music is so individual. Some might say I don't have the "typical" music taste for a 25yo guy....which is probably true. I prefer to describe it as that of a 53yo man...considering I seem to have the exactly same music taste as my father.