Santiago Bilinkis l Risk and Reward - Trying to live a life out of the comfort zone

I am sure you didn’t realize but this has been the most prolonged interruption in the history of this blog. Six days without posting! And now a trip to Spain is coming up to be in La Red Innova and the Menorca Techtalk, because of that I am going to continue on a slower pace, it seems…

A little because of excessive work and travel, and a little because of the flu (the old and dear “seasonal flu”!), a little for blogging wear out. The matter is that I have been kind of unmotivated to write. The first Saturday of this month was a long one for me and when I thought about what I was going to start writing about again, music came to my rescue.

When the mood hits us, when “shit happens“, music is ideal to put things in perspective for us. Years ago, there was a song “Don’t worry: be happy” that was synonymous for not worrying too much about things. I never liked that. It seemed dumb to me. But here I will share with you a song I listen to when I need to get out of a bad mood.

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After Yesterday’s Top 20 Songs (with links to listen to the best ones), in this second part of the year end Bilinkis chart, my top 10 bands for the year. I still cannot believe an Argentine band can be on top. If you asked me at the beginning of the year the chance of that happening I would have said: “Zilch!”. And here we are…

The same as Yesterday, I invite the readers to share what was THE band of 2008 for each of you…

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I say good bye to 2008 with a special edition of the Bilinkis Top 20 for the full year. Tomorrow my top 10 bands… But today, here they are, the Top 20 songs I listened to the most in ‘08.

I invite the readers to share what THE song of 2008 was for each of you…

At the top of the chart, the same band that was number 1 in 2006 with “Truth”, although at that time I did not have a blog so no one know what that it. Great song!

The rest of the Top 5 with a lot of slow music to my own surprise (my ranking is based on what I listen and sometimes I am myself surprised with what I listen!)… It seems my soft side emerged this year. I included links so you can listen to the best songs. Enjoy!

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While I hear little classical music in my post monthly on music this month I want to tell two stories beautiful and interesting in this regard.

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The Bilinkis Top 20 is back with the 20 most popular songs for October. There is a new song at the top. And it made me remember that many times I thought if I had to choose only one artist to be the soundtrack of my life, it would be The Smiths/Morrissey.

What artist would be the soundtrack of yours?

Now, on to the rankings!

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From the day about five years ago, when I started using an iPod I always thought someone had to solve the problem of the Shuffle inconsistency: whether you listen to your own predesigned playlists (and end up listening always the same old stuff) or you use Shuffle but have to deal with absurd combinations (like going non stop from Rage Against the Machine to Peter Cetera!).

Well, Apple finally did what I have been waiting all these years!

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Here I am with the second edition of the Bilinkis Top 20 Songs! After the debate generated in the comments to the previous post (in Spanish), this month comes with an improved layout and some thoughts.

On one hand, for those who complained for the lack of music in Spanish, Catupecu enters one more song so that makes two of them!

And that has nothing to do with the fact that my brother Mariano has recorded and mixed this album and the last few from the band. The acoustic cover version of “Seguir viviendo sin tu amor” is fabulous and if you haven’t heard it yet I recommend you do it now.

On another hand, the strongest critic of all was that because of mp3 there were no two songs by the same band. Well, again, Catupecu has two!

Lastly, before we move on to the ranking, despite my own resistence please note that the songs ranked #10 and #14 reveal my 80’s side. In the end I believe that regardless when you were born, we all carry a little 80’s side inside of us… For those who want to comment: why do you think the 80’s were soooo good and there was not a decade like that before or after?

Now, the top 20:

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A post for the weekend for those browsing the web on their off time.

Starting this month, on the first Saturday each month I will post the Bilinkis Top 20. Yes, I know nobody cares. But I have been doing it for myself for so many years I could not resist the urge to share it. I promise will try to improve the formatting next month.

This list is based on the songs with more plays in my iTunes (as per iTunes play count) in the last four months, but with a higher weight given to the last two months, than the previous two.

I hope you like it!
20 ▼ (down) - The Good Left Undone - Rise Against
19 ▼ (down) - Calling You - Blue October
18 ▲ (up)     - Salute Your Solution - The Raconteurs
17 ▲ (up)     - Seguir viviendo sin tu amor - Catupecu Machu
16 ▲ (up)     - I’m In Love With A Girl - Gavin DeGraw
15 ▼ (down) - So Happy - Theory Of A Deadman
14 ▼ (down) - Believe - The Bravery
13 ▼ (down) - It’s Not My Time - 3 Doors Down
12 ▼ (down) - Bleeding Love (Album Version) - Leona Lewis
11 ▼ (down) - The Stone - Ashes Divide

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