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Jason's Playlist VI

January 5, 2017 No Comments

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a current “top rotation” playlist, but a recent thread in the Vice Lounge Online group on Facebook (thanks, Duane!) prompted a re-review of the theme.
So here goes:

Song	Artist	Album	Year
45 (Acoustic)	Shinedown	Leave a Whisper	2003
Amnesia	5 Seconds of Summer	5 Seconds of Summer	2014
Angelia	Richard Marx	Repeat Offender	1989
Bother	Stone Sour	Stone Sour	2002
Call Me	Shinedown	The Sound of Madness	2008
Chandelier	Sia	Chandelier	2014
Closure	Chevelle	Wonder What’s Next	2002
Conquistador	Thirty Seconds to Mars	Love Lust Faith + Dreams	2013
Desperado	Eagles	Desperado	1973
Everytime	Britney Spears	In the Zone	2013
Failure	Breaking Benjamin	Dark Before Dawn	2015
From Yesterday	Thirty Seconds to Mars	A Beautiful Lie	2005
Heathens	Twenty One Pilots	Suicide Squad: The Album	2016
Hesitate	Stone Sour	Audio Secrecy	2010
I Will Come to You (a capella)	Hanson	Hanson	1997
In the End	Linkin Park	Hybrid Theory	2000
Iridescent	Linkin Park	A Thousand Suns	2010
Making Love Out of Nothing at All	Air Supply	Making Love	1983
One Thing	Finger Eleven	Now, Vol. 17	2004
Radioactive	Imagine Dragons	Radioactive	2012
Ride the Wind	Poison	Flesh & Blood	1990
Rosanna	Toto	Toto IV	1982
Savior	Rise Against	Appeal to Reason	2008
Stardust	Lifehouse	Out of the Wasteland	2015
Stay	Thirty Seconds to Mars	Stay	2014
The Reason	Hoobastank	[NL 40]	2004
What a Shame	Shinedown	The Studio Album Collection	2013
What Ya Gonna Do	Hinder	All American Nightmare	2010
When the Children Cry	White Lion	Pride	1987
Work from Home	Fifth Harmony	27/7	2016

Let’s see what auditory delights 2017 brings …

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December 3, 2016 No Comments

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I’ve recently been spending more time at home looking at ideal strength-training approaches. As I enter my middle years, accompanied by a (regrettably) soft middle, it occurs to me that I need to do some course correcting if I’m to avoid a slow, painful death from multiple chronic conditions. So refreshing myself on techniques like […]

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