Seven Songs for Seven Days 5

The Sounds - Tony the Beat
http://www.imeem.com/jukeboxmusic8/music/uhD1jjDp/the-sounds-tony-the-beat-album-version/
A punk rock song about doin' it. What more do you want from me?

Skyfire - Misery's Supremacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgaqYKPzLlU
Holy shit! Skyfire's new CD leaked in the interwebs! My mind is fucking blown. After the soft and swimming-in-keyboards introduction, this song just hits fifth gear and never slows down for a second. I especially love the rhythm and ascending fill of the guitar on the verse - transitioning to a very ascendant arpeggio on piano - then slamming home with a chorus that is impossible to forget.

Imogen Heap - 2-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0-LC2vyge4

It's not especially apparent to me what Imogen Heap is actually singing about here - it kind of sounds like a song about...the universe? It's just so huge and throbbing...it sounds like it should be accompanied by an ever-spiraling galaxy showing us our tiny place in the known universe. And somehow she manages to suggest that something dark is slowly and silently traveling towards our minuscule planet...

Starship - It's Not Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN49psbUshY

I have long, long, long been in the thrall of 80's rock - my dad played basically nothing else throughout my youth and I am sure it was this that was the crowning touch upon the development of my musical genius.

And, besides, what lyrics! 

Wooooomaaaaan! Don't play this game! You'll never get my lovin' this way! 

Starship does well what you would expect - big choruses and cheesy lyrics.  

Forefather - Theodish Belief
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2955310145739546105 
What a disgustingly good song! Even the intro guitar riffs are delicious - the upstroke in the middle of the resonating chord is ballin'. I don't know what kind of key / chord changes they use but they definitely have a weirdly-folksy sound to them. The clean choruses are also a welcome respite from the more harsh-listening verses - the brothers who make up Forefather are fine singers.

Cascada - Wouldn't It Be Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGFg-czXA8Q
I am very much allowed to listen to Cascada if I want to. Don't look at me like that. Yes, all of her songs sound exactly the same. It's actually a little eerie how similar they are - but you can't deny that she has a good voice and some catchy techno beats. Oh, if only I was a blonde techno/dance musician.

Twilightning - Painting the Blue Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzvfM45UMNE
Tommi Sartanen of Twilightning might be another guitarist to add to my list. The solos on this song and the obvious holding back that skilled guitarists have to do when they are trying to not overwhelm a calmer song - sometimes they fail at it. Sartanen does a pretty damn good job and the singer compliments the feel of the song very well.