Flower Power

As spring sucks big time thus far, all one can do is to smell the flowers safely indoors. The specimen pictured above is one tulip out of fifty currently residing in a shiny champagne bucket in the kitchen at For The Sake Of The Song headquarters. Yup, ran cold out of bubbly. And as a soundtrack, here's a sweet-smelling musical six pack for ya. "Don't send me no flowers, I ain't dead yet..."

Liz Phair - Flower
The Breakers - Don't Send Me No Flowers
Buffalo Tom - Sunflower Suit
Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers
Jacks - Uragiri No Kisetsu (Gloomy Flower)
Caitlin Rose - Dead Flowers

Da Bomb

Yo, homies... Here´s another summer tenpack comin´ at ya, straight from the boon dox this time. Which means it´s the For The Sake Of The Beats edition tonight, with a fine selection of HipHop tunes I think are da bomb. And as it just dawned on me that most of this stuff is really rather old, wouldn´t it be nice if any readers of this blog could recommend me some more recent HipHop in the same vein as the tracks below? Much obliged.

Gang Starr - Suckas Need Bodyguards MP3

Genius/GZA - Cold World MP3

Nas - N.Y. State Of Mind MP3

EPMD - Boon Dox MP3

Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy MP3

Raekwon - Criminology MP3

Paris - Break The Grip Of Shame MP3

Jeru The Damaja - Brooklyn Took It MP3

Dr. Octagon - 3000 MP3

Common - Payback Is A Grandmother MP3