I also switched out the Clay Aiken songs and among the selections you will hear Falling, Something About Us and These Open Arms.
In the Oldies category I have added More Than a Feeling by Boston and We Just Disagree by Dave Mason.
I have also added Shattered [Turn The Car Around] by O.A.R.; You Are The Best Thing by Ray Lamontagne; and The Man Who Can't Be Moved by the new Irish band called The Script.
The Script are an Irish trio whose music boasts the kind of artful twists sure to turn all preconceptions on their head. This is a whole new brand of Celtic Soul, blending hip hop lyrical flow with pop melodiousness, state-of-the-art R'n'B production with anthemic rock dynamics, classic song construction with gritty contemporary narratives. It's got all the emotion and passion you would expect from across the Irish sea, but it is glittering in its modernity, universal in its singalong addictiveness and global in its syncopation, music for the feet, heart and head. Think U2 versus Timbaland, Van Morrison remixed by Teddy Riley. "Irish people have soul," according to Danny. "It comes from generations of pain, and generations of understanding emotion to be able to physically get that in a solid sound."
[...]The trio's debut single, We Cry, was released by Phonogenic / SonyBMG in April 2008 and reached #9 in the Irish charts the following month. And it is something special, a soulful anthem of everyday struggle that manages to be simultaneously bleak and uplifting. "There is not a lot of hope in the song, cause not everybody's life is full of hope," explains Danny. "There's not always roses at the end. But out of all these things that have gone wrong in our lives and everybody else's lives, the message is 'together we cry'. Because as long as we're here together then we can find a way to share the burden."
"The Man Who Can't Be Moved" was released in July and this time they broke the top 2 of the Irish Chart. As Mark comments, "I had an idea of a guy who'd broke up with his girl and lost total contact with her. What would he do? I thought he would just go back to the corner where they first met and wait till she returned. The rest just flowed as a story and we made a song from it".
Their debut album The Script, was released on August 8th, it too promising to be something really special. "There is a whole lifetime in these songs," says Mark. "We don't write them in ten minutes. A song takes nurturing, it is an evolving thing. This is a journey, we are in constant change, constant motion. I can't ever put my finger on what exactly The Script is, I don't even think I should, all I know is that it is something that touches me deep inside, and seems to touch other people when we play."
The album spent five weeks at the Number One spot in Ireland upon it's release.
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