moby's list of top 10 slow R&B songs

From what I can tell, this list comes from one of moby's seldom-written musical entries (links: his blog | LJ feed). Most of what he writes is political in nature.

From the following list by moby, I haven't heard at least half of these tunes.

otis redding 'i've been loving you too long'

teddy pendergrass 'love tko'

the flamingoes 'i only have eyes for you'

al green 'for the good times'

roberta flack 'first time ever i saw your face'

roxy music 'spin me round'

dusty springfield 'i just can't make it alone'(not sure about the title of this one, actually...)

brooke benton 'rainy night in georgia'

bobby blue 'if loving you is wrong'

simply red 'if you don't know me by now'(ok, i know...simply red...it might sound
like heresy, but their version of this song is great)

the chi-lites 'oh girl'

experiencing the emotion physically, then moving on

A great friend of mine recently told me about his approach to dealing with traumatic personal experiences. When his emotions are running hot during an intense period in his life, he finds it helpful to let himself feel the given emotion quite physically; like, he really feels it in his body. Whatever emotion is raised -- be it anger, anxiety, fear, stress, whatever -- he lets it settle into his body wherever it feels the most natural and then without judgement, or trying to dispel the feeling, he lets it work itself through his body however it sees fit. Sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's liberating. It all depends on the quality of the emotion and how tightly it's wrapped around our consciousness.

It's a useful visualization. For those of us who feel like we're stuck in the muck; unable to change; hung up on events, however traumatic, from our past; crippled by a perceived inability to move forward in our lives -- maybe there's some latent emotion that hasn't had the opportunity to work its way all the way through our system yet. It's probably something deep down that we've suppressed from our past, maybe even for years. We have to let that emotion come up, see the light of day, realize itself fully in our wakeful consciousness, and fulfill its natural course before ultimately leaving us.

It does eventually have to leave us, though. At some point, we have to let it go. If it doesn't leave us, if it doesn't release its hold on our ongoing thoughts, habits and actions, then we remain stuck. And we bring to a halt any apparent forward momentum we may have been building up over time. Not letting go of these suppressed emotions can cripple us indefinitely: it can impair our judgement, impede our clear seeing, and hold us back from realizing our natural potential. At some point, we must let go. And be free.

personal hip-hop playlist now online

I just figured out how to put an MP3 playlist of my selections online. This mix is full of funky, bassy hip-hop grooves if you're in the mood for that kind of thing. The ID3 tags should be working if you want to know who's on each track. None of them are my own band.

http://music.lindensmith.com/master1.m3u

I've been having very little luck ripping low-res MP3s with Exact Audio Copy, but I need to figure out a solution for that soon because these high-quality, 5-15 MB MP3 files are rapidly filling up the 1 GB of web hosting space allocated to my personal domain.