Blue Chi’s

I treated myself to a music album in celebration of eid (mine was so uneventful you guys have no idea). I decided to stop downloading illegal music from the internet two years ago and because we have no proper music stores in Oman that practically made me stop listening to new music. Luckily, people stil ‘buy’ music in this part of the world, I’m so addicted to HMV I consider it my shrine.

OneRepublic is a rock/pop/alternative band lead by Ryan Tedder, a super talented song writer and producer (Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis, Apologize – OneRepublic). I’ve never in my life previously purchased/downloaded a rock band music album (Pink doesn’t count, does she?), but I, like the rest of the world, loved Apologized after hearing it on Timbaland’s album, which later became the most legally downloaded song in history in the US.

I’ve never previously listened to an album from the same genre before so I can’t say what it sounds similar to, but I really loved it. The music is nice, the lyrics are great, and Ryan Tedder is really such a good singer.

I got the UK version of the album which actually has the song “Dreaming Out Loud” (the album title) which was not included in the US version of the album! (Strange, but that also happened with Maya’s Moodring).

My favourite songs in the album are “Say – All I Need”, “Stop and Stare”, “Apologize”, “Tyrant”, and “Dreaming Out Loud”.

1. Say (All I Need) < Click for YouTube video
2. Mercy
3. Stop And Stare
4. Apologize
5. Goodbye, Apathy
6. All Fall Down
7. Tyrant
8. Prodigal
9. Won’t Stop
10. All We Are
11. Someone To Save You
12. Come Home
13. Dreaming Out Loud
14. Something’s Not Right Here
15. Apologize – Timbaland, OneRepublic

4/5