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 While I was in college I started listing music that I generally would not have given a second glance but I realized that I was limiting myself to three genres of music. So I decided that I would discover five songs I never would have listened to before. No matter when they came out or who they were by. But there had to be rules to this make believe game I was playing.

• You could pick a more than one song from the same artist but no more than three
• Actually listen to the music and not switch it with something else because I hated it. (you pick it your stuck with with for a week.)
• There has to be at least three genres of music.

I tried to keep the rules simple because if it got to complicated I would just do something else. I've discovered a lot of artist this way. The Fray, Tracy Chapman, Melissa Ferrick, Heather Peace, 3rd Line Butterfly, Astronautalis, Bez and Carrie Elkin. The lists go back to 2008 and while I like to think I came up with this by myself I realized I had a change of heart for a lot of things I listened to because I was stuck in a production lab with the rest of the newspaper staff for more than 10 hours putting the final prep of the paper together.

So here are the songs I have for this past week:

1. Disparate Youth - Santigold

2. Tonight (Best You Ever Had) - John Legend Feat. Ludacris

3. Run For Your Life - The Fray

4. Unconsolable - Ambassadors

5. Quembo Que? - Bloody Beach