JG: Best Music Artists, Ever.

...of a Revolution

It’s not too often in life that one can call someone or something ‘perfect’, but sometimes, when you least expect it, you stumble upon perfection, as if it was hiding under a (black) rock. O.A.R. is one of these rare exceptions. Whether being listened to by rich white kids or rich white parents who are trying to get in touch with their children, they set the perfect mood. A lot of people get caught up in the awesome perfection that is O.A.R., but they lose sight of what those letters stand for. Of A Revolution. You see, they’re part of something. Probably something big. What that revolution is exactly, well, errr, ummmm, I’ll get back to you on that, but I feel like it’s definitely big. With ceaselessly fresh lyrics and such refrains as “One day you’ll fall down and there won’t be anyone to pick you up again”, O.A.R. is a constant reminder that with enough radio play the American people will listen to just about anything.

Greatest Parallel of Toy Shopping to Life: (from ‘Toy Store’, see left)

“You ask yourself why you can't stay just five more minutes alone/ And walk away/ You know it, mom know it, so whatcha want/ She says, one toy today, she says.”

Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews is Music. And, Music is Life. And, of course, Life is God. With a quick little implementation of the transitive property, it is easy to see that Dave Matthews is God. For the past score DMB has been infiltrating your heads and rocking your skulls, from Dave Himself to that guy Boyd who gets really intense and plays the violin. If you haven’t seen them live than you haven’t truly lived – your first Dave show is a baptism of sorts.

Best Writing Ever: Everything He’s ever written.

G. LoVe

Garret ‘Love’ Dutton’s sole mission in life is to entirely embody the word ‘chill’, or ‘bro’, or ‘bro-chill’. Whichever it is, he’s succeeding. With album titles such as ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Superhero Brother’ combined with extraordinarily simple, LCD,

chill songs like ‘Wiggle Worm’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Peace, Love, and Happiness’, ‘Kickin’ B

ack’, ‘Rainbow’, ‘The Fishing Song’, ‘Grandmother’, ‘Who’s Got The Weed’, ‘Baby’s Got Sauce’, ‘Soft & Sweet’, ‘Booty Call’, and ‘Front Porch Lounger’, he’s clearly the coolest guy in the room. He digs peace, music, Philadelphia, love, and cold beverages, and we all dig him.

Most Inspirational Line Ever: (from ‘Peace, Love & Happiness’, Love’s best version of ‘Waiting on the World to Change’)

“If you're hatin’, then you sure ain't livin. Gimme some peace love and happiness.”

Citizen Cope

Clarence Greenwood is one-man ass-kicking machine. He fuses the raw power of electric guitar with a general lack of motivation, slothlike energy, and a penchant for marijuana smoking to create a sound that is uniquely his. While high, Greenwood likes to sing songs he passionately wrote that make bold political statements with an air to him that suggests he quite simply does not care, about anything, at all. While not high, Greenwood likes to seek out marijuana and get high.

Most Significant Lyrics Ever: (from ‘Let the Drummer Kick’, Cope’s call to... something?)

“Relations/ Creation/ Incarceration/ Determination/ Equation/ Humiliation/ Reincarnation/ Situation/ Elation/ Identification/ Retaliation/ Education/ Inspiration/ No substitution/ Solution/ Conclusion”

Jack Johnson

What could I possibly say about JJ that hasn’t already been said about God (or Morgan Freeman)? While not busy hanging out with Dave Matthews, surfing, broing out, or cultivating the land, Jack enjoys singing songs while not wearing shoes.

Best Sports Reference Ever: (from Jack’s ode to backyard sport, ‘Mudfootball’)

“Over to the field for tackle football/ 
Big hits, big hats, yeah give me the ball/ 
Rain is pouring, touchdown scoring/ 
Keep on rolling, never boring/ 
Karma, karma, karma chameleon/ We're talking kinda funny from helium”

Jason Mraz

A time-tested troubadour, Mraz proves over and over again why it’s good to be bad. Scatting his way to the top, the self-labeled ‘Geek in the Pink’ has never been afraid to wear faux fedoras and hum sweet melodies about laundry. Most know Mr. AtoZ from his insanely popular worldwide smash hit/international phenomenon “I’m Yours”, which can currently be purchased in nine different ways on iTunes, and has been featured on Mraz’s latest studio album, his latest live album, Now 30, and of course the uber-popular EP ‘Yours Truly: The I’m Yours Collection’.

Most Significant Lyric About ‘Chillin’/Hip-Hop Reference: (from Mraz’s ‘Geek in the Pink’, in which he depicts the super embarrassing tale in which he sees a pretty girl, but he is unfortunately not looking ultra hip because, tragically, it is his laundry day and since everything else is dirty, he is left wearing this pink shirt, and thus he looks like a geek.. he eventually goes on to declare that, yes, “geek is the new color for fall”)

“My hip hop and flip-flops it don't stop with the light rock”