Tom Smith - And They Say I've Got Talent - Talk Like A Pirate Day

The best nerd inspired pirate themed song ever written.

Great Big Sea - The Hard And The Easy - Captain Kidd

I've moved on the Pirate genre.

James Newton Howard - Lady In The Water (soundtrack)

I realize my first three rec's were all soundtracks, but I've been writing a TON of papers for seminary, and I can't do lyrics when writing. I'll move on to a different genre now.

Klaus Badelt - Rescue Dawn (soundtrack)

Haven't seen the film yet, but I love the soundtrack. Amazon recommended it to me based on a couple of other CD purchases I had made. They were right.

Clint Mansell - The Fountain (Soundtrack)

Amazing movie. Amazing soundtrack. The Kronos Quartet is heavily featured in this soundtrack. They were also featured (slightly less so) in another Clint Mansell soundtrack, "Requiem for a Dream", also directed by Darron Aronofsky.

Lizzie West - Holy Road

I have a standing theory about the progression of how music sounds the more you listen to a given artist or album.  I've listened to Lizzie West a lot (comparatively), and the music still keeps getting better.

The Go! Team - The Wrath Of Marcie

Wake up!

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Feist - The Reminder

There are a couple of songs in 3 in here too.  (The Park, The Water.)

Ali Farka Touré - Talking Timbuktu

one of my stand-by's lately. "Ai Du" is the geo-quiz song on NPR's The World.