Music for nerds

One of my projects on this week off work is to broadcast as many songs from the NBC television program Chuck as I can find on Blip.fm. As you do.

At our place, we're mad for Chuck. It's a good quality program with a fantastic cast, and an interesting and well executed premise. And it's perfect viewing for everyone in our family.

Although there are romantic threads and sexual tension in the Chuck story arc, along with plenty of violence and intrigue, the material is delivered without gratuitous gore, nudity or immoderate language. Not that there's anything wrong with such things, they're just not prime viewing choices for children.

It's a relief to find television that is thoroughly entertaining and appealing to all age groups and still appropriate for children to watch.

Chuck manages to be all this, and has a rockin' soundtrack to boot. FTW.

The first thing I noticed about the Chuck soundtrack was lack of recognition. Many were songs I'd never heard. But gee they were good. Interesting. A whole lot of music waiting to be discovered. The thought of such exploration is delicious.

So for the last 2 days I've been Blipping songs from Chuck, sequentially. I've managed to find most of them on the Blip.fm database - only a couple were too obscure. The singer Daniel May remains unknown to me, and the rest of the Blipverse.

I did Blip the two Air Supply songs that featured on a couple of episodes, but I drew the line and refused to Blip Huey Lewis and The News. What does that say about me?

There's probably another day and a half of Blipping ahead of me, around other things I'm doing on my week off. There are plenty of artists and bands I want to hear more of as a result of this lazy little indulgence, like the New Pornographers, Matt Pond PA, Band of Horses, Local Natives, Love Grenades, Frightened Rabbit and Starflyer 59.

I tried to find a widget that would display my Blips on this blog. Until I find one, you can hear my playlist at: http://blip.fm/LeanneS

And if you haven't seen the show, check it out: http://www.nbc.com/chuck/