Music post
Oct. 2nd, 2003 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaThis week has been all about the fannish-analysis conversations on lj. :P Insights have been tossed about that I feel I will have to digest at length.
...Apart from the fact that monkeys constitute an important leitmotif in GetBackers, which is self-evident if you count the number of times they play an active part in the series - even taking Ban's nickname for Shido as a single instance.
Where was I? Oh yes, music. Very PopJustice-style this time, with a dollop of Bowie.
Alizée - J'en ai marre
Alizée, image de jeune fille délurée par excellence (no, I can't translate that properly), delivers a... "upbeat" is meaningless these days, isn't it? Say rather that only Pop can do wonders for one's mood in this fashion, when Pop is the opening theme to a dorky clichéd 50+ episode anime one was obsessed with, years ago when there was no such thing as dorky or clichéd anime - remember that? - and OMG I haven't heard this song for ages SAIKOU. I mean, it isn't. But it sounds as if it could be.
It's about bubble baths, and making a list of things that annoy one. And (I can't shake the feeling that it's also obliquely about) politics. But that's the French for you.
Bon Bon Blanco - White
Actually the B-side to the second GetBackers ED theme (the "we let our intern play with flash mx" ending). Dl'd both songs a geological eon ago off a regular jpop mp3 site; back when I was still doggedly downloading the music of anime series I didn't know, just in case I get into them later. ...Well, I did, so there!
Egregious idol jpop, which you knew. Catchier than the A-side IMO, though.
Ali Project - Water Drop
Posted this on the pitasblog more than two years ago, so it doesn't count as a repeat. Still ridiculously cute and squishy. Still good. Still love the lyrics. I'd say I'm thinking Shido x Madoka, but after you hear it you'd feel obliged to kill me.
Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love
Contribution from Killvern. I know nothing about this band except for the internal evidence of three songs, to wit, they're... kind of emo. Except I'm really no good with defining the musical perimeters of emo, so we're talking my gut reaction.
It's such a debauched song - that's the only word. XD It's the way the vocalist is singing purposefully a bit out of tune and out of sync, and the organ synths.
Faye Wong - Chesspiece
(Or go, or shogi - pretty sure it's supposed to be shogi, actually.) Orchestral, lyrical, melancholy. Gold star for employ of extended literate metaphor if you can understand the words; you get three guesses as to what pairing it makes me think of, and the first two don't count.
David Bowie - New Killer Star
In all seriousness, my new favorite song. And I know why: the melody and progression are archetypally Bowie, but the way the bottom end is put together reminds me a bit of New Order. XD Tight dance-rock drums and the bass that thinks it's a lead guitar.
I've been going about for the last week saying to everyone I meet: buy this album. Listen to this album. EFFING GET THIS ALBUM.
Westlife feat. BoA - Flying Without Wings
*gleefully* It burnses! It burnses!
New Order - 60 MPH
It's been stuck in my head lately. Shades toward the happy dorky rock song end of the New Order songbook (which in my head I kind of blame on Barney Sumner) - I mean, it doesn't sound like them until that glorious unexpected synth bridge cuts in. But is a fun song, and that's all it fundamentally takes.
That was long. @_@ May not do another one of these for a while.
...Apart from the fact that monkeys constitute an important leitmotif in GetBackers, which is self-evident if you count the number of times they play an active part in the series - even taking Ban's nickname for Shido as a single instance.
Where was I? Oh yes, music. Very PopJustice-style this time, with a dollop of Bowie.
Alizée - J'en ai marre
Alizée, image de jeune fille délurée par excellence (no, I can't translate that properly), delivers a... "upbeat" is meaningless these days, isn't it? Say rather that only Pop can do wonders for one's mood in this fashion, when Pop is the opening theme to a dorky clichéd 50+ episode anime one was obsessed with, years ago when there was no such thing as dorky or clichéd anime - remember that? - and OMG I haven't heard this song for ages SAIKOU. I mean, it isn't. But it sounds as if it could be.
It's about bubble baths, and making a list of things that annoy one. And (I can't shake the feeling that it's also obliquely about) politics. But that's the French for you.
Bon Bon Blanco - White
Actually the B-side to the second GetBackers ED theme (the "we let our intern play with flash mx" ending). Dl'd both songs a geological eon ago off a regular jpop mp3 site; back when I was still doggedly downloading the music of anime series I didn't know, just in case I get into them later. ...Well, I did, so there!
Egregious idol jpop, which you knew. Catchier than the A-side IMO, though.
Ali Project - Water Drop
Posted this on the pitasblog more than two years ago, so it doesn't count as a repeat. Still ridiculously cute and squishy. Still good. Still love the lyrics. I'd say I'm thinking Shido x Madoka, but after you hear it you'd feel obliged to kill me.
Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love
Contribution from Killvern. I know nothing about this band except for the internal evidence of three songs, to wit, they're... kind of emo. Except I'm really no good with defining the musical perimeters of emo, so we're talking my gut reaction.
It's such a debauched song - that's the only word. XD It's the way the vocalist is singing purposefully a bit out of tune and out of sync, and the organ synths.
Faye Wong - Chesspiece
(Or go, or shogi - pretty sure it's supposed to be shogi, actually.) Orchestral, lyrical, melancholy. Gold star for employ of extended literate metaphor if you can understand the words; you get three guesses as to what pairing it makes me think of, and the first two don't count.
David Bowie - New Killer Star
In all seriousness, my new favorite song. And I know why: the melody and progression are archetypally Bowie, but the way the bottom end is put together reminds me a bit of New Order. XD Tight dance-rock drums and the bass that thinks it's a lead guitar.
I've been going about for the last week saying to everyone I meet: buy this album. Listen to this album. EFFING GET THIS ALBUM.
Westlife feat. BoA - Flying Without Wings
*gleefully* It burnses! It burnses!
New Order - 60 MPH
It's been stuck in my head lately. Shades toward the happy dorky rock song end of the New Order songbook (which in my head I kind of blame on Barney Sumner) - I mean, it doesn't sound like them until that glorious unexpected synth bridge cuts in. But is a fun song, and that's all it fundamentally takes.
That was long. @_@ May not do another one of these for a while.
