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petroniaWho was confused because they wanted to post an lj entry complaining about lj being dead? You don't have to raise your hand, just answer in your heart. XD
Anyhow, this is last Friday's batch. I will make a separate entry for today's batch, because it's easier for me to memory that way. Either that or I will write some sort of craze-eyed Mirage of Blaze character analysis entry using lyrics from Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion as section headers, and conveniently forget to post mp3s, but I think I will have to because um a number of people out there have not heard said album. (There used to be a rant in this paragraph that named names, but I deleted it. XD) I should point out that while I have actually made the statement in the title of this entry with regard to Songs of Faith and Devotion, it is misleading because Kagetora is in fact several people's Personal Jesus. Just not literally, which gives bad odds to the good guys because Yuzuru is definitely whatever he is in a literal sense.
Where was I...? Oh, yeah, mp3s. Ignore everything I write today and just go for the downloads, as I've had no sleep and am in an incoherent rambly phase, not to mention insane from lj posting withdrawal. Which should be obvious ahahahaha. (Also, sorry![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canis_m but not very dansudansu. ;_;)
Fantasia Barrino feat. Missy Elliott - Selfish: and yet no one calls me on multiple logs of this track in my last.FM playlist. Should I assume you all like it as much as I do? XD I do like it, for the best-case-scenario reason i.e. her voice. Otherwise the song is... er, great actually. Catchy. For better or worse, doesn't sound like it has a thing to do with American Idol. A season or three behind the curve, by which I mean it's got a bit of a bhangra sample and is not crunk. (Disclaimer: sometime around "Crazy In Love" I stopped paying attention and it took me forever to figure out what people were going on about when they said crunk, although I had an intuition they meant That Yeah-Yeah Song With The Synth Stabs I Had Only Heard While Dancing and was relieved to find I was close, since it was obviously the most interesting thing to happen to the R&B Top 40 front since I wandered off. I don't mean that I judged it to be the most interesting thing, I mean that everyone started jumping up and down when The Synth Stabs came on like they did for the brass flourish in "Crazy In Love", and did so repeatedly until I felt obliged to track it down.) Missy Elliott adds exactly what she added to that Ciara song, which is to say qualitatively not much. On maybe the fifth listen I realised the song is an exhortation to monogamy that couldn't give offense to anyone if they tried to take it, not that there's anything wrong with not giving offense, because it's not as if the Marvelettes' "Please Mister Postman" is calculated to shock - to give an example - and I have recently rediscovered my Great Shiny Fobby Love for "Please Mister Postman". (It is fobby. So is ABBA, and Karen Carpenter, and Roxette. It's like polyester pants; if you're not mainlander Chinese, you're just wearing polyester pants. If you're mainlander Chinese, it's fobby.**) But probably I would have stopped listening to it about then, just like I stopped listening to Ciara - sorry, but I really did, it doesn't have lasting power even with that weirdly goth-two-step-like electro rhythm ^^; - except Fantasia actually sounds as if she could have been a Marvelette. Or, um, someone like that, because my always-tenuous grasp on musical history fails me. The breakdown with the piano two minutes in, it's timeless.
In conclusion, it's about her voice.
EDIT -- I make no sense. 'The Synth Stabs' is Usher's "Yeah". 'That Ciara Song' is Ciara's "1 2 Step". Neither is posted here, but they are not all that difficult to find. :P
Handsome Boy Modeling School with Cat Power - I've Been Thinking: been listening to this track a lot. I'm not sure if it inspires me to purchase the album - Janni owns it, am I right? XD - but I can listen to the one song forever. It flows so lulling-smooth - Cat Power does Sade and does her well, as has been pointed out - that it takes one a while to realise the lyrics don't quite make sense, and then one doesn't care. Stream of consciousness but not bebop's joyful glossolalia, more like the way thoughts pass through one's head in the hypnogogic state just before falling asleep. In that moment one'd say anything to the person with whom one's sharing the pillow. The music emphasizes the narcotic effect: there's this steady heartbeat pulse, and all these instruments that drift in, contribute a few scattered notes or a few bars of shivering tremolo, and drift out again like the musician's nodded off and forgotten to keep playing. Over and over. Eventually even the beat dies away; the spell wins, heads droop and hands still on frets and stops, and Beauty's Castle falls silent.
Cinnamon - Cakes and Pies: This is one of those tracks I lose for a while on my hard drive, re-discover, and listen to a few obsessive times before losing it again. Before I heard the soundtrack to Katamari Damacy I might have made up a phrase like "Sanrio IDM" to describe it, but now I will just call it "music for the hypothetical rolling-up-desserts level". Meaning that Katamari Damacy is its own microgenre in more ways than one, and I really have to buy this game.
The Japanese part of the lyrics completely make the song.
Kelis - Milkshake: you've heard it butayatsujik hasn't, because she's been studying you slacker. I admit, the conversation that led to the posting of this mp3 involved Mirage of Blaze. No further glosses will be made.
** Insert own joke re Chinese Democracy and Axl Rose's love of Karen Carpenter. Or was that Kurt Cobain?
EDIT -- yet another reason Depeche Mode is so great: Martin bloody Gore knows the difference between "lie" and "lay". DARREN HAYES I'M LOOKING AT YOU.
Anyhow, this is last Friday's batch. I will make a separate entry for today's batch, because it's easier for me to memory that way. Either that or I will write some sort of craze-eyed Mirage of Blaze character analysis entry using lyrics from Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion as section headers, and conveniently forget to post mp3s, but I think I will have to because um a number of people out there have not heard said album. (There used to be a rant in this paragraph that named names, but I deleted it. XD) I should point out that while I have actually made the statement in the title of this entry with regard to Songs of Faith and Devotion, it is misleading because Kagetora is in fact several people's Personal Jesus. Just not literally, which gives bad odds to the good guys because Yuzuru is definitely whatever he is in a literal sense.
Where was I...? Oh, yeah, mp3s. Ignore everything I write today and just go for the downloads, as I've had no sleep and am in an incoherent rambly phase, not to mention insane from lj posting withdrawal. Which should be obvious ahahahaha. (Also, sorry
canis_m but not very dansudansu. ;_;)Fantasia Barrino feat. Missy Elliott - Selfish: and yet no one calls me on multiple logs of this track in my last.FM playlist. Should I assume you all like it as much as I do? XD I do like it, for the best-case-scenario reason i.e. her voice. Otherwise the song is... er, great actually. Catchy. For better or worse, doesn't sound like it has a thing to do with American Idol. A season or three behind the curve, by which I mean it's got a bit of a bhangra sample and is not crunk. (Disclaimer: sometime around "Crazy In Love" I stopped paying attention and it took me forever to figure out what people were going on about when they said crunk, although I had an intuition they meant That Yeah-Yeah Song With The Synth Stabs I Had Only Heard While Dancing and was relieved to find I was close, since it was obviously the most interesting thing to happen to the R&B Top 40 front since I wandered off. I don't mean that I judged it to be the most interesting thing, I mean that everyone started jumping up and down when The Synth Stabs came on like they did for the brass flourish in "Crazy In Love", and did so repeatedly until I felt obliged to track it down.) Missy Elliott adds exactly what she added to that Ciara song, which is to say qualitatively not much. On maybe the fifth listen I realised the song is an exhortation to monogamy that couldn't give offense to anyone if they tried to take it, not that there's anything wrong with not giving offense, because it's not as if the Marvelettes' "Please Mister Postman" is calculated to shock - to give an example - and I have recently rediscovered my Great Shiny Fobby Love for "Please Mister Postman". (It is fobby. So is ABBA, and Karen Carpenter, and Roxette. It's like polyester pants; if you're not mainlander Chinese, you're just wearing polyester pants. If you're mainlander Chinese, it's fobby.**) But probably I would have stopped listening to it about then, just like I stopped listening to Ciara - sorry, but I really did, it doesn't have lasting power even with that weirdly goth-two-step-like electro rhythm ^^; - except Fantasia actually sounds as if she could have been a Marvelette. Or, um, someone like that, because my always-tenuous grasp on musical history fails me. The breakdown with the piano two minutes in, it's timeless.
In conclusion, it's about her voice.
EDIT -- I make no sense. 'The Synth Stabs' is Usher's "Yeah". 'That Ciara Song' is Ciara's "1 2 Step". Neither is posted here, but they are not all that difficult to find. :P
Handsome Boy Modeling School with Cat Power - I've Been Thinking: been listening to this track a lot. I'm not sure if it inspires me to purchase the album - Janni owns it, am I right? XD - but I can listen to the one song forever. It flows so lulling-smooth - Cat Power does Sade and does her well, as has been pointed out - that it takes one a while to realise the lyrics don't quite make sense, and then one doesn't care. Stream of consciousness but not bebop's joyful glossolalia, more like the way thoughts pass through one's head in the hypnogogic state just before falling asleep. In that moment one'd say anything to the person with whom one's sharing the pillow. The music emphasizes the narcotic effect: there's this steady heartbeat pulse, and all these instruments that drift in, contribute a few scattered notes or a few bars of shivering tremolo, and drift out again like the musician's nodded off and forgotten to keep playing. Over and over. Eventually even the beat dies away; the spell wins, heads droop and hands still on frets and stops, and Beauty's Castle falls silent.
Cinnamon - Cakes and Pies: This is one of those tracks I lose for a while on my hard drive, re-discover, and listen to a few obsessive times before losing it again. Before I heard the soundtrack to Katamari Damacy I might have made up a phrase like "Sanrio IDM" to describe it, but now I will just call it "music for the hypothetical rolling-up-desserts level". Meaning that Katamari Damacy is its own microgenre in more ways than one, and I really have to buy this game.
The Japanese part of the lyrics completely make the song.
Kelis - Milkshake: you've heard it but
ayatsujik hasn't, because she's been studying you slacker. I admit, the conversation that led to the posting of this mp3 involved Mirage of Blaze. No further glosses will be made.** Insert own joke re Chinese Democracy and Axl Rose's love of Karen Carpenter. Or was that Kurt Cobain?
EDIT -- yet another reason Depeche Mode is so great: Martin bloody Gore knows the difference between "lie" and "lay". DARREN HAYES I'M LOOKING AT YOU.
