And suddenly it all makes sense

[petronia]

I finally realised why I have such an irrational fondness for Nobunaga in Mirage of Blaze - he's a Miike Takashi character. Mwaha!

In other news, Tania gave me samples of 6-7 flavours of Russian tea and a bunch of old vinyl (including 10cc, Bowie's Stage 2-record live set and the first Dire Straits album that for some reason I cannot stop listening to - does that ruin my cred somehow? But it's so good). And scanlations. SCOREZ XD

I know I haven't posted any mp3s for a million years - okay, for two weeks. I think I burnt out on new music after the Jazz Fest and didn't really listen to much of anything for a while, apart from stuff uploaded by my immediate flist and pop albums from _uta I'd been eyeing. Oh, and the Pet Shop Boys. *g* I'm fiddling with a ficpod, should be up soon. But here's a couple of other songs in the meantime.

Feist - Amourissima: Canada-only track apparently. I suppose because part of the lyrics are in French. It has the sound of a ballad from before guitars (acoustic or electric) usurped the throne of pop music: piano and muted woodwinds and vocals like a girl in a sepia-toned photograph.

Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah: okay, so I finally got this off an mp3 blog a few weeks ago. ^^; For those of you just joining us, this is Rachid Taha's smokin' cover of the Clash's "Rock the Casbah" in Arabic. ...The end.

Cat Stevens - Father and Son: I sort of wish they'd used this as the ending theme to "Zero Day". Like all Cat Stevens songs it says a lot with a few simple words, and every one of them will still apply a hundred years from now.

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[narugami.livejournal.com]

Downloaded two tracks. Rock the Casbah in Arabic... *chokes at their American accent* This is funny. Thanks!