Seven songs meme

[petronia]

Tagged again!

1) Yui - Life: the current Bleach ending theme. The girl has a sweet voice. I have the feeling there should be teen pop with this theme and affect in English, but I don't know what it is - as opposed to something like "Seishun Amigo" which plumb couldn't exist.

2) Superpitcher - Happiness (Lawrence Mix): over Christmas Cis discovered that the lyrics of "Happiness" do not (as I'd previously thought) vaguely resemble Oruha's song from Clover, they are Oruha's song from Clover. In other words this is sort of like a dreamy-drifting minimal house cover of Oruha by a breathy German dude who can't really sing, which is accepted standard practice within the genre.

Considerations:

i) HERR SPITCHER IS CLAMP FANGIRL LOL
ii) One can extrapolate backward in one's head for a sense of what the original "must have sounded like", as a pleasant exercise of meta-fiction.
iii) People do dance to this stuff. In clubs, even.

(This is the version off Today, it cuts off at the end, I'll be buying all this properly I swear.)

3) The Presets - Girl and the Sea (Cut Copy Remix): Australian indietronica group, remixer on same label. The original was one of my most-abused-on-repeat songs for a time (pre-Audioscrobbler days, so there's no evidence of the fact). The remix is coolly spacious disco nouveau, and equally catchy.

4) Shuji to Akira - Seishun Amigo: I am just stealing Cis's content now (she has an excellent writeup of the song and possible factors in its success that is tragically locked). Basically: it is Johnny's, it was a million-selling single in 2005, I'm still not sure which boy is which despite the fact that they are currently BIGU NYUZU, the video (which I coincidentally downloaded the same week from kickinpants) features the most fascinatingly horrendous dancing I have seen in a long time, and I have downloaded and watched all your baby w-inds. etc. PMVs.

The song is really dumb. It has James Bond Theme-like bits, fanboy Spanish and an inappropriate castagnette interlude. It is ridiculously catchy. The lyrics are a paean to SHOUNEN FRIENDSHIP sealed through heated promises, dramatic phone calls and epic battles, cast in elegiac past tense - a Japanese schoolboy "Being Boring". Not only is it perfect for drunken karaoke, it's perfect for drunken karaoke to make your middle-aged coworkers cry.

5) Nicola Conte apresenta Rosalia de Souza - Bossa 31: cheeky, cheerful bossa nova. The lyrics go something like "A-chiki-bom, a chika-bang, a-chiki-bom! a-chika-bang-bang". You get the drift.

6) New Order - Here to Stay: have been listening to more New Order recently, this track in particular. Of course anyone who was around circa the Prince of Tennis Fanon Soundtrack ought to have it already. XD New Order at the best of their occasional shounen manga moments (they did write a World Cup anthem): the breakbeat, the dramatic build... Honour your pain. I always try to edit videos to it in my head. Using Tenipuri anime canon footage - or what I retain of it - the result has a TezuRyo bent, though the rest of Seigaku are heavily cameoed. I tried to mentally vid Bleach to it once, the result was more fluid and perhaps more interesting.

7) Innocence Mission - Snow: I'm reasonably certain I've never posted this, although it's one of my favorite winter songs. Alt-folk, I guess, at least to the extent that Low is.
 

Comments

[vonbrigthi.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what that Seishun Amigo thing was about. I watched the performance on the Johnny's Countdown (*shame*) and and-- actually there's this weird Spanish theme going around lately. Or maybe it's always been there. Anyways. I was too fascinated by the INTERESTING dancing that I erased all memories of the segment from my mind successfully until you brought it up again.

And now I must download it. DX Thanks a lot.

[cis.livejournal.com]

i think the Spainish theme is a long-running Johnny's motif. From what I've heard, 'Andalucia ni akogarete', which is v old-school johnny's, has taken on this odd canonical status and gets performed in every big Johnny's show, getting to sing lines in it become some huge rite-of-passage business. And so songs about spain have become extra-extra johnny's-rashii. Ah, Johnny's Entertainment, you so wacky.

[nem0.livejournal.com]

You should hear the Felix da Housecat remix of Here to Stay. Actually, I have the full Here to Stay single floating around here somewhere if you want a copy.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I have it actually, but thanks! (Also the radio edit on International, but I don't know what others exist.)

[serendip.livejournal.com]

BITE YOUR TONGUE YOU DID NOT JUST SAY NEW ORDER HAD SHOUNEN MOMENTS.

Btw, I STILL have not forgiven you for the Ban/Ginji FIASCO re:Regret. NOT FORGIVEN.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

what? Jae has read a shounen title? Not only just mildly shounen but fanservicey, 20 vol+ long shounen like GB?!?!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

She hasn't read it, she's just heard me talking about it. XD

[serendip.livejournal.com]

If I'm going to start reading shounen, it would be Bleach. I owe my flist a shitload of shitty Bleach fanfic as revenge for the Bleach influx XD FTR, I've read TRC, which is technically shounen, as well as Angelic Layer, and prolly some other shounen series I tend to speed read manga in the bookstore, so I often forget what I have and have not read XD

Which is to REALLY say, BITCH, who said I've read icky shounen? XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

(Sabina posted a Ban/Ginji ST that featured New Order's Regret as like their signature song and it was only my deep and abiding love, and mp3 h0-ness, that kept me from disowning her on the spot.)

[cynic-in-charge.livejournal.com]

You're so not going to read Bleach. Not unless you can coerce someone into giving you the series, and yeah, I will talk them out of it by pointing out that you'd make them write you Renji/Ginny and Draco/Rukia.

Also, it's too shounen for you. XDXDXD AL was at least short and you've read what? Three or four tanks of TRC? You so can't do over 200 chapters of anything, not unless it started with the word "Card" and ended with "Sakura."

[serendip.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't read most of the manga in CCS and know the series mostly through the anime XD

I also love how you seem to think that the people on our flist would not be motivated by the thot of bringing GINNY/RENJIY and Rukia/Draco to the world XD (And as always, I have to write the bloody shit for myself, so XD)

XDDDDDDDDDDD

[meril.livejournal.com]

GetBackers is goooood. You should read it.

[serendip.livejournal.com]

See, when meril says it, it doesn't sound like totally 3v33l and lameo. Don't ask me why XD

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Haha, I dare you too. The beginning part is v. shounenish. Maybe you would like Bleach, which I like better than TRC and Angelic Layer anyhow.

(Ahaha, now I get it.)

[serendip.livejournal.com]

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

XD XD THIS IS NOT AN INSULT IN MY VOCABULARY.

I stand by the statement! They have this dorky working-class sports-loving pub rock side to them. Which IMO serves them well, because the music would be too clinical/classical otherwise - puts the wabi in the sabi so to speak.

Butbut Ban and Ginji are so kyoot, I nearly reuploaded "Regret" too actually~~~ *is sporked*

[serendip.livejournal.com]

I don't deny their dorky working-class sports-loving pub rock side, tho I think that's come out more with age and distance from Ian, who rilly wasn't that, even if he was a little on the inside. That, however, is not shounen per se XD That's just them being English, j0. I will grant World in Motion, but it was the WORLD CUP THEME, of course it's shounen XD~~~~~

*sporks j00* heh, I own half these songs already, is that weird? XD

[serendip.livejournal.com]

Is Cafe Lounge Almond Tea a comp? I saw that the track is originally on the album Garota Moderna. I would love to have an album called Cafe Lounge Almond Tea. Japan winz again XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It is indeed a comp, there are also "Rose Hip Tea" and uh, I think a third one? XD

[serendip.livejournal.com]

There are many many more~! Spicy Milk Chai, Iced Min Tea, Iced Peach Tea, Maccha Latte, Iced Brazillian Tea, HOT CIOCCOLATA

AND the coffee lounge series. MAKE IT STOP, SABINA, MAKE IT STOP.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Yay more music! Current state of Sabina folder=890+ MB XD

In return, have an angsty Yasha/Ashura icon! Or I could animate another one for you, if this one's too wangsty.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

For me? *_* Yay!

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

THERE IS A REMIX OF GIRL AND THE SEA?

Thank you for posting that.

[meril.livejournal.com]

I actually downloaded things this time. Feeding the iPod, yes. This means I'll actually listen to it! Even the stuff that reminds you of TeniPuri (speaking of shounen I've bounced off of...)

[cis.livejournal.com]

<3

SHOUNEN IS BEST.

[mitethe.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, the first I heard of Cut Copy was that they did the opening act for Franz Ferdinand. Only when it was revealed that they were Melbournites (am quite fond of our southern neighbours) did I feel inspired to track down their music. Very glad I did - good stuff. XD