Seven songs meme
Jan. 9th, 2006 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaTagged 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
