Not doing well on the organization front

[petronia]

Forgot to get tickets for Ladytron and now it's sold out as well. As for Bleach... we'll see the next time Ichigo gets to fight, I guess. XD A truckload of stuff to write as always, and zero gumption as I'm still repaying my sleep debt from this past week.

That and I've been doing my taxes this weekend. :D Only halfway through, fun and games etc. On the bright side my cold seems to have gone away, even with minimal nursing. Maybe the entire bottle of red wine I drank at the Concordia party on Friday killed off the germs. (It was a quite decent party of the graduate student society variety: excellent Italian food, people I knew, unlimited quantities of wine - non-sucky music. XD What with the lack of sleep I dozed off for about 45 minutes while the latest Madonna album played in the background, and woke up to... Sven Vath's latest mix. Though I had to track down the CD's owner and ask her what it was.)

Seiko - Who's That Boy?: from the Tokyo Babylon character single for Subaru, recently re-downloaded from _uta because my copy had a skip. Sometimes old anime tunes I haven't listened to for ages make a completely different impression when I play them again. The production on this is so sweet! I actually went searching in case there was an extended 12" Arthur Baker white label remix, because it sounds as if it should have one. XD

It transpires this song was originally from the English-language album Matsuda Seiko released in North America in 1990. I remember a post on Neomarxisme where Marxy talked about how he thought these attempts at the overseas market (Utada Hikaru's Exodus, etc.) were never more than half-hearted, and the real purpose was to maintain homefront interest in the entertainer's career. Certainly the Seiko album wasn't a hit, but from its Discogs listing it ought to be worth a listen from the liner credits alone - New Kids On The Block? Giorgio Moroder? "Who's That Boy?" was produced by John "Jellybean" Benitez, who (if you don't want to bother with Discogs) remixed a lot of 80s classics, early Madonna etc., and also produced "Holiday". And he mixed New Order's "Confusion", so there's your Arthur Baker connection (out of a buttzillion I could probably turn up if it weren't redundant).

Well, I think it's cool. XD Dang, unlike certain other mangaka who shall remain unnamed CLAMP are too good at not revealing their taste in music. The TB singles are from 1994, I wonder what they're listening to now.

Marmalade Boy - Moment: this now sounds different to me too. Though I think what's happening is that I'm constructing a cleaner, housed-up version in my head as I listen. XD I've gotten way used to paying attention to the drum sounds and the tiny synth loops.

Comments

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

*downloads* They used to talk about music on their blog. They were listening to Cocco while working on Clover 4, circa 1999. ^^;

[serendip.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've never left XD~ But I think most music made in the 80's and up to the mid 90's sounds totally right to me, which prolly splains why most J-pop and J-music sends me into such a frenzy. It's like UR-genre. (Theme to Tokyo Love Story has me all !!! and everyone starring at me blankly.)