OK music!! Part 1

[petronia]

~*~*~*~*~Podcastin'~*~*~*~*~

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: Special of the Day (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 1: January 26 - Faye Wong, Cocteau Twins, Elisabeth Fraser
[nb this is the full show i.e. 30min Simon in Cantonese and 30min me in Mandarin]
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Tracklisting:
Faye Wong, "Blue Moment"
Faye Wong, "Know Oneself and Each Other"
Faye Wong, "Random Thinking"
Cocteau Twins feat. Faye Wong, "Serpentskirt"
Faye Wong, "Repressing Happiness"
Cocteau Twins, "Bluebeard"
Faye Wong, "Nostalgia"
Cocteau Twins, "Pitch the Baby"
Massive Attack, "Teardrop"
Jeff Buckley and Liz Fraser, "All Flowers in Time Bend Toward the Sun"


Episode 0: January 19 - My Little Airport, Elefant Records, Igloofest
part 1
part 2

Tracklisting:
My Little Airport, "Poetics something between Montparnasse and Mongkok"
My Little Airport, "Faye Wong, about your eyebrows"
My Little Airport, "For reporter Ivy from Face magazine"
La Casa Azul, "En noches como la de hoy"
Camera Obscura, "Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken"
Robag Wruhme, "Pelagia"
M.A.N.D.Y., "Body Language"
Guy Gerber and Shlomi Aber, "Sea of Sand"
Nu Look, "Legacy" [not technically up there since I don't have part 3]


Obviously this shiz is still TERRIBLE (as in, you can hear timesheets rustling and double-clicking in Winamp; as in, I will work to bring my ghetto-tastic Shanghai accent in line with received pronunciation once I have gotten over hemming and hawing for 25% of my airtime orz), but just as obviously if I had to live up to my own any standards whatsoever I'd never get anything done on the Internet. ...Also yes it's in Chinese but I'm not providing any insights into the music you won't get from Wikipedia, so. XD;

If you've never heard "Serpentskirt" with Faye Wong, rectify that immediately.

Realization I don't know what to do with: I'm bad at Twitter, obviously so, but just as obviously my best music writing of 2009 was done on blip.fm 150 characters at a time.

Comments

[two-point.livejournal.com]

I never heard this version of Serpentskirt -- but now that's rectified I've sent it out to all the Cocteau friends I have. Which is three, but that's better than nothing.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh, then you might be interested in the episode itself - those Faye Wong tracks are Cocteau Twins covers and/or written for her by them.

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

Huh, I definitely understood most of the 1/26 show!  (A comment on my comprehension, rather than your accent or anything. ^^;;)  Although it's entirely possible I've read the wiki pages for Liz Fraser and Cocteau Twins and was filling things in for myself, sigh....

Sabina should do more radio shows! so, uh, my Mandarin can improve? >.>;;;;

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Maybe it means that glossing a debate or idea in 160 characters is bad and reductive but compressing an emotional reaction to a piece of art into 150 characters can be good and inspiring. Or maybe it's that on Twitter you have to send people elsewhere for context while on blip.fm the song plays at the same time. Anyway I wish they'd tighten up the blip.fm site script so it didn't keep crashing my browser.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'll be posting them regularly from now on, it's a weekly slot. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

That's probably all there is to it, you're right. (...I can imagine a sort of widget that integrates, say, Twitter and delicious, that could be really useful for eg. ficreccing - nothing but a link and my 140 characters of comment. XD;)