Entries tagged with jpop

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: The Alma Cogan Story

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my ten fave singers redux

It's been almost fourteen years since I posted my list of my ten fave singers. [Please follow that link to read the explanation for how I decide who makes the list.] In that time, I've been exposed to a lot of new voices, my tastes have morphed, etc. So, time to introduce some new names [and, alas, demote/lose a few, but I'm sure they'll survive]:

And an honourable mention for a recent discovery, Cliff Bennett!

Current Mood: teary
Current Music: BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad

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something I am grateful for today

The culmination of a dream.

Ever since I started watching [and loving] the anime BECK in 2007, I have wished for a CD of the songs from that series. Soundtrack albums were released for the original Japanese cartoon, but not for the English dub, which are the songs I know and love. (The series was never big enough over to here to warrant that sort of treatment.) So I was S.O.L. in that regard.

Last night, I finally managed to cobble together and burn a homemade disc featuring the English songs -- and I tell ya, I love these songs so much that I tear up sometimes when listening to them. (Which I guess goes along with the fact that I sometimes tear up when watching the show.) Anyway, this is a very nice gift to myself.

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looking for patterns

I was thinkin recently... about how there are some bands that I love the first time I hear one song from them... and others that take time [sometimes years] to grow on me. And I wondered if there is any kind of relationship... similarity among the bands on one list, or distinction between the bands on both lists... any effect on how much I love them or how long I love them.... and TBH, as the list assembles: I don't see it. What puts a band on one list or the other appears completely random to me. Huh.

Immediates
Rare Earth
Deep Purple
Sweet
Slade
Kiss
Starz
Alex Harvey
Max Webster
New York Dolls
The Saints
Black Flag
Japan
Hanoi Rocks
Dead or Alive
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Age of Chance
King's X
Warrant
Ruriko Kuboh
Manish
Shonen Knife
Oasis
The White Stripes
Sulk

Slow Growers
The Guess Who
Jimi Hendrix
The Move
Ramones
T. Rex
Cheap Trick
Black Sabbath
Talking Heads
AC/DC
The Pursuit of Happiness
Queensryche
Roxette
Nirvana
Ulfuls
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The Stone Roses
Blur
Suede
Pulp
Ash
Rheostatics
The Charlatans
Collective Soul

Current Mood: felicitation-y
Current Music: Ruriko Kuboh - Colors

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something I am grateful for today

The birth of Ruriko Kuboh [now Ruriko Miyako], who turns 42 today. I first saw her on TV on New Year's Day 1994, and that was the first time I had ever heard any jpop which truly pleased and excited me. This opened a new musical world for me, and led me to much more music that has joined the ranks of my very favourites. So thank you, Ruriko, and enjoy your day!

PS: she may be 42 but still looks 22!