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[Lykren]

Hahahaha all J-pop does not sound the same! Or maybe it does, because that song was released 15 days ago so you can't have heard it last fall. Actually a lot of big artists in Japan are produced (read: their songs and lyrics are written, arranged, performed, all but sung) by a guy named Nakata Yasutaka; Meg, Perfume, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and many others. So maybe it all sounds the same cause so much of it is just one guy.

All my friends tease me for liking that stuff, but what can I say? It tickles me in just the right way*. Makes my heart go pitter-patter and all that. Like being in love but just the nice parts. I don't like AKB48 and their cohorts though, they're too sugary even for me.

Back to, uh, 'real' music, this song is my favorite on Coltrane's My Favorite Things, though maybe 'objectively' the title track is better.

*also the girls are cute

[Pompey Bum]

Oh I love J-pop. Like I said--hooray!

But since you're getting into grown up music now, meet the Sublime:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU

[Lykren]

Pshh, I've always been into grown-up music, even when I was a kid I listened to Bach.

Blue in Green is my favorite song from Kind of Blue. You're the second person I've met who referred instantly to that particular song when bringing up Kind of Blue; is it your favorite too? I think it's, if nothing else, the best expression of the mood of that album; lyrical and uncluttered, yet rich in rainbow fragments.

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, it's my favorite piece by Davis.

[Lykren]

Do you listen to Radiohead, Pompey?

[Lykren]

I'm listening to this right now.



The spoken introduction is hilarious. The rest of it is too. I'd be their boy.

[Lykren]

And, after listening to K-pop for the last 12 hours, and most of yesterday too, I'm listening to this now



thanks to North Star, who brought it up in a games thread a while ago. Incredible performance!

Speaking of which, I also recently got to see the Annie-Sophie Mutter Trio perform the Archduke Trio and Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor. Sublime, sublime, sublime.

[Clopin]

G.I.S.M - Japanese Crust Punk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvLvsdBzuE

Peste Noire - French Bawdy BM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_9Gu8TNo9I

[tailor STATELY]

Emerald Waltz - Terry Oldfield

[Pike Bishop]

Yet Again--Grizzly Bear...truly the greatest of Radiohead's children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuG9i5cwGW0

[tailor STATELY]

HIST channel: "101 Gadgets That Changed the World"

[Sido]

Flapper Girl - The Lumineers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNboVRatIOw

[Lykren]

Pretty stunned by this:

[Lykren]

yay

[Clopin]

Boris - Japanese drone/rock band, covering Sometimes from Loveless.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhSS1hUUjQ