6th Station ~Other Bands for H!P Fans~

[Zunu]

Letting my inner goth come out to gothify for a bit:

Nico - Frozen Warnings

I've heard of Nico through her various associations with the 1960s pop and art/fashion world but I don't think I've ever heard her sing before. Better than I expected.

(Back in my youth there were tons of recording artists that I might have had a passing interest or curiosity in, but wasn't about to spend my (not at all) hard-earned allowance money on. So they just remained a nebulous mystery to me. After two decades of YouTube and Spotify, it still feels like a hell of a cheat code that I can legally listen - - for free (or nearly) - - to just about any artist at any time.)

[Zunu]

BoA 보아 Crazier MV



This just makes me hungry for an Amuro Namie comeback

Edit, as long as we're on a 2000's era comeback kick:

Jolin Tsai - DIY

[Zunu]

It's gotten to the point where I'm actively rooting for these Kpop knockoffs to fail so we can get back to the kind of Japanese pop that made this country's music scene unique and distinctive. But realistically I'd be better off wishing for the tide to stop rolling in.

@onelive - Alps Vibes MV

[Spaghetti-Western]

Letting my inner goth come out to gothify for a bit:

Nico - Frozen Warnings

I've heard of Nico through her various associations with the 1960s pop and art/fashion world but I don't think I've ever heard her sing before. Better than I expected.

(Back in my youth there were tons of recording artists that I might have had a passing interest or curiosity in, but wasn't about to spend my (not at all) hard-earned allowance money on. So they just remained a nebulous mystery to me. After two decades of YouTube and Spotify, it still feels like a hell of a cheat code that I can legally listen - - for free (or nearly) - - to just about any artist at any time.)

You probably heard Nico in the soundtrack to The Royal Tenenbaums back in the day. Soundtracks used to be a good way to get introduced to new music. I guess they probably still are?



I was listening to Air again recently ("the French band, not Air Supply"). I wonder if kids these days listen to them, they're pretty groovy I discovered their song Sing Sang Sung on Love 2 (2009) includes the line "do did done"



And I was listening to Bob Seger's greatest hits album this year, much of which was new to me. His version of Ce'st la Vie is nice, with it's multiple saxophones. (I'm not sure why it came out in the same year, 1994, that Tarantino used the original Chuck Barry version in Pulp Fiction--maybe just coincidence?).

[Celedam]

I was listening to Air again recently ("the French band, not Air Supply"). I wonder if kids these days listen to them, they're pretty groovy

Ever listen to their album Le voyage dans la lune (2012)? It's the only album of theirs, other than their debut Moon Safari (1998), that I like. I think everything else after Moon Safari was pretty derivative of it (trying to recapture that initial success, blah blah blah), but Le voyage dans la lune is something different…

The album is inspired by the 1902 silent science fiction film A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès and is intended to be a soundtrack to the restored version of the film.

[Celedam]

From another thread…

Question: What's a line you'd like to say?

Dambara Ruru
Nande yanen!

(t/n: This is a famous Kansai dialect phrase meaning "Why?" that's often used in comedy)

Literally, yes, but the connotation is more like "WTF?" — shocking or vulgar at the beginning (that's kinda the point of Kansai-ben in comedy), but so common now as to have lost its edge (thus the humor in an idol saying it), and made famous by the reigning king of tsukkomi, Downtown's Hamada…

[Spaghetti-Western]

I was listening to Air again recently ("the French band, not Air Supply"). I wonder if kids these days listen to them, they're pretty groovy

Ever listen to their album Le voyage dans la lune (2012)? It's the only album of theirs, other than their debut Moon Safari (1998), that I like. I think everything else after Moon Safari was pretty derivative of it (trying to recapture that initial success, blah blah blah), but Le voyage dans la lune is something different…

The album is inspired by the 1902 silent science fiction film A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès and is intended to be a soundtrack to the restored version of the film.

I probably did listen to it back in the day, but have no memory. I'll give it a listen, thanks I've been listening to Moon Safari, Talkie Walkie, and the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack mostly. I think Talkie Walkie (2004) is pretty good.


Yeah, kids these days.... I guess they listen to "mumble rap" or something. But can we make it kawaii?

[Zunu]

Aya Gloomy - 2 Star