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Forum: Main Forum 2012.09.28, 05:35 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 12,819
Posted By monad
Most everyone I know has seen this...

Most everyone I know has seen this article:

Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation...
Forum: Product Reviews & Information 2011.04.24, 07:08 AM
Replies: 308
Views: 239,545
Posted By monad
Speaking of Kuki -- is the mashup of the album...

Speaking of Kuki -- is the mashup of the album version & the (single?) version that showed up a few years ago just Protools gimcrackery, or do they actually match up that precisely?
Forum: Off-Topic (Movies, TV & Other Media) 2011.03.16, 02:46 PM
Replies: 765
Views: 308,519
Posted By monad
Finally got around to watching Koji Wakamatsu's...

Finally got around to watching Koji Wakamatsu's United Red Army. Brutal hardly begins to describe it -- it's easily the single most difficult movie I've seen. Just terrible, unspeakable cruelty....
Forum: Main Forum 2010.11.24, 02:29 PM
Replies: 97
Views: 40,915
Posted By monad
Off the top of my head, in the category of 'made...

Off the top of my head, in the category of 'made relevant music 10+ years into their career, in the last decade, that was something other than just good retreads of their same old sound': Jeff...
Forum: Off-Topic (Music) 2010.03.08, 05:30 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,820
Posted By monad
Maybe the most self-destructive mutilation of a...

Maybe the most self-destructive mutilation of a potential huge hit in the history of recorded music:

Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man...
Forum: Off-Topic (Music) 2010.03.08, 03:15 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,820
Posted By monad
RIP Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse)

Huge, huge loss (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/the-singer-songwriter-known-as-sparklehorse-is-dead-at-47/).

He seemed to have a tremendously good heart in addition to his unique...
Forum: Main Forum 2010.02.04, 06:25 PM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
Wow is that a bad song. Did she write this in...

Wow is that a bad song. Did she write this in Japanese, then run the lyrics through Babelfish?

Something to wash away the horrible:

FEVER...
Forum: Main Forum 2010.01.26, 06:46 AM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
Guess what? I got a fever And the only...

Guess what? I got a fever
And the only prescription
is more cowbell
Forum: Main Forum 2010.01.24, 06:03 PM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
I found your mondo Semba Kiyohiko thread...

I found your mondo Semba Kiyohiko thread yesterday. Huge thanks for compiling and annotating all that stuff. I dig.

If anyone hasn't seen it, it's well worth your time:
Forum: Main Forum 2010.01.23, 07:43 PM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
(dead horse beating) Other than a couple of songs...

(dead horse beating)
Other than a couple of songs that had a better version in the same style on whatever that concert DVD is, all in all it was one of my favorite albums of the 2000s. Ringo...
Forum: Main Forum 2010.01.18, 05:32 AM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
Neil Young. Lou Reed. Yo La Tengo. Loretta f'in...

Neil Young.
Lou Reed.
Yo La Tengo.
Loretta f'in Lynn.
Forum: Main Forum 2009.12.23, 06:00 AM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
Sleater-Kinney? (although their drummer was good)

Sleater-Kinney? (although their drummer was good)
Forum: Main Forum 2009.12.19, 01:41 PM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
Not really related to much of anything else in...

Not really related to much of anything else in this thread, but since it's already gone way off the rails, I'll stand up for Senkou Shoujo here. Rhythm section aside, it's not all that notable, but...
Forum: Main Forum 2009.12.14, 05:02 AM
Replies: 558
Views: 144,135
Posted By monad
A short poem for today: Enthusiastic sweet...

A short poem for today:

Enthusiastic sweet spot
Girls flashing beaver


Yes, I'm 13 years old.
Forum: Main Forum 2009.05.12, 07:08 PM
Replies: 592
Views: 129,762
Posted By monad
When you finally throw out the window the things...

When you finally throw out the window the things you're attached to but which have only brought misery -- like, say, Tokyo Jihen -- they will explode into dust and jewels will rain down upon your...
Forum: Product Reviews & Information 2009.05.11, 07:05 PM
Replies: 308
Views: 239,545
Posted By monad
To me, the charm in most all of the rest of her...

To me, the charm in most all of the rest of her albums is that she takes more or less conventional pop or jazz-pop songs, then throws in an odd little WTF quirk of arrangement or instrumentation that...
Forum: Main Forum 2009.05.11, 01:29 PM
Replies: 592
Views: 129,762
Posted By monad
Wow. That was a pretty gigantic improvement over...

Wow. That was a pretty gigantic improvement over the TV version, especially the wah-wah. Not too fond of the shreddy guitar, though -- I like the edge, but I think ugly-beautiful art noise Ira...
Forum: Main Forum 2009.04.29, 11:30 AM
Replies: 214
Views: 57,264
Posted By monad
Odaiji ni? Seriously? Like with Onaji Yoru and...

Odaiji ni? Seriously? Like with Onaji Yoru and Neko's crazed violin, the weirdo guitar effect and its contrast with the underlying overly sweet pop ballad would seem to be *the whole point* of the...
Forum: Off-Topic (Music) 2009.04.10, 09:44 AM
Replies: 10,172
Views: 2,900,685
Posted By monad
Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains...

Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lkk8Cku4p8&feature=related)"

Wolves in the Throne Room "The Cleansing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PYxFq5NN1g)" -- can someone...
Forum: Main Forum 2009.01.12, 12:22 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 11,656
Posted By monad
Incident, I also reject the second phase of the...

Incident, I also reject the second phase of the menstrual period
Forum: Main Forum 2008.10.20, 07:38 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 10,815
Posted By monad
I'm thinking we have very, very different tastes...

I'm thinking we have very, very different tastes in music.
Forum: Main Forum 2008.10.20, 06:55 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 10,815
Posted By monad
What if she ditched Jihen, and came out...

What if she ditched Jihen, and came out with...Utaite Myouri Vol 2?
Forum: Main Forum 2008.10.20, 02:12 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 10,815
Posted By monad
But see, with my plan, I get the album I want,...

But see, with my plan, I get the album I want, Jihen irrevocably splits apart, and you get solo Ringo back. Win win.
Forum: Main Forum 2008.10.20, 08:48 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 10,815
Posted By monad
WRT KZK and Jihen: despite the large amounts of...

WRT KZK and Jihen: despite the large amounts of suck over the past year and a half, the non-Shiina portion of Jihen had boatloads of great ideas (however half-formed many of them were) on Variety,...
Forum: Main Forum 2008.07.26, 08:24 PM
Replies: 187
Views: 201,715
Posted By monad
Eh. That seems pretty unlikely. My bet is that...

Eh. That seems pretty unlikely. My bet is that they did this because they're planning to start selling some or all of her stuff on the US ITunes store. Really, it doesn't make a lick of sense for it...
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