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[fluffiethesock]

Originally Posted by Maou

Silversun Pickups - There's No Secrets This Year

Oddly danceable...

Fluffiesock, do you like Swoon or Carnavas better? It's hard to choose, but I think I like Swoon a little better as a whole even though there's no Lazy Eye quality song on the album. There's only one song on Swoon that I dislike, but a few Carnavas that I dislike.

It is hard to choose, but at this point I think I'm still a bigger Carnavas fan. I'm expecting that moment to come when I finally "get" Swoon and perhaps prefer it Carnavas, but that sometimes takes a little while (it was about a month before I preferred Adult to Education, and about a year before I found Radiohead listenable). I think I did take the first step the other day though; I was in the kitchen washing dishes when "Growing Old is Getting Old" came up on my playlist and I was kind of blown away for the first time by the song. Sometimes listening to a good song amidst other styles of music really makes you hear it in a different way.

I was sort of looking for a new Lazy Eye too, and was a little disappointed when there was nothing like it on Swoon. That's not to say I think any of it is bad; I'm very pleased with pretty much everything this band has done, aside from the two bonus tracks from the Japanese Carnavas release. Those really just bore me.



Also, nice taste with the Misako Odani. Have you heard "Tereru You na Hikari"? I have an .avi of the music video (which is pretty simple but nice to watch), but I don't see it on youtube - at least not romanized. She's in my top 5 of Japanese musicians.

[Jesse]

Salyu - SWEET PAIN

[Jonny]

Come into a Kent spin today.

Kent - Mannen i den vita hatten

(The man in the white hat)

[Ringo~Bingo]

Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941

[TeslaGuy]

Space Art - Nous savons tout

[D.K.Liu]

Just heard two songs from a Taiwanese singer-songwriter called Peggy Hsu 許哲珮 for the first time. The music may not be to everyone's taste, but the lyrics are quite ingenious.

Balloons

This song starts off with 22 adjectives...
Here's my rough translation
黑的白的紅的黃的　紫的綠的藍的灰的
你的我的他的她的　大的小的圓的扁的
好的壞的美的丑的　新的舊的
各種款式各種花色任你選擇/任我選擇
black, white, red, yellow, purple, green, blue, gray
yours, mine, his, hers, big, small, round, flat
good, bad, beautiful, ugly, new, old
all styles, all colours, for you to choose (1st time)/for me to choose (2nd time)
飛的高高越遠越好　剪斷了線它就死掉
壽命短短高興就好　喜歡就好沒大不了
越變越小越來越小　快要死掉也很驕傲
the higher it flies the better; cut the strings and it dies
though life be short just be happy; great, if you like it, it's no big deal
becoming smaller and smaller; soon to die, though still proud
你不想說就別再說　我不想聽不想再聽
就把一切誓言當作氣球一般　隨它而去
我不在意不會在意　放它而去隨它而去
stop speaking if you don't want to speak; I don't want to listen, no longer want to listen
let all the promises go as if they were balloons
I won't mind, would not mind; release them, let them go
氣球　飄進雲裡　飄進風裡　結束生命
氣球　飄進愛裡　飄進心裡　慢慢死去
balloons, floating into the clouds, floating into the wind, ending its life
balloons, floating into love, floating into the heart, slowly dying

Lunatic

I can't be bothered translating the whole song. Here's some extracts...
你覺得我瘋了
我瞬間耳鳴 聽不見你們說的
我瘋言 我瘋語 眼淚讓我瞎了
模糊我眼前丗界
原來快樂要用悲傷換得
you think that I've gone crazy
suddenly, my ears ring; can't hear what you people are saying
I speak in delirium; tears have made me blind
blurring the world before my eyes
now I know that happiness can only be gained with sadness

[justriiingo]

Peggy Hsu's cool. She had the best stuff on MTV Taiwan back when I was still watching it. Balloons is one of my favourites. Good attempt at translation, but it just doesn't have the same mood as the Chinese original. That song never fails to give me goosebumps everytime I listen to it.

[bromithia]

The Strokes - The End Has No End

[EmilScherbe]

Hatsune Miku's Osakana Tengoku

Campaign song of fish corner.

[kuro_neko]

amai yamai-maboroshi feat shiina ringo

it grows on you with great stealth....

I actually heard some of their other music and it runs the gammit of all styles, its actually not as bad as you would think. this song tends to be a bit more cheesy in the rap portions than the other ones, but ringo's vocals are heavenly.