Sign – Brown Eyed Girls A funny name for a group of four Korean girls whose principle audience and work base is Korea, but there you go. Maybe it’s a rallying call, a universal embrace – the group standing for and existing as every South Korean girl. Unless there are Koreans with differing eye colour. [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Sign
Posted in Brown Eyed Girls, K-pop on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tell Me Your Wish
Posted in Girls' Generation, K-pop on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) – Girls’ Generation I like how this song subverts demand for a bridge, solo, rap verse or some other excuse to reprise the chorus simply just by stopping the song dead, Tiffany coming up and saying “DJ, put it back on.” Why not? It’s so plain, so dumb (and also [...]
Jimmy’s Grin
Posted in Margox on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jimmy’s grin – Margox The last time this song came up it was at a time it was the only Margox song i could tell existed. It’s not like since then i’ve stumbled upon a whole hidden history of Margox songs, but i did make the connection that she behind Margox is the one and [...]
Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin
Posted in Magnetic Fields on August 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Love is like a bottle of gin – The Magnetic Fields I wouldn’t know. I imagine he’s correct, though.
This Wreckage
Posted in Gary Numan on August 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This wreckage – Gary Numan The intro to this song. A lone synthesizer rising from a nothingness, surging out a melody line, fading back into that nothingness. Every current of electricity lucid and powerful as it passes through. Humming, enveloping – no other noise or effect but the machine. Perfect. It’s one of the best [...]
A Chicken With It’s Head Cut Off
Posted in Magnetic Fields on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A chicken with it’s head cut off – The Magnetic Fields Sam: “This was on the Australian charts when we toured there (May 2001). The customs agent looked at my work permit and sang me several bars of the chorus.” ?! It was?! They did?! Time to investigate. Oh how i wish i were smart [...]
Take Ecstasy With Me
Posted in Magnetic Fields on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Take ecstasy with me – The Magnetic Fields Again from my mother’s house. To celebrate the very recent release of the Stephin Merritt obscurities collection on Merge Records i will post the Susan Anway vocals version, originally gifted to us on the Oh Merge! compilation CD. The more resourceful, alert and desperate of us have [...]
Panik
Posted in Bratmobile on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Panik – Bratmobile Greetings from my mother’s house. She’s in the U.S.A. right now so i get to house sit a few days a week, feed her cats and use her internet. It’s nice here. And warm. Wilberforce forever! Amazingly this song was still on our old computer, so i actually have something to post. [...]
The Hootch
Posted in Pixies Three on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The hootch – The Pixies Three These non K-Pop days are victories and should be treated as such. I found this record (b’d/w It’s Summertime U.S.A.) at the Parramatta Record Fair on Sunday. The original but now more sparsely attended, sparsely vendored record fair. And demonstrating my enthusiasm and loyalty for it, i arrived half [...]
Girls’ Generation
Posted in Girls' Generation, K-pop on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Girls’ generation – Girls’ Generation Allaying the regret and shame of another morning with a Girls’ Generation song in my head is the once inconsequential now vital news of the K-Pop Fest that is coming to Sydney November 12th. Life is worth living. Of course i’m going (by myself). It is part of larger celebrations [...]
