The alcohol talking – Short Round I’m glad another Short Round song came up because it gives me a chance to demonstrate, however insufficiently, that there are better songs on the album. And this song reveals Jason Thinh’s ska background, which is how i came across the band, following him. Also i called them punk [...]
Archive for October, 2011
The Alcohol Talking
Posted in Short Round on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Post Office Date
Posted in Short Round on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Post office date – Short Round The power and joy of personal mail, all conveyed in a wimpy punk song that should appeal only to those nerds of us who still get excited by the sound of the postperson’s motorcycle as it nears. Not that i ever get much mail, and rarer still personal mail. [...]
Sign
Posted in Brown Eyed Girls, K-pop on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sign – Brown Eyed Girls This song has come up before so i’m going to be lazy (it’s a Sunday! [it's a Saturday, dingus - ed]) and post the video. It’s like they’ve apparitioned themselves into a very Oldboy-like movie, haunting the lead character, giving support and motive, whilst held captive, drowning in human-sized test [...]
Breathe
Posted in K-pop, Miss A on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Breathe – Miss A Here’s a video of them performing this song on Music Bank, one of the four weekly televised showcases South Korea has for its music chart(s). For a song about not being able to breathe, they sure set the choreography to suit it. They are at points absolutely breathless – struggling to [...]
Step
Posted in K-pop, Kara on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Step – Kara This is not their best song, but various powers and factors pushed it out as the single so i guess we have to deal with it. I think it’s too much for me. If it were not for that relief of a pre-chorus, the rap verse and the part that follows it, [...]
Dum Dum Diddle
Posted in ABBA on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dum dum diddle – ABBA That’s the sound of the Yamaha GX-1, of which less than ten were ever made, one of which went to Benny Andersson. People are nerds and have traced this very synthesizer as it’s changed owners and the storage units they keep it in, so if you ever wanted to play [...]
Two Tons Of Dynamite
Posted in Sweet Baby on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two tons of dynamite – Sweet Baby This is quite the song. Slight, understated, goes nowhere but verse-chorus-repeat, but what a verse to return to. Different chords. It’s funny how what could be seen as the template for so much 90′s pop punk, Sweet Baby were the ones to use different chords, and that all [...]
Easy Guy
Posted in Archies on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Easy guy – The Archies Close your eyes and think of this song as played by the all-est of all-american cartoon everyteens and i believe there’s a dissonance between image and sound here. It doesn’t sound like what the Archies look like they should sound like. It is as though the songs are put before [...]
Speak Now
Posted in Girls' Generation, Taylor Swift on October 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Speak now – Taylor Swift There was a matter of shameful worlds colliding in an explosion of giddy glee for me recently when on the SNSD special of the South Korean talk show Big Brothers Seohyun covered this song as her prepared special talent. There’s always a prepared special talent. Always some hoop jumping… Anyway, [...]
Sister Havana
Posted in Urge Overkill on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sister Havana – Urge Overkill I should just let things lie in the past where slips into nostalgia and ebbs at recollection keep them as i remember them. I haven’t heard this song probably in fifteen years, and fifteen years ago i remember loving it. I couldn’t remember how it sounded at all – melody, [...]
