Radiohead: Creep


Describes my first crush perfectly.

Dudebrothermancactusguyholygoddamnjiffieroasting

I just found out that Utada Hikaru, one of my favorite Japanese musicians, did a collab with KOHH, another Japanese artist who's on an undeniable rise in the J-Hiphop scene! I almost had a moment of hesitation; keyword being ALMOST. I clicked the video and boom-shakalaka was I not disappointed in the very least. The song in general is very haunting, especially Utada Hikaru's aetherial vocals (and might I just add that her bobcut is totally bobcute? HONHONHONHON Eiffel Tower). KOHH's part was beautiful too, but in an alien way that I'm usually not accustomed to. His was more like an anguished and painful declaration rather than the sublime sniper flow he usually boasts; in this case, I think it was deliberate, since the song is obviously about heartbreak and all that jazz.

Hohooooo boy, now my interest in J-music is renewed once again, all thanks to these two.

Holy Cow, did you see how many plays that vid has had? Her voice is very beautiful; and I think haunting is a good descriptor. And KOHH is fantastic! I wasn't a fan of the way they did that vid, would have preferred to see them in full camera view throughout and without all the symbolistic shadows (etc) - but they were wonderful!

3 weeks old and already its nearing 2m views. Just goes to show how popular these two are LOL

The beginning sequencewas kinda organic and a little too ... Bjork-ish for me but the shadow play at the middle part —especially where a slowly opening ray of light was strategically placed under Hikki's eyes so it looked she was crying tears of light— was Mmm mmm mmmm! for me. She's so beautiful!

Yes, it was like a throw-back to the 60's or something in the beginning, not as effective as it was intended imho. The shadow effect was a little too overt of a touch, like a giant arrow pointing to what they want you to look at. And like you said, she is beautiful - shouldn't be hidden in shadow. I did see the tear effect on her, but was glad when they finally brought her out (not to mention that they brought both from the shadows in the same way; and he had no tear effect).

I love the song, love the singers - would prefer to see it with both of them full frontal so I don't miss a second of their performance with all the staging.

Listening to the soundtrack to Willow, it took 11 years to find this soundtrack and it's my first online order .

Babymetal - Headbangeerrr!!




Ok, that's it. I am getting their first album now!

Edit: And I just ordered it!

Ok................I enjoyed that one. I couldn't get into Megitsune, but Headbangeeerrr is pretty cool.

You.... you listened to it?? Wow, didn't expect that tbh


Maybe you can understand why I finally got the album, AND TODAY IT ARRIVED!!


Haven't plowed through it yet. Pamphlet was cool, it had all the lyrics in Japanese and even cooler; the company (I think) I bought it from had included a separate piece of paper with the lyrics in Kawai; a sort of phonetic style of writing in our alphabet -->


One major disappointment though. Absolutely no pictures of the members anywhere. They are presented by their artist names in the back of the pamphlet but a group pic would have been nice instead of those crappy ghost pictures behind the lyrics.


But yeah, I finally have their first album! Gonna blast that [censored] in the car to and fro work if I get it

'Course I listened to it! I'll try anything once. I miss new album day, I always enjoyed going through a CD booklet. Digital downloads just aren't the same.

That's just one reason I want a physical CD; I want a booklet to browse through. Just one minor detail that makes me enjoy the music more and as you said; digital downloads just isn't the same. Yeah I get the music but I want something I can play in my car and on my 3.1 computer at the cottage while looking at the art on the cover and in the booklet. And I don't have to buy a smartphone or an mp3 player just to transport the music in order to play on something other than the computer I downloaded it to.


Just feels more like I own my copy

Exactly. The only reason I got away from is because someone gifted me an iPod classic back in '06. Sucker is still running strong at 11 years old, and with 59 gigs of music on it. I keep it docked in my car, so i can always listen to whatever I want.

I usually go with one CD for awhile before I switch to something else. But in 2014 when I worked and had to drive back and forth I changed CD every week and even that wasn't often enough

Haven't done a great deal of music listening lately, other than some Beethoven piano works that's I've linked in the past. This morning I slightly shifted geared and returned to my favorite rendering of Paganini's virtuosic Nel cor più non mi sento for violin solo, Leonid Kogan violin. Boy o boy does he play the heck out of it, both technically and musically.

That over with (I listened to it twice) I moved on to another virtuosic favorite in somewhat the same mold, Wieniawski's Scherzo Tarantelle Op.16, written for violin with piano but heard/seen here played by cello and piano, Valentin Radutiu cello. Can't say this is my all-out favorite performance . . . there are a few violin renderings I like at least as well . . . but it's up there.

How odd that they wouldn't include any pictures!







Same here, SO much more prefer the disk than the digital versions. (and for the same reasons)

Especially considering it's their debut album!

That is so strange! They need a lesson in marketing, lol.

Also for them not properly write the lyrics in the extra sheet of paper

9Muses - Hurt Locker dance practice video



They are GOOD!



If only they still existed in this form...

The convo back at the Errthang Thread got me into a certain mood for some reason. Now listening to the OSTs of Assassins Creed 2 (Brotherhood and Revelations included), AC4: Blackflag and Witcher 3 (DLCs included)!

Listening to this version of Beyond the Time by Aimer and man is it eargasmic.

A selection of Dragonforce:

Three Hammers

Cry Thunder

Wings of Liberty

Last Man Stands

Above the Winter Moonlight

Symphony of the Night

Been listening to a decent amount of stuff, all classical or a related offshoot. Not gonna bother highlighting anything except the one piece pretty much everyone here has heard, at least in part, that being...

Franz Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in a performance by Valentina Lisitsa I like quite a lot.

Man, she's good!


Sad to know your hearing is starting to fail you, Decrepit. You shouldn't have to miss out on the things you like to listen to

OhMyGirl - Windy Day



Not a fave but still good -Yes it is!

Queen- Princes of the Universe

I've had one bloody line of a song wedged in my head for ages, finally got around to googling it

I genuinely have no idea where I even picked that line up from

Awesome song. You probably heard it in the first Highlander movie.

Since Easter is not that far away I present to you, for your delectation:

The Idol Formerly Known as Ladybaby - Easter Bunny!

Voices of a Distant Star Soundtrack - Agarta's Rain

I keep meaning to link this performance but for whatever reason never get around to doing so.

Weber's Andante & Rondo Ungarese (Hungarian Rondo) is most often heard on bassoon, occasionally viola. Here it is played on ophicleide!, a now all but totally abandoned keyed (as opposed to valved) low brass instrument replaced long ago by the tuba. (Despite that, it sounds more akin to the modern euphonium through much of its range.) The ophicleide has a reputation of being hard to play well, with suspect tone quality and often questionable intonation. You'd never suspect it listening to this recording! Nice still images showing what the instrument looks like accompany the music.

An added benefit for me is that, being a bass-tenor range instrument, I'm better able to hear more of what the ophicleide actually sounds like than with soprano range instruments playing in their upper registers.

Listened to and watched a filmed concert performance of Mozart's Concerto No.10 for 2 Pianos and Orchestra, Lahav Shani piano/conductor jointed by Yuja Wang piano. I hadn't heard this piece in ages. Decades prolly.

Also heard, the audio portion of a live concert performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor", with Ronald Brautigam as soloist on modern piano rather than fortepiano, Lahav Shani conductor.

Last but not necessarily least, Mr. Brautigam again, this time on fortepiano, in an audio only recording of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.8 "Pathetique". (This is almost certainly taken from the full performance that appears on Brautigam's complete Beethoven sonatas SACD set.)

Barney Stinson

BESTie - Thank U very much

Today on my way home from I decided to put in my Babymetal album and give it a go. AND IT'S FLIPPIN' AWESOME!!!!

New favourite from Babymetal; Iine!

Was feeling nostalgic so Khajiit decided to play the album Widow's Weeds by Tristania during his commute. Good stuff, if you like dark, symphonic metal.

Frostfall

John Mellencamp - Love and Happiness

Rob Zombie loves Babymetal

Tenmon - Agarta's Rain

I'm listening to the soundtrack to Superman the Movie, the disk are getting old so it might be time to find the digital soundtrack on Amazon.

Decided to break out some Dragonforce again

I've gone back to listening to the soundtracks of several video games. Lately it has mostly been tunes from these tracks:

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxhJVhH7A0

Quake 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY6yBTYxLko (Descent into Cerberon in particular is sooooo good)

Mirror's Edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y05wiQQbFLU

Unreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IISjIMpepo (probably my favorite soundtrack ever)

Divine Divinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVdCtm44fg

I love the Quake 2 soundtrack. I used to play it as background music during combat back in my old pen and paper RPG days.

The major thing that sucked about playing Quake 2 was that the music did not automatically work for whatever reason. Same thing for the original Quake. I have them both on GOG, but I believe their Steam versions do the same thing. I didn't really feel like messing around and doing whatever was needed to make them work, so I just played the games. It was actually interesting and still a lot of fun to play Quake 2 without music, but playing with it on would have been so awesome.

I guess that is one of the good things about the old days when games were on cds. I would just put my Quake 2 cd into my boom box and play the music whenever I wanted.

That's what I used to do with my CyClones CD

Lyriel -- Parting

Wardruna- Rotlaust Tre Fell

Epica -- Unleashed