To keep things interesting, I’ve decided to switch to the newest songs that made the best 100 songs of the decade. Just the heads up, it turned out to be very Asian. Is it trying to tell you something?
One of those examples was the Welcome to Beijing song, which had a HUGE bunch of Asian (mostly Chinese, Taiwan and Hong Kong) stars. The scale of the project is probably similar to (or even bigger than) Michael Jackson’s We Are the World song… which in its time was epic. To me, and to many Asian (and non-Asian) people who keep track of the Asian music industry it marked an important time. Not only did the Olympics opened China to the world… and the world to China, but it also felt like a huge switch on everything from basic economics, industry… and entertainment.
It’s as if Chinese musicians had been enclosed all those years while the economy started to pick up, and have exploded with a huge fireball of creativity. It’s amazing at the amount of talent coming out from there, especially now that they can upload their music through the many Chinese music websites like douban.com and haoting.com, and the amount of blogs and communities that are reporting on them.
Some really awesome music, which I have already blog in this place. This is the reason, I want to get over these ones first, before I post many other songs from 2002-2006 when I didn’t blog that much (or at all).
Well, I’ve found it easier to narrow down the number of albums for this Top100 Albums of the Decade, than to narrow my list of songs to 100. LOL I have around 350 songs at the moment. This is gonna be difficult… and also in every possible language xD
Anyway, I’m sure that I had to take out some albums to include other albums. It was all a very difficult process to figure out what to include… going from “do I really have to take this song out?” to “OMG, I really love all these songs from this artist!!! Which one should I choose!- So please, bear with me, and comment what to add.
Been backing up stuff, so a lot of stuff seems to have dead links.
cannot think about the time to format. O.o
Just finished moving all my music (because that’s the easiest to move).
know some of them? xD teehee, predominantly Chinese and overall Asian-ness~~~ xD
On my search for 2009 released albums, I stumbled across this post by Layabozi listing 60 Chinese Albums to Show Off — I so need to affiliate with them for YAM. Once Nate gets his crap sorted… Anyway, I digress~~~
They got some people working as musicians or music PR peeps~ to choose the albums to show off as a way to commemorate the 60 years of the Republic of China. Though, there seems to be a glitch on their list because a Hedgehog album seems to be showing more than once there~~~ xD
The ones on the list that I could already be showing off are:
Hedgehog – Noise Hit World
don’t mind the no-sense English. It’s a really FUN album.
Faye Wong – Restless
Khalil Fong – This Love
Chang Shi Lei – Niu China
Faye Wong – Fable
Carsick Cars – Carsick Cars
And I could be adding to my Show Off list…
Faye Wong – Faye Wong (2001)
Faye Wong – To Love
Yuguo – Babel
Zhou Bichang – WOW
Though I’m sure choosing a Wang Leehom album would get me some minus points.
Okay, my Chinese music has taken over my Asian music as of lately. So I felt I should make another playlist =D – I feel this is an interesting list, even though I couldn’t find a good video for Vae (is he that independent?), and was able to find only one video for Yuguo =’-(
Yuguo – You Jian La Tian (Hello, Blue Sky)
Mayday – Sheng Cun Yi Shang Sheng Huo Yi Xia
(More than Surviving, Less than Living)
Cheer Chen – Ji Ta Shou (Groupies)
Crowd Lu – Wo Ai Ni (I Love You)
LaLa – O Yi Xi (Oh, Easy)
Vae – Ru Guo Dang Shi (In the Event that) – Not a video.
Cheer Chen – Deng Dai (Waiting for You)
Mayday – Bao Gan (Liver-busting)
Milk@Coffee – Ran Shao Ba! Xiao Yu Zhou (Burn! Little Universe)
Crowd Lu – Yi Bai Zhong Sheng Guo (100 Ways for Living)
I love how this list turned out, kinda like telling a story… right? Like just beginning your day with a certain energy, then chilling down a bit, until is not so easy xD and then bam! Liver-busting *laughs* – Combustion!!! Big Bang!!! And finally life goes on… xD
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