Category: Music

  • Best of 2009: Songs

    Well I don’t think I have listened to much 2009 music, and I know there are a couple of albums that are still on my list of “want to listen” but I figured if I wasn’t rushing to get them, I wasn’t gonna fall madly in love with them.

    So here is my provisional list of best 2009 songs. I’m also planning a Best Songs of 2000-2009, but that’s gonna take wayyyyyyyy longer. At the moment I have pre-selected the songs from 2000-2006 which are nearly 500 songs. I need to listen to all of them and begin taking songs out. I’m pushing for a 100 songs list.

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  • Sodagreen – Incomparable Beauty and More

    I have just fallen in love with a new song. Better yet!

    Lyrics live up to the expectation.

    Take a look at Sodagreen from their 2007 album

    Incomparable Beauty. Beautiful lyrics and instrumentation on the song.

    And this is Little Love Song.

    FYI, singer is a guy. But here he is doing a pretty rocking version of Toxic. LOL Now imagine him singing and 2001 Britney Spears performing to that music. Would be sweet.

    I love LOVE Incomparable Beauty. *sighs*

  • 1k Albums on LivingSocial!

    Congratulate me! I just added my 1k ‘have heard’ album to my FB app.
    Yay! And I’m so happy it was an album I liked a lot, and want to add to my
    personal collection~~~ Yay Sodagreen! Yay Chinese music!

    Only 6 more album listens, and I’ll be ready to name my best of 2009. xD

  • MySpace Buys IMEEM? What?

    I noticed some of my music/imeem posts had gone orange on me, and *le gasp* IMEEM is gone?

    Apparently, IMEEM had some debts, and MySpace just bought it for only $1M. The transaction has been so quick, that imeem accounts haven’t been moved, and indie artists were left floating… and might not get paid at all.

    This is what MySpace said:

    We did not acquire imeem’s contracts or relationships as we have our own in place. MySpace Music has its own distribution platform, which includes relationships with prominent aggregators and indie labels, that provides indie artists ways to monetize their music on our site.

    Sucks for indie music.

    I wonder if I will get back those playlists though. I’m sure MySpace is planning to let people embed stuff, otherwise why “buy technology” from imeem, right? Those orange boxes suck.

    via Wired.com

    Indie artists, use CDBaby. Besides letting you sell the albums you want, they will digitize it and will sell it and distribute on mp3 form. Or if you really trust your fans, just self-host your album and use paypal. That way is easier to count hits on your own files.

  • Crowd Lu – Goodbye Hooks

    Another Crowd Lu song to make you smile =D

    That version makes me smile so much, with the hugging yourself dance LOL. However, if you wanna know what the song says in English you should check out this video here.

  • Full Cycle YAM – 007

    Congrats, Amy! You’ve made it a year!
    Now please, get to work on that website you’ve been talking about all this time.

    Yeah, where is Nate? Yeah, that. Nate and I are working on something else, which is nothing at the moment… just a random gig, which will hopefully fuel our bank accounts a bit and let us work on YAM fully for a month or two…

    yam007_Dec09

    This is Julz 2nd straight cover. Hooray! Omedetou!!!

    In it she covered the Stockholm Film Festival… met Susan Sarandon xD, there’s a Q&A with Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, reviews for Precious, Up in the Air, Koreeda’s Air Doll, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, The Cove, Thirst, Dexter Season 4, Sasameki Koto, Family Outing, Les Amants Papillons, 2pm, Shinee, Rihanna, The Swell Seasons, Crowd Lu and more! Oh yeah! There’s also a Julz BSB concert review of their Worldwide This Is Us tour, and some Eva Ayllon. Coz we love variety…

    check it out over here.

  • Best of 2009: Music Videos

    I doubt I will catch any more music videos by now, so here is my random list of best music videos in very random categories, because that’s what I do best, I think.

    I’m writing as I go, so if I don’t make any sense. Forgive.

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  • Lilith Fair is Back…

    and it’s cleaned up its image…

    lilith-fair

    Coz that totally doesn’t mean “hippie chick”

    Lilith Fair will be back with shows with a kind of a nice variety of music from Chantal Kreviazuk, Colbie Caillat, Corinne Bailey Rae, Emmylou Harris, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls, Ingrid Michaelson, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, Sara Bareilles, Sarah McLachlan,  Sheryl Crow, Sugarland, Tegan and Sara, Ximena Sariñana.

    Yup, that’s right. Ximena Sariñana from Mexico.

    That’s pretty cool. Now if only they’d get Regina Spektor, The Sounds, CSS, The Ting Tings, St. Vincent (though I think she was against Lilith Fair),  Marit Larsen, how about some more foreign performers? Loads of Asian female performers… Salyu, Cheer Chen… Faye Wong (yeah, right! I heard she’s coming back on tour next year though!), Utada Hikaru xD

    More info over at the Lilith Fair website.

  • Current State of my iTunes

    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

    iTunes - Dec 2009

  • Become a Fan, Listen to Alicia Keys’ New Album

    Well, f*ck me twice on a Sunday.

    I was googling Alicia Keys because I needed the name of her album, and came up with the news that her album… out on December 15th (on time for next YAM) can be listened to if you become a fan of Alicia Keys on Facebook. Now, never have I ever become a Fan of x-artist. I’ve joined their groups, but never became a fan… even of Yu. At least on Facebook. xD

    Anyway, why am I talking about this? Because I opened the Alicia Keys page… read that I needed to become a fan, and I actually considered becoming one. After all, I can just stop being a fan — so that’s actually a pretty good campaign. One click away and you can stream Keys’ new album one week ahead of anyone. I’m sure there will be people, unlike me, who will click the button and listen to it. I mean, this actually made me consider… I was looking at the page for several seconds, when I usually just delete any Fan Page invitation.

    I also just block most applications, unless I’m looking for it specifically.