Category: Music

  • Music Talk

    Well, I was listening to some new music on my iPod, when I realized I haven’t talked about new music in a while. In fact, I haven’t changed my Deezer music player since Christmas, ha!

    So this is some info on what I’ve been listening to:

    • LAST ALLIANCE (which I haven’t found the lyrics yet!)
    • Ingrid Michaelson – Girls and Boys
    • SoKo – No Sokute
    • Reel Big Fish (this really gets you going)
    • The Moldy Peaches (thank you, Juno… lol)
    • Kimya Dawson
    • Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé
    • Feist (more songs of her)
    • The Mamas and the Papas, alongside with some Cass Elliot
    • The Eagles – Long Road Out of Eden
    • Freezepop – Swimming Pool is pretty awesome.
    • Kate Nash – Made of Bricks
    • Vampire Weekend – it’s pretty fun, but not as fun as Los Campesinos! xD
    • The Kooks – Konk
    • Melanie C… her music is not bad, but I’m feeling it’s missing an umph!
    • Au Revoir Simone – The Bird of Music… The Lucky One, oh the Sholly fan in me!

    And some few more soundtracks~~

    • Enchanted – Gotta love Amy Adams singing The Happy Working Song.
    • August Rush – Raise it Up was pretty cool too.
    • Atonement – that damn typewriter! lol’
    • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Pretty Women~~~~ I will have VENGEANCE!!!
    • Rent – The Motion Picture… though the version of La Vie Boheme sounds cooler in the Broadway version.
    • Selma Songs – The soudntrack for Dancer in the Dark
    • Les Chansons d’Amour soundtrack – the French film Love Songs. Pretty awesome stuff.

    Happy music hunt!

  • My Reasons Why the 90’s Ruled or Not – Part IV

    We’re back with a new edition of why the 90’s ruled!! For past reasons of why they ruled, check the following links:

    Part I
    Part II
    Part III (Disney Edition)

    Ruth InfarinatoThis time, I’m gonna be talking about the coolest VJ in MTV Latin America, and that was Ruth! The orange-haired Argentinean who graced MTV Latin America for long enough so she could make an impact on my TV viewing. She was chill, she was hip… she was just what VJs are supposed to be.

    According to Wikipedia, Ruth is a host and an actress, and became one of the main figures for the Latin American youth thanks to her job as a VJ for over 10 years. I mainly knew her from her show Conexion, but she also hosted, co-produced and wrote several other interactive programs… which make her even cooler.

    You see, MTV was cooler at that point in time… VJs didn’t try hard to be hip and cool. MTV was actually about music, and reality tv and crappy series weren’t part of the scheduling. You could actually keep your tv on MTV, and no one would think that was weird. There was also Daria, Beavis and Butthead, and even Ren and Stimpy!

    And why the heck am I writing about this? Well, I was watching old tapes, and I had recorded some of Ruth’s show Conexion. I actually ended up watching the whole show, and it made me nostalgic about watching MTV, lol. I barely watch any MTV, maybe I occasionally end up watching it at 3 or 4 in the morning, but you wouldn’t catch me watching it during the day.

    Nowadays, I tend to watch more VH1, but it’s not necessarily good either, but it’s better than MTV’s programs… most of the times. I remember that in Canada I began watching MuchMusic, which is like Canadian MTV… after a while, I was more of a MuchMoreMusic type of person, almost like the Canadian version of VH1. I did watch quite a bit of CMT too, but that was in Canada – Cable in Peru did had, at one point in time, CMT in their listing but it didn’t last much longer than a month.

  • GRAMMY Winners Announced!

    Wow, apparently my predictions were right on target… sort of LOL’ And this is solely based on buzz… (full list of winners here)

    Producer of the Year:
    Mark Ronson (woot woot, beating Timbaland fo’su)

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  • Working on LAST ALLIANCE – Me and Your Borderline

    So, I was trying to get lyrics by LAST ALLIANCE, but it seems almost impossible… so as with the Kobukuro lyrics, I’ll try to find them and post them up. Thanks to Unexpected Fate, and once again Mognet.net.

    — EDIT — June 4th 2008
    I’ve been adding some romaji lyrics to this post, some bits might not be right, but for the most part sounds like its like that. If you know the lyrics to fix, please comment. If you are posting somewhere, please link back.

    — EDIT — June 5th 2008
    Keep on checking back for new updated lyrics. Remember to credit and/or link back. Gracias, Natalia! LOL’ La salvacion de fans de LAST ALLIANCE en linea~~ xD

    — EDIT — August 23rd 2008
    Sorry for the delayed. x’D Been VERY sidetracked… anyway, this completes the lyrics of Me and Your Borderline. Happy singing!!! And don’t forget to link back, to either amy-won.com, this blog or this post.
    And just in case, LAST ALLIANCE lyrics in Kanji.

    1. Break a Mirror [added June 04, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    2. Konoyubitomare
    3. Shissou
    4. Akai Hana [added June 04, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    5. Eimi Syndrome [added June 05, 2008. credit natalia wu and link back here]
    6. On no Nai Sekai [added June 10, 2008. credit natalia wu and link back here]
    7. Spiral World [added June 17, 2008. credit natalia wu and link back here]
    8. Zenmai [added June 17, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    9. gray end [added August 23, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    10. FANTASIA [added July 17, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    11. Lie of Eternity, Paint it Blue [added June 04, 2008. credit megchan.com]
    12. Prometheus [added July 1st, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    13. Shiearingusukai (Sharing Sky) [added July 1st, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]
    14. Jouka [added June 17, 2008. credit amy-wong.com]

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  • Amazon MP3 Goes International

    This is the smartest move that Amazon.com can do for its users. (full article here)

    We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S,

    We are excited to tell those customers today that Amazon MP3 is going international this year.

    I can’t wait for it.

  • Here’s Kent – Vapen & Ammunition

    I know lyrics are online, but people might be still looking for them… mainly because Kent’s website is all in Swedish, ha! Makes it just a tiny bit harder to look around if you don’t know Swedish… though it’s pretty similar to English. Anyway, 99,9% of the credit goes to Kent.nu

    And Julyssa, for giving me the album. She knows she rocks…

    1. Sundance Kid
    2. Pärlor
    3. Dom Andra
    4. Duett
    5. Hur Jag Fick Dig Att Älska Mig
    6. Kärleken Väntar
    7. Socker
    8. FF
    9. Elite
    10. Sverige

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  • Deezer Not Playing Songs?

    Apparently Deezer’s brand new player (2.0) doesn’t allow right-clicking greyed-out songs. However, the following code seems to be setting a ‘french’ cookie so you can listen to them…

    Taken from this Deezer forum topic;

    javascript:function SetCookie (name, value){var aujourdhui = new Date();var expdate=new Date();expdate.setTime(aujourdhui.getTime()+(24*60*60*1000));document.cookie = name + “=” + value + “;expires=”+expdate.toGMTString()+”;path=/”;}SetCookie(‘COUNTRY’, “FR”);

  • Oxymoron MusicPass

    How thick can an industry get?

    I got a bunch of e-mails promoting the new MusicPass idea, which brought a very loud “whose brilliant idea was it? No, like… really.”

    Dear, Sony.
    The idea of music download is that you don’t need to go to a retailer to pick up a copy of an album, and you don’t even have to wait for the retailer to open in the morning.

    Well, considering I do most of my digital music shopping at 4 a.m. ~~~~ xP

  • New Music and Happy Holidays!

    It’s Christmas Eve y’all!

    Happy Holiday Greeting

    I like totally forgot to change the Music Player back in Nov… so goodbye Once More with Feeling OST, and bring on the New December Music ’07 list! This time around, the list includes Justice, St. Vincent, Chromeo, Pink Martini, Yael Naim, Los Campesinos!, and Kent – which were a few of the artists I could find on Deezer… Enjoy!

    EDIT **December has been the bestest month for blogging, it’s Dec24 and we’ve got 24 posts! Yay! and a few more days to go**

  • Currently Playing…

    Currently playing Darren Hayes with On the Verge of Something Wonderful.

    On my most recent iTunes library, are:

    • Akira Mitake
    • Amel Bent
    • Backstreet Boys
    • Celtic Woman
    • Christophe Mae
    • Christophe Willem
    • Chromeo
    • Eberg
    • Five for Fighting
    • Juanes
    • Justice
    • Kent
    • Los Campesinos!
    • Maria Mena
    • Radiohead
    • Rajaton
    • St. Vincent
    • Tegan and Sara
    • Vanessa Paradis
    • Westlife

    This is a follow-up of these posts:

    Loads of Music

    P2P, Torrents, Legal Downloads, Oh My!