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My Life in Music

August 2, 2015 — Leave a comment

Will keep this list updated here.

The Bangles – Different Light [YT Playlist]
Arena Hash [Soundcloud]
NKoTB – Hangin’ Tough [YT Playlist]
El Show de July No. 2 [YT]
Nubeluz [YT Playlist]
Los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos – Con el Respeto que se Merecen [YT Playlist]
Michael Jackson – Dangerous [YT Playlist]
Sister Act 2 Soundtrack [YT Playlist]
Beck – Mellow Gold [YT Playlist]
Michael Jackson – HIStory: Past, Present and Future [YT Playlist]
Salserin – Con Mucho Swing [YT Playlist]
Torbellino – Corazón en la Ciudad [YT Playlist]
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill [YT Playlist]
1999
- Backstreet Boys – Millennium [YT Playlist]
- Faith Hill – Breathe [YT Playlist]
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication [YT Playlist]
- TLC – Fanmail [YT Playlist]
La Ley – Uno [YT Playlist]
Alejandro Sanz – MTV Unplugged [YT Playlist]
Dixie Chicks – Home [YT Playlist]
Pink – Try This [YT Playlist]
Bjork – Medulla [Bandcamp]
Andrea Echeverri [YT Playlist]
Marit Larsen – Under te Surface [YT Playlist]
Bibi Zhou Bichang
- Now [YT Playlist]
- Wow [YT Playlist]
Mayday – Poetry of the Day After [YT Playlist]
Chang Shilei – Niu China [YT Playlist]
Jonsi – Go [Bandcamp]
Hebe Tien – My Love [YT Playlist]
Galaxy United – The Absinthe [YT Playlist]
Kishi Bashi – 151a [Bandcamp]
Calle 13 – MultiViral [YT Playlist]
Su Yunying – Ming Ming [YT Playlist]
ANOHNI – Hopelessness [YT Playlist]
Chen Weilun – Think Miss Sorrow [YT Playlist]
Chen Li – Playlist [YT Playlist]
ZenKwun – Existing like God [YT Playlist]
Yuguo – Angry Horse [YT Playlist]
Shortparis – Apple Orchard [YT Playlist]
The Dada – Hello! [YT Playlist]

Remembering Breakthrough Music Videos

Except for that 3-year break MTV took off the Breakthrough Music Video category, they had continued giving away the prize — which had been given to the likes of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham — until 2010, when they officially removed the category.

So I ask again, what happened to Breakthrough Music Videos?

As a reminder, I put together a list with all the winners.

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If I had been picking winners (from that past post), I chose:

2006 – U2 for Window in the Skies [MV]
2007 – Tom Waits for Come On Up to the House [MV]
2008 – Bjork for Wanderlust [MV]

For the other two years, you know I’m probably partial to SunnyHill [1], but I’ll go with Salyu’s Tadano Tomodachi [1] concept because it’s much more a production concept than a music video concept. For 2012, despite its serious hard-hitting concept [1], I would have to go with Graham Coxon’s What’ll It Take [MV] due to its imaginative execution using fan footage.

So what are some of your favorite music videos?

Posted on March 28, 2013 In English, Music, Music Videos, Sharing, Television awards, bjork, breakthrough video, coldplay, fatboy slim, franz ferdinand, jamiroquai, mtv, music video, red hot chili peppers, salyu, sunnyhill, u2, vma, white stripes, why the 90's ruled

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Best Songs of 2000-2009 – Part 3/5

December 29, 2009 — Leave a comment

We are still going backwards with this listing of songs…

I think 2006 and 2007 marked my shift of Asian focus in music. It’s weird, I don’t think it’s about lyrics as I most often than not don’t search for lyric translations. I have just found Asian music to be more “musically” interesting than their Western counterparts.

I once had a throughout conversation with a friend online who lives in Morocco, and is a huge fan of Asian entertainment, and has lost all notion of Western entertainment. I asked him why his interests shifted, and he told me it was because there was a point in his life where everything looked and sounded the same to him.

Others have commented on the topic with regards of idols’ image and the degradation of the business.

With the turn of the new decade, we will see how big the Asian entertainment industry gets. Many will be watching… I will keep an eye on this.

Best Albums of 2000-2009

December 23, 2009 — 7 Comments

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.

In Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Misc., Music, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish alejandro sanz, alicia keys, andrea echeverri, best of, bibi chow (zhou bichang), bjork, brad paisley, brokeback mountain, canada, cheer chen, china, coldplay, crowd lu (lu guang zhong), darren hayes, dixie chicks, eminem, fatboy slim, faye wong, france, franz ferdinand, gianmarco, glen hansard, gwen stefani, hanson, independent, japan, jay chou (zhou jielun), juanes, justin timberlake, keith urban, kent, korea, latin america, lee hom wang, les chansons d'amour, marit larsen, marketa irglova, maroon 5, mayday (taiwanese band), medula, miyavi, mtv, nelly furtado, norah jones, olafur arnalds, pink, rankings, red hot chili peppers, regina spektor, salyu, seo taiji, shiina ringo, sigur ros, sodagreen, soundtrack, spain, sweden, taiwan, tegan and sara, the ting tings, white stripes, yeah yeah yeahs, yuguo

This Month’s My Life as a Soundtrack Deezer!

February 20, 2009 — Leave a comment

Bummer~ Couldn’t find some tracks from the playlist I made in my iPod~~ 5 in fact, ARGH! And Deezer won’t even let me play some of the songs that I did find… They should let you add your own mp3 from a URL, right? Like MixWit used to??

Screw you Deezer, buahaha~

Here’s my YouTube Playlist~

You don’t know what My Life as a Soundtrack is? Check this post.

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I’d Start a Revolution – Aimee Allen – Opening Credits
Citizens of Tomorrow – Tokyo Police Club – Waking Up
Campus – Vampire Weekend – First Day At School
The Lucky One – Au Revoir Simone – Falling In Love
Scream – Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson – Fight Song
This Is Me, This Is You – Marit Larsen – Breaking Up
Hump De Bump – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Prom
God is a DJ – Pink – Life’s OK
Beautiful Dreamer – Mates of State – Secret Love
Clunk-Rewind-Clunk-Play-Clunk – Los Campesinos! – Mental Breakdown
Go Forward – Lisa Gerrard (Whale Rider OST) – Driving
Tonight I’ll Be Lonely Too – Alison Krauss – Flashback
Quedate – Andrea Echeverri – Getting Back Together
I’ll Never Tell – Emma Caulfield/Nicholas Brendon (Buffy Once More with Feeling OST) – Wedding
喂！喂！(Wei! Wei!) – Hello! Hello! – Bibi Chow (Zhou Bichang) – Birth of Child
Earth Intruders – Bjork – Final Battle
If Tomorrow Never Comes – Ronan Keating – Death Scene
When I Get Where I’m Going – Brad Paisley & Dolly Parton – Funeral Song
不留 (Bu Liu) – No Staying – Faye Wong – End Credits

In Chinese, English, Fun, MixTapes, Sharing, Spanish alison krauss, andrea echeverri, bibi chow (zhou bichang), bjork, brad paisley, buffy the vampire slayer, emma caulfield, faye wong, janet jackson, marit larsen, michael jackson, pink, red hot chili peppers

MixTape – UMPH-A-Mix I

September 21, 2008 — Leave a comment

Weeeee! More Mixwit! A little UMPH for the week~

Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity
Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen (Justice Edit)
The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go (Left/Right Remix)
Bjork – Wanderlust (Ratatat Mix)
red hot chili peppers – tell me baby (rhythm scholar remix)
Dizzee Rascal – That’s Not My Name
Franz Ferdinand – What You Waiting For
Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!

In English, MixTapes, Sharing bjork, franz ferdinand, jamiroquai, red hot chili peppers, sigur ros, the ting tings

Another VMA 2008 – What Happened to Breakthrough Videos?

September 8, 2008 — 3 Comments

Okay… did any of you ended up thinking this was missing something? For sure, and improvement from last year.

In English, Music, Music Videos, Sharing, Television awards, bjork, breakthrough video, coldplay, fatboy slim, franz ferdinand, jamiroquai, mtv, music video, red hot chili peppers, u2, vma, white stripes

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