m~u~s~u~c

Found this via a version of To Love Somebody with him, Marcia Hines, Brian Cadd, and Max Merritt. Had never heard of him before, but he’s got a great voice. This song doesn’t show it off so much, but you do get some of the rich Tom Jones kind of quality his voice can have. Still, a fun song.

B~R~B~~~(~M~B~)

She has one of them Youtube-famous city pop songs, so I’ll skip posting that. But this’s another real good one.

Her other records are a bit patchy, but here’s a song off the one I like most so far: Yahhoo!!. Maybe it’s just the Ito Chieri and OutRun vibes?

Jumping back in time a bit—I meant to add this song.

I love that rich ‘youuuuuuuuuuuu’ so much. It’s like an owl. Penetrates my skull, like I’m singing it myself. Reminds me a bit of the way Miki Matsubara sings her vowels. Song itself reminded me of the way that みずいろの雨 song by Junko Yagami comes in.

And somehow this is a B-side~

Great chorus and dancing, plus saxophone and rap interludes (I think those are her kids?)

B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e

Oh yeah, I remember this playing at a party last year and getting it stuck in my head too. Forgot it was by them too.

I don’t know how this got into my head, but I’ve been unable to get it out for a few days now. Got a real nighttime back of car energy.

Ended up making a page on my wiki for song titles about boys.

Been listening to lots of Australian stuff from the 80s and 90s for the last couple of months.

B~r~e~a~k~~~t~i~m~e

This’s off the same album, but apart from one other song, the rest are boring ballads. Instrumentation on this one (apart from the chorus that has those nice Joy Devision pews) reminds me of some Chinese stuff I’ve heard, otherwise it’s pretty similar to 제 연인의 이름은.

Google Translate give me ‘Last summer was so weird’ for the title. Sounds like a good fit, to me!