So I finally grabbed most of the intro/outro music from the Anime programs I'm obsessing over. There's a quality to the guitars in the rock songs that I don't really hear in any domestic or Brit music but that I remember hearing from even in the 90s from Boom Boom Satellites (also Japanese). Like even if I heard one of these songs entirely in perfect, native-sounding English, I could still ID it as coming from Japan (or possibly Korea).
Category Archives: Friday Music Day
FMD: FMA & AOT
All I want to listen to right now are the opening and closing credit songs from Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack On Titan.
hj: Also, I didn't get to compiling, so
one more day to submit!!1 And yes, if
you put it in a comment on any of the
previous posts (FMD and official), it will count.
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FMD: Oldies
I pulled out some oldies earlier this week.
20 years old.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5vYTy2-X8s
Well, I never saw that before just now.
FMD: Summer Tunes
If someone wants to curate a WGOM Summer Mix this year, please do. I don't think I'd be into it.
Last year's rules were:
Nominate 3 songs by whatever rule you want. Your #1 goes on the mix, even if it's an awful song about winter. Curator picks and chooses from the other nominees for whatever reason he or she wants, and can maybe add a few (like if a WGOM-faved album comes out after most noms are in). Put your three nominations in a spoiler so others can make their nominations free of bias.
Those were my rules. If a curator steps forward, s/he should decide this year's rules at that time. Don't nominate songs until a curator steps forward.
FMD: End of May
I found this interesting:
Even [ABBA's] happiest hits encompass more than a few blue notes. Strip away the euphoric strings and rhythms of "Dancing Queen" and their sole U.S. chart-topper would be a much sadder tune, but it's arranged to feel ecstatic: When the harmonies crescendo for that "Feel the beat of the tambourine, oh yeah" chorus section, the frisson between notes is disproportionate to the lyrics. And that's just as it should be; life is full of emotions far larger than their situations.
Can I get SBG into an FMD thread to reply?
If not, everyone just share your last random tens before summer starts in earnest.
FMD: New Music
I didn't see anything queued up for today, so I thought I'd put up my first ever FMD post. Exciting stuff!
I've been using Google Play on a free trial (I use the free version of it to store my songs since you get up to 20 some thousand songs for free and I'll never have that much) for the past two weeks. While I've been pretty impressed with their metal selection. I've been able to find just about whatever I've been looking for (except for Doomsword, which is disappointing). That said, I won't be continuing with a paid subscription when my two months is up. Doing random lists from "genre radio" stations is completely terrible for me. It might work great for others with different tastes, but the "metal" it randomizes is... not good. I pretty much have to know exactly what I want to listen to, then search for it and make my own playlists. I'm quite content buying albums and listening to my own personal collection.
That all said, I have been able to give a listen to some bands that I hadn't before. My favorite that I've discovered so far is Slough Feg. I could see them as having some appeal to some citizens here. They have a dirty, hard-rock sort of groove going while still falling on the heavier side. The vocals are clean, by the way, in case that is a general hang-up for anyone.
01. Metalium - "Rasputin", Hero Nation - Chapter Three
02. Eluveitie - "Thousandfold", Everything Remains as it Never Was
03. Korpiklaani - "Keep on Galloping", Korven Kuningas
04. Bruce Dickinson - "Freak", Accident of Birth
05. Skyclad - "Great Blow for a Day Job", Oui Avant-Garde á Chance
06. Arch Enemy - "Demoniality", Black Earth
07. Hammerfall - "Born to Rule", Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
08. King Diamond - "By, Bye, Missy", Them
09. Control Denied - "What If...?", The Fragile Art of Existence
10. Candlemass - "Solitude", Epicus Dommicus Metallicus
FMD: Summer
Ides of May and I haven't had any inspiration to seek out new music for a summer mix.
FMD: TNG Minne-caucus
I could write something short about music here and make a separate post.
Or I could just write this here.
Tomorrow, 5/9/2015.
Castle Heights playground in Columbia Park.
As early as 9:30, lasting as late as Noon.
Sounds like rpz, Pepper, and I and our kids will be there. EAR, too. The earliest I'll be there is 10:30.
I'll bring a cribbage board and deck of cards so rpz and I can get round 2 done in person.
FMD: 2 things to download
1. Mitski recorded a Daytrotter Session at SXSW and it was posted on Wednesday. My auto-renew subscription that I thought of cancelling paid off! (Also, noticed and grabbed older sessions from Courtney Barnett and Natalie Prass.)
2. In 2005, Aaron Dilloway left Wolf Eyes and travelled to Nepal for several months. Last week, a devastating earthquake hit the same country. On Wednesday, he wrote on Facebook: "Ten years ago I released this cassette boxset of my field recordings made in Nepal. I am now offering it for sale as a digital download and 100% of sales will be donated to the America Nepal Medical Foundation." Yesterday, he already donated $3000 from this. If you're only going to buy one collection of Nepalese field recordings this year, make it this one. (I might have donated anyways, but this spurred me to do so and also put a 3-hour album of field recordings atop the Bandcamp charts for a day. It was #3 Thursday.)
Since Nepal, Dilloway has been making some pretty great noise, too.
FMD: No Alphabetical Bias
I don't worry about overplaying the As and Bs on my iPod because when I'm searching for something and I don't know what, I shuffle, and then "Browse Artist" (or "Browse Album" if a compilation).
Nothing's more disappointing than saying "Yes, that's who I want to listen to for the rest of the day!" only to realize that I'd just played the only song from that artist that I currently have on my iPod. That happened a few weeks ago with Stars of the Lid.
If I have a bit of an idea what I want to listen to, I shuffle just on my predefined broad genres. (I do wish there was a way to add artist/album/genre to a shuffle without going through the "on-the-go". Did you know that you can't put more than 999 tracks into on-the-go?)