Memes of a Musical Nature
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tj_dragonbladeAll of these I've done before. But all of them are worth doing again, so here we are. ^_^
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jibii
1. Put your music player on "random." Skip songs with not-very interesting titles (such as "Concerto #4 in E minor") (I'll skip non-English and unpronounceable titles too)
2. List the titles of the first 25 songs to come up.
3. Put "in my pants" after each title.
4. Bold the ones that actually made you laugh
1. The iron sea in my pants
2. Criminal mind in my pants
3. I just want you to love me in my pants
4. Nightmare in my pants
5. Countdown to extinction in my pants
6. Vanilla in my pants
7. Stranded in paradise in my pants
8. Fragrance in my pants
9. I like it in my pants
10. Lost & damned in my pants
11. Forever dancing in my pants
12. Drink or die in my pants
13. Recruiting sargeant in my pants
14. Business in my pants
15. Homesick in my pants
16. Better than you in my pants
17. Beautiful in my pants
18. Love's a loaded gun in my pants
19. Cinnamon girl in my pants
20. We didn't start the fire in my pants
21. Precious in my pants I laugh mostly on account of an old GW fic I wrote...
22. Star Trekkin' in my pants
23. Cherry in my pants
24. What a good boy in my pants
25. Nuttin' but love in my pants
Also stolen fromjibii
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is cheating.
Step 5: If you like the game post in your own journal.
Skipping instrumentals and non-English; also skipping repeats of artists because I feel like it.
1. Oh the wind and the rain and the salt and the spray have all captured my soul for a year and a day
2. Came in from the city, walked in through the door
Japanese...
Japanese...
3. She takes another step; slowly she opens the door
no lyrics...
4. I see trees of green, red roses too
5. It's only when I lose myself in someone else that I find myself
no lyrics...
6. I am lost - the footprints that I left have disappeared
7. She sits alone, waiting for suggestions
8. Gettin' born in the state of Mississippi
no lyrics...
Japanese...
repeat artist...
repeat artist...
no lyrics...
German...
9. Well outside my window there's a whole lotta trouble comin'
no lyrics...
Spanish...
10. I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
11. Memories consume - like opening the wound, I'm picking me apart again
12. This is me for forever, one of the lost ones
no lyrics...
Japanese...
13. I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
14. We dared to ask for more, but that was long before the nights began to burn
no lyrics...
no lyrics and repeat artist...
German...
15. Hello me - meet the REAL me
Stolen from/tagged bytangerine_haze
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
I'm doing something different than I usually would, here, and linking to videos instead of providing downloads. Except for #2 and #4, which I couldn't find on YouTube. Those're downloads. By all means, if anybody wants any of these others, let me know and I'll get them available. It's just that I've been sitting on this post for long enough that I've revised the song-list twice already waiting until I 'have the time' to upload them all, and I'm simply not getting to it. So I'll get around it. ^_^;
1. Assemblage 23 - Damaged A beautifully upward-looking melancholy sort of thing showcasing heavy influence of bands like Depeche Mode and The Cure on Tom Shear. I love the fact that even though he's singing about being damaged and weary and all, it's not terribly angsty - it's very much a 'Give me something to fight for and I can pull through this' type of exploration. I've had this on repeat a lot since I bought the album. It's just an awesome song. I'm also quite stuck on the track that follows it, Madman's Dream. Also shows that DM/Cure-type influence, and has a sound that I find reminiscent of a lot of the 80s new-wave electro-goth songs/bands that specifically escape me at the moment. With a vaguely more industrial edge. I bought A23's 2007 album Meta recently, see, and these two just grab the hell out of me.
2. Hoshi Souichirou & Ishida Akira - Dancin' For Your Number I had acquired this some time back, mostly on account of it having Ishida Akira listed, but only recently 'discovered' it (it's easy for things to get buried in 5000-ish tracks). It's...it reminds me stylistically of the late 80's pop-rap fusion stuff that was all over the place when I was in 6th and 7th grade, when we had school parties at the roller rink and the Ghostbusters Theme was the nightly highlight. This throws me back to that, just a little. It's...cute is the word that comes to mind, which is mostly Hoshi-san's doing. The vocal stylings bring to mind any number of Minekura's Goku-in-plainclothes depictions. I actually like this better than most of the songs he sings as Goku, in fact. Ishida-san's breathy-whispered supporting vocals here and there underneath have very little to do with it. Really. *cough* And if you buy that, I got this bridge out in Brooklyn what might tempt your wallet...
3. Kane - Rain Down On Me I originally came by this via the Tiesto remix that was included as part of an FST someone put together for Heat Guy J. It began and ended very abruptly, though, sounded like it had been recorded off the radio, perhaps, which sent me to Limewire in search of a fuller copy. I ended up backtracking all the way to the un-mixed song, and I really kind of like it. It's not hard rock or soft rock or metal or anything, just...plain old rock, and a relatively good listen.
4. Everything But the Girl vs Spiller - Missing Groove This is a mash-up of Missing by Everything But the Girl and something else that I've only become familiar with via this mashup. I liked 'Missing' quite a lot back when I used to listen to the radio and there was a station that played it with a fair amount of regularity. This is the sort of mash-up that's taken the vocal track from that song and paired it with the musical backing of the other song, and it works really really well. It's a very cool, melodic-mellow groove.
5. Jesse Cook - Quadukka-I-Mayyas Mr. Cook is a jazz/new-age guitarist with a distinctly flamenco bent. When one is in the right mood for it, it's really really good stuff. The album this one comes from adds some exploration of Middle-Eastern-type musical elements and sensibilities. This song is quite lively, and an interesting listen. It has vocals, also, where most of his stuff doesn't. I don't know what language it is, but I'm inclined to guess it's something in an Egyptian or Arabic or otherwise Middle-Eastern vein. The linked video also includes the 'Prelude' track that precedes this on the album.
6. David Arkenstone - Fire and Water This video doesn't take the song all the way through; please holler if it strikes your fancy enough to want the whole thing. This is one of those pieces that catches the ear immediately on first listen and ends up looped on repeat several times throughout the weeks following. Or at least that's how it was for me. I bought the album nearly a year ago, even, and this one still keeps coming up as Good Stuff. It's a...a...it's this lovely ethereal sort of foreboding ambience that flows into liquid melody twisting up and around a darker urgency and low-rolling sense of power and awe, a sort of brief consummatory meeting of creation and destruction all at once. Within the context of its album, it's meant to convey the decline of Atlantean civilization and the sinking of the city itself. Seeing as how I don't always take music in context, however, it reminds me quite strongly of that one fic byciceqi. Not in that it would actually work as the music in the fic - it's a little too far west; the feel is more Mediterranean than India - but in that it evokes a similar elemental interpretive energy as the way that Coyo describes her dancers. Konzen to an extent, yes, but Kanzeon especially - probably because hers is specified as a dance of fire and water. Imagine that.
7. Def Leppard - Paper Sun This is only a few years old, but it's got...well, see, Def Leppard is one of those bands that even as they mature and their sound/skill is tempered by their longevity, they still have an unmistakably unique sound. It doesn't sound like 'classic' Def Leppard in that it's not likely to be mistaken for 80's hard rock or hair metal, but it does sound exactly like Def Leppard should sound. If I'm making sense. *waves hands* Anyway. I recently picked up a couple albums they've put out in the last decade, and this is the song that's standing out most to me. It's not like it's a great song, or an amazing song, just a song that I find myself liking. The AMV had added another layer of liking. Also, it reminds me of recent thoughts on Byakugan vs. Bakugan, but that's another subject for another time entirely, as is my burgeoning desire for good Naruto fic recs.
8. Rammstein - Du Riechst So Gut It seems I'm forever coming back to some Rammstein tune or other, and this video is pretty memorable in a supernatural-lusty sort of way. Plus it's just an awesome song. Chorus pings my xenokink buttons in all the right ways (the title translates to 'You smell so good', btw). ^_^
Er, yeah, so it's more than seven. Whatever, eh? 8 has always been my favorite number anyway, and bonuses are generally a good thing. If you'd like to do it, consider yourself tagged.
And...here, what the hell. Have a listen to my current music, too. Wherein Chester commits copious abuses against his lovely voice in the name of conveying all the anger and self-loathing absent from the first song on the list.
Stolen from
jibii1. Put your music player on "random." Skip songs with not-very interesting titles (such as "Concerto #4 in E minor") (I'll skip non-English and unpronounceable titles too)
2. List the titles of the first 25 songs to come up.
3. Put "in my pants" after each title.
4. Bold the ones that actually made you laugh
1. The iron sea in my pants
2. Criminal mind in my pants
3. I just want you to love me in my pants
4. Nightmare in my pants
5. Countdown to extinction in my pants
6. Vanilla in my pants
7. Stranded in paradise in my pants
8. Fragrance in my pants
9. I like it in my pants
10. Lost & damned in my pants
11. Forever dancing in my pants
12. Drink or die in my pants
13. Recruiting sargeant in my pants
14. Business in my pants
15. Homesick in my pants
16. Better than you in my pants
17. Beautiful in my pants
18. Love's a loaded gun in my pants
19. Cinnamon girl in my pants
20. We didn't start the fire in my pants
21. Precious in my pants I laugh mostly on account of an old GW fic I wrote...
22. Star Trekkin' in my pants
23. Cherry in my pants
24. What a good boy in my pants
25. Nuttin' but love in my pants
Also stolen from
jibiiStep 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 15 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is cheating.
Step 5: If you like the game post in your own journal.
Skipping instrumentals and non-English; also skipping repeats of artists because I feel like it.
1. Oh the wind and the rain and the salt and the spray have all captured my soul for a year and a day
2. Came in from the city, walked in through the door
Japanese...
Japanese...
3. She takes another step; slowly she opens the door
no lyrics...
4. I see trees of green, red roses too
5. It's only when I lose myself in someone else that I find myself
no lyrics...
6. I am lost - the footprints that I left have disappeared
7. She sits alone, waiting for suggestions
8. Gettin' born in the state of Mississippi
no lyrics...
Japanese...
repeat artist...
repeat artist...
no lyrics...
German...
9. Well outside my window there's a whole lotta trouble comin'
no lyrics...
Spanish...
10. I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
11. Memories consume - like opening the wound, I'm picking me apart again
12. This is me for forever, one of the lost ones
no lyrics...
Japanese...
13. I've never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
14. We dared to ask for more, but that was long before the nights began to burn
no lyrics...
no lyrics and repeat artist...
German...
15. Hello me - meet the REAL me
Stolen from/tagged by
tangerine_hazeList seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
I'm doing something different than I usually would, here, and linking to videos instead of providing downloads. Except for #2 and #4, which I couldn't find on YouTube. Those're downloads. By all means, if anybody wants any of these others, let me know and I'll get them available. It's just that I've been sitting on this post for long enough that I've revised the song-list twice already waiting until I 'have the time' to upload them all, and I'm simply not getting to it. So I'll get around it. ^_^;
1. Assemblage 23 - Damaged A beautifully upward-looking melancholy sort of thing showcasing heavy influence of bands like Depeche Mode and The Cure on Tom Shear. I love the fact that even though he's singing about being damaged and weary and all, it's not terribly angsty - it's very much a 'Give me something to fight for and I can pull through this' type of exploration. I've had this on repeat a lot since I bought the album. It's just an awesome song. I'm also quite stuck on the track that follows it, Madman's Dream. Also shows that DM/Cure-type influence, and has a sound that I find reminiscent of a lot of the 80s new-wave electro-goth songs/bands that specifically escape me at the moment. With a vaguely more industrial edge. I bought A23's 2007 album Meta recently, see, and these two just grab the hell out of me.
2. Hoshi Souichirou & Ishida Akira - Dancin' For Your Number I had acquired this some time back, mostly on account of it having Ishida Akira listed, but only recently 'discovered' it (it's easy for things to get buried in 5000-ish tracks). It's...it reminds me stylistically of the late 80's pop-rap fusion stuff that was all over the place when I was in 6th and 7th grade, when we had school parties at the roller rink and the Ghostbusters Theme was the nightly highlight. This throws me back to that, just a little. It's...cute is the word that comes to mind, which is mostly Hoshi-san's doing. The vocal stylings bring to mind any number of Minekura's Goku-in-plainclothes depictions. I actually like this better than most of the songs he sings as Goku, in fact. Ishida-san's breathy-whispered supporting vocals here and there underneath have very little to do with it. Really. *cough* And if you buy that, I got this bridge out in Brooklyn what might tempt your wallet...
3. Kane - Rain Down On Me I originally came by this via the Tiesto remix that was included as part of an FST someone put together for Heat Guy J. It began and ended very abruptly, though, sounded like it had been recorded off the radio, perhaps, which sent me to Limewire in search of a fuller copy. I ended up backtracking all the way to the un-mixed song, and I really kind of like it. It's not hard rock or soft rock or metal or anything, just...plain old rock, and a relatively good listen.
4. Everything But the Girl vs Spiller - Missing Groove This is a mash-up of Missing by Everything But the Girl and something else that I've only become familiar with via this mashup. I liked 'Missing' quite a lot back when I used to listen to the radio and there was a station that played it with a fair amount of regularity. This is the sort of mash-up that's taken the vocal track from that song and paired it with the musical backing of the other song, and it works really really well. It's a very cool, melodic-mellow groove.
5. Jesse Cook - Quadukka-I-Mayyas Mr. Cook is a jazz/new-age guitarist with a distinctly flamenco bent. When one is in the right mood for it, it's really really good stuff. The album this one comes from adds some exploration of Middle-Eastern-type musical elements and sensibilities. This song is quite lively, and an interesting listen. It has vocals, also, where most of his stuff doesn't. I don't know what language it is, but I'm inclined to guess it's something in an Egyptian or Arabic or otherwise Middle-Eastern vein. The linked video also includes the 'Prelude' track that precedes this on the album.
6. David Arkenstone - Fire and Water This video doesn't take the song all the way through; please holler if it strikes your fancy enough to want the whole thing. This is one of those pieces that catches the ear immediately on first listen and ends up looped on repeat several times throughout the weeks following. Or at least that's how it was for me. I bought the album nearly a year ago, even, and this one still keeps coming up as Good Stuff. It's a...a...it's this lovely ethereal sort of foreboding ambience that flows into liquid melody twisting up and around a darker urgency and low-rolling sense of power and awe, a sort of brief consummatory meeting of creation and destruction all at once. Within the context of its album, it's meant to convey the decline of Atlantean civilization and the sinking of the city itself. Seeing as how I don't always take music in context, however, it reminds me quite strongly of that one fic by
ciceqi. Not in that it would actually work as the music in the fic - it's a little too far west; the feel is more Mediterranean than India - but in that it evokes a similar elemental interpretive energy as the way that Coyo describes her dancers. Konzen to an extent, yes, but Kanzeon especially - probably because hers is specified as a dance of fire and water. Imagine that.7. Def Leppard - Paper Sun This is only a few years old, but it's got...well, see, Def Leppard is one of those bands that even as they mature and their sound/skill is tempered by their longevity, they still have an unmistakably unique sound. It doesn't sound like 'classic' Def Leppard in that it's not likely to be mistaken for 80's hard rock or hair metal, but it does sound exactly like Def Leppard should sound. If I'm making sense. *waves hands* Anyway. I recently picked up a couple albums they've put out in the last decade, and this is the song that's standing out most to me. It's not like it's a great song, or an amazing song, just a song that I find myself liking. The AMV had added another layer of liking. Also, it reminds me of recent thoughts on Byakugan vs. Bakugan, but that's another subject for another time entirely, as is my burgeoning desire for good Naruto fic recs.
8. Rammstein - Du Riechst So Gut It seems I'm forever coming back to some Rammstein tune or other, and this video is pretty memorable in a supernatural-lusty sort of way. Plus it's just an awesome song. Chorus pings my xenokink buttons in all the right ways (the title translates to 'You smell so good', btw). ^_^
Er, yeah, so it's more than seven. Whatever, eh? 8 has always been my favorite number anyway, and bonuses are generally a good thing. If you'd like to do it, consider yourself tagged.
And...here, what the hell. Have a listen to my current music, too. Wherein Chester commits copious abuses against his lovely voice in the name of conveying all the anger and self-loathing absent from the first song on the list.
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Date: 2008-03-26 05:57 am (UTC)We didn't start the fire in my pants made me laugh so hard! XD
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Date: 2008-03-27 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-03-27 03:20 am (UTC)#4 is indeed What a Wonderful World, and I can't guarantee that Nat King Cole never sang the song, but it's not him. ^_^
...please pardon me while I molest your icon. ^_^;
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Date: 2008-03-27 04:11 am (UTC)*head desk* I'm such a bad girl. I had to look them up. Those two songs were bugging the heck out of me. Now that I know I feel like smacking myself and saying well, duh!
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Date: 2008-03-28 03:39 am (UTC)And I know what you mean. Seems every time I see someone else do this meme, there's something on their list that I can't quite identify but it'll stick in my head for days before I figure it out or look it up. ^_^;
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Date: 2008-03-26 06:42 am (UTC)4. What a wonderful world.
13. Lady in red.
15. Some Megadeth song, I think...
Akira Ishida's whispering is .... mmmgnhhgs... the Gojyo in my head gets sooooo.... gfff...
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Date: 2008-03-27 03:17 am (UTC)And Yesssss. *_*
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Date: 2008-03-26 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-27 03:18 am (UTC)