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I am taking a leaf from
octopedingenue's book and saying: my shiny new 30-gig iPod only has like 4 gigs of mp3s on it! This unfortunate state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue!
(I have incredibly eclectic tastes ranging from electronica to J-rock to classical to world music to folk, so it'd be useless to attempt to explain what sort of things I like. Just send me examples of things *you* like - I don't get introduced to new music and new groups otherwise.)
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(I have incredibly eclectic tastes ranging from electronica to J-rock to classical to world music to folk, so it'd be useless to attempt to explain what sort of things I like. Just send me examples of things *you* like - I don't get introduced to new music and new groups otherwise.)
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Ahh, fanpushing.
Here, here is Jay Chou (http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1EP507IGN5SRW3EN2KD5GEKYK1). My favorite singer *ever*. To this day, I still refuse to forgive a friend for introducing me to his music the week *after* I came back from vacation in Beijing, because had she done it *before* I went, I could have bought all his CDs dirt cheap instead of paying import prices, which I did.
Jay is...well, OK. He wrote a song about Orcs. No lie, *Orcs*. And somehow...it is *really fuckin' cool*. He did the same with a song about being on the school ping-pong team. By all definitions, those songs should be extraordinarily lame, and yet...really damn cool. He used midi in the Orc song and the sound of a ping-pong ball being hit for a beat in the ping-pong song. And it's...cool. I mean, he writes songs about Orcs. And ping-pong players. And basketball. And Italian mobsters. And domestic violence. And rice paddies. And...yeah. Cracked out.
His music is all over the place, ranging from the dark and disturbing (Ba wo hui lai le, Nuo fu) to the sad and depressing (An jing, Kai bu liao kou) to the sweet and happy (Jian dan ai, Qi li xiang, ta da jie mao) to the just plain cool (wan mei zhu yi, Zhi zhan zhi shang, Yi fu ming zi) the "...Jay, put down the crack pipe" (ren zhe [ninja], wo de di pan).
Plus the "Jay, get a new lyricist" songs, but we don't need to get into that. XD
Anyway, here is a zip of the Best of Jay. There are, um, a lot. Because Jay is eclectic. Plus, he can rap in Chinese, and dude, that's godly.
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And a rundown of sorts:
The Orc song - Ban shou ren (The Orcs)
The ping-pong song - 3 nian 2 ban (3rd Year, 2nd Class)
The pick-up basketball song - Dou niu (Bullfight)
The Italian mobster song - Yi fu zhi ming (In the Name of the Father)
The domestic violence song - Ba wo hui lai le (Dad, I've Come Home)
The rice paddy song - Ti tian (Terraced fields)
The ninja song where Jay randomly breaks out into Japanese - Ren zhe (Ninja)
Recommended first listening songs, though, are:
Long juan feng ("Tornado," and this was one of his earliest big hits)
Dui bu qi ("Sorry")
Ba wo hui lai le (Jay rapping in the disturbing song about a kid wanting his father to never hit his mom again. Whee.)
An jing ("Silence")
Ren zhe (...OMG, *crack*)
But those five should give you a sample of the different styles Jay runs through.
...um, I'm going to stop being a scary fangirl now, and go to bed.
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Although it never would have occurred to *anyone* that the future included Chinese pop songs about Orcs.
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Really, no one ever sees *that* one coming.