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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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http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3R626QF3JIYA539F4QTPEVL939

Thanks! :D

It should tell you how bored I am that I keep sending you files... *eyes the open YouSendIt window* >.>;;;

You just seen my new friendslocked post? Same sort of thing. XD

Just sent you a file. It's a little on the big side. I couldn't decide what to send, so I sent a zip. Newfoundland music, but not the sort that most people run into (like Great Big Sea). Most of the bands in there haven't been heard of at all outside of Newfoundland, but are wildly popular here. =)

XD Thanks! I'm downloading it as we speak. Er, type.

So, I'll look at the SEKRIT PROJECT stuff later since I have to go, like, teach a class soon, but for now, I have Teh Music for you.

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.

This truly sounds like something that must not be missed. XD

*g* It really, really is.

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.

I've listened to some of them now, and you are right: utter crack. :) I love living in teh future where I can listen on a handheld player with more storage space than the computer I bought two years ago to Chinese pop songs about Orcs.

Although it never would have occurred to *anyone* that the future included Chinese pop songs about Orcs.

Although it never would have occurred to *anyone* that the future included Chinese pop songs about Orcs.

Really, no one ever sees *that* one coming.

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