Category Archives: Music

… soothes the savage breast

Some Sammi

4 December 2008 – 5:14 pm +0800

The wonderful Sammi Cheng, singing “Forever Beauty” from the film Love On A Diet (check out her fat suit!):

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Dr. House is a (musical) genius!

20 November 2008 – 3:13 pm +0800

(þDiana Hsieh)

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One day on Amazon

10 July 2008 – 6:52 am +0800

Amazon’s MP3 store has a special, a steep discount on one album every day. And whoever’s choosing them seems to have excellent taste. Two days ago they put up Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage album for $0.99. I noticed it in time to snag it, but too late to advertise it to my [...]

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American Music, part three

4 July 2008 – 12:02 pm +0800

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“American Patrol”, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, 1 August 1939(!)
Happy Independence Day, everybody!

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American Music, part two

4 July 2008 – 7:53 am +0800

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“S’Wonderful”, Artie Shaw, recorded 9 January 1945

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American Music, Part One

3 July 2008 – 9:40 am +0800

“Tuxedo Junction”, by The Glenn Miller Orchestra:
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Upbeat (with no cynicism)

14 May 2008 – 11:14 am +0800

To make up for the previous post, here’s Sidney Bechet’s rendition of “Just Wild About Harry”:
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If Odeo is being wonky, which it seems to be at this moment, you can download the Vorbis file.

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Cold, Cold Heart

14 February 2007 – 12:57 pm +0800
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Superstar

14 February 2007 – 7:00 am +0800

More music for Valentine’s Day.
This is S.H.E.’s signature song, “Superstar”, and, while rocking rather hard, is a fairly romantic notion (the important part is in English).

(I know, the video’s lame, but the song is good, and you get to see Ella doing her “tough chick” deal.)

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Prettiest Eyes

14 February 2007 – 12:05 am +0800

Best. Love song. Ever.
And yes, this makes me think of Herself. Of course.

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Halleleujah I love her so

13 February 2007 – 5:00 pm +0800

Ray Charles puts it like nobody else can:

This one is (again) for Herself. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Thank you

13 February 2007 – 11:05 am +0800

Herself once recommended this song to me, and now I’m posting it for her.
“Thank You” by Dido:

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My love, I will never go

12 February 2007 – 10:00 am +0800

A while ago I posted the video for my second favorite A Mei song.
This one is my favorite. The title translates as “Sunrise”, and it begins with a chant from traditional Mongolian folk music (or, if it’s not Mongolian, I’m sure Viola will correct me).

The video is taken from VCD, and is thus muddy [...]

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Yu Jian by Stefanie Sun

3 February 2007 – 2:16 pm +0800

This is the theme song to one of my favorite movies, Turn Left, Turn Right, and is quite a lovely song:

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Ahhhhhh, A-Mei!

21 December 2006 – 10:25 am +0800

Here’s the video for probably my favorite A-Mei song, “Chen Shou”1. The video is static and not that great2, and A-Mei is sporting a not-so-flattering hairdo3.
But the song remains wonderfully upbeat. (It loads really slowly here in China; hope it’s better for all youse guys everywhere else.)
I think it translates as “Holding Hands”, [...]

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