Title: Ye De Di Qi Zhang (Twilight's Chapter Seven)
Description: This song marks the return of Jay Chou numbers that we all know and larved (me, at least) - dark, dramatic, haunting and extremely beautiful. The opening strings and musicbox bit, raspy female vocals at the chorus, more violins throughout the song... yes he's back hoooooo~! Another cheer for melancholic songs, hooooo~!. I've always loved his fusion of rap and classical music, but this one beats them all hands and feet down.
Artist: Jay Chou
Title: Qian Li Zhi Wai (Faraway)
Description: The highly-acclaimed collaboration with Taiwanese veteran singer, Fei Yu Ching, whom by the way sounded every bit the classic Chinese crooner that I had pictured him out to be. For some reason though, Jay doesn't quite sound like himself in certain parts of the song; cos his voice appeared more high pitch and un-muffled - very much unlike himself. =.= But the song is really nice.... tis not an entirely new music concept for him, but I reckon a much polished version of his previous attempts.
Artist: Christina Aguilera
Title: I Got Trouble
Description: I never thought I'll say this, but Aguilera's latest album is... pretty good shit. The double disc? Pretty good shit. The first single off the album almost killed me, and the rest of the album completed the job. Think plenty of retro and vintage goodness - Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Monroe thrown into a big audio pot and spiced with everythin' 50's and 60's you can imagine. Pretty good shit, yes. Oh this track btw, is the one featured at the end of her "Ain't No Other Man" vid.
Artist: Teriyaki Boyz
Title: .....Fast and Furious?
Description: Yes I'm addicted to it. Go away.
Artist: Pink Floyd
Title: Wish You Were Here
Description: But to prove that I still have some dignity left, here's a Pink Floyd, bless my soul. I've posted countless covers of this up previously, but really nothing beats the superiority of the grand original. ^^ Ahh my emo song.
Artist: The Living End
Title: Prisoners of Society
Description: Avid Channel V watchers would probably recognize this song, as it was featured in one of the adverts, which I don't distinctively recall what was it supposed to be about, but it had a lot of people in an open field. A rock festival, I'm guessing. But yah anyway, tis a superfun and superhyper and supercracked song - go have some fun.
Artist: HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Title: Dive into Yourself
Description: I'm probably a billion years behind, but I've only recently discovered the joys of H&MC, and in fact by accident. If you fall under the same category as me - well, give this a shot. I don't think anyone would actually not like this song, unless of course if you only listen to slow and mellow stuff and nothing else but.
Artist: Suga Shikao
Title: Koko ni Iru Koto
Description: HONEY & CLOVER 2 INSERT TRACK. For non-anime peeps: very laidback, finger-snapping (quite literally in fact, if you listen carefully), chill-out, acoustic guitar by ocean breeze sort of song. And Shikao-san (Suga-san?)'s voice is just so ..... unbelievably smooth, for a guy.
Artist: Spitz
Title: Je T'Aime?
Description: ALSO A HONEY & CLOVER 2 INSERT TRACK. And ditto to everything else said above; except that this one is less finger-snapping, and more acoustic guitar + er hu (traditional Chinese strings instrument).
Artist: m-flo feat. TOKU DOUBLE
Title: Life is Beautiful
Description: We all need a bit of jazz in our lives, no? Of course we do.
Artist: Yoshika loves m-flo
Title: Let Go
Description: Everything about this song is beautiful - that's all I have to say. As of how I have a couple of 'must-download' tracks each rotation? Well this is one of them.
Artist: Everclear
Title: Heroin Girl
Description: Grunge lives. |m/
Artist: Jimmy Eat World
Title: The Middle
Description: Omg I've been searching for this song for years, AND I FINALLY FOUND YOU, YOU ELUSIVE JIMMY EAT WORLD, YOU. Gads I didn't even know it was a JEW track. =.= I heard it over radio many many years ago, and never got to finding out who sang it nor what the title was. Until about 2 hours ago, and I actually have the movie Zoom to thank for it. ^^ So something good did come out of that cheap flick after all, hoho.
Artist: Incubus ft. Big Pun
Title: Still Not A Player
Description: THIS SONG SO FUCKING OWNS AND I USUALLY HATE ROCK/RAP COLLABORATION, BUT THIS IS INCUBUS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, HENCE THE MIXING IS DEATHLY INSANE AND IT KICKASS IN EVERY RESPECT POSSIBLE.
Artist: Tackey and Tsubasa
Title: Ho! Summer
Description: Who would have thought there'll be a day that I'll listen to Tackey n Tsubasa, let alone post them up on my rotation....... =.= I think that just outcasted me from the jrock community for the rest of this lifetime, sigh. But it's a damn happee song, k? It's as summery as the track blatantly claims to be. And I miss my sun-sea-sand-and-boys beach vacation, so let me be. T.T
