Music Videos to lighten your day
As promised, here’s that nutty version of Hokago Tea Time’s (K-ON!) “Don’t Say Lazy” done by Scandal with Shoko-tan. A cover of a 2D schoolgirl band done by a live schoolgirl band. My mind asplodes thinking about how awesome this is.
Surfing around YouTube last night because I was really, really, really wanting to hear more K-ON!. As you know how it goes, you find a video, then follow the related videos and follow and follow and follow. Next thing you know a couple of hours have gone out the window. Wait, I was looking for K-ON! covers and now I’m listening to “Diamond Cravasse” sung by Ranka and Sheryl (Megumi & May’n) accompanied by the great Yoko Kano. How’d that happen when a few videos back there was that awesome May’n cover of “God Knows?” And that SCANDAL cover of “Don’t Say You Are Lazy” with Shoko-tan? When are these going to be music breaks?
Don’t worry all in due time.
Anyhow, this is a sweet performance of “Diamond Cravasse” from Macross Frontier. Perhaps the best song from that anime. It’s usually sung by May’n but with the help of Ranka’s voice actress, Megumi-chan, a duet of great sadness. Hit me up in comments to show your appreciation. Count this song as number 7.6 in the “You Should Be Watching Anime” list.
A voyage back to yesteryear, Stephen Hyden goes back to his record collection in search of his youth, and as wee young lass growing up in America, liking music, and grasping for sounds that explain himself, he finds it in the alternative music of the 90s. Alt.90s if you will. From Nirvana through Alice In Chains he looks over the bands that made that era.
The funny thing is even if I had 10 years on him this was also the music I listened to as well. It was my pop music and reinforced who and what I was during that time. I spent the last hour reading all the way through to 1996, the latest article. It reminds me of good times.
http://www.avclub.com/features/whatever-happened-to-alternative-nation/
Alright! A spinning record for you and some rocksteady. Or can we call this reggae? Perhaps, but it still a little bit too fast for reggae riddims. Totally, digging it, but The Selecter do a cover that Pauline Black sings sweetly.
“Why? Why? ‘Ow me goin’ home tonight?”
Sway to the songs rhythm while at your desk. You’ll thank me later.
Let’s get some music up in this place starting with a little bit of Pauline Black and the Selecter covering The Specials AKA’s “Racist Friend.” If you search youtube for the title you’ll also get the original, but also They Might Be Giants’ song as well. They are not the same song.
More ska please. Less racism.
Get up and dance at your desk if you enjoy this…
Love this rendition. Poignant. Almost unrecognizable yet still Fuwa Fuwa Time. Her take on the chorus, the humming, reminds me of the final episode. Melancholy.
Every other day, my favorite Ho-kago Tea Time song changes. One day it’s “Fude Pen,” and another day I slip back to loving “Fuwa Fuwa Time.” Then I chase them down on YouTube to see how other folks interpret the songs.
Love this acoustic version of “No, Thank You!” that maybe, currently, at this moment, it’s my favorite. Oops! Just heard the piano arrangement of “Fuwa Fuwa Time.” Here we go again.
Who doesn’t like cute girls running around your computer screen in the morning? Is this better than coffee?
I had always thought that those asian girl groups where too big. I still do. You can barely tell the girls’ voices apart in this song. It’s tough to put faces to verses. They’re all starting to look the same: cute!
Korean always sounded harsh on my ears. Looking at these girls while they sing, now it doesn’t.
It’s animated!!!
Working that nostalgia trip after looking at these photos. This 311 song was on the soundtrack of that young dude’s life. Fourteen years but a million miles away.
