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I’m just finally finishing up the Yakuza Papers series by Kinji Fukasaku, and I can’t get that damn hummable theme song out of my head, even though it’s not available on CD, as far as I know. Today’s Song of the day, therefore, can only be a cover of it by the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
I picked something groovy for the Song of the Day today. It needs little introduction, and there’s little to say because people talk very little about this track from that particular album. From Daft Punk’s 2001 album Discovery, it’s Something About Us.
I picked something groovy for the Song of the Day today. It needs little introduction, and there’s little to say because people talk very little about this track from that particular album. From Daft Punk’s 2001 album Discovery, it’s Something About Us.
Today’s Song of the Day is chosen not because it’ san OK song, but because of its surprising quality. I had no interest in American model Leah Dizon’s “musical” career in Japan previously, but I randomly ran into this MTV and was pleasantly surprised. It’s her first single “Softly.”
Too bad she doesn’t quite pull off the falsetto live. Time to work on that voice a little bit.
Today’s Song of the Day is chosen not because it’ san OK song, but because of its surprising quality. I had no interest in American model Leah Dizon’s “musical” career in Japan previously, but I randomly ran into this MTV and was pleasantly surprised. It’s her first single “Softly.”
Too bad she doesn’t quite pull off the falsetto live. Time to work on that voice a little bit.
I’ve heard today’s song a few times on the radio, but the traffic jam on the road today really made me listen to it. Then I realize how much of a personal connection it has to my personal life (not that I have a separate public life). I don’t let these Songs of the Day show much attachments to me, but I can’t really avoid it with this one. In fact, I was a little disappointed that it’s not based on a true story. From the Plain White T’s album All That We Needed, it’s “Hey There Delilah.”
I came across today’s Song of the Day by pure coincidence. I was doing a bit of shopping in a mall in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district that was famous for cheap CDs and DVDs, and I walked into a very narrow second-hand CD/DVD shop not unlike its counterparts in Mongkok. What was strange was that the storeowner was playing this song on repeat. I had thought he was trying out the CD or using it as some kind of audio reference material. Either way, I kind of liked the song anyway, so I thought nothing of it. However, I went back again on another day, and the owner is yet again playing this song, which either gives me the impression that he must play it whenever he’s in the shop, or he just happened to played the song again at that exact moment. I’ll find out in about a month when I return to the shop.
In spirit of the Japanese film Densen Uta, today’s Song of the Day is the infamous Hungarian suicide song “Gloomy Sunday.”
DISCLAIMER: DESPITE THE CLAIM OF THIS SONG’S EFFECT BEING ONLY PART OF FALSE URBAN LEGENDS, THE GOLDEN ROCK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY HARM THAT MIGHT COME FROM LISTENING TO THIS SONG.
This is the more depressing version of the English lyrics by Desmond Carter, sung by Diamanda Galas. She gets the facts a little twisted here, but the point is to listen to the song, not her version of history.
And here is the more optimistic version of the English lyrics by Sam Lewis, sung by Billie Holiday. I like the delivery better, despite the attempt to lighten up with the extra verse.
Today’s Song of the Day was kind of hinted when I didn’t put a link to one of the songs I mentioned in the Oricon charts. It was the number 2 song this past week, and now it’s the Golden Rock Song of the Day. From Ayaka, it’s “Jewelry Day.”
It’s also the theme song for the Japanese May-December romance Last Love
Today’s song of the day comes from the discovery of this website. Guess what? today’s song was the number one song in the UK on the day I was born. I can tell you what the number one song in the US was that day because I’ll never choose it as Song of the Day - it was Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got to Do With It.
Anyway, the number one song in the UK on the day I was born was George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” from Wham!’s Make it Big album. Now you might have an idea how old I am.
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