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    May 1, 2011 / No Comments

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8l-9nuXkDo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]

    finally figured out what was bothering me about The Wombats. Matthew Murphy’s singing sometimes sound like the the way vocalists from emo band sound. Not saying they’re emo but sometimes when he’s hitting the high-notes…>.<  

    ok, maybe it’s just me -_-  

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    April 30, 2011 / No Comments

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_vq0lK3xo?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]

    可愛い!!!!!

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    April 30, 2011 / No Comments

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn6PuhUbO-E?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]

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    April 30, 2011 / No Comments

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUz3fLncTTs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=375]

    MTV used to play this only in the wee hours of the night. My sibling and I would stay up really late just so we could catch better music. Options were very limited back then because we don’t have internet.

    I miss the old days hanging out with my sibling, who’s one of the few who can really make me laugh.

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    April 29, 2011 / No Comments

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3y_48Kw50?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281]

    wow! julian is actually singing in this! and not just droning in his usual monotone or screaming his guts out or singing/not singing as only he could. having a feeling i’m gonna like this album better than the arctic monkeys’ new one.

    yay! yay! yay! go julian!

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    April 29, 2011 / 1 Comment

    Before Gaga, there was Daphne.

    *MaisonChaplin:http://maisonchaplin.blogspot.com

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    April 29, 2011 / No Comments

    So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it’s wallpaper to them, it’s elevator music, it’s just the thing that’s playing in the background that helps them through their day.

    Michael Stipe

    (from time when there was radio ;P)
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    April 27, 2011 / No Comments


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    Taken a rather belated liking to BRMC. They came out late 90’s at a time when the music scene was what I can put mildly as bleak. I heard their releases from the radio at that time and I was fascinated more by the band’s name although I got their songs playing in my head once in a while. I stopped buying CDs that time because of lack of funds and lack of albums worth buying. Frankly I despaired of all the crap metal at that time and lost  almost all interest in music. I recently just uploaded all their 6 studio albums in my mp3 player and I was able to listen to their songs properly. How apt that they came out with this song at that time when garage rock and (post)punk started to come back. And so I gave my heart to a simple chord and my soul anew to this religion, rock and roll.

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    Scratched Tapes 2

    April 26, 2011 / No Comments

    Here’s the rest of my cassette collection from way back when

    The Offspring – Smash 
    The Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre 
    Nirvana – Unplugged in New York 
    Nirvana – Nevermind 
    Nirvana – Bleach 
    Nirvana – Incesticide 
    Nirvana – In Utero 
    Harvey Danger – Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone 
    The Beautiful South – Blue is the Colour 
    Antonio Vivalde   
    Various Artists – Big Band Sounds   
    Mad about Puccini   
    20 Legendary Tenors   
    Mozart:Greatest Classic Composers 
    Mozart:Greatest Hits 
    Concerto pour une Jeune Fille Nomme je t’aime   
    the Best of Big Bands   
    The Best of Strauss   
    311 – 311   
    Jamiraquai – A Funk Odessey 
    Bujo Banton – Til Shiloh 
    Tonic – Tonic
    Marcy Playground – Shapeshifter 
    Beastie Boys – Ill Communication 
    Live – Throwing copper 
    Beck – Mutations 
    Coldplay – Parachutes 
    Groove Armada – Goodbye Country, Hello Night 
    Cake – Motorcade of Generosity 
    Primitive Radio Gods – Rockets   
    The Cure – Wild Mood Swings 
    Unbelievable Truth – Almost Here 
    Itchyworms – Little Monsters Under Your Bed 
    Sandwich – Grip Stand Throw 
    Eels – Electroshock Blues 
    Dogs Eye View – Happy Nowhere 
    Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go 
    Gigolo Aunts – Minor Chords and Major Themes 
    Seed – Ling   
    Fleming n John – The Way We Are 
    Ella Fitzgerald – Jazzmasters 
    Goldfinger – Stomping Ground 
    Enya – The Memories of Trees 
    Lorena Mckennit – The Book of Secrets 
    Oceania – Oceania    
    Enigma – The Screen Behind the Mirror 
    Enigma – MCMXC A.D 
    Deftones – Around the Fur 
    Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation 
    The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses  
    Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks   
    Popsicle – Abstinence 
    Pantera – Cowboys from Hell 
    The Beatles – 1967-1970 
    Bjork – Homogenic 
    Prodigy – Fat of the Land 
    Pan – Paraso ng Payaso 
    Domino – Fair Tales 
    Blue Jeans Junkies – Blue Jean Junkies   
    Mad About Baroque   
    Sublime – Second-hand Smoke 
    Angus OST   
    Thurston Moore – Psychic Hearts   
    311 – 311   
    Dambuilders   
    Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves 
    Motorhead – Bastards 
    Sonic Youth – Experimental, Jet-set, Trash and All-star 
    Sonic Youth – NYC Ghost and Flowers 
    Shonen Knife –  Happy Hour 
    Sonic Youth – Screaming Fields of Sonic Love 
    Sublime – SUblime   
    Sonic Youth – Washing Machine 
    Sonic Youth – Dirty 
    Kapatid – Kapatid   
    Ciccone Youth – The Whitey Album 
    Bjork – Telegram

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    Scratched Tapes

    April 8, 2011 / No Comments

    Went home to the province last month and poked around the house, checked my old stuff.  and i got into listing albums in my old tape collection which i started in hs. i was surprise that i actually had some albums i don’t think i would listen or even bother to remember now. well, at least i never got into the boybands or execrable acts like korn and their ilk so there’s not much to embarrass myself with.

    here’s the first part of my awesome awesome collection >_<

    (in no particular order)

    For Squirrels – Example   
    The Vines – The Vines     
    Rollins Band – Weight   
    REM – Up   
    Lightning Seeds – Pure   
    Tori Amos – Boys for Pele   
    Lightning Seeds – like you do   
    Radiohead – Kid A   
    Moulin Rouge OST
    STP – Core   
    Beatles – Yellow Submarine
    Bjork – Dancer in the Dark   
    Vanessa Mae – Violin Player   
    Smashing Pumpkins – Gish   
    Sugarcubes – Great Crossover Potential   
    Throwing Muses – University   
    Forest for the Trees – Forest for the Trees     
    Shiela and the Insects – Plastic Eye Static Mind   
    REM – Monster   
    Music from the X-files – OST     
    Beatles – Help   
    Beatles – Please Please Me   
    Radiohead – The Bends   
    Dave Mathews Band – Under the Table and Dreaming   
    Smoke City – Flying Away   
    Weezer – Blue Album   
    Club Ska 67 – Whine and Grine   
    STP – STP      
    Lucious Jackson – Fever In Fever Out   
    Dave Mathews Band – Crash   
    Gypsy Kings – Compass   
    Evita OST     
    Radioactive Sago     
    Lennon Tribute – Working Class Hero   
    Sugarhiccup – Womb   
    Smashing Pumpkins – Pisces Iscariot   
    Ciudad – Hello, How Are You Mico the Happy Bear   
    Muse – Origins of Symetry   
    Portishead     
    Sandwich – Grip Stand Throw   
    Cibo Matto – Stereotype A   
    Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dreams   
    Popsicle – Lacquer   
    Tori Amos – From the Choirgirl Hotel   
    Flaming Lips – Tranmissions from the Satellite Heart   
    Incubus – Science   
    Dead can Dance – Spirit Chaser   
    Astrud Gilberto – the Silver Collection   
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    Suburbia OST     
    STP – Tiny Music   
    Spawn – OST
    Kula Shaker     
    Various Artists – Twist of Jobim     
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