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Monday, 10:20 pm in Music

No, I haven’t forgotten.  IT’s Monday, so you know what that means?  That’s right, it’s time for Music Monday!

The point of Music Monday is simple; post five of your current favourite songs for other people to download and enjoy.  It’s musical, it’s piratical, it’s a veritable Pirates of Penzance.

Quoted From: Music Monday

The Zoobombs, “Tighten Rap”
The Zoobombs are an obscure Japanese band I’ve ironically never actually heard of inside the JPop scene.  Their song, “Tighten Rap”, plus another one I don’t remember the title of got a bit of airplay here in Oz back when I was in college, and I’ve even seen the videoclips on Channel [V].  This song is just kind of odd and funky, I dunno… I’m hopeless at explaining these things.  I’ve got no idea what the guy is singing; it’s cute.

The Dissociatives, “Somewhere Down the Barrel” (watch)
Where everyone’s a stranger
They call for you by your first name
And laugh at jokes you once made
When you were a kid
Somewhere down the barrel
Lies a bullet that i can’t keep
And in these waters i’m wading for a reason
Afterall, it’s in my head
Generally I try and bring you vaguely obscure or old or foreign songs with Music Monday, but today I’m breaking my own rule.  The Dissociatives are a reasonably popular Australian indie band; the lead singer had a grunge outfit back in the 90’s called silverchair (yes, small s) who were popular when I was in highschool. ‘The Chair’ eventually kind of imploded thanks to drugs and eating disorders and the usual, and a couple of years ago the Dissociatives popped up out of the ashes.  I adore this song – I sing loudly to it on repeat in my car – and it’s kind of Loki’s themesong in Corner, primarily because of the lyrics included above.

Robin Williams, Joan Cusack & Thomas Dolby, “The Mirror Song”
I always looked the same from every angle and never cast a shadow
That would change the way you thought about your very being
That what what you were seeing would always be
Would always be
Would always be the truth
When I was a kid I went through a phase where I was obsessed by the movie Toys.  You know, the one with Robin Williams and LL Cool J that everyone hates?  Anyway, there’s a scene in the film where Robin Williams and Joan Cusack have to get past a security guard.  They do it by using the ol’ mirror-in-front-of-the-camera-setting-up-a-stage-kicking-over-mirror-and-pretending-to-be-on-MTV trick.  You know the one.  Anyway, this is the song they sing.  I have ot admit I really have no idea who Thomas Dolby is, other than the fact that he did the theme song for The Fifth Element (“Little Light of Love”) with Peter Gabriel and he has a song called “She Blinded Me With Science”.  Nevertheless, I have loved this song nigh on ten years now; when I was a kid I used to watch the credits of Toys over and over again just to listen ot it, and in fact I transcribed out the lyrics (badly; I later came and corrected myself because I am a fucking dag).

Big Dumb Face, “Kali is the Sweethog”
There’s something in the heart of Lord Kali,
Kali lights the children’s heads on fire,
and causes disease to spread,
but Kali is out friend,
and Kali is the sweethog…
Mount the sweethog…
A random song I found on ~Mat [h]’s computer (I think he got it off ~braken [h]).  From the bunch of other Big Dumb Face songs I’ve heard, they’re one of those schreeching metal bands.  Except for this song.  You really just have to listen to it, I think…

Spacehog, “In the Meantime” (watch)
Well that sounds fine so Ill see you sunshine
Give my love to the future of the humankind
Okay, okay, its not okay.
I dunno is tajessa remembers this one, but we used to have a college radio thing back in, well, college.  It was pretty much just a couple of kids from the Radio course who’d go sit in a storeroom at lunchtimes and play CDs over the canteen’s PA.  There were very distinct ‘days’ – there was Rap day and Metal day, for example – but one day we got these kids we’d never heard before, who went and played, like, good songs.  This was one of the things they played; me and Taj had never heard it before, so we raced up to the guys, knocked on their storeroom door and asked what was playing.  That afternoon, I raced to Napster and grabbed the song, so here it is.  They just don’t make songs like this anymore…

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