(Song is four minutes long. The other 3:55 of video is skippable silence.)
Samael is a black metal band from Switzerland. On Earth is from their 2004 album Reign of Light. What first caught my attention was the way the singer enunciates "dancing" in the chorus. After that I was hooked on the bountiful joie de vivre. Upon further research, it turns out that their music as a whole makes great theme music for about half of my Nanowrimo novel. Better, their Myspace page is set up to continuously loop five songs, which makes writing flow even easier. Life is good. :)
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The most violent stuff I've written to date has been to the music of 鳳飛飛. Because the main character took his wife's iPod by mistake.
Hmmm... no idea who that is or what kind of music. But somehow I have a sneaking suspicion it's j-pop. ;)
Tawian pop from the 1970s.
I bet that your mother listened to at least some of these songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOHFsskRBjc
My mother watches a ton of Chinese opera. I suspect Taiwan pop is preferable to that. ;)
The only thing I can say about Chinese Opera is that I agree with P.J. O'Rourke's description of it.
Okay, I give up. What did P.J. O'Rourke say about it?
Something like that it sounds like a three-way collision between a truck full of feral cats, a truck full of parakeets, and a truck full of wind chimes.
"Asia is the continent that rhythm forgot," was the ending quote. Watching all the Taiwanese people waving their glow-sticks out-of-time to the music at a 鳳飛飛 concert makes my wife say that she can't see how the singer stays on-beat looking out at a sea of rhythm-challeged fans.
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