Here we are, Section Five! It really took me a long time to get around to posting this, but I've been assembling many songs, links and photos for you to drool over enjoy, so please join me- ( behind this clever cut ) And don't forget to dive into Sections 1, 2, 3 & 4!

As foretold in days of old, here is Section 4 of the EVER GROWING PILE
( behold the power of my awesome dialup connection! ) See also Sections 1, 2, 3 & 5

p.s. I love to read your comments, I really, REALLY do. Everybody says that, and that’s because it’s true.

Hello again, my friends! Section 4 is on the way, but for now it gives me great pleasure to bring you: ( Section 3! ) Please take songs, leave friendly comments, and don't forget to dive into Section 1, Section 2, Section 4 & Section 5

Welcome to An Ever Growing Pile Of Songs. Songs-so-many/pile-so-big... must download, then comment... *is hopeful* The original song pile became TOO BIG for Live Journal to process without error, so I guess I’ll have to split it up into sections...
( Section 2! ) And don't forget to dive into Section 1, 3 & 5

phantastic pho50 just posted a lovely cover of this song, but this version is nice also:



(Written by Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield. Performed by Emerson, Lake & Palmer with full orchestra at Olympic Stadium, Montreal, 1977. By the way, that's K. Emerson playing the accordion)

Welcome to An Ever Growing Pile Of Songs! I occasionally post to pretty_music and audiography but these songs may not necessarily fit with their respective formats. So I'll put them here, and see what happens. Go ahead, try something new! Please comment because I enjoy this shared love of music, and I'd really like to read your comments. Anyway, I have a dialup connection, so just a few single songs. Buy albums to support the artists/delete songs after 4.5 listenings/be kind to small animals/don't drink cheap domestic beer/yada, yada, yada... The pile became TOO BIG for Live Journal to process without error, so I guess I'll have to split it up into sections...
( Section 1! ) And don't forget to dive into Section 2, 3 & 4!

What is up with Canada?
Allowing Claude 'gutless puke' Lemieux and Tie 'melonhead' Domi to manhandle their beautiful, delicate figure skaters:


o_0
Emilie Simon-To The Dancers On The Ice
Zwei-Ice Breaker
bonus song for awesomeness: Zwei-Dragon

Hey guys, guess what? My brother Ben and his wife Jen had their first child a few days ago!!
Say hello to Benjamin:



This calls for some music:
polyABC-Benjamin
Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer-I Owe You (something for your birthday)
Altered Images-Happy Birthday

This is usually Sharon's area of expertise, but I just couldn't resist...
From a fashion show in Beijing:

'Time' for some tunes:
Nick Drake-At The Chime Of A City Clock
clammbon-Good Time Music
clammbon-Time Limit
Alan Parsons Project-Time
Chicago-Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is

From me and scully:

( more pictures, many scary songs and candy behind the cut )

Hey, look who 'friended'* me on YouTube:


She just started her own YT channel to promote her music and the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) concept. [*If you commented/favorited a Long Kuan or Long Kuan Jiu Duan video, you may be getting an invite also, lol.]
=)
Highly recommended if you like Carrchy or Yu Fei Men. Ethereal indie rock tinged with electronica: Long Kuan Jiu Duan-I Like Tricky Music
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www.lohas.com/
www.youtube.com/user/lohasqueen
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Houston, TX...

songs:
King's X-Far Away
RSR-Rip The Universe
Eisley-Laughing City
Quinn-Astronauts
Rush-Camera Eye
Spacehog-Mungo City
Spooky Tooth-Higher Circle
Steely Dan-King Of The World

European dairy farmers are protesting falling milk prices in Brussels at the E.U. Headquarters:

Darfur refugees trying to remember what milk tastes like:

songs:
Milk@Coffee-Outer space cake
milk@coffee-Beautiful Fragment
milk@coffee-Thank You
XTC-Love On A Farmboy’s Wages
Gentle Giant-Inside Out
Barbie Almalbis-Money For Food
Jethro Tull-Cup of Wonder
( Pass the word and pass the lady and pass the plate to all who hunger. And pass the wit of ancient wisdom, pass the Cup of Crimson Wonder )

trying out the camera in my new phone...

Kahimi Karie-I am a kitten

Screw baseball...


Hockey Music:
NY Rangers Goal Celebration Song
Hockey Night In Canada Theme
LET'S GO RANGERS!

I think it was the lovely pho50* from over at the awesome more_cmusic who turned me on to Zhong Chi. [Trip-rock, band + electronica, with lyrics sung in English. Similar to the mellower, 'trippier' things by The Gathering]
Here is a clip from the cd release gig, very cool presentation:

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Here's the studio version of Easy World song, because you love, need it, can't live without it:
Zhong Chi-Easy World
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clicking on these pics will magically make them larger:

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*Pho50, I searched for your entry about Zhong Chi, but I couldn't find it. (It was you that posted about Zhong Chi? Or am I losing my mind?)

this is how I felt the other day when 4Shared.com got hacked:

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How about a Cantonese (?) cover of a fun song by Shocking Blue called Inkpot:
[You haven't lived until you've heard a Chinese girl sing, 'Shoo-bee-doo-wa']

Pixel Toy-夏春秋 ('Summer Shunju' - I'm not sure about this Google translation)



( behind the cut is the original video for Inkpot along with the lyrics. And the video for the Pixel Toy )

[that was just a quick pick-me-up to anyone who needed it]
=)

I uploaded this a while back but never got around to posting. Anyway, the band UK was a progressive rock 'supergroup', kind of an all-star group of musicians who were already well known from their previous bands. They did two studio and one live album. Long and complicated instrumental passages, virtuosic playing, little chance of a hit single, lol!
UK-The Only Thing She Needs From their second album (Danger Money) the band were now a trio: Eddie Jobson on keyboards/violin, John Wetton on bass/vocal and Terry Bozzio on drums)
Eddie Jobson gets a real workout on this 8 minute song; plenty of organ, piano and synthesizer.

bonus: UK-Nevermore (This features the original UK members: Allan Holdsworth on guitar, Bill Bruford on drums along with Jobson and Wetton.)
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Who might like UK? (the following is a bit tongue-in-cheek)
1. you loved John Wetton, the singer for Asia, but you thought their music was way too simple and commercial.
2. you loved Terry Bozzio's drumming in Missing Persons, but really didn't like his wife's squeaky voice.
3. you refused to listen to Yes after drummer Bill Bruford quit the band. ;-)
4. you think the guitar playing in progressive rock really ought to be a lot jazzier. ;-)
5. you just love a band where the keyboard player gets equal opportunity to hog the spotlight as a guitar player.

... between a 16 ounce beer and a 12 ounce beer.
King's X-The difference
D'oh.
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on a related note, my Mets lost to the Astros tonight, 5-4.
=(

p.s. they had a fireworks display after the game. (apparently they do this at Minute Maid Park every Friday home game during the season!)
I took several pictures with my shitty camera phone, and perhaps I'll add upload them for your ridicule in the next day or so...

And may I suggest some (kinda) related tunes:
Deep Purple-Space Truckin’
We had a lot of luck on Venus, We always had a ball on Mars
Meeting all the groovy people, We've rocked the Milky Way so far
We danced around with Borealice, We're space truckin' round the the stars
Come on, let's go Space Truckin'
Remember when we did the moonshot, And Pony Trekker led the way
We'd move to the Canaveral moonstomp, And every 'naut would dance and sway
We got music in our solar system, We're space truckin' round the stars
Come on, let's go Space Truckin'
The fireball that we rode was moving, But now we've got a new machine
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah the freaks said, 'Man those cats can really swing
They got music in their solar system, They rock around the Milky Way
They dance around the Borealice, They're Space Truckin' everyday'
Come on, let's go Space Truckin'
A Flock of Seagulls-Space Age Love Affair
Freezepop-Outer Space
Milk@Coffee-Outer space cake
Ni Hao!-Space
Spacehog-In The Meantime
Spacehog-Mungo City
Astrud Gilberto-Fly Me To The Moon
Cat Stevens-Moonshadow
Dream Theater-Under A Glass Moon
EL&P-Black Moon
Genesis-Dancing with the Moonlight Night
Kokia-Moonlight Shadow

just some random happy songs:
PFM-Celebration
Speena-Raspberry Sauce
Swing Out Sister-Break out
Yumi Shizukusa-Wonderful World (cover)
Maaya Sakamoto-Shima Shima
Akiko Kanazawa-Yellow Submarine (cover)
And here's a song I heard on the jukebox at my parent's restaurant about a thousand times: Turtles-Happy Together

My upstairs neighbor is tossing stuff off of his patio/balcony. o_0
Is he: Moving out? Making a dumpster run? Mad at his possessions? Going insane?
I hope he's not angry like this character:

Pat Travers-Crash and Burn
Crash And Burn Pat Travers
Well some see this life as nothing more than pain
It's pay out this and line up here, it's all just too insane
And I feel the blues are coming down like rain
My feelings are so complicated I wish I could explain
Turn into words, the way I feel
I know I really need someone, and I need something that's real
But we can't stop this world from its... Crash and Burn

Loneliness becomes a way of life
And you turn off your tv set to shut out all the strife
But there are things that help to ease the pain
You make that call he guarantees to paralyze your brain
Turn into dreams, the way you feel
You know it's really all you need to pretend that it's real
But we can't stop this world from its Crash and burn

... but last Saturday happened to be the 4th of July.


(you can't see me, but somewhere in the lower right hand corner, I'm strumming a guitar)
A few mellow tunes:
Deep White-Fireworks (Hua Huo)
Misty Blue-Fireworks, 8 o'clock in August
Valen Hsu-Return After Watching the Fireworks (Kan wan yan huo zai hui qu)
The Gathering-Sleepy Buildings
Jean-Luc Ponty-Cosmic Messenger

I don't even own a bicycle, but I'm glued to the Versus network daily coverage of this thing. They do such a great job of explaining all the team strategies and functions, like how riders rotate places so each guy can get a break in the 'slipstream'. When they eat, (little bags of goodies are handed to them a couple of times along the route) the (flunky) riders that drop back to support vehicles for water, loading up for the other members of the team.
If a rider has a flat tire or mangles his bike, they just pull up in a car and make repairs or give him a new bike. Quick! And oh yes, the crashes.
Some related songs, then:
Shonen Knife-Cycling Is Fun
Peppertones-Bike
Naivepop or Petitfool-Bicycle Race
( Cute Shonen Knife lyrics behind the cut )

(click to enlarge)

Je Ne Sais Quoi-We make beginnings
Beatles-Revolution
Velcra-My Law
Steely Dan-Night By Night
polyABC-Emergency Solar Still
Dixie Dregs-Divided We Stand

The drinks are on me:

Hmmmm... How about a French girl singing, "The night life, ain't no good life, but it's my life"
Camille-La Vie La Nuit (Night life cover)
Barkeep, gimme a drink:
Bonnie Pink-Farewell Alcohol River
Alkaline Trio-Take Lots With Alcohol
Gourds, The-Gin & Juice (cover)
Haley Bonar-Drinking Again
Nazareth-Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman

aka June 4th. Check it out:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-a-new-angle-on-history/?ref=global-home
Valen Hsu-Return After Watching the Fireworks (Kan wan yan huo zai hui qu)
arumimihifumi-Ji hao
Cao Fang-Two Weeks Holiday
Carrchy-Ri Guang Qin Cheng (Sunshine All Over The City)
ciacia-Famous
Faye Wong-Wai Fei Jok Dai (Making Ruins) (Sundays cover)

Hey, long time, no post! heh.
There is an accompanying article that goes with this photo from the NY Times. Click on the pic and you'll see the link in the comment.


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Unrelated in any way, other than these are all female-sung:
Tornado Tatsumaki-Butterfly
Long Kuan Jiu Duan-I Like Tricky Music
Beth Orton-She Cries Your Name (live)
Ayano Tsuji-Sakura no ki no shita de (Under the Cherry Blossoms)
Yumi Shizukusa-You’re My Life
Maaya Sakamoto-Shima Shima
Maaya Sakamoto-Bike (Yoko Kanno)

I have no earthly idea what it was that I just ate. hmm...
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In related news, I ordered takeout from the new Korean restaurant for the first time.
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How about a tasty selection of Korean bands:
Linus’ Blanket-Blanket Song
Linus’ Blanket-Walk
Loveholic-Magic
Misty Blue-Cherry
Misty Blue-Spring Fever
Peppertones-Bike
Peppertones-¿·µÁ µµΩ√¿« πÃ∑Œ
Yozoh-Banana Party

Annie Haslam-Turn Of The Century (Yes cover)
( lyrics behind the cut )
Lemme know if you would like the original Yes version. =)

As you may know, I long ago took an oath to share only songs with female singers. (not really, but that's generally how I roll)
Ayano Tsuji-Sakura no ki no shita de (Under the Cherry Blossoms)
ACO-Nothing Compares To U (cover)
Joey Yung-Crazy Singing
Pixel Toy-âƒètèH
Itou Kanako-Koutetsu Some Time (Steal Some Time)
Valen Hsu-Return After Watching the Fireworks (Kan wan yan huo zai hui qu)
Stefanie Sun Yan Zi-A Perfect Day
Soko-Take My Heart
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music envy mini mix
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the mix also has a spacy Supercar song called Strobolights (featuring bassist Miki Furukawa on vocal), and a very twee thing called Ally Ally Oxen Free, performed by BMX Bandits with adorable-precious-perfect YeonGene (my pretend Korean girlfriend) on vocals. There are also 2 mystery songs in the mix. You'll love them, because I love them.

I'm dedicating this post to the NY Mets, to the people who recently 'friended' me, and to my LJ friends whose recent birthdays I failed to acknowledge due to my being a schmuck. =)

Opening Day, 2009.

METS WIN!! YAY!!
Meet The Mets theme song
( Mets theme song lyrics behind the cut )

If the girl you really like calls you up unexpectedly to ask you out for lunch, and then you turn on espn just in time to see that your hockey team has finally won a game, does that mean it’s time to play the lottery?

=)
It's always time for music:
Soko-Take My Heart
Yumi Shizukusa-You’re My Life
Bird-Batucada
Tornado Tatsumaki-Road To Montreux
Tornado Tatsumaki-Snowflake

Chihiro Yamanaka-The Root Of The Light
Aiko Okumura-Metoronoomu
Aiko Okumura--Supaaku Ring Time

Adam Graves honored by the New York Rangers. A really good player on the ice, a great person off it. YAY!



LET'S GO RANGERS!

Some random songs, because i just took up room on your f-list:
Genesis cover: Kevin Gilbert-Back In NYC
Rowdy Rock: Pat Travers-Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)
Indie acoustic, female voc: Rilo Kiley-Go Ahead
Fast fingers: Steve Morse-Cut To The Chase
Heavy Dutch Rock: The Gathering-On Most Surfaces
I never knew German Girls could talk this fast: Wir Sind Helden-Guten Tag
Timeless Hippie music: Youngbloods-Right Now