I knew of Ryohei because he’s one of the singers in m-flo’s Miss You, which is one of my favorite songs. I downloaded his latest cd, Cavaca, and it’s filled with horrible, horrible covers. Check out, “You Gotta Be” at the beginning and “She Will Be Loved” at 4:00 in the video below.

However, there’s one song that I really liked - Georgy Porgy - it’s at 3:17. I looked it up and it turns out that it’s a cover of a song by Toto (of Africa fame). It might be really old, but it’s new to me. I wouldn’t have known of this song if I watched MTV all day. It’s a really good song, and it’s another reason to reject the fashionist nature of the music industry. Guiding musical taste by what’s new on the radio is so retarded.

Ryohei, your cd sucks, but thanks for introducing me to this song:

This is the latest song obsession. I didn’t watch any Japanese dramas for about a year but I recently started watching Proposal Daisakusen, which was really good. This is the end theme for the show - it’s not my usual fare, but since I really got into the drama this song has been stuck in my head for a while.

The playcount for Jump by Kriss Kross has been creeping up over the last two months, enough to warrant a Kriss Kross revival. It’s a really good song, Baby Got Back kinda good. This means that I’m going to learn the lyrics and sing it at every karaoke outing possible. However, I’m not about to start wearing my pants backwards (thanks David). Lyrics after the Jump Jump (hehe)[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4UgficQpYE4″ height=”425″ width=”350″ /]
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First of all… wow, first update in a long time. I haven’t had time to post to the site because of work and school commitments, and trying to keep a crazy posting schedule didn’t help either. I think I’m going to scale back to at least one post per week, instead of the 3 or 4 per week that I used to do before.

The latest music find I have is a now-defunct Japanese band called Cymbals. I can’t recall exactly how I came across them, but I think it might have been through exploring related artists on Last.fm. Their sound is a very good mix of jazz and pop that I’ve had stuck in my head for quite a while now. I’ve only been able to get their music through YouTube - my favorite destination for japanese downloads doesn’t have it, and I can’t buy stuff off the Japanese itunes portal (which is retarded). I wish I knew of American bands that played this kind of music, because I could at least go to their concerts.