General Music Discussion (Non-Japanese)

Well most American music these days are mostly Raps...Never listen too deep bout Eminem but If u listen to nelly,50 Cents, JA rule...Da diferenz is only Da tune...the rest is sound the same to me..or is it just me? :mrgreen:

niko2x wrote: He's Jin tha MC, the first asian rapper (my fellow cantonese) to go into BET's hall of fame, who are mainly black artists. 7 weeks in a row, winning freestyle rapping against fellow freestylist, until he rapped himself onto a recording contract. Dude has got talent, no denying. It's tough to go up on stage no knowing who your opponent is and then just dishing out rhyme after rhyme, out battling the other guy.

Anyways his site is here:
http://www.holla-front.com/
And be sure to click 'audio/video' to download his "freestyle friday" battles.
Once he comes out with an album, support our fellow asian artist!!

Spamming for Jin, I don't listen to just rap. (Actually, he's the only one that I currently listen to.) Like all of youse, I have a whole range of musical interests as well, depending on my mood. Since I listen to music mostly when I commute to/from work (1.5 hr each way) I listen to stuff that will keep me energetic and alive, mostly now relegated to fast dance tracks. Some of the non-jpop dance tracks are:

Alabina (french/lebanon/gypsy/flamenco) http://www.alabina.8m.com/photo.html

Ophélie Winter, French dance beats http://www.opheliewinter.net/main_b.htm,

and Thalia, her link: http://www.mi-direccion.com/Thalia/galeriadefotos.htm

When u just feeling sad or having a bad day at works, just pick the sweet Linkin park ...It'll helpp Yep specially when U sing with it ne.. :mrgreen:

MixxDreamer wrote:
oooh i forgot about acid jazz.. how can i forget that?! and um.. i listen a lil bit of goa too, reggae and hawaiian music.. cant forget that! :mrgreen:

man thats totaly cool we have like the same taste in music...we should swap mp3 files someday :jumpie:

Ren wrote:That is cool man i too listen to many type of music sometime i can't really understand a words they say but the sweet sound and the voice of the performer really convey their emotion. They says music is the universal language. Anyone here like country music? :D

ya i feel the same way... music is the universal language (BTW i also heard that saying about MATH) :P

lovelessemotion wrote:

MixxDreamer wrote:
oooh i forgot about acid jazz.. how can i forget that?! and um.. i listen a lil bit of goa too, reggae and hawaiian music.. cant forget that! :mrgreen:

man thats totaly cool we have like the same taste in music...we should swap mp3 files someday :jumpie:

Hey watchout, loveless. The RIAA's right behind ya! :rofl: JK!

LOL :hehe: good 1 :applaud:

Anyone...Just heard Andy lau latest Album, "A better day" I want to know the name of song no:2 Thank's before ne :mrgreen:

Bsalez wrote:Anyone...Just heard Andy lau latest Album, "A better day" I want to know the name of song no:2 Thank's before ne :mrgreen:

Song number 2 is: —ûK

Song's name Nikko kun? :mrgreen:

Even tho I'm chinese, I read/speak more JPN then my first language, sorry Bsales. Maybe someone else here can read it.

Bsalez wrote:Anyone...Just heard Andy lau latest Album, "A better day" I want to know the name of song no:2 Thank's before ne :mrgreen:

I think it's called "Lien Sie". But I don't understand the meaning of it. :google:
I also listen to Chinese songs and also K-pop (just love Shinhwa-great songs and great voice)

Arigatou na Akakage san...Can fill the title slot in My player.. :mrgreen:

it's called [lian xi].. in mandarin that is...

yeah.. it's [lian xi]

I don't know how keen you all are about enka. Yeah, that enka. It is to JPN music what country music to american music. I used to ridicule it for a while until I listened to some recently. It actually is pretty damn good. I've posted one up in the link below for those who wants to d/l it. I's called "Amagigoe", by Ishikawa Sayuri. Very soulful piece, it's a song about a woman's forbidden love has come to fruition and is banished to live in the mountains. (enka is very much like country, where ALL songs are basically about sad situations, broken hearts, and yes, forbidden love). Also what got me into the song was that you can hear a lot of traditional japanese instruments in this piece. You know the drum the geisha/maiko-san holds standing up, over one shoulder, that instument is featured. This make me to believe is a very popular song performed by geishas. Well happy listening, and if there's enuff interest, I can put up another enka from Teresa Teng.

Just started reliving all the music from the 80's, particularly The Police, particularly the albums Outlandos d'Amour, Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, and Ghost in the Machine... Great, great stuff... :D

bmwracer wrote:Just started reliving all the music from the 80's, particularly The Police, particularly the albums Outlandos d'Amour, Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, and Ghost in the Machine... Great, great stuff... :D

I remember when sting first came out solo...who are we kidding, bmw, they don't remember them :chatter: :) .

i'm a cantonese so i often listen to cantonese songs. Recently had been listening to songs by Twins eversince they act in movie "The twins effects". They's so cute. But i recently heard they're not on good terms and want to disband. But the record company is stopping them for doing so because they're so popular.

It'll be sad to see them disband :(

niko2x wrote:

bmwracer wrote:Just started reliving all the music from the 80's, particularly The Police, particularly the albums Outlandos d'Amour, Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, and Ghost in the Machine... Great, great stuff... :D

I remember when sting first came out solo...who are we kidding, bmw, they don't remember them :chatter: :) .

Niko, if they don't, it's their loss... :)

bmwracer wrote:

niko2x wrote:

bmwracer wrote:Just started reliving all the music from the 80's, particularly The Police, particularly the albums Outlandos d'Amour, Regatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, and Ghost in the Machine... Great, great stuff... :D

I remember when sting first came out solo...who are we kidding, bmw, they don't remember them :chatter: :) .

Niko, if they don't, it's their loss... :)

Well guy i got to admit i also listen Sting. I listened to him when he was with the Police as well. Another great singer that i still listened to is Peter Gabriel.