Music log
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I also like some simple Japanese songs like ゴンドラの唄 (Gondola no Uta), Aogeba Tōtoshi and 赤とんぼ (童謡) (Red Dragonfly).
I also like João Gilberto’s Chega de Saudade album (even though I’ve never bothered to look up any of the lyrics besides the title track’s) and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Stone Flower. I’m a huge fan of the Bossa Nova Japanification Project (ボサノヴァ日本語化計画).
I do sometimes wonder why I don’t listen as much to Japanese music. It may be that since I’ve spent all my teenage years (when I first got interested in listening to music) in the US, my musical tastes were influenced that way.
I’m open to suggestions (e.g. sometimes Kristin Lie will show me a song), but I feel I’ve mostly discovered what I like, so I don’t spend time actively searching for new things to listen to. Finding more Japanese songs I like would be especially nice though.
I should also mention that I can go for long periods (weeks) without listening to any music. It might just be that my collection is so small I get bored of it quickly, but can come back to it after some amount of time has passed.
Some others:
- “Dream A Little Dream of Me”—Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day
- Taylor Swift—“Blank Space”, “22”, “Back to December”, “The Way I Loved You”, “Forever and Always”, “Ours”, “Red”, “Our Song”
- Put Your Records On by Corinne Bailey Rae
- Neon Genesis Evangelion OST
- Wings Of Honneamise OST
- “She’s 22” by Norah Jones
- RahXephon OST (the classical tracks)
- Hyouka OST
- Hilary Hahn (via Andrew Ho)
- Pokemon OSTs, in particular the Ruby and Sapphire OST
(I plan to make a table like the following to better keep track of my music. For me, music often allows me to experience the qualia of certain periods of my life, so it’s important that the time periods when I listened to the music are listed alongside it.)
| Time period | Music |
|---|---|
| 2007 or 2008 (?) | Queen |
| before 2016 | I mostly listen to mainstream Western music from a few decades back: Bob Dylan1, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Kinks2, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Velvet Underground (roughly in that order). Jean Michel Jarre, Jean-Luc Ponty, mostly through my father. |
| 2013 or 2014 | Sidi Touré, Detektivbyrån |
| 2014-12 | Discovered Fishmans: “頼りない天使”, “バックビートにのっかって”, and also their later albums: 空中キャンプ, 宇宙 日本 世田谷, ORANGE. |
| 2015-12 (?) to 2016-02 (?) | The Seatbelts and Cowboy Bebop OST, Sunny Day Service (band): “aitakatta shoujo”, “baby blue”, 曽我部恵一BAND「魔法のバスに乗って」 |
| 2016-05 | Final Fantasy VII OST (“Anxious Heart”, “Barret’s Theme”, “Oppressed People”, “Don of the Slums”, “Farm Boy”, “It’s Difficult to Stand on Both Feet, Isn’t It?”, “Cait Sith’s Theme”, “Cosmo Canyon”, “Great Warrior”, “Descendant of Shinobi”, “Jenova Absolute”, “The Birth of God”, “One-Winged Angel”, “World Crisis”), Chrono Trigger OST (“Corridors of Time”) |
| 2016-06 | Final Fantasy 3–6 OST, Terranigma OST (“Yomi”, “Present (おくりもの)”), Illusion of Gaia OST |
| 2016-07 | Radiohead: OK Computer (“Subterranean Homesick Alien”, “No Surprises”, “Karma Police”, “Exit Music (for A Film)”) |
Late 2008
I believe I got a second generation iPod Touch right around when it came out, which seems to be late 2008; this is the only Apple product I ever bought. This isn’t directly about the music I listened to, but I mention this because (1) this means my interest in music began around or before this point in time; and (2) I remember the songs I put on that iPod. I am sure I listened to Queen, and pretty sure but less confident about Led Zeppelin and The Beatles.
October 2010
- Pink Floyd
March 2011
- Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)
August 2011
This is the summer before starting at Inglemoor; I remember constantly listening to Bob Dylan (specifically Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited.
2015
Taylor Swift
September 2016
- Girls und Panzer OST
- Ed Sheeran’s x (“Thinking Out Loud”, “The Man”)
- Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush (“After the Gold Rush”)
October 2016
- Blur, after seeing it mentioned in a Facebook comment by Sebastian Nickel. So far I like Parklife the best.
November 2016
- The past several days I have been listening to Please Please Me on loop. There is something special about this album that is not present in any of the other early Beatles albums.
- “I Don’t Want to Know” by Fleetwood Mac
December 2016
- OK Computer disc 2; these tracks seem to be listed only in some deluxe or special editions
- The Pillows: Happy Bivouac (“Funny Bunny”, “Back Seat Dog”, “Crazy Sunshine”), Runners High (“Runners High”), “この世の果てまで” (sounds a lot like a traditional Japanese song or something by the Blue Hearts that I can’t remember; I like the YO-KING version)
History
This was originally written as an answer to the Quora question “What music does Issa Rice listen to?”
The page started out as a collection of music I like to listen to, but considering that my tastes have drifted with the passing of time, I felt it more appropriate to make it a list of music I at one point in time liked listening to.
“Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream”, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”, “Visions of Johanna”, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, “Just Like a Woman”, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “Mr. Tambourine Man”, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”, “I Want You”, “Highway 61 Revisited”, “Ballad of a Thin Man”, and many more.↩
I really enjoy Ray Davies’ cynical worldview. See songs like “Sitting in my Hotel”, “Supersonic Rocket Ship” (I read this as an indictment of modernity’s populism/PC culture: “Nobody’s gonna travel second class / There’ll be equality / And no suppression of minorities”), “Celluloid Heroes”, “Waterloo Sunset” (okay, this one is just sweet), “Apeman”, “Autumn Almanac”, “Little Miss Queen Of Darkness”, “People Take Pictures of Each Other”, “The Hard Way”, “Afternoon Tea”, “Wonderboy”, “I’m On An Island”.↩
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