My latest Eardrum playlist:

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One of the surprises of Tom's Twitter tourneys is that I sometimes like Belle and Sebastian. I'm still put off by the sensitive sensibility of their manner, but I'm also hearing in them Morricone-style mariachi and unsignaled Electric Prunes/Easybeats. And good tunes.*

In the meantime you also find me knocking about with ( Read more... )

"great music!! ive been enjoying this since i ws 18. now im 57. Korea 김광배"
--from a YouTube comment thread for Rare Earth's "Get Ready"

I saw Rare Earth when I was 15;* my cousin Larry in NYC took me to see Steppenwolf at Carnegie Hall, and Rare Earth were the opening act. And I've barely given them a thought since. I mostly remember waiting for ( Read more... )

Kim Wan Sun, from 1987. It's not quite freestyle, but it's pretty close (closer than Madonna ever got, for instance). And it's pretty great. The same piercing passion.

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"리듬속의 그 춤을" is translated most often as "The Dance In The Rhythm." Google Translate gives us "In Rhythm With The Dance," which I like more, whether or not it's accurate ( Read more... )