Choon of the Month: Heaven Sent

Original video located here. Accessed 27th April 2015

Song title: Heaven Sent

Artist: Best Coast

Year: 2015

Why I like this song:

As I'm limping further and further into my thirties, it becomes clear that my tastes of music have evolved to a point where what I knew is now looking obsolete, what is trending at the moment is looking alien and I need to step aside for someone younger. Such is the inevitability of aging. 

But sometimes a song come along and says: "You're not done yet!" And that's what I get from this song. Yes it may be a resurrection of nineties guitar pop and yes it's aimed at a teenaged crowd but it still has enough punch to make anyone, no matter their age, sit up and take notice. 

Yes my time may be disappearing over the horizon but there is still a chance to not go quietly. 
And it is one worth seizing. 

The Asian Connection: Idol Talk

Original video located here. Accessed 12th August 2016

Song title: Idol Talk

Artist: Akino Arai

Year: 1994

Why I like this song:

Ah, Macross. One of my favourite anime IPs. Where fighter jets, giant robots and killer music are merged together to deliver the goods.
And to me, Macross Plus is the best of the lot.

So yeah before there was Hatsune Miku, there was Sharon Apple. And as Macross Plus was based around a virtual idol, it is expected that we have a plethora of pop songs. And this pretty much a pastiche of the pop songs of the time.
Clearly someone had been listening to their Madonna records...

This Song Rocks: Lean On

Original video located here. Accessed 3rd April 2015

Song title: Lean On

Artist: Major Lazer and DJ Snake with MO

Year: 2015

Why I like this song:

I will admit that I am disillusioned with a lot of modern electronic dance music: Too much screeching and it all seems a race to see who can be the loudest. This however, is an exception.
It may have the bombast of modern dance music but it seems more seductive. Like it wants to get you onto the dance floor instead of shouting demands to you do so.
See? Subtly works. 

Choon of the Month: Superhero

Original video located here. Accessed 27th March 2015

Song title: Superhero

Artist: Faith No More

Year: 2015

Why I like this song:

Now this is how you do a comeback.
Comes charging out with both the metal roar and the lunacy that's expected of Faith No More. Its like they never left.
"Ain't no grave gonna hold this body down!"

The Asian Connection: Lonely in Gorgeous

Original video located here. Accessed 1st November 2021

Song title: Lonely in Gorgeous

Artist: Tommy February6

Year: 2005

Why I like this song:

Its the opening to the anime Paradise Kiss and, like a lot of anime opening, sets the mood from the word go.
Personally I find this song appealing in it's eccentric nature.

Choon of the Month: Young

Original video located here. Accessed 25th February 2015

Song title: Young

Artist: Vallis Alps

Year: 2015

Why I like this song:

Disjointed beats and atmospheric synths make for a hypnotic listen.
Is this the Australian answer to London Grammar? Who cares: This is great.

SA: What's the Frequency Kenneth?

Original video located here. Accessed 9th February 2015

Song title: What's the Frequency Kenneth?

Artist: R.E.M.

Year: 1994

Why I like this song:

When you need a new method to reach a younger audience....

They say revivals happen in chunks of twenty years. That being said I have spent the past few years digging up music from the early nineties and finding it much to my liking. I've discovered gems that I never knew existed (Sugar), I've come to see acts I knew of in a different light (Lemonheads, KLF, L7 and Wonderstuff) and I've come to enjoy acts I never thought I would (Aphex Twin). Indeed, it's great to go back and discover stuff that passed me by the first time around and seeing that it does indeed hold up two decades later.

However, this year is 2015: And going by the logic of the twenty-year revival thing, it was in the mid-nineties (1996 to be precise) that I started listening to Triple J and ended my music exile. What this means is that the unfamiliar is now starting to become familiar. The sense of exploration is now replaced with the sense of coming back to ground I once traversed.

In that sense, perhaps it is time I stopped being so disillusioned with modern pop/rock music and started living in the present....