PenguinSix » Music http://penguinsix.com Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:20:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Original MTV VJ J.J. Jackson passed away http://penguinsix.com/2011/12/12/original-mtv-vj-j-j-jackson-passed-away/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/12/12/original-mtv-vj-j-j-jackson-passed-away/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:12:29 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3713 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>  

It happened quite awhile ago, actually.

J.J. Jackson, one of the original three VJ’s on MTV, passed away about seven years ago from a heart attack.  I didn’t know but it is still very sad.

MTV for me, like many of my age, was an eye-opening and world expanding experience.  Now it just sucks, as most anyone will tell you.

But in case you want a bit of a flashback, here are the first ten minutes of MTV captured on Youtube. Watch it quickly before the dickless pinheads that run MTV today have their lawyers take it down.

Rest in peace Triple J, and thanks for showing me there was more to music than that which I heard of my radio in a tiny corner of the world.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/12/12/original-mtv-vj-j-j-jackson-passed-away/feed/ 0 Big in Japan video from Martin Solveig http://penguinsix.com/2011/10/28/big-in-japan-video-from-martin-solveig/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/10/28/big-in-japan-video-from-martin-solveig/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:39:28 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3627 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> On auto-replay today in the house.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/10/28/big-in-japan-video-from-martin-solveig/feed/ 1 Queen & Freddy Mercury play Live Aid, for all you young ones who don’t know your music history http://penguinsix.com/2011/09/04/queen-freddy-mercury-play-live-aid-for-all-you-young-ones-who-dont-know-your-music-history/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/09/04/queen-freddy-mercury-play-live-aid-for-all-you-young-ones-who-dont-know-your-music-history/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:42:48 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3542 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Freddy Mercury would have turned 65 today had he not been tragically taken away too early.  I have no doubt he’d still be playing, or at least having fun trying.

For those too younger to remember Queen, let me just add this clip from their performance at the Live Aid festival in the 1980s.


And for those who just watched that and don’t get the meaning of that event, here is a documentary specifically about Queen at Live Aid.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/09/04/queen-freddy-mercury-play-live-aid-for-all-you-young-ones-who-dont-know-your-music-history/feed/ 0 Mr. Taxi video. My Korean-pop education continues http://penguinsix.com/2011/08/17/mr-taxi-video-my-korean-pop-education-continues/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/08/17/mr-taxi-video-my-korean-pop-education-continues/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:51:18 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3521 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Girl groups here in Asia are pretty popular, but unlike a smallish group of 1-2 decent singers, they have groups of 3-5-7 etc. I joked with a friend that what we really needed was a group that could double as a soccer team.

Lo and behold, they are already nearly there. Girls Generation, a K-Pop group is composed of nine members. They sing in Korean and in Japanese, and their current album is on heavy rotation on MTV over here.

It’s not like we get FM radio over here after all. Gotta make do with what you can…(here’s the lyrics)

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/08/17/mr-taxi-video-my-korean-pop-education-continues/feed/ 0 Martin Solveig – Initial She http://penguinsix.com/2011/07/28/martin-solveig-initial-she/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/07/28/martin-solveig-initial-she/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:45:06 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3502 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> You don’t hear it until about minute 8:40 of this rather long video, but the instrumental track “Initial She” which was the precursor of the song ‘Ready to Go’ is prominent in this video from French DJ Martin Solveig.

I also really like the song around 5:07, another instrumental, and the Sidney Samson remix of Hello that you hear around minute 6:00 or so.

I’ve been listening to these tracks basically all day this week.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/07/28/martin-solveig-initial-she/feed/ 0 Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555 video is online http://penguinsix.com/2011/03/31/daft-punks-interstella-5555-video-is-online/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/03/31/daft-punks-interstella-5555-video-is-online/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:12:57 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3369 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I guess I shouldn’t be surprised in this world of nearly everything on the net, but the movie Interstella 5555, which was basically a long music video for Daft Punk’s 2001 album Discovery
is available online in full.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/03/31/daft-punks-interstella-5555-video-is-online/feed/ 0 The Politics of Dancing by Re-flex http://penguinsix.com/2011/02/15/the-politics-of-dancing-by-re-flex/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/02/15/the-politics-of-dancing-by-re-flex/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:50:38 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3230 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Was at Fat Angelo’s this weekend having some pizza and listening to a pretty good mix of 80′s new romantics bands on the speakers. Kind of a throwback to sitting in Garcia’s Pizza back at the University of Illinois in the 80s and listening to the same music. It’s kind of funny but there are times when you are focusing on just what is front of you, like your kids or a pizza on the table and music in the air and you really start to lose track of where you are. Yes, I’m in Hong Kong, 6,000 miles from home, but at that moment, I didn’t even notice.

Anyway, now this song is stuck in my head.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/02/15/the-politics-of-dancing-by-re-flex/feed/ 0 The Road to Shamballa — Three Dog Night http://penguinsix.com/2011/01/25/the-road-to-shamballa-three-dog-night/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/01/25/the-road-to-shamballa-three-dog-night/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:18:50 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=2914 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I think the oldest song I can remember singing was Three Dog Night “Joy to the World” mainly because it talked about Jerimiah being a bullfrog and frogs were cool. But this homemade video for another Three Dog Night classic is actually pretty appropriate. Hippies dancing, traveling through India or someplace like that.

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/01/25/the-road-to-shamballa-three-dog-night/feed/ 1 The only song I liked in Social Network (hint: it was the techno club) http://penguinsix.com/2011/01/20/the-only-song-i-liked-in-social-network-hint-it-was-the-techno-club/ http://penguinsix.com/2011/01/20/the-only-song-i-liked-in-social-network-hint-it-was-the-techno-club/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:22:21 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3177 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>

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]]> http://penguinsix.com/2011/01/20/the-only-song-i-liked-in-social-network-hint-it-was-the-techno-club/feed/ 0 Japanese hologram concert and music videos http://penguinsix.com/2010/11/11/japanese-hologram-concert-and-music-videos/ http://penguinsix.com/2010/11/11/japanese-hologram-concert-and-music-videos/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:42:08 +0000 Andrew http://penguinsix.com/?p=3139 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Was poking through the LA Times when I came across this interesting story about hologram-based pop stars. So I followed the links over to Youtube and was floored. Some pretty amazing technology involved in presenting a “live” concert with real musicians, singing fans, and a totally computer generated singer named Hatsune Miku.

Actually like this next song a bit better–> Just be Friends by Megurine Luka (I say it is by her but she basically exists only in a computer).  I may need a shrink soon.

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