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Post by yamazakikenken on Feb 24, 2017 14:16:28 GMT -5
Most any of their songs would make my top ten list if I was asked on the right day, so no point in making a list; I like 'em all (which is unique, as I feel every other band has had "filler" material, whether intentional or not). But one song I find to be a stand-out is "Economic Crisis", because it seems like the only one that might have some anger behind it, and could be classed as political in nature. And yet still, it rocks, big time.
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 25, 2017 16:20:20 GMT -5
Don't you just hate it when a mate turns up with his mp3 player asking it you can put something on it... "How many of their albums have you got?" "About 20ish I guess." "It is a gaming computer and not for anything else and I don't want to take the risk..." Oh my aching occiput. Are you telling me there's a gamer alive who doesn't have a home-built system with liquid cooling and christmas-tree lights? This kind of anguish is what happens when you naively go over the wall to see what's outside of the zoo enclosure they built for you. Why tell this poor guy you have 20 albums, when I suspect you've got 10 copies of 7 versions of one album out of 50?
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 25, 2017 16:35:25 GMT -5
Most any of their songs would make my top ten list if I was asked on the right day, so no point in making a list; I like 'em all (which is unique, as I feel every other band has had "filler" material, whether intentional or not). But one song I find to be a stand-out is "Economic Crisis", because it seems like the only one that might have some anger behind it, and could be classed as political in nature. And yet still, it rocks, big time. +1 "Economic Crisis" and that whole record I don't have real favorites, just Song of the Day. Some songs come more often than others. SOTD at the moment is "Fruit Loop Dreams", but yesterday I think it was more like "Gravity Zero Gravity" and the day before "Tetsuwan Atomu" from that Atom Kids tribute comp album.
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Post by thegl0r on Feb 26, 2017 5:45:10 GMT -5
Are you telling me there's a gamer alive who doesn't have a home-built system with liquid cooling and christmas-tree lights? This kind of anguish is what happens when you naively go over the wall to see what's outside of the zoo enclosure they built for you. Why tell this poor guy you have 20 albums, when I suspect you've got 10 copies of 7 versions of one album out of 50? Oh yes, his computer is a home-built system with all the bells and whistles. But he got a gaming friend who "knows computers" to build it for him. And yes, he does bore me with his tales of gaming some of which have spilled over to bus and truck spotting. I don't need to know how many BHP they've got, or which ones he has driven IRL. So I get my own back by playing music at him. He is now mostly desensitised to what he used to term as "music for inducing nightmares" and he doesn't ask me to change what I'm playing too often. As for my telling him "about 20 albums", I was having a Naoko moment. Suddenly the image of Naoko being asked that same question during an interview sprang to mind and I could feel her taking over my body and answering for me. I've never counted how many SK albums I've got and they're spread all over my place. I didn't want his brain to explode and it wasn't worth making his eyes glaze over, so I resisted the temptation to mention different releases with different versions of songs or different track lists and made no mention of singles/EPs. I just shuddered. I'll admit that I do have multiple copies of some issues of a number of albums, not always intentionally. The request of his that really made my skull creak was when he asked for "That song you sometimes play with a male vocalist where he goes sort of "Pah-pah" then there's just music and then he does it again." Um... So I tried to be helpful and played a fair few guesses at him until he asked if I was trying to do his head in. "I'm sure you know exactly which one I mean, but you're just being awkward" he said. Now I think about it, I think one of the albums he asked about might have been a Sick On The Bus one which did surprise me.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Mar 7, 2017 15:25:01 GMT -5
Are you telling me there's a gamer alive who doesn't have a home-built system with liquid cooling and christmas-tree lights? This kind of anguish is what happens when you naively go over the wall to see what's outside of the zoo enclosure they built for you. Why tell this poor guy you have 20 albums, when I suspect you've got 10 copies of 7 versions of one album out of 50? Oh yes, his computer is a home-built system with all the bells and whistles. But he got a gaming friend who "knows computers" to build it for him. And yes, he does bore me with his tales of gaming some of which have spilled over to bus and truck spotting. I don't need to know how many BHP they've got, or which ones he has driven IRL. So I get my own back by playing music at him. He is now mostly desensitised to what he used to term as "music for inducing nightmares" and he doesn't ask me to change what I'm playing too often. As for my telling him "about 20 albums", I was having a Naoko moment. Suddenly the image of Naoko being asked that same question during an interview sprang to mind and I could feel her taking over my body and answering for me. I've never counted how many SK albums I've got and they're spread all over my place. I didn't want his brain to explode and it wasn't worth making his eyes glaze over, so I resisted the temptation to mention different releases with different versions of songs or different track lists and made no mention of singles/EPs. I just shuddered. I'll admit that I do have multiple copies of some issues of a number of albums, not always intentionally. The request of his that really made my skull creak was when he asked for "That song you sometimes play with a male vocalist where he goes sort of "Pah-pah" then there's just music and then he does it again." Um... So I tried to be helpful and played a fair few guesses at him until he asked if I was trying to do his head in. "I'm sure you know exactly which one I mean, but you're just being awkward" he said. Now I think about it, I think one of the albums he asked about might have been a Sick On The Bus one which did surprise me. The only thing things that come to mind are Elephant insect and Elephant PaoPoa.... no Pah Pahs on the former and no male voice, on the latter!
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Post by thegl0r on Mar 7, 2017 18:01:46 GMT -5
...The request of his that really made my skull creak was when he asked for "That song you sometimes play with a male vocalist where he goes sort of "Pah-pah" then there's just music and then he does it again." Um... So I tried to be helpful and played a fair few guesses at him until he asked if I was trying to do his head in... The only thing things that come to mind are Elephant insect and Elephant PaoPoa.... no Pah Pahs on the former and no male voice, on the latter! Elephant Pao Pao is on one of the albums that I accidentally gave to him. Elephant Insect and the rest of Heavy songs would be a good addition for him, but I'm still drawing a complete blank on trying to figure out which song he's after. He's resigned to having to wait until at some stage he hears me playing the song again then he can go "That's the one!" I have warned him it might take a while as I tend to play stuff in batches. I'll play one selection of music for a while then switch over to a different batch. Something to do with having a stack of CDs or a selection of records hanging about near my stereo, then eventually tidying up and starting again. I was organised once...
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Post by socalopus on Jul 13, 2017 8:51:13 GMT -5
Personally, I have about 100 favorites from SK, and I could write a dissertation on each, but I will say there are two songs that stand out for me. First is Miracles, which I'm pretty sure is the first Knife song I ever heard. Those Michie yelps, that meow meow meow meow in the middle, the grinding guitar, pure punk/alt magic. The second is Insect Collector; one of the most beautiful songs ever written. This young girl spends her time in a hobby that maybe brings her much ridicule and even harassment from others, but yet before she goes to bed at night she looks at her insect collection, and she feels happy, oh so happy. She doesn't let others determine what she does with her life, and therefore she states proudly that she is an Insect Collector!! And the music, haunting and beautiful perfectly captures the emotions of the lyrics.
Sad thing is I've never found any video of either of these being performed live. I'm sure all you Shonen Knife Freaks will agree that The Knife is a band that is a visual treat to the eyes as well as the ears.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 13, 2017 16:55:06 GMT -5
Personally, I have about 100 favorites from SK, and I could write a dissertation on each, but I will say there are two songs that stand out for me. First is Miracles, which I'm pretty sure is the first Knife song I ever heard. Those Michie yelps, that meow meow meow meow in the middle, the grinding guitar, pure punk/alt magic. The second is Insect Collector; one of the most beautiful songs ever written. This young girl spends her time in a hobby that maybe brings her much ridicule and even harassment from others, but yet before she goes to bed at night she looks at her insect collection, and she feels happy, oh so happy. She doesn't let others determine what she does with her life, and therefore she states proudly that she is an Insect Collector!! And the music, haunting and beautiful perfectly captures the emotions of the lyrics. Sad thing is I've never found any video of either of these being performed live. I'm sure all you Shonen Knife Freaks will agree that The Knife is a band that is a visual treat to the eyes as well as the ears. Ditto on the lives. I blame it on rock 'n' roll. The new-wavier old material didn't rock hard enough to be played out in the alterna-'90s. The beginning of a trend that leads to writing in the style of neolithic-age bands from Manchester. Insect collecting is actually big in Japan since way back. Not just butterflies, but exotic beetles and all kinds of creepy-crawlies, the bigger the better. It's mainly a geek-boy pursuit, though. Most girls don't get why you'd want to have more and more icky things. One such socially hopeless teenager was the towering giant of Japanese cartooning, Osamu Tezuka. He organized clubs and wrote weird fiction based on his hobby. 1941 [13 years]Off to middle school tezukaosamu.net/en/about/1940.html Graduates from elementary school, enters Kitano Middle School and joins the art club as well as the geography and history clubs.
He is watched over suspiciously by his teachers, who were of military training, for drawing comics. The art teacher Okajima Yoshiro, however, often defends Tezuka Osamu.
He becomes engrossed in insect collecting and drawing comics, including about insects such as "A Record of the Insect Battle Front" and "Stories of Insects' Lives"...
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 13, 2017 21:07:23 GMT -5
One such socially hopeless teenager was the towering giant of Japanese cartooning, Osamu Tezuka. He organized clubs and wrote weird fiction based on his hobby. ^^^^
The creator of Pokémon was also a Konchusaishu and it was the inspiration, for the game!!
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 13, 2017 23:37:57 GMT -5
The creator of Pokémon was also a Konchusaishu and it was the inspiration, for the game!! I'd never heard that, but once you realize it's a perfect fit. Japanese Wikipedia has a few thousand words on the topic, and a hall of fame for celebrity hobbiests. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/昆虫採集…as you will occasionally encounter rare items in your own neighborhood, it's prudent for hobbyist collectors to carry minimal collection tools at all times.At all times! Because even bedbugs are collectible. Prominent people who pursue insect collecting as a hobby (excluding specialists)
Asao Okada (student of German literature) Okamura Shigeru (mangaka) — beetles and stag beetles Daisaburou Okumoto (French literature) Masahito Kakihara (pro wrestler) — stag beetles (famous in connection with the Miyama Stag Beetle in particular) Morio Kita (novelist) — scarab beetles Toshiaki Chiku (musician) — treehoppers Osamu Tezuka (mangaka) Jimon Terakado (comedian) — giant stag beetles Kunio Hatoyama (politician) — butterflies Mitsuru Yaku (mangaka) Takeshi Yoro (medical scientist and essayist) — beetles I suppose Pokémon developer Satoshi Tajiri is off the list not because he's unimportant, but because he's not even one thousandth as well known as his creation. How Satoshi Tajiri’s autism helped create Pokemon2017 March 12 by Colin Eldred-Cohen for The Art of Autism blog the-art-of-autism.com/how-satoshi-tajiris-autism-helped-create-pokemon/ Satoshi has gone on record saying that he wanted the games to give children the same joy as he had during his bug collecting. People with autism tend to take up collecting as a hobby, so Satoshi gave them and everyone else a gift that only he could create: a whole new thing to collect.
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