one Asian under a groove

Jack White: Blunderbuss (2012, R, 1st play)

I didn’t focus on the lyrics, but it sounded more fun than most of the hard rock albums I’ve been listening to this week.

Emeli Sande: “My Kind of Love” (Y)

Jessie Ware: “110%” (Y)

Van radio channel-surf rankings:

1. Pink: “Less Than Perfect”
2. The Wanted: “Glad You Came”
3. Adele: “Rumour Has It”
4. Bruno Mars: “It Will Rain”
5. 30 Seconds to Mars: “The Kill”
6. Usher: “Scream”
7. Fun: “Some Nights”
8. Hot Chelle Rae: “Honestly”

Pizza and salad at Zero Zero, SF: Vampire Weekend shuffled with generic Pitchforky stuff. I like Vampire Weekend but never play them myself.

Pretty decent busker playing “Take Five”: Didn’t tip. Shoulda.

Taipei Economic Cultural Office: A piano and flute “Annie’s Song”. People who no longer experience the condition of Muzak are not Asian.

Don’t Talk to the Cops: Let’s Quit (2012, S, 2nd play)

Issa Juma: World Defeats the Grandfathers Vol. 2 (2012, R, 5th play)

Favourite tracks at this point are “Sigalame II” and “Teresia”, both of which clock in around nine minutes.

Carly Rae Jepsen: “Call Me Maybe” (S): Has your household run the Arrested Development joke into the ground yet? Ours has!

Screaming Females: Ugly (2012, S, 4th play)

What impressive me is how a lot of her guitar heroics are going on under her vocal. Complex stuff.

Sound leakage: My fiancee’s mom blasts the Bee Gees LOUD. I did not know they wrote “Islands in the Stream”.

Dinner break: The Idol results show: Feels like a shockingly decent top 3.

Dum Dum Girls: “Coming Down” (Y): Not crazy about the Jukebox 7’s and high 6’s this week, but this seems to have the best chance of growing.

Loretta Lynn: The Country Music Hall of Fame (R)

She captures the rural roots and commercial reality of modern country music as well as anyone. Great programming even if it’s merely chronological: following “One’s on the Way” with “The Pill”.

The Byrds: “Turn, Turn, Turn” (R): 8/10.

Tribalistas (2002, R, 3rd play)

Billy Joel: The Stranger (R)

My buddy Ryan claims this is somewhere near brilliant. For the first side I believed him.

Carly Rae Jepsen: “Call Me Maybe” (Y)

My fiancee and I endorse this for song of the summer because it’s so much to parody. “Hey I just met you/And this won’t end well/But let’s go sailing/And call me Ishmael.”