2022 December
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Time for the annual reminder from Spotify that my music preferences are basically still stuck in the 90s!
I didn't listen to a lot of Spotify this year; actually I think I may have ended up listening to music more via YT, but they don't give me any stats for that.
Here's this year's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1F0sijgNaJdgit
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2021 December
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My music tastes haven't really changed, but posting my #SpotifyWrapped stuff for the record.
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2020 December
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This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/share-fdd70c18adb14e70a29521ce4fc85e96-1080x1920?lang=en&si=Wrpf3LjSQl2kQ6vLM3Olpw
2019 December
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This is how my decade sounded on Spotify. Get your #spotifywrapped. https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/aff7b2bddf8a3d1fa72bf6e69f5ab67c784c2856
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This is how my year sounded on Spotify. Get your 2019 Wrapped #spotifywrapped https://open.spotify.com/wrapped/ddf3e4a1ee43a067d9e011917a96978cb404b9e4
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2019 November
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Had a friendly discussion last night about our favorite anime theme music, figured I'd share some of my favorites. J-Pop in general and anime theme music in particular have a kind of energy that you just don't get from Western music. I think that generally I tend to favor those that openings for series that I had a chance to watch on TV (instead of via streaming/online channels), since back in those days I had to sit through the openings! (So most of these are rather old!) Kimi Ga Suki da to Sakebitai from Slam Dunk by Baad: Hohoemi no
2018 November
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I used to play a lot of JRPGs, especially back during they heyday of the Playstation Era. These days, I only get to play a few, but I still enjoy a lot of the music tracks from this game, often the battle music since I prefer more upbeat tracks. Here are some of my favorite JRPG tracks from recent years: Rivers in the Desert (Persona 5) -- easily the best song in the OST for me, and the rest of this OST is amazing so that's saying a lot. Reach Out to the Truth (Persona 4) -- P4G was the
2007 July
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The inmates at a prison in Cebu perform the "Thriller" video. This has got to be a really entertaining prison.
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The inmates at a prison in Cebu perform the Algorithm March from Pythagoras Switch
2005 December
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I'm no music critic; often I can't even carry my own tune. But I do know what I like, and I know I like the Eraserheads' music. If you don't know who the ‘heads are, they're basically the Beatles of the Philippines, galvanizing the local music industry and serving as an example and inspiration to numerous other bands that followed after them. It's only fitting then that many of the current crop of Filipino performers pay tribute to them in the form of Ultraelectromagnetic Jam. This fantastic album features several artists performing their own versions of some of the Eraserheads
2005 June
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I'm bored. What do the following have in common? -- Three Doors Down -- Five For Fighting -- Spin Doctors -- Rey Valera Easy enough.
2005 March
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🔗 BoredwithMusic.com via delicious
2005 February
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Currently listening to "Boulevard of Broken Songs", a neat mashup mainly of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and Oasis' "Wonderwall". This and some other mashups here. (haven't listened to the others though... ) Another interesting mashup that came out quite a while back was "This Is How You Remind Me Someday" , where Nickelback is caught basically reusing the same chords for two songs. Great stuff. Other songs/bands I've been listening to lately: Locally, Spongecola is hot. Their album has several good tracks (since I don't listen to radio, I'm not sure which of them are popular or not.)
2005 January
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2004 November
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Interesting story about a guy who had to shell out 350 dollars to quote Radiohead lyrics in his book. Even though he was able to quote from many other bands, books, and even a separate Radiohead album for free. Even he had personally met the band before, and had freely let them quote his own works in their concerts. Gives a good idea of how fucked-up the worldwide copyright system is. And reminds me why I prefer to just ignore the whole corporate copyright system. (Never mind that it's quite convenient to do so.) On that note, I wonder if