Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
The only thing I understood, at the end of the movie, I could sing along “LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA LA LA ALA LA LA LA.” One of the best parts about having a mom who worked her butt off, you had a VCR, cable and a cool TV in the early 80′s. [...]
Nitin Sawhney – Mausam
The beauty of Eastern philosophy, one lost upon it’s western counterparts is the understanding of balance. Life is about embracing both to gain a greater insight and appreciation for both.
David Bowie – Magic Dance
The greatest movie of my childhood, without question was Labyrinth. There isn’t a debate on the merits of Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn and Carebears The Movie all being outstanding and touching movies, but nothing compares to a coked up David Bowie in a codpiece.
Wu Tang Tang – I Can’t Go To Sleep
Stop all this crying and be a man.– Issac Hayes from I Can’t Go To Sleep Protect Yo Neck! Diversify Yo Bonds! Konichiwa, Bitch! Cream get that money! Ghost and Rza decide it’s time to provide an ethnographic piece on the struggle of black people in America. The lyrics and story speak for themselves. Segun [...]
Guilty Pleasure
orn, I can’t over emphasize how disgusted my dad was with getting Happy 2B Hardcore 2. I was over visiting his house and he just said, “here, this is totally you.”
Skinnyman – Fuck The Hook
People have said since I was a child, “He’s a prodigy, a freaky little genius,” only to have other groups think I was the dreaded R word (retarded in 80′s speak). A walking contradiction, the validation of the chaos and chance of nature and nurture.
Dr. Motte and Westbam – Love Parade 2000
To a suffering Californian who enjoyed his island boy style, the first Michigan winter wasn’t helping motivate me. The deary gray sky and consistent drifts of blankets of snow made me long for adventure and warmth.
Mindless Self Indulgence – Bite Your Rhymes
It was just hard, fast and aggressive but seemed so fresh, I had been introduced to Mindless Self Indulgence, in a half empty computer lab of all places. Atari metal met an insane MC and my last musical wall had been breached, I liked a metal rap group.
Utah Saints – Three Simple Words
The album was terribly nonthreatening and that didn’t sit well with me. Even the one banger wasn’t even an original composition. Rather, track 4 was a remix done by Oliver Lieb. A peculiar fact that led me to doubt the albums potential because, who puts a remix of a song on the album towards so high on the album
Beck – Debra
The worse part of the song, it reminded me of a certain friend. I mean my dad and uncles had longed claimed to be romantics, but my friend was simply a whore.
The Loose Cannons – La La La (I’m Not Listening) Arabian Barmitzvah Mix
This isn’t to say, certain people haven’t seen me decide to get down. Hell, you can’t grow up dancing to George Michael’s Faith and not have the ability to get down.
Moby – Feeling So Real
Gone was my motivation to maintain the semblance of a normal sleep schedule. Instead, visits from rik at random hours to my door replaced my lazy behavior during cafe hours.
Death In Vegas – Dirt
Seeing Kali bringing destruction and the potential of renewal was unlike anything I’d ever seen. It might have been offensive to Hindu’s and Nazi’s that she was dressed in an SS uniform. Hey, I’ll acknowledge the rage, but there was a legitimate message behind it.
The Chemical Brothers – The Test
The Chemical Brothers found themselves stickered to my Playstation, filling up space in the Online Cafe CD player, my computer and my mp3 cd player. Hell, if I didn’t have a mortal fear of drugs, I’d have tried some simply to alter my brain to better understand the music.
Cypress Hill – Insane In The Brain
Knowing my cousin Michelle, was a huge fan of hip hop, I got her the only song I cared about. Screw Tupac, screw the rest, only one hip hop song meant anything to me,”Insane In The Brain.”
Eminem – You’re Never Over
It deserves the same time, effort and elegance as Eminem put into this song. They got me to this point with their endless belief and love, might as well do them proud.
Ol ‘Dirty Bastard – Wasted Time
How did I come to end up focused on Japan? A friend offering me a chance of my lifetime, a crossroads in my life and a woman.
George Michael – Faith
There exists someplace, maybe, video evidence of me performing Faith by George Michael. I’m not talking about Karaoke style, either. Full on rocking a fake guitar and emulating the legendary gyrating bouncy hip dance.
Dr. Octagon – I’m Destructive
Yes, I took the CD and I felt no remorse. It needed to be shared, it needed to become a staple at the Online Cafe in San Bruno. Pops came through again, telling me he had an album for me to check out. What followed in that cramped back room that served as his classroom. Professor [...]
Beardo – 24 Hour Party
Yes, there is a song that captures the pure intensity of partaking in what was named “Rolling With The Shug” in Seoul by Andrew. When a Ph.D suggests having a documentary series following your exploits while traveling, you’re a character.
The Smashing Pumpkins – Rocket
Played ad nauseam, it became a source of strength in my life. China was sick of hearing it, sick of me talking about it and most of all sick of me disturbing her reading time.
Robyn – Bum Like You
Karaoke and I have a mutual understanding, I avoid it all costs and if I show up, it better have some Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, The Hives or Robyn in the book. Not the old Robyn crap, which is standard overproduced pop trash that stifled her badassery.
Primal Scream – Come Together
Pope Benedict XVI stated that only church approved music should be listened to by Catholics. Music was an “instrument of the Devil” and the emotions created needed to be regulated. Gospels impact on worshipers creates a striking impression on outsiders. One that provides an innate curiosity of why people fall under a spell and the horror being disconnected to something so foreign and powerful.
Hyper Crush – Sex & Drugs
In an effort to traumatize my sisters kids, I played this song as an educational resource. Would they be conflicted viewing their uncle bounce around and grooving madly, rapping passionately like a Karaoke vet, all while preaching being virtuous human beings?