Like some of their more recent music, DJ DOC’s “Murphy’s Law,” 1995, is heavily Caribbean — but “Murphy’s Law” has the breath of discovery, whole new worlds open for adventure. I would say that K-pop’s time of greatness is right now, but nothing from now sounds as loose and open as…

Anybody know anything about this? According to Billboard, it’s been on the K-pop chart for 39 weeks, never getting above 35. A trot rhythm, ballad-like but definitely Asian. In the olden days, this would have been my stereotype of…

Korean girl group Sistar begin their latest single with this arresting couplet:

“I don’t wanna cry
Destroy my eyes.”

At least that’s how a few people heard it on the Jukebox. Great line, even if it’s…

Tom posts this in quotes as his hed, gives his response, including this:

It’s a cry which goes up vs boring writing sometimes but it’s a standard nothing else I can think of gets held to. Writing about film should feel like a film, writing about sports should feel like sports, writing about memes should LOL W/EV, writing about dance etc etc

I’ve never seen anyone…

My brother, Richard, says I’m right in insisting that the third chord in “Heart And Soul” is ii not IV. This pertains to a discussion I had somewhere with Dave (on a “Friday” comment thread, I believe). I think that if you play…

Dead Lester thread is getting close to where LiveJournal does that horrible thing of collapsing subthreads on us, so if you have any more responses to what’s on that thread, I suggest you do so on this one. (Embedding PiL just…

Not going to get into a lot of football talk here, but two things struck me yesterday about Peter King’s MMQB Tuesday Edition. First is this sentence. “I am thinking about the game, and about all the head trauma, and I…

Teasing out the parts:

0:00 Intro: muted, moody sax, sets the serious tone that the song will subsequently embellish, lampoon, demolish, reassert, etc., meanwhile, underneath, a keyboard suggests a dance and a counterrhythm → 0:16 1st part of verse: HyunA lays out the…

Comment Of The Day:

KPOP FANS SHOWED TODAY HOW DISGUSTING AND SICK THEY ARE!!! THEY ARE HITLERS!!!
I WALKED NICELY ON THE STREET WHEN CRAP FELL ON MY HEAD! I LOOKED UP AND SAW 3 BASTARDAS SCREAMING 2NE1’S POWER!!!
IT WAS SO DUSGUSTING! I STRTED TO…

I think of Shinsadong Tiger tracks as catchy and spare, with some interesting musical countermotions but not overstuffed with them. 4minute’s “Hot Issue” is a brilliant example (to be talked about in some later post), and is…