This is exactly what the title sounds like. You don’t need to share anything especially obscure or cool. Just whatever has some artistic merit in your eyes. I know a decent amount about Chinese language stuff (though certainly not enough). I’d like to know more about Thai, Indonesian, and non-K-pop Korean music — though I’m sure there’s amazing music from other places off my radar.
I have nothing against Japan, by the way — I just feel like Japan is already over represented in discussions about East Asian music, and I don’t want this to become “The Japanese music thread”. Note though that non-Japanese covers of Japanese songs are perfectly fine.
I’ll start off with two songs that feel like opposites to me. The first is “Those without ideals don’t get hurt” by a mainland Chinese group, The New Pants Band:
https://youtu.be/6Ut5zTJkN4c
The second is this song from Leon Lai, from when he transformed into a hip hop sort of guy, about the coming of the new millenium:
The CMS has eaten my post twice so uhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm gonna do this later but suffice it to say I have a Very Large List for you to listen to in a while.
Before we get to my stuff, I really wonder where this mainland rock sound comes from, because I don't think you'd hear this exact type of rock music anywhere else, but you'll hear it all over the place there.
@exodus#9569 Yeah, I‘ve had very similar thoughts before. It’s a sound that feels simple enough that it should show up everywhere, but when I relisten to American bands that I thought had songs that sound like this, it's not really the same.
Anyway, awaiting your recommendations!
@yeso#9570 I listened to the first song just now, and, well, I'm probably going to have to listen to her whole discography now. This is great.
i have a houseplant i named “kang suji”. the plant is a variety of branch-y succulent known colloquially as “devil's backbone”. I found a bunch of stalks in a pile of garbage and stuck them in some potting soil, then left it outside for a month. it turned into a bush, which i brought inside. i'll post it in a houseplants thread or something someday.
that Saigon compilation is incredible. Have also come across khmer rock/folk from the same time but it’s tough to listen to knowing what happened to those musicians
I’m also going to post this, since I saw it just now when I was going through videos I’d liked on Youtube. My ex-girlfriend had told me that it was her favorite song as a child: