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A series of Chinese (in the broader sense) music videos

Have been listening to some sino pop, strangely nothing to do with the Olympics. Just the usual thing where I hear one good tune on YouTube and then I follow the links - suddenly, it’s already lunch and I have no work done. But the Olympics is a good excuse I guess. So today and for the next few days, I’ll post a series of popular canto and taiwo pop music videos. Some are very catchy, others I like despite myself. Anyway, you can be the judge…

First up, Taiwanese born Jay Chou’s Fearless from the martial arts movie of the same name. And yes, apparently that IS him doing a falsetto duet with himself. Love it.

Snap, Crackle and Minipop!

Minipop brought to you by the sixty one - a musical experiment. If you have indie leanings then there are plenty of little gems to be found.

A small music break…

Some of the things I’m listening to at the moment because they were on a super cool radio show:

Walter Meego - in particular Girls and Forever. They list their interests on MySpace as “kitty cat. beach ball. unicorns!”

Speaking of unicorns, I cannot get the Planet Unicorn theme out of my head. Very silly but rather funny. My favourite unicorn is Cadillac.

Lucky Dragon’s “Givers

Mirah’s “La familia

Major Major’s “Mess you up

Boy 8-bit’s “The suspense is killing me”

Ladytron’s “International Dateline

Oh and the Spruce Lee remix of Architecture in Helsinki’s “Heart it races” but it wasn’t on the show.

Feist at the Grammys

I’m seeing her live in a couple of weeks, can hardly wait… here is her doing 1 2 3 4 at the Grammys.

[The video got removed, so here she is doing I Feel It All on the Colbert Report - btw the concert was so totally good.]

She’s so cool.

The Ruby Suns - a small selection

A friend from work lent me a copy of the Ruby Sunseponymous album, really lovely melodious stuff - with hints of everything from the Beach Boys to Interpol. I love!

They are led by a man whose real name, apparently, is Ryan McPhun. They are a NZ band but Mr McFun hails from California. They have a MySpace and a selection of video goodies on YouTube.

The wonderfully super basic video of Maasai Mara:

And a film someone made of them doing Criterion in Paris (”Paris was grey, The Ruby Suns just arrived from a sunny place… They were free, they played in the city like they would haved on the beach. The only thing missing was a barbecue…”):

The album art is really pretty too - the cd itself has these bright colourful balloons all over it - makes me happy just looking at it whenever I go to play it.

They remind me a little of Quiet Company.

Christopher Walken kicks some… dance?!!

Who knew he was such a good dancer before Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice clip? I always suspected he could fly though.

There some silly versions of this - Benny Hill and YMCA mashups. It’s also spawned a number of imitators, quite understandably - it’s a pretty cool dance.

Here’s ThePaperO attempting the great dance:

And the dervishes in the Guild Wars game are programmed to do it apparently!

But it would appear there were hints

Puss in Boots Walken:

And here he is doing his thang as a Dancin’ Pimp in Pennies from Heaven.

Bonds and Bonde do Role

Bonds seem to have taken over the reins from Just Jeans and Portmans in having brilliant music dependent ads. One of their most recent ones is this fun Kaleidoscope commercial:

It features “Marina Gasolina” from Brazilian group, Bonde do Rolê from their album With Lasers.

Office Boy has also been seen doing the rounds on ABC’s Rage, and their record company has nicely provided an embeddable YouTube for us:

Listen to more on their MySpace.

Could this be the saddest video ever?

Okay, maybe there might be sadder videos out there but this one is still pretty sad. I can’t work out who it’s sadder for, but the dancing is pretty slick. It’s the Avalanches “Since I left you“.

Some general Israeli folkiness

Shmulik Krauss and Josie Katz singing something, no idea what it is because I don’t speak Hebrew, but I like it - it’s folky and sounds like a few other songs mixed up but probably isn’t. Who knows?

Emiliana Torrini has a nice voice

Yes, I do have a knack for stating the obvious. The Icelandic songstress was the eerie voice behind Gollum Song in Lord of the Rings.

She also provided the underlying track to this ever so sweet Bonds Hoodies ad (love ‘em):

You can see a whole concert of hers at FabChannel.com:

For more, you can check out her website and MySpace.