Vol.22 - 4 X 4 on #TUNESTALKSG

"4 X 4 on #TUNESTALKSG" is a new ongoing serial feature where I showcased/share 4 tracks / MVs from 4 Random Albums I have in my eclectic collection ... some might get their own Full Album Listens, most might not, cheers.

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2004's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" is still my favourites album from American rock band My Chemical Romance. If I remembered currently, I first saw the MV for "Helena" on MTV, then a flashback to "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", and I adored their sound and melody. Then came "The Ghost of You" that blew me out of my chair, and into seeking their album in the record shop. Gerard Way became the personification of an anthem-bearer of regret, that has continued to emote me til this very day, when I indulge in the manifestation of "self-angst", moved emotional to dreaded phantom tears of the past that has yet to happen.



Remembering this period in my work-life where I dwelled intensively into harder sounds, meant to pump up my energy for a longer (6 months) project, and was apart of my playlists which included Foo Fighters and Linkin Park lol ... aaaahhh "youth"...! Or maybe I was grasping hard at the "spirit of youth" for which I was essentially grown out of already ... :p

BUY FROM AMAZON:
Buy "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Deluxe Edition) Red and Black Marble 2LP
Buy "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Deluxe Edition)"
Buy "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" CD

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SMAP is the sole J-POP boy group I have collected the most of thru ,y adult years, but can barely remember any distinctive tracks from memory (besides "Lionheart" OMFG), until I hear them again ... LOL ... and of course this 2000 album "S map 〜SMAP 014" from "Sports Music Assemble People" DOES contain "らいおんハート" :)



BUY FROM AMAZON:
Buy "SMAP 014" CD

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"4 Force" is Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing's fourth studio album, released 2001. I enjoyed the melodic-indie-rock flavour morphed from their earlier synth-pop sounds, which somehow primed me to embrace anime opening and closing tracks (but that's just me :p). This is "fragile".

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You folks have no idea (not that I've attempted to tell folks who don't want to listen tho LOL) how impactful Wong Kar-wai and his early films are to many life. Not just the visual and aesthetics seen on screen (Chris Doyle FTW), but also memorable are his music for his films, which to me emotionally parallels Quentin Tarantino's use of music to evoke stories untold or unspoken (IMHO). "Mood music" at its best, if you insist. And tracked down I did for all his earlier films pre-"In The Mood For Love".

The 1995 Hong Kong film "Fallen Angels (墮落天使)", was one such OST. Shpown below is the film's trailer, which used Massive Attack's "Karmacoma".



BONUS: MV for "Karmacoma" directed by Michel Gondry!