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It is of great pleasure that I finally get down to writing a blog entry on classical music.  When there is something that timeless, it’s easy to put the idea off to another day, and another day.  Most of you may not know that deep inside of this metal head, rocker wannabe of mine is [...]

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I made a promise to myself that I will contribute my thought on Mai Kuraki’s 7th album to the online community back in March this year.  Her albums don’t come cheap.  The RRP are S$72 (USD 52) and S$52 (USD 38) after discount.  And you can’t pick a random Japanese album to sample in HMV.  So what I [...]

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I have yet to figure out if each tragedy the band Def Leppard encountered leads to a success or each success curses them with a tragedy.
In year 1983, the UK rock band Def Leppard became famous after their third album “Pyromania” reached 10 times platinum in US alone.  In the following year, the drummer Rick Allen [...]

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If you have purchased Utada Hikaru’s latest album lately, you may wish to check if track 10 is truncated towards the end of the song.  The friendly assistant at HMV (Citilink) was ripping the plastic covers of more than 10 of her CDs open including a newer batch and an older batch and they all have the [...]

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Once in a blue moon, I do come cross great vocalists whom even from one of my least favorite genres - in this case Hip Hop R&B - I just have to dig it and own the album.  A bilingual and an opera trained, this 20 years old singer songwriter of Dominican Republic does have a recorded voice [...]

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… and then kill me again.
I must have heard that one song “LOVE & TRUTH” no less than 400 times by now as I have frequently left my players (Hi-fi, mp3 phone, PC iTune) on single song repeat mode while traveling, working, reading, and blogging ever since YUI’s third album has landed in Singapore.  And if you think that I [...]

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I really love “Play”.  Oh yes, I do.  Perhaps it’s because of the disco clubs by the beach of Grand Bay, Mauritius, that my project team often frequented (oh sweet days of Banana Café), and at that time, Moby’s “Play” was hot.  It was the sunset, the sea breeze, the sand, the resort, and the [...]

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We have watched the Muse concert at Fort Canning Singapore back in January last year and that, has blown our minds.  Can HAARP - a CD and DVD collection recorded at Wembley UK on June 16 and 17 respectively - blow our minds too?  The answer is a definite yes.
I won’t go through much of the details [...]

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To tell you the truth, I am more thrilled by BoA’s phenomenal success in the music industry at the age of 21 than her music itself.  Straddled between the Korean and Japanese markets, her 11th studio album is a Japanese release that attained the number 1 position in the Oricon chart the 6th consecutive time [...]

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Strange to say, I thought Yuna Ito’s 2nd album “Wish” is much better than her debut “Heart” in so many different ways but yet, the sales figure so far doesn’t agree with me.  Perhaps the movies “Nana” and “Nana 2” that she has acted in and her accompanying soundtracks did help to push the sales [...]

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