Crazy Blues released a new song, today: “Natsu, Kakenukeruyona“. I really like and have played it a good handful of times already.
While I’m sure someone will have synced the music is no time at all [turns out the video has timed subs and it would have been trivial to get those], I thought it might be nice to go through and do my own syncing. Sometimes I like breaking up lines a bit differently than “normal” and this one has a few repeated lines and diversions I had fun working in.
The “hey!” “ooo” and “aa” might not be the most exact, but that’s what they sounded like to my English speaking ears so I went with it.
All in all, it matches up with “YoungGirlsNeverApart” and “Light Song.” Crazy Blues is a perfect name for their sound. Joyous and wistful in equal measure. Whatever EP/LP they are cooking up will be astounding.
I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.
Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.
Barbara and Kaz holding a collander to create the many-mini-eclipses effect.
I don’t have a lot of photos from the afternoon of the Full-to-Some, Partial-to-Us solar eclipse which happened on 12 August 2026. I have a few though, and the above and below ones are my favorite.
There’s a bonus Doug in the shadows, there.
I think my favorite part was everything wearing “mermaid scales” as the eclipse passed through the trees.
Also, apparently Kaz’s t-shirt was apparently just a coincidence.
Ok, maybe not so much about cilantro but about being a taste that stands out — for better and worse — rather than something that other people offer. It’s a cute way of using a well-understood food metaphor to flirt.
I support this.
And Veno is a queen of food-based flirtations. From the more obvious “Midnight Lu Rou Fan” to the somewhat subdued request to sip some orange juice in “Don’t Stop the Thrill.”
I really like this song. Ok, NOW…now I’ll try and get through the backlog.
My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube. No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little) though it started as “daily”. It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.
You can see at least the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.
When I started the process of translating komsume’s lyrics, I semi-expected some of the newer tracks — like “Lycoris” and “Orion” — to maybe need to be synced by me but I was a bit surprised to find out that their first single — “Baku,” which has actually three tracks — was also not synced.
And for some reason their first EP, Hankouki, didn’t seem to have the third track synced. At least not in the databases I use. Shazam users might be eating just fine. I don’t know. That’s between them and their god. They know what they did.
They were my next project because I love listening to komsume. Again I used LyricSynapse and for the first time did almost all my work in it, alone.
Some of their lyrics really confused the program.
To explain, imagine you had a pair of lines like this in English:
My heart is full of a winter Snowstorm blowing anger and white
Except you sing it like this:
My heart is full of a win ter snowstorm blow ing anger and white
It is a perfectly cromulent way of singing and kind of the way I write poetry, but it can confuse programs looking for a bit more of a gap. This means a few lines kind of have to trip over each other in my timing.
Also, the lyrics I found posted for “Shissou” were missing the final, “疾走” (aka, shissou, the name of the song). And there was a few “woah woah aaa” type bits I added in though others I left out. It’s all vibes, here.
“Baku” has a longer spoken bit — “(足音が近づいて呼吸が早くなって 都合の悪いことからは目を背け続けた 辛いのは全部自分のせい そう思えば少しは楽になる気がした)” — that I just put in parentheses (pictured) but treated as a single line rather than trying to break up the bit.
I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.
Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.
kurayamisaka dropped the MV (and single) for “Summer Film” recently and I thought the video was neat and really, really dug the song…
…as well as it’s b-side: “Hamabe Ni Chiru.”
BUT, not only was neither track properly synced there was an omission of the submitted lyrics for “Summer Film” and the search I was doing for HNC was coming back with lyrics for some entirely different song.
The omission by the way can be heard at around the 4:10 mark in the video. There’s a nursery rhyme being chanted in a way that blends a lot with the music. I used Ultimate Voice Remover to separate the lyrics out and could get it a bit clearer but couldn’t completely place it without some digging.
Turns out it is the first three lines of “Shabondama” being repeated. If they are saying the fourth line, it is completely swallowed in post production. I assume they are NOT saying the fourth line, because it is the line about the soap bubble popping when it hits the ceiling. By leaving that out, the bubble is still hitting the ceiling, but it persists. Which goes along with the shirt being worn in the video: “There is always light behind the clouds.”
Even though video depicts something like loss of someone you love, or at least some sort of separation, it continues to show bubbles rising even as the people fade.
It is likely a coincidence but the imagery of water falling while air rises makes me think of the I Ching hexagram “The Well” (48) which is all about reaching deeper into yourself to find new resources while avoiding shallow thinking. As the water sinks below the air, it becomes “Dispersing” (59) which is can be about letting go of your interior barriers and expanding yourself. Both fit themes of the video, I think.
At any rate, I have linked the lyrics above which includes the “Shabondama” lines starting in roughly the right place but initially there is a bit of a blend.
Tools used this time include the two usual suspects — LyricSynapse and Foobar2000/OpenLyrics — but with the addition of Ultimate Voice Remover which should save some time on some future versions of my big old lyrics project.
I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.
Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.
I have survived a second week of a band-spotlight and this roughly wraps up the first month of this [I skipped a couple of days and weekends] so let’s get to the Durry Week finisher, “Dead Media“:
“Dead Media” started out a bit differently. It was originally a hidden track on their physical copies of This Movie Sucks: a celebration of “owning” songs and not just streaming them.
Now, of course, it has succumbed to the pressure of Spotify and the like, but for a brief-ish moment it was a testament to its own lyrics before it became a testament to its own lyrics:
I’m an addict I admit it But it’s how I make a living Selling cheap tricks But I got it A few more seconds Of your life I’m like a vampire For your time
It is an odd moment for the more socially aware artists to realize that they are part of the noise that they often write against. In another Durry song, “Bully,” we hear the lyrics:
Greetings people of the internet It’s your friend from the real world I’ve been reaching out trying to make contact But all I’m getting back Are really mean comments
Only Durry is not your friend from the real world. At least, not for the majority of us. For most of us, Durry is very much so a band we found through streaming sites and Youtube. Being addicted to the “cellphone light” is how we learned the joy of listening to Durry.
From a whole other artist, you could see Grandson’s “Brainrot,” a video that might feature in the next round so I won’t deep dive too hard. We get a lyric talking about people with their new smartphones having batteries “mined by a kid in a warzone.” Only, smartphone users are Grandson’s target audience.
It is a dissonance rampant in this current era. I can rant about The Algorithm™ all I want but without it, no one will find this blog. Without it, I would never have had Durry’s “Who’s Laughing Now?” or Grandson’s “Blood/Water” recommended to me.
I imagine I am a good bit below the average phone usage of many modern people — it’s not like being on a desktop all day really makes a huge difference, mind — but that phone which represents capitalism at its spikiest and the potential death of a future is also a gateway to a potential better future.
One where we own our own dead media before the AI chatbots buy it all up to consume it and destroy it. The bastards.
Also, Spotify sucks. I use Youtube Music (technically, more like I use Youtube [obvs] and some of the stuff is a byproduct of YTM) so I’m being a hypocrite but they mostly all suck. Pandora at least tried paying people. I…think…Qobuz is ok. Nice FLACs is the only way I use it.
For real, Space Pilgrims, go and buy your shit and then curate and show it off and share it and stuff. Stop letting AI-generated playlists replace your control over your own media. You’ll be dead soon enough.
We are being trained to listen to artists who are being trained to beg us for likes just to keep making art while AI-bros who own the platforms are shilling the heat death of the artistic universe.
My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube. No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little) though it started as “daily”. It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.
You can see at least the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.
I love listening to Sam Vazquez sing. She has a voice which is very much her own thing. Like a musical instrument dancing with words from the middle of the tongue. With just enough post-production to map a way through the mountains of lyrics that fit so well with her talents.
For example:
I am really happy she released a full album. It snuck up on me this past month. I like all the songs but some of the standouts for me are “Es Lo Que Hay,” “Mua Mua Mua,” “Quierre Quierre,” and “Dime Que Me Quieres” (with Big Sempa).
Only a couple of the songs on that album were synced even as of today so I spent a couple of hours syncing every song and doing some tweaks to the lyrics to better match the rhythm of what is actually sung [putting in repeated lines, better reflecting the number of times words were sung].
There are a few places with overlap I did the best I could.
As of now, these v1.0
I used LyricSynapse [had it working better than yesterday] with back-up support from Foobar2000/OpenLyrics.
Songs are untranslated Spanish but feel free to slap them into Google Translate (etc) and get them in whatever you language you prefer. No matter which language you speak, you should listen to more Sam Vazquez.
I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.
Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.
Frankly, it was a three-way tie between “IDK I Just Work Here,” “This Movie Sucks,” and “A Little More Dumb.” I think I like the song for “Movie” more, and the lyrics for “Dumb” more, but the combination of song + video edges out to “Work”.
It is another in their outstanding oeuvre of working class Millennial songs:
They don’t own me They just own the only thing that’s keeping me alive They swear that’s not a threat Cause I could always starve to death I guess I’ll pledge allegiance to the paycheck
The final song is already locked and loaded and next week we return to the backlog, but in between I have an idea for something special to do.
My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube. No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little) though it started as “daily”. It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.
You can see at least the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.
These are mostly in the original English with a few exceptions:
Some have a bit of screaming/chanting and I sometimes noted it and sometimes did not.
“Dies Ist Unverschamtheit” has several lines in German and I did go ahead and translate those, even the ones that are pretty obvious in context.
There are a few editorials here or there. I tried to mostly use them to point out aspects of the song where it might be confusing if you are following by the lyrics.
Special shout out for this lyric from “Power Up!”:
No pension plan Think tank is bankrupt Sixty-eight ninety-five Just for one Magno-Gun charge Otto Destruct’s engaged Dark Crab’s in A.A Our stock is plummeting They pulled the plug on Deep Freeze
“Otto Destruct”… so good. Much more enjoyable than syncing “KABLAM!” 75x. 😉
As of this time, consider these all v1.0. No doubt there are some glitches here or there but I did correct a LOT of the lyrics and fixed several glitches. Only maybe 3-4 of these songs were previously synced.
Tools used for this were LyricSynapse [I’ll save a review until I have used it more] and Foobar2000/OpenLyric.
After realizing that batch uploads like the 7thVega one won’t really be findable by folks, I have opted for a per-album version. Let us see how this goes.
I am sharing lyrics when I have contributed significant amounts of time syncing them [and in some cases: translating]. These are mostly for a personal project and the original lyrics, timings, songs, and so forth are all property of the performer and songwriters. My personal contribution is being released CC-0 but this does not include the lyrics themselves OR their translations. I make no guarantee about the translations.
Lyrics can be found via Google Drive. They are almost always in LRC format and in a naming convention that matches my source {Bandcamp, Apple, etc}. You might need to change them to suit your naming scheme if it varies.
This song is in between their two albums and shows some degrees of transition between those two moments. Surburban Legend grew out of a few years of singles and shifts. By contrast, This Movie Sucks was a year of a much more concentrated effort.
And, again, in the middle, is a song about feeling like you are supposed to still be a kid when you are also expected to be an adult:
I love dungeons and dragons In the basement with my friends Everybody’s got commitments It’s getting hard to plan
And everyday I’m playing dress up Go to work and play pretend That I grew out of it But I can’t
We’ll be Teenagers forever But not forever young Always on the cusp of growing up But it’s never quite enough
My Music Video Picks [MVP] is a series of posts highlighting various music and dance videos from Youtube. No particular schedule (sometimes lots, sometimes little) though it started as “daily”. It might not even all be music or dance videos. Absolutely picked by me, though. Usually I have to like both the song and the video, but we’ll see.
You can see at least the most recent songs here: [Doug’s] Music Video Picks [Youtube Playlist]. Size of that list will change as the mood strikes. Playlist might contain spoilers for unpublished posts. Just enjoy.
