Livin' On The Edge

Get ready for a turbid weekend with

Séverine Ol, Bastien Phillips, Stefán J-Yvesson,

Sylvain Bizon, David Talbot, and Vincent Migeira.

 

Suspicious Minds

Get ready for an incredulous weekend with Belime.

 

For Your Love

Get ready for a transactional weekend with The Apples.

 

Lazy Bones

Get ready for a languorous weekend with Matthieu Boré.

 

Laila Canggung

Get ready for an awkward weekend with Sebaya Project. 

 

Oh My Darling, Clementine

Get ready for a lamenting weekend with Gemma Caldwell.

 

Substitute

Get ready for an ersatz weekend with Joe Griffin.

 

All Shook Up

Get ready for a jittery weekend with Cristian Cabeytu and friends.

 

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Get ready for forsaking weekend with Elize Fleury.

 

Did You Hear They're Talking About the End of the World Again

Get ready for a cessating weekend with LUX the band.

 

He’ll Have To Go

Get ready for a designating weekend with Gary Toward.

 

Shake Hands and Walk in a Small Circle

Get ready for a puzzling weekend with Thilina Blyz.

 

Tea for Two

Get ready for a formulating weekend with Bandera, Motis and Fumero.

 

You Keep Me Hangin' On

Get ready for an extirpating weekend with Sarah McLeod and Scott Eckel.

 

Christmas TGIF

Just before Christmas I have a different TGIF music video post. I figure we've all heard the usual Christmas songs about a gazillion times, so I post Japanese Christmas songs for a change.

While strictly speaking, not a holiday, Christmas is popular in Japan. However, since Japan is Shinto and Buddhist it is does not have religious trappings. The Christian elements have been stripped out and only the secular remain: Santa Claus, decorations, presents, snowmen, jingle bells and so forth.

Christmas day will feature a family dinner, often times and oddly enough a bucket of KFC fried chicken. However, Christmas Eve has morphed into a couples' holiday akin to Valentines Day. That is why a lot of their Christmas music ends up being sappy love songs like the one above (and what sort of a dope proposes with an empty ring box?).  

The video below shows the travails of dateless salary men on Christmas Eve. Of course, Japan being Japan, nobody does ridiculous quite as well as Japanese girl bands, and so we follow with a few of those, ending with my favorite which starts frantically and only gets more insane. 

One Toke Over the Line

Get ready for a bogarting weekend with JS Morse and Midnight Shadow.

 

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Get ready for a TSA pat down weekend with Rolin Nababan. 

 

Thanks For The Memory

Since it is in the middle of a long weekend Good Friday's TGIF music video is a bit different. A few years ago, before the inevitable onslaught of December's Christmas music, I decided to play some Thanksgiving music. Much to my horror I discovered there was no such genre, so I decided to create a catalog of Thanksgiving music to correct that grievous oversight.

The first song added to the catalog was Thanks for the Memory. Well, another year has passed and once again I've been far too indifferent busy to add to the catalog. Maybe next year I'll finally get around to adding a second tune to the Thanksgiving music corpus, but in the meantime we get to enjoy Thanks for the Memory again, this time by Dave Pell.

 

Let It Be

Get ready for a noninterfering weekend with Matt Hylom.

Kaanha

Get ready for a mythological weekend with the Anand Bhaskar Collective.