KOTS - City Pop

king_of_the_slums

Not sure if we've had this one, but found it with English subs, great video as well.

Best Pop Music on the planet, but with the subs you can see there's a message in this candy assed pop.

This one's about getting old, looking at the present and future, sitting with someone you love, measuring the compromises you've made, fearful for how time starts to speed up at 50, lamenting the fact you're chalking off seasons and years at pace. A brilliant dichotomy between lyric and melody. The title, No Time!

king_of_the_slums

Pop right, but still need the skills, nothing manufactured here.

Flaneur

king_of_the_slums That is fucking great.

Music like this hits me right in the emotions. It's 70s pop played by great musicians, the sound on the thermals coming from a ice cream van/snack bar on an early holiday, never loud, but 'there' enough to knuckle-tap you on the temple. It's the bgm in an airport store that sells satchels that make you want to be the VP of something or other.

What is that, when the past is pointing to the future and you can't articulate it, but you can feel it?

How can music be the only thing that does this to you?

That track's just gone straight into two of my favourite playlists. Danke.

king_of_the_slums

Flaneur Skillz, they've got tonnes of bangers, I'll let you find them..

oneallanclarke

king_of_the_slums

oneallanclarke love it, fancy going into Jumbo and asking for some Kenny G, then it happening 50 times a day ☺

king_of_the_slums

Class, pop, reggae, acoustic, song about falling in love with an alien, or being an outsider, or homosexual, or maybe all three. Some talent here, lad singing was a founder of Kirinji, this was there first hit song. Toki Asako, delicious voice, used to have a thing for her. Tiny desk Japan, always hits different.

king_of_the_slums

Playing Golden Lion Todmoden end of August, might come back..

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