The sound recordings she listens to as she writes, dances, dines, or drifts off to Bedfordshire.
(All selections: © So-Rim Lee. All Rights Reserved.)

Tuesday
09Mar2010

Depeche Mode, "Blue Dress" (Violator LP Montage)

Put it on, and don't say a word
Put it on, the one that I prefer
Put it on, and stand before my eyes
Put it on, please don't question why

Can you believe something so simple
Something so trivial makes me a happy man
Can't you understand say you believe
Just how easy it is to please me

Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

Put it on, I can feel so much
Put it on, I don't need to touch
Put it on, here before my eyes
Put it on, because you realise
And you believe

Something so worthless serves a purpose
It makes me a happy man
Can't you understand say you believe
Just how easy it is to please me

Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

Monday
08Mar2010

Rihanna, "Umbrella" (feat. Jay-Z)

[Jay-Z]
Ahuh Ahuh (Yea Rihanna) Ahuh Ahuh (Good girl gone bad)
Ahuh Ahuh (Take three... Action) Ahuh Ahuh
No clouds in my stones, let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank
Coming down with the Dow Jones
When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella
We fly higher than weather in G5's are better, You know me,
In anticipation, for precipitation. Stack chips for the rainy day
Jay, Rain Man is back with little Ms. Sunshine
Rihanna where you at?

[Rihanna]
You have my heart, and we'll never be worlds apart
May be in magazines, but you'll still be my star
Baby cause in the dark you can't see shiny cars
And that's when you need me there
With you I'll always share, because

[Chorus]
When the sun shines, we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever, said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

These fancy things, will never come in between
You're part of my entity, here for Infinity
When the war has took it's part
When the world has dealt it's cards
If the hand is hard, together we'll mend your heart
Because

When the sun shines, we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever, said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

It's raining, ooh baby it's raining
Baby come here to me, come here to me
It's raining, oh baby it's raining

Saturday
06Mar2010

Elton John, "Benny and the Jets" (Live)

My favorite Elton John, I should say. Since the 1990s. Anyone familiar with the fact that this song was featured in the film, My Girl(1991)?  I don't know what it is, it must be Benny and the Jets, this song just rings the bell. My song. B-B-B-Benny and the Jets!

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Hey kids, shake it loose together, the spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather, we'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around, you're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, but they're so spaced out
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful, oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Hey kids, plug into the faithless, maybe they're blinded
But Bennie makes them ageless we shall survive, let us take ourselves along,
Where we fight our parents out in the streets to find who's right and who's wrong,

Oh, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, but they're so spaced out
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful, oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Bennie, Bennie and the Jets! Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets!

Saturday
06Mar2010

Karina Pasian, "Slow Motion"

I Know that you've been calling me, and I'm happy that we met.
Don't think that I'm not interested, I'm just playing hard to get
So much about this crazy game they call love that I'm trying to understand.

So could you be my best friend, before you call yourself my man
Why can't I love you in slow motion, take my time,
Take away the pressures on my mind,
Really get to know you, but rewind
Wanna love you in slow motion

Why can't I?

You seem to know just what you want, and I like your confidence
Some things a girl should never rush, 'cause If you do you hurt yourself
So much about this crazy game they call love I'm still trying to understand,
So would you be my best friend, before you call yourself my man.
Why can't I love you in slow motion, take my time, take away the pressures on my mind
Really get to know you, but rewind, wanna love you in slow motion

Why can't I?

I'm too young for tears in the night, and it's to soon for this to be right
Don't wanna mess with your pride, the question's not when but why
Why can't I love you in slow motion, take my time,
Take away the pressure on my mind, really get to know you
But rewind, I wanna love you in slow motion

Why can't I?

Saturday
06Mar2010

Cocteau Twins, "Pitch The Baby"

I bought Heaven or Las Vegas in Summer 2003. Cocteau Twins was a breath of fresh air: sweeter than My Bloody Valentine, sublimer than Radiohead, intangible lyrics like all electronica. And my Brazilian friends also loved the album, we played it for three hours per day in the heart of the Atlantic Rain Forest.

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Here, too, have to have been to care for ya,’ only no-one to love, missed his friend,
Pitch the baby should be their murmur, slip me home as we seal us in,
You and that land which one dresh(?) are leaving, hold me onto a mess a plenty,
Me and that land should grow, end to a hard part meant a christmas that’s me and a friend,

Here, too, have to have been to care for ya,’ only no-one to love, missed his friend,
Pitch the baby should be their murmur, slip me home as we seal us in,
You and that land which one dresh(?) are leaving, hold me onto a mess a plenty,
Me and that land should grow, end to a hard part meant a christmas that’s me and a friend,

I only want to love you, I only want to love you
Here, too, have to have been to care for me, I only want to love you

I’m heart, and in space the plane on fill our hearts’ ascension (inside you)
It’s heft driven since the urge to sell the place isn’t very, very, very big

I’m heart, and in space the plane on fill our hearts’ ascension (inside you)
It’s heft driven since the urge to sell the place isn’t very, very, very big

I’m heart, and in space the plane on fill our hearts’ ascension,
(I only want to love you) it’s heft driven since the urge,
to sell the place isn’t very, very, very big...