Tizzy Bac - Every Dog Has It's Lawn

My favourite Taiwanese band, from their newish album Now playing, the tell tale heart. Not the best track on the album, but only one in English. More important, Tizzy Bac will play at KITEC Hong Kong on Sept 17, the first day of Taiwan Calling 2011. The adventurous hedgehog is looking forward to Echo on the 18th. Not cheap at HK$680, but you do get to see 18 bands.

Perfect day

This is not quite what it looks like. Perfect Day (Lou Reed) by Faith Yang ft. Eason Chan over a few minutes from the Japanese movie Taiyou no uta. Just to confuse things, the girl in video is not Faith, but J-pop star Yui who plays the lead in the movie. But I guess that's the kind of thing people do on YouTube.

This is from her Self-selected album of English covers released on Sony BMG in April, which definitely ups the ante for my-favourite-songs albums. Other tracks are Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead), The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve), Halellujah (Leonard Cohen), 20th Century Boy (T-Rex), Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey), Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova), Song 2 (Blur), The Scientist (Coldplay), After Hours (The Velvet Underground) and Miss Underwater, which is not a cover but a song written for her by Maximilian Hecker.

I think Lou Reed would like this version and he would like this badly recorded live version even more.