Fake asian vibe

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I'd like to make myself a mix of cliched asian style occidental pop-music...
I really love the fake asian vibe you get in tracks like "Turning Japanese" by the Vapours or Aneka's "Japanese boy". About this latest track, I've seen that it's been covered in Japan, and obviously renamed "Chinese Boy" (which is kind of fair because the original really "sounded" a lot more chinese than anything...)
So, do you have any ideas for my mix ?

― snowballing from paris, Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

search: "between me and you"; "big pimpin"; the "oochy wally" instrumental.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Lori & the Chameleons-"Touch", Siouxsie & the Banshees-"Hong Kong Garden", New York Dolls-"Bad Detective", the Upper Crust-"Little Rickshaw Boy".

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Block Party", obviously.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Straight to Hell" by the Clash

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Did Bowie's "China Girl" have any of this? I forget. Also, "Kung Fu Fighting."

― wl (wl), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham Parker "Discovering Japan"

Japan "Visions of China" (or anything, really - Sylvian invented this thread)

― briania, Friday, 8 November 2002 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

sun city girls
bungle side project Secret Chiefs 3
leon Thomas "China Doll"

― JasonD, Friday, 8 November 2002 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Urge Overkill "vacation in tokyo"

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 8 November 2002 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Beach Boys "Sumahama"
(hmmm, ok maybe that's a little too tawdry)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 8 November 2002 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus: 'Is It Because I'm A Pirate' off the Tokyo-recorded Spooky Kabuki meisterwerk 'Oskar Tennis Champion'. But you'll have to wait until March 2003.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 8 November 2002 04:47 (twenty-three years ago)

On Pychic TV's "Live in Tokyo" there is a song called "Japan Boy" which rips off some of "As Tears Go By." It kind of sucks, but. . .

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 8 November 2002 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

3LW -- Leave Wit You (I Think I Wanna)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)

hoagy carmichael - hong kong blues
elvis - earth boy (!!!)

(who started and owned that thread about fake ethnic music awhile back? i can't find it)

― jones (actual), Friday, 8 November 2002 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Sultans Of Ping - "Japanese Girls"

or perhaps something by Shonen Knife.

Why do I feel like I've missed the point here?

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 8 November 2002 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

uh, not that "fremme neppa venette" bit, but the bete-venette-noir of this board has that pidgin bit in it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 November 2002 06:41 (twenty-three years ago)

XTC, "Millions," off Drums and Wires. It's about China and it has the worst (and now regretted by Andy Partridge) fake-Chinese riff in the world. Great song, though.

― Matt C., Friday, 8 November 2002 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cellos, "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)"
New York Dolls, "Bad Detective"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 8 November 2002 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fake Asian Vibe," the lyrics:

Her green plastic lyrical pen
for her fake Asian pop/rock song
with the fake plastic riff
that she stole from a Hong Kong man
in a town full of Hong Kong films
that all got remade
It wears her out.

She jams with a broken amp,
a cracked polystyrene amp that just
crackles and sparks.
It used to be used, you see,
by bands in the eighties
But warranties always end
And it's all worn out

It sounds like the real thing.
It rocks like the real thing
My fake Asian song.

But I sense with passion
The original's more in fashion.
I should download it now.
though that wears me out.

If songs could be all in English all the time.

Kill me now, what the hell am I doing thinking of all this! Sleep, blessed sleep where are you...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 November 2002 07:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Morning!

How about some fake Chinese reggae? I nominate 'Confucius' by the Skatalites.

Straight to Hell? The lyrics cover England, Asia, the US... but musically I don't hear any international references at all, let alone asian ones.

― jon (jon), Friday, 8 November 2002 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "Hong Kong"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 November 2002 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"moonlight mile" off sticky fingers has an oriental sounding riff

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 8 November 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp" by Laura Nyro

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 November 2002 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Magnetic Fields, "Tokyo a Go-Go".

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 8 November 2002 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"Got rice"

― Honda (Honda), Friday, 8 November 2002 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"house the japanese" by samurai sam.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

187 Lockdown Kung Fu

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 8 November 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Japan - "Life in Tokyo"
Urge Overkill - "Vacation in Tokyo"
Wanda Jackson - "Fujiyama Mama"
Lalo Schifrin - "Enter The Dragon Theme"
Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
Cornershop - "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu"
Nicodemus - "Suzy Wong"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ash - "kung Fu"
Alphaville - "Big In Japan"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and there were a string of "Geisha Girl" country songs after the war (kind of in the spirit of Bobby Helms' "Fraulein"), Hank Locklin had the hit and Skeeter Davis, I think, did an answer song from an ammurican girl's perspective "Lost To A Geisha Girl".

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Another was Cowboy Copas' "Filipino Baby"... and I think Jimmie Skinner did an answer song too, "I Found My Girl Here In The Good Old USA" or something like that.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Kinks - "See My Friends", "Fancy"

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 8 November 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Fritz it was you!!

― jones (actual), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

huh?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, you mean this? I got a tip from China that they stole old Buddha's gong so I took an ocean liner down to old Hong Kong

kinda related, yeah...

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

yay!!

― jones (actual), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

(i would have posted comments about "earth boy" to that thread but me-on-mgm-elvis = zzzzzz and i didn't want to disrupt your flow)

― jones (actual), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

funny how that thread is about exactly the same thing as the Vice Mag thread which got like 60,000 posts and nobody would touch it 6 months earlier ('course that could have something to do with my framing the argument on obscure doo wop references).

and jones, i think you just painted yourself into an mgm elvis thread. let's have it.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

rereading it, it ain't "exactly" the vice thread but it does touch on some of the same stuff

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

also "chinese radiation" by pere ubu

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 8 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

What does Fremme Neppa Venette mean in Missy Elliots song "Work it" ????

― Carol Petry, Sunday, 29 December 2002 04:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I've had an awful nightmare last night. I dreamed I had became a 50 years old salaryman, with a large car and a few kids. I was wandering in a place I didn't know, something like a closed supermarket, a very dark place. I think I was searching for one of my kids in the deserted alleys. And I could not find my kid, and I felt really nervous because of that.
Suddenly I saw someone moving... It was a very old and very dirty lady, looking rather strange. She was intensely staring at me, and I could hardly breathe... Then she started speaking in a very scary voice.... "Do ... you... know what Fremme Neppa Venette... means ?"

― snowballing from paris, Monday, 30 December 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

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