This one popped up after I found the original version of “In Front of City Hall at the Subway Station” — and am I ever happy. I’m sure I’ve heard it before. Ain’t serendipity grand. The peaceful easy feeling I get while listening reminds me of country rock and Hawaiian music from the 70s and early 80s. The harmonies are lovely. Daebak!
Thanks for the links! Zoo seems to have a lovely sound. I am glad to have discovered more of their music through your links. It also seems that Shin Won-Ho PD seems to have a thing for Zoo (or whoever he works with on OSTs for his dramas does)? Their music has been used – as far as I can tell – in the OSTs for Reply 1988, Reply 1994 and Hospital Playlist.
You’re most welcome, @pickleddragon. I’m so glad you enjoy this piece. It only makes sense that the music of Zoo / Dongmulwon would be used in dramas set in those days. It was in the air back then. There’s nothing like music to transport one instantly back in time… even a time one was never a part of. I’m sure that Korean viewers have a visceral response to this music that I cannot, simply because I’m a tourist from another place. But I can still recognize the emotions it conveys — and I certainly can sense that it is from an earlier, less-frenetic, “kinder, gentler” time.
Maybe because it’s folk rock it’s a lot more accessible to me than later styles of pop music, much of which I find abhorrent. Now that I’m older, I can understand how the generations who were surrounded with Tin Pan Alley, big bands, and the Great American Songbook (and the Gay Nineties and vaudeville tunes of my grandparents’ childhood!) were dismayed by the advent of rock ‘n’ roll and its variants and successors. I have the same response to rap and soulless, over-produced bump-and-grind pop music. Singer-songwriters and folkies are more my speed, and always have been. I could appreciate some of the boy bands of the 90s that harked back to the emotions, melodies, and harmonies of doo-wop — and did it without Auto-Tune. I hope they pop up in HOSPITAL PLAYLIST. I’ll post a couple of my favorites.
For some reason I never got into the REPLY series, probably because sageuk is my favorite genre, and I couldn’t keep up with the multitude of characters (which I’m somewhat better at doing now). Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot, but I also recall hearing about the “who’s the husband” uproar, and it wasn’t appealing.
We share similar views on music, even though (I think) we are a few generations apart! Auto-tune is .. erm.. not exactly my favourite ‘instrument’. 😀 I like to listen to voices and sounds raw, which is why, I suppose, the acoustic sounds that most folk rock tends to use are what I am naturally drawn towards.
The REPLY series, I think, is best appreciated by someone who has “lived” the times. I watched 1988 and 1997, and I thought they were okay, not as great as people made it out to be. But I can understand why a certain kind of audience would have loved it (the ‘visceral response’ you speak of). I can think of similar dramas set in my city and in my childhood years that I return to only for nostalgic reasons, which would be completely lost on a foreign audience. I think the ‘guessing game’ is just a plot device to keep people hooked to the dramas, which otherwise have very little else going for them. There’s really no story, other than “such was life in the 1980s/1990s”. The production and acting was high quality, and certainly right up there among the better kdramas I have seen (limited though in number). If this kind of a package appeals to you, I’d recommend them. 88 over 97, unless a focus on romance is preferred, in which case, I’d reverse it. I haven’t watched 1994, and do not intend to.
HOSPITAL PLAYLIST seems to be going down the same ‘guessing game’ path, and I’m not sure if I’ll survive the series. But if it has music like this, I’ll be checking in for sure! 😀
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PakalanaPikake
April 17, 2020 at 8:07 AM
Another earworm from Dongmulwon
Zoo: “I Will Love You” neol salanghagess-eo 널 사랑하겠어 (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0woszDR-4
https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/76824/all#nav-entity
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PakalanaPikake
April 17, 2020 at 8:16 AM
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This one popped up after I found the original version of “In Front of City Hall at the Subway Station” — and am I ever happy. I’m sure I’ve heard it before. Ain’t serendipity grand. The peaceful easy feeling I get while listening reminds me of country rock and Hawaiian music from the 70s and early 80s. The harmonies are lovely. Daebak!
pickleddragon
April 18, 2020 at 12:10 AM
Thanks for the links! Zoo seems to have a lovely sound. I am glad to have discovered more of their music through your links. It also seems that Shin Won-Ho PD seems to have a thing for Zoo (or whoever he works with on OSTs for his dramas does)? Their music has been used – as far as I can tell – in the OSTs for Reply 1988, Reply 1994 and Hospital Playlist.
PakalanaPikake
April 18, 2020 at 6:41 PM
You’re most welcome, @pickleddragon. I’m so glad you enjoy this piece. It only makes sense that the music of Zoo / Dongmulwon would be used in dramas set in those days. It was in the air back then. There’s nothing like music to transport one instantly back in time… even a time one was never a part of. I’m sure that Korean viewers have a visceral response to this music that I cannot, simply because I’m a tourist from another place. But I can still recognize the emotions it conveys — and I certainly can sense that it is from an earlier, less-frenetic, “kinder, gentler” time.
Maybe because it’s folk rock it’s a lot more accessible to me than later styles of pop music, much of which I find abhorrent. Now that I’m older, I can understand how the generations who were surrounded with Tin Pan Alley, big bands, and the Great American Songbook (and the Gay Nineties and vaudeville tunes of my grandparents’ childhood!) were dismayed by the advent of rock ‘n’ roll and its variants and successors. I have the same response to rap and soulless, over-produced bump-and-grind pop music. Singer-songwriters and folkies are more my speed, and always have been. I could appreciate some of the boy bands of the 90s that harked back to the emotions, melodies, and harmonies of doo-wop — and did it without Auto-Tune. I hope they pop up in HOSPITAL PLAYLIST. I’ll post a couple of my favorites.
For some reason I never got into the REPLY series, probably because sageuk is my favorite genre, and I couldn’t keep up with the multitude of characters (which I’m somewhat better at doing now). Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot, but I also recall hearing about the “who’s the husband” uproar, and it wasn’t appealing.
pickleddragon
April 19, 2020 at 2:14 AM
We share similar views on music, even though (I think) we are a few generations apart! Auto-tune is .. erm.. not exactly my favourite ‘instrument’. 😀 I like to listen to voices and sounds raw, which is why, I suppose, the acoustic sounds that most folk rock tends to use are what I am naturally drawn towards.
The REPLY series, I think, is best appreciated by someone who has “lived” the times. I watched 1988 and 1997, and I thought they were okay, not as great as people made it out to be. But I can understand why a certain kind of audience would have loved it (the ‘visceral response’ you speak of). I can think of similar dramas set in my city and in my childhood years that I return to only for nostalgic reasons, which would be completely lost on a foreign audience. I think the ‘guessing game’ is just a plot device to keep people hooked to the dramas, which otherwise have very little else going for them. There’s really no story, other than “such was life in the 1980s/1990s”. The production and acting was high quality, and certainly right up there among the better kdramas I have seen (limited though in number). If this kind of a package appeals to you, I’d recommend them. 88 over 97, unless a focus on romance is preferred, in which case, I’d reverse it. I haven’t watched 1994, and do not intend to.
HOSPITAL PLAYLIST seems to be going down the same ‘guessing game’ path, and I’m not sure if I’ll survive the series. But if it has music like this, I’ll be checking in for sure! 😀