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(1931-1949) Pop Songs Between 1930s And 1940s In Shanghai by Various Artists

Chart: Top 5 Greatest Music Albums by satiemaniac
Rank on User's Chart: 1
Year: 2008
Rank on BEA Overall: None
Average Rating: 74/100
Summary Info: A 20-CD box set of pop music from Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s.

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[BrandonMiaow]

This is full-Poe level stuff. I'm sure it's great though, don't think I could listen to 20 cds of it, so what're some of the highlights?

[Skinny]

Oh, I think I actually listened to a disc of this when Poe recommended it a while back. All seemed very gaudy and traditional, a bit like an Oriental take on 'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?'. It might have been some other Poe recommendation though, I don't keep a spreadsheet. Anyway, if it is what I'm thinking of, it's not my cup of tea. Very "of the age", I guess you could say. A bit like reading old Elizabethan plays by people other than Shakespeare, I just kind of felt like this was probably pretty good at the time, but it doesn't hold up well and it says nothing to me about my life. Or I could've been listening to an entirely different collection of pre-War Oriental pop music. I guess we'll never know.
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