As the song goes on it becomes less fitting, but the first verse and chorus to She Will Always Be A Broken Girl by She Wants Revenge fits Keiko too well.

She buys a new dress for the party,
She always looks good in red.
Turns around in front of the mirror
And disappears inside of her head.
She wonders if he'll even remember,
She asked him in a casual way.
Just incase he didn't want to go with her,
In that event she knew just what she would say.
She thought of maybe asking a girlfriend,
Even though she only has one or two.
She's always done much better with boys anyway,
So who needs girlfriends?
Pacing nervous across the floor of her bedroom,
Gripping tight the phone in her hand.
Fighting back the rush of emotions,
And dreaming of just having a man.

It's a long walk, and the music is loud.
She sees an old friend,
As she walks through the crowd.
Puts on her best smile,
But underneath she's a broken girl.

It fits Wakaba pretty well, too. But the whole dress/mirror/looking good in red/few friends part is just so Keiko.

I don't know why I didn't think of this one right away: Nightwish's Bare Grace Misery fits Kozue quite nicely.

Bare Grace Misery
Sweet boy, come in
I am the dark side of you
Die for my sins
Like the One once did

Cinnamon bed
For your unashamed appetite
A figurante
This dance will hurt like hell

Oh, bare grace misery
Just a child without a fairytale am I
Dark but so lovely
A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow

Love lying, enticing
(Bare grace misery)
Crowning the moment
(Bare grace misery)
This is what I am
Bare grace for the end of days

Romantic scent
Spoiled Lucrece lies warm for you
There's no such priest
That can pray me to heaven

When done with me
Forget if you think I feel ashamed
A wild thing
Never felt sorry for anything

Love lying...

Therion can be very Utenaish music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o6lX_qdlLI

Several songs from Chronic Future seem to fit the Utena Multiverse... New York, NY hit me as "This should be an intro song to Utena", particularly the Black Rose Saga.

Well all these people of the city will keep you in their blind spots
Especially when they know that you're out looking to sign dots
I tried to tell this girl how twisted my mind got
But it's her dream to ride the conveyer belt to that side walk
She's got intentions of being number one
But can she handle rejection in the city of no sun
Where bricks change colors faster than careers do
And few people drive away and like what's in their rearview

New York City's so far away
But I can't wait even for one more day
They say these things come and these things go
But if I don't try I'll never know

She don't care what it takes she knows she's got the ability
And with what her folks make
You know she'd have stability
She just needs to get out there
And step toward her validity
She can't keep dying over this
Because it's just killing me
She's not used to foot steps digging in her chest
High heeled investments and suit's getting undressed
Growing hold and having new recruits become the best
And finding that she's stepped on everyone and no one's left

Well it hurts like walking barefoot on light bulbs
Smashing ideas with open skin
Til' the pearl white drops of blood turn red
And everyone can tell
That you've worked hard enough
It's time to go
Go get your map and compass and don't listen to them
And don't think about how much time you're fixing to spend
The dirt only ends when the pavement begins
This is your heart your dream
And you're your only friend
so go

You can kick the earth as hard as you want
To show your frustration
Or you can get in your car and kick your foot to the gas
And keep accelerating till you hit your destination
So go

Whatever by Dig Jelly makes me think of a grown up Kozue or Shiori... the song is actually about a friend of the lead singer who commited suicide.

Once I was bad
Never knew of tomorrow never cared enough to see
Once I was bad
Bought stuff from the people, sold them to the weak
Boarded all day, trying to forget the things that were bothering me
Making me tick, making me sick forever
Boarded all night till the sun came up on the ridge of the waves
Shining as if it could give me some hopes the will to live…
And I said yeah…
Yeah whatever

Once I was sad
Blaming things on my mother
Didn’t wanna go to school
Slipping into the land where everything looked all better
Till I woke up in my pool of throw up

Drank all day trying to forget the things that were bothering me
Making me cheap, making me leap forever
Drove all night till the sun shine onto the Hollywood sign
Glowing as if it could show me the way, forget the day for now

Well, I said yeah…
Whatever

Sky was blue that day I could’ve ran away
To forget the day, wasted life
Never really begun
Soon you’ll forget, I think I’m really done
16, I’ve been through a lot
I took ma chance to understand the world
For you to hold, for ma story to be told
But you said I will never change

Once I was dumb
Let down all of you
Ended my life to prove my point to you
Silence over my grave
See your crying face
I’m a loser even in the end

Remember those days walking down the road
Hand in hand, singing little songs
Nothing, nothing was ever wrong
Not sure what happened at all, all I know
That I am down here drowning in tears
Asking myself why

Can y’all hear me yeah…
Whatever

More songs:

Evanescence-Everybody's Fool--> Anthy's thoughts on Akio, the Castle and Utena in that order.
""-Haunted--> Utena facing the end of the Duels and perhaps her life.
""-Imaginary--> How fake is the world? Very much so. Do they all want to wake? Maybe not.
""-My Last Breath--> The last Duel and reflections from Anthy
""-Whisper-->The last Duel and reflections from Utena
Chronic Future-Wicked Games-->Mikage and Mamiya reflecting on each other.
Dig Jelly-Jaded--> Utena and Touga's thoughts in the Akio Arc.
Tenchi Muyo!-Royal Teardrop--> Anthy as a truer self-beautiful, sad and hypnotic.

Last edited by Anthiena (12-26-2007 02:53:11 PM)

Nothing in specific, but whenever I hear soothing saxophone music I think of Utena. Then I go, "Crap, time to watch more Utena!"

I've always thought of seminal melodic punk band Bad Religion had a sound that was quite similiar to the duel choruses...They make extensive use of harmonies ("oozing ahs") and have been labeled "thesaurus rock" for their multisyllabic lyrics.

Germs of Perfection:

Lacerate eviscerate and perforate and mutilate
We all fall down, all fall down
Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate
The wisdom found, wisdom found

Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction
Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection

Delegate facilitate investigate and obviate
The black turns green, black turns green
Separate evaluate and cultivate and propagate
The master's dream, master's dream

Sing the fears of history with renewed inflection
View the lost agenda with a skeptic's intention

Machine of life, oh can we make it run?
We have the tools, but have only just begun
Machine of life, oh can we make it run?
The calculations of a greater sum

Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction
Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection


Perfection!
Skyscraper:

Come let us make bricks and burn them hard,
We'll build a city with a tower for the world
and climb so we can reach anything we may propose,
anything at all

Build me up, tear me down
like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down
These joining walls
So they can't climb at all

I know why you tore it down that day
You thought, that if you got caught we'd all go away,
Like a spoiled little baby who can't come out to play,
You had your revenge

Build me up, tear me down
like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down
these joining walls
So they can't climb at all

Well madness reigned and paradise drowned
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Now the echoes roar for a story writ ["for a story told" is the live version]
that was hardly understood
and never any good

Build me up, tear me down
like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down
these joining walls
So they can't climb at all

Build me up [x2]

Flat Earth Society:

lie lie lie... the full moon is rising over dark water and the fools
below are picking up sticks and the man in the gallows lies
permanently waiting for the doctors to come back and tend to him, the
flat earth society is meeting here today, singing happy little lies
and the bright ship humana is sent far away with grave
determination... and no destination, lie lie lie... yeah, nothing
feels better than a spray of clean water and the whistling wind on a
calm summer night but you'd better believe that down in their quarters
the men are holding on for their dear lives, the flat earth society is
somewhere far away, with their candlesticks and compasses and the
bright ship humana is well on its way with grave determination... and
no destination, lie lie lie, ad inifinitum

Generator:

Like a rock,
like a planet,
Like a fucking atom bomb,
I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madness
that i encounter everywhere I turn
I've seen it all along
In book and magazines
like a twitch before dying
like a pornographic sea
there's a flower behind the window
there's an ugly laughing man
like a hummingbird in silence
like the blood on the door
it's the generator
oh yeah, oh yeah, like the blood on my door
wash me clean and I will run
until i reach the shore
I've known it all along
like the bone under my skin
like actors in a photograph
like paper in the wind
there's a hammer by the window
there's a knife on the floor
like turbines in darkness
like the blood on my door
it's the generator

Seconding the of Bad Religion.


But, hey, sometimes it seems like everything reminds me of Utena ;-)

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It's no surprise that these songs by Iron & Wine remind me strongly of Anthy.

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Jezebel

who's seen jezebel?
she was born to be the woman i would know
and hold like the breeze
half as tight as both our eyes closed

who's seen jezebel?
she went walking where the cedars line the road
her blouse on the ground
where the dogs were hungry, roaming

saying, "wait, we swear
we'll love you more and wholly
jezebel, it's we, we that you are for
only"

who's seen jezebel?
she was born to be the woman we could blame
make me a beast half as brave
i'd be the same

who's seen jezebel?
she was gone before i ever got to say
"lay here my love
you're the only shape i'll pray to, jezebel"

who's seen jezebel?
will the mountain last as long as i can wait
wait like the dawn
how it aches to meet the day

who's seen jezebel?
she was certainly the spark for all i've done
the window was wide
she could see the dogs come running

saying, "wait, we swear
we'll love you more and wholly
jezebel, it's we, we that you are for
only"

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Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song)

Evening, evening on the ground
And there is no one else around
So you will blame me
Blame me for the rocks
And baby bones and broken lock
On the garden
Garden wall of eden
For the spider bites
And all your love as we were
We were born to fuck each other
One way or another
But Ill only lie
Down by the waterside at night

Hey man, tiny baby tears
I will collect a million years
And you can blame me
Blame me, I will wear it
In the empty, hollow part of my garden
Garden wall of eden
And the clamour as they raise the curtain
You will, you will never make me learn
To lay beneath the mountain
Cause I'll only lie
Down by the waterside at night

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Then, I can't discount that the word "revolution" has more to do with it than anything else, but there are other lines in this song by Silversun Pickups that remind me of Utena.  I think it wouldn't make a half-bad movie AMV.

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Future Foe Scenarios

The things we laid do not amount to much
Made of abandoned wood loose stones and such

This revolution baby
Proves who you work for lately

Release the castaways who run amok
From self appointed winds which blow and such
When present tense gets strangled in the mire
Made of our cozy decomposing wires

Who do you work for baby
And does it work for you lately

But when the night is over and the walls start burning
When fire starts to matter and the clock is churning
Cliches and other chatter keeps our minds from
Learning

It's alright

The things we laid do not amount to much
Made up of thought balloons and cotton swabs
When present tense gets strangled in the woes
Made of our future foe scenarios

This revolution baby
Proves who you work for lately
Who do you work for baby
And does it work for you lately

But when the night is over and the walls keep linking
When fire starts to matter and the clock keeps sinking
Cliches and other chatter keeps our minds from
Thinking
Our minds keep thinking

It's alright

That's when it turned on me
A motorcade of 'meant to be's'
Parades of beauty queens
Where soft entwines make kindling
These many detailed things
Like broken nails and plastic rings
Will win by keeping me
From speaking to my new darling
And there's no way to know
Our future foe scenarios
That's when it turned on me
Where bobby pins hold angel wings

It's alright

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It'd be immensely amusing to see One Night in Bangkok used as for an AMV that was a dialogue between Akio and one of the more "pure" characters.

THE AMERICAN:
Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know that the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change -- don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

It's Iceland --
or the Philippines --
or Hastings -- or --
or this place!

COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

THE AMERICAN:
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother

COMPANY:
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

THE AMERICAN:

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
--

COMPANY:
Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

THE AMERICAN:
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

THE AMERICAN:
Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank God I'm only watching the game --
controlling it --

I don't see you guys rating
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples,
your massage
parlours --

COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me.

Rose - A Perfect Circle

Don't disturb
The beast
The tempermental goat
The snail while he's feeding on
the Rose
Stay frozen, compromising
What I will
I am

Bend around
The wind silently
thrown about
Again I'm treading so
Soft and lightly
Compromising my will
I am

I am
I will
So no longer
Will I
Lay down
Play dead
Play your doe
in the headlights locked down
and terrified
Your deer in the headlights
shot down and horrified when
Push comes to pull comes to shove
Comes to step around this
Self-destructing dance that never
would've ended till I
Rose,
I roared aloud here
I will
I am.

I am
I will
So no longer
Will I
Lay down
Lay dead
Play this
Kneel down
Gun-shy Martyr
Pitiful
I rose, I roared
I will
I am

(I mentioned this at Rose*Con.  Reminds me of Anthy as well as the moment Utena picks herself up in the last episode)

I've always thought "Dance Along the Edge" by Concrete Blonde appropriate for a show with so much angst, melodrama and not-quite-functional couplings.  Especially reminds me of Juri and Shiori, but so does pretty much everything, and I realize it could go pretty well with a lot of the characters.  Old alt-rock band from early 90s, late 80s.  Vampire enthusiasts might remember them as the ones who did "Bloodletting".

Sometimes we laugh like children
Go running holding hands
I never felt like this before,
I never will again
Sometimes we cry like babies
I hold you to my heart.
I just can't stand to see you sad,
It tears me all apart

And we're so afraid and it's such a shame,
There is no reason we should doubt it.
The things we want to say we never said!
And we look away and it's all ok and
Never really talk about it
It's a shame the way we dance along the edge
Dance along the edge.

We always seem so careful,
We're always so unsure.
Our past mistakes they make us
shaky...eyes on the door.
When do we stop searching
For what we're searching for?
Then when it comes, we question
love and try for more!

And we're happy here, but we live in fear
We've seen a lot of temples crumble.
Some of flesh and blood from love under glass.
Will we come undone? Will we turn and run?
And will we know it when we find it?
It's a game the way we dance along the edge.
And we'll walk the line and we'll do our time
For just as long as we've been given,
And pretend that we don't hear
the things they've said.
Can we promise love? Is it all too much
And do our old souls still believe it?
It's insane the way we dance along the edge.

( The song is as sexy as Kozue. )


Sickest Girl
Bertine Zetlitz

I went to see your brother
Cause he still prefers my frame
And I kept asking who she was
And how she knew your name
I get a taste of iron
When I breathe
I get a taste of iron
When you bleed
Your brother with the tattooed face
He told me you're in love
You sleepwalk and you say your grace
Like 5 times in a row
I get a taste of iron when he speaks
I get a taste of iron and it leaks
Chorus:
Following the cracks around my shoulder
Jammin up the backdoors of my mind
Flooding down the wicked stuff I told her
I'm the sickest girl he'll ever find
He'll ever find
Be careful as you turn around
I'm turning on my charm
And I've got you dangling boy
I'll call it false alarm
I get a taste of iron when I sleep
I get a taste of iron when you weep
Chorus
You see I howl beneath the moon
Cold and sweet and dangerous to touch
I watch you when you kiss
Nothing I will miss
A little bit too much...
Chorus

Found it again!

It's a Youtube version, so lower quality, but the original should still be on the big AMV archive at http://www.animemusicvideos.org/

Anyway, Utena AMV to Bjork's Bachelorette.  One of the best AMVs to match timing of the music to the themes in the movie that i've seen. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_gvZY_wD4

Last edited by Jurrasic (06-18-2008 01:39:31 AM)

Ugh, fuck me if I make one more comparison between Fall Out Boy and SKU... but I've got my Under The Cork Tree CD playing right now, and I couldn't help but notice how much Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year reminds me of Mikage.

Last edited by dollface (06-18-2008 02:42:07 AM)