Tom @ MusicBoxTW
musicboxtw.bsky.social
Tom @ MusicBoxTW
@musicboxtw.bsky.social
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I’m a Canadian living in Taiwan. I teach English on weekdays & run a vinyl café on weekends. 🎼 I have been obsessed with rock & pop music since I was 3. I love great songwriting & songs full of hooks. ❤️ Max Martin has homogenized the world of pop music. 😒
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Oh wow I am loving the new album by Marina!! How about you?
Happy Canada Day!
Our Great Canadian Countdown continues!
Here is part 2!
Spotify playlist has been updated! Check it out!
#canadaday

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Happy Canada Day!
We’re counting down 50 iconic Canadian artists from my vinyl collection.
No particular order… except for the final 5!
A new part drops every day until July 1st.
Spotify playlist’s below!
Who‘LL be no. 1? Comment and share!

open.spotify.com/playlist/5lu...
#canadaday #musicboxtw
This week on my Instagram I posted about one of my favorite songs/albums, -“Heart Shaped World” by #ChrisIsaak ! It hits just right when you’re in the mood for it. #MusicBoxTW #NowSpinningVinyl #音樂盒咖啡黑膠所 #嘉義市
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你平常有在聽日本流行/搖滾音樂嗎?
延續上週的影片,這週在店裡放了亞洲功夫世代的黑膠來聽~
我自己超愛他們,為了收齊他們的黑膠專輯可是花了不少功夫!
你有聽過他們嗎?你最喜歡的日本樂團是誰?
記得按讚、分享,還有在下面留言告訴我!☺️
#Anime #AsianKungFuGeneration
#Natuto #FullmetalAlchemist
#musicboxtw #嘉義市 #黑膠唱片#唱片行 #nowspinningvinyl
Are you familiar with Japanese pop/rock music? This week I decided to spin some Asian Kung Fu Generation at the shop. I’m a big fan & had a great time tracking down all their albums on vinyl! Have you heard of them? Don’t forget to like, share, and leave a comment below! 😊
#MyRecordCollection
Previous entires in my little video series have included #Editors #PartridgeFamily #KinMitchell #ElectricSix
#SavageGarden #TaylorSwift #DelShannon #BlueNile #DavidBowie #YokoOno
Check them at my Instagram: @musicboxtw I hope you enjoy! Suggestions Welcome! www.instagram.com/musicboxtw
I have a large record collection. I tend to sell off some when I realize they don’t really do it for me. So I really do love the vast majority of my records. I have some really odd ones & some surprising ones, so I’ve been making a video series “Why is THIS in my collection”. Today’s is Gazebo.
Define your music taste in 6 artists.
1. Depeche Mode
2. Black Sabbath
3. Taylor Swift
4. Club 8
5. The Beatles
6. Yumi Matsutoya
Willow… but it’s a tough call.
Chilling at #MusicBoxTW this afternoon with great tunes. Very eclectic mix of customers. Went from traditional #Enka to #CityPop to #GeorgeMichael to #GaryMoore to #Kansas to the new #LadyGaga … feeling dizzy but it was a blast! Ending the night with a new customer and an album by local hero #WuBai
That record look waaaaaaay too big. It looks awesome… just …. Big. 🤣
Since day one I’ve been obsessed with “The Bolter”. It’s not her most personal track or related to anything in her life that I’m aware of, but lyrically and musically I just adore it. Am I alone in this? 😳 #musicboxtw #taylorswift #taylornation #thebolter #ttpd #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning
Oh my god. What a track. It’s an amazing intro to JD if you’ve never heard them. Besides the obvious , all their 12” tracks were massive tracks: “Novelty”, “Atmosphere”, “She’s Lost. Control” and my personal favourite album track “Disorder”. #JoyDivision #MusicBoxTW
Dang it. That was supposed to say “blew”. Lesson learned: always reread before posting when dictating. 😝
Oh! Spun this here at the shop yesterday and blue a teenage customer’s mind. 😁
Oh god. I can’t choose some of these tracks. I ended up with a few ties where I would literally die without one song or the other. 🤣
Had a really chill afternoon here at the shop. Listened to a huge random selection of music.🎶 spun today: #JoyDivision #BowieBlackstar #CelineDion #SarahMcLachlan #KateBush #JohnnyWinter #RubenBlades #WillieColon #鈴木一平 #FrankSinatra wish you were here! 😁
#MusicBoxTW
Living in TW for 25 years, I keep discovering hidden gems. Tonight I listened to a 1980 Japanese western style folk LP by 鈴木一平 (Ichiro Suzuki) “北緯43度” (“Latitude 43 North.”). Has some nods to Simon & Garfunkel style picking & strumming, but sung in Japanese. Gorgeous&moody!
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鈴木一平
YouTube video by 漆原i
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And I actually ended up opening a vinyl café to spin it, buy and sell it, and hopefully meet new friends in the process! It’s not so much about the destination, but the adventure in getting there! Join me here and on other socials with #MusicBoxTW I’d love to meet you! (Trolls need not apply)
Recently discovered City Pop and although a lot of it is a bit bland, there are some really gorgeous gems hiding in the pop music of Japan! What is something you missed first time around? For me it would be Yumi Matsutoya from Japan and Lightning Seeds from the UK. I have a huge record collection…
I need to get busy on here. I want to find my tribe & inspire each other. Anyone here love pop and rock music, with a particular fondness for the music of the late 60s through to 2010? Doors, Beatles, Depeche, Bob Marley, Editors, Taylor Swift, Kylie, Sabbath, Field Mice? K-tel and NOW compilations?
I’ve been listening to great music all day at my café. Had a ton of customers with loads of different music tastes. It was great! After the last one left, I spun Talking Heads “Speaking in Tongues” as I closed up shop! Awesome Saturday!