This article was machine-translated from the Japanese version.
This article is for Day 5 of Table Game Tansu Advent Calendar 2023.
Day 4 was Mogukun☆’s Reflections on the M.League (Mahjong).
Introduction
The advent calendar season has come again this year!
I go by Unigiri.
On September 26 of this year, I posted the following image on Tansu.
https://tablegame.mstdn.cloud/@unigiri/111127497256650263
これは寝られないのでなんとなく作った好きな音楽アルバムのコラージュ42枚です
(Translated) I couldn’t sleep, so I just put together these 42 collages of my favourite music albums.
Who would be satisfied with just a collage image when talking about things they love?
And so, this is an article where I talk about my favorite songs until I’m satisfied.
I’ll discuss the artists featured in the collage image, not limited to any specific album.
Notes
This article is long
I believe that when writing about things you love, momentum is important, so I deliberately won’t revise.
Therefore, this article is very likely to be extremely long.
As of the time I’m writing this, the overall length is still undecided, but for reference, last year’s article Tips for Winning More Often at 6 Nimmt! (6-Player Version) was properly revised with unnecessary sentences removed.
Postscript: It ended up being about 28,000 characters.
This article is hard to read
Since I’m writing without any regard for punctuation or line breaks, this article is hard to read.
Please feel free to skip sections as appropriate.
This is not an article recommending or explaining songs, but simply an article where I talk about what I love as I please
In other words, I won’t necessarily provide basic explanations for people who don’t know the artist or song.
For basic information such as the artist’s genre and history, please refer to each artist’s official page.
Also, I’m trying to keep self-talk (hereafter, “opportunistic self-talk” or 隙自語) to a minimum, but given the nature of talking as I please, some is mixed in.
If it becomes excessive, please skip over it.
This article has no intention of making any claims about specific religions or ideologies
Some songs in this article refer to specific religions or ideologies, but I have no intention of making any claims through those songs.
Why this note is necessary: because I reference Monty Python in this article.
About links in this article
When a song mentioned in the article is available as an official YouTube video, I’ll link to that video.
Please give them a listen if you’d like.
TL;DR (For those who just want to listen to the songs)
I’ve created a YouTube playlist compiling the official videos mentioned in the article.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzmsa-PnB9sEZhjHIA0zCYcp76vEg7KLk
I’ve also created a Spotify playlist compiling the streaming-available albums from the 42 collage images.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NUVVOo17GAGjcdY8mY4sw?si=0717eaf5b2674c6c
The main content begins here
From here on, I’ll say nothing more than “I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!” “IT’S GREAT!!!!!!!!!” “Thank you for being born!!!!!!!!”
Maximum the Hormone
Right from the start, I can’t post song links!!!! Because Hormone basically doesn’t do YouTube or song streaming
Hormone is so good, so good that I’ve lost my vocabulary
The lyrics are incomprehensible, but you don’t need to understand the lyrics so it’s not a problem
The Chainsaw Man ED song was sooooo good, it really matched that work’s worldview
I really love Nao-san on drums, her voice is truly cute
China in the Tsume Tsume Tsume MV is so cute, it suits her so well
The iPod Classic with Hormone’s songs on it was lost long ago, so I have no choice but to talk while recalling various things
What did I listen to a lot back then, Kawazoeen or ROLLING1000tOON or something
Looking at the discography now, I was listening to the Rokkinpo Goroshi album particularly often
This album has nothing but masterpieces. Well, not just this album — Hormone has nothing but masterpieces
From here on is opportunistic self-talk, but the reason I put Hormone first in the collage is because it was the catalyst for me starting to actively listen to music
Before that, I was listening to theme songs of anime I was watching or things that seemed popular, but
at my high school cultural festival I heard a Hormone copy band (quite well done) and thought “This kind of music exists!!!! Amazing!!!!” and went right over to tell that copy band “I’ve become a fan, I’ll go to your next live too,” but that turned out to be their farewell live, so I was shocked while collecting the original Hormone albums
I think that’s when I started actively digging for music beyond anime theme songs. Probably
Ishino Takkyu
Thank you for being born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shizuoka’s national treasure!!!!!!!!!!! Techno’s chosen child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ishino Takkyu is amazing, so amazing that right now at the part where I wrote “amazing,” the words that should follow won’t come to mind and my hands stopped
Is there any word needed here other than “amazing”? Isn’t that enough?
Wouldn’t it be tasteless for me to make any comment on the way of life that is Ishino Takkyu?
As for my favorite songs under Ishino Takkyu’s solo name, suck me disco (takkyu i. rmx) from WIRE TRAX 1999-2012, or The Rising Suns (Discotheque) from TITLE#2+#3, or JackTaro from ACID TEKNO DISKO BEATz, or Amazones from LUNATIQUE, I love them all so much
The songs Takkyu makes are quite Takkyu-like, and what I mean is that I often think “how Takkyu-like” from the sounds used and their timing
Even SIREN’s songs turn into the usual Takkyu partway through, and I feel a sense of reassurance
Why I think so, I can’t verbalize because I have no musical knowledge
Ultra Relax, the latter OP of Kodomo no Omocha, I knew it from way back as an anime OP song, but when I learned it was produced by Ishino Takkyu, I slapped my knee — it’s completely Takkyu
If a Takkyu-sung version came out, I’d accept it without any sense of incongruity, the lyrics are completely that
As for MVs, while not many are publicly available, I really love the MV for Rapt In Fantasy (Radio Edit)
Home appliances are cosplaying as famous paintings, and watching it is really fun. It’s addictive
I’m weak on famous paintings, so I only recognize about 3 of the originals
One thing I regret: I started liking techno relatively recently (by my standards), so by the time I noticed, WIRE was already over……
It was apparently a large-scale techno event organized by Ishino Takkyu, but I’ll omit the details here. Because I couldn’t go, so I don’t know much and can’t write about it
Also, the Kansai Denki Security Association CM that Takkyu was involved in, which is no longer airing, was really good. A concentrated mass of sense
Yonezu Kenshi (Hachi)
Hachiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! Thank you Hachi!!! For being born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a veteran-fan power move, but I’ve liked Kunde Kite Rasetsu to Mukuro since back then
The hand-drawn MVs on Niconico by the artist himself are so good
Go Go Ghost Ship and such, I love them so much
I have nothing but gratitude that he does self-covers of Vocaloid songs under the Yonezu Kenshi name. When I noticed that Donut Hole was at the end of YANKEE, my mind went completely blank with shock and joy
“Stop with the veteran-fan power move and talk about current Yonezu Kenshi” — okay
But really, not many words are needed to talk about current Yonezu Kenshi, “all masterpieces” covers it
What’s especially good……? ……? They’re all good, but……
Neon Sign and Cinderella Gray from Bremen, I especially love those
LOSER too!!!!!!!!!
My impression is that since becoming Yonezu Kenshi, the eccentric songs have decreased, but Shinigami is unusually eccentric and I especially love it
I love both the non-eccentric and the eccentric songs, and all of it together is one eccentricity called Yonezu Kenshi, but there are some songs that probably wouldn’t have existed even as similar songs if Yonezu Kenshi hadn’t been born
I live to inhale those kinds of songs
Kraftwerk
Techno again. Because I like techno
Really mainstream. Mainstream enough that if someone asked “What’s techno?”, I’d answer “Kraftwerk”
The Robots and The Man Machine and such, I like the most mainstream of the mainstream songs, but I especially love the relaxed songs I could listen to for hours, like the songs on the Tour de France album and Autobahn
Listening to it now, the Tour de France songs aren’t especially relaxed, but how should I put it… there’s this refreshing flow
Tour de France is one complete song as a single album. All 12 tracks together form one song called Tour de France
That’s what I mean
Kraftwerk is a German group, but they have a song with Japanese lyrics called Dentaku and it’s really good
The English version is Pocket Calculator, the German version is Taschenrechner, and the Japanese version is called Dentaku, all with the same melody, but when they do live shows in Japan, they start with the English version and shift to the Japanese version partway through, and my excitement goes through the roof
Also, this is about a different work connected to Kraftwerk, but there’s an anime called Witchcraft Works that pays homage to several Kraftwerk album jackets, and that’s really good. Great
The homage images are here and the originals being homaged are this and this
Too good!!!!! Geeks rejoice!!!!!!!
What I’m trying to say is, it’s mainstream enough to be paid homage in other works
Queen
It’s Queen after all!!!!!!! I love them!!!!!!!
They’re so famous that there’s absolutely no point in me commenting on them, but if I were to say something, among Queen’s works, QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL, which I featured in the collage, has outstanding quality among Queen’s live performances and I love it
Among Queen’s songs, I like their debut song Keep Yourself Alive, but I’ve never met anyone who says this is their favorite. It’s a good song, right? Good lyrics, right?
The lyrics are truly great; for the translation, please refer to articles by people strong in English
It’s like a forward-looking backwardness. Don’t aim too high, know your limits, first and foremost survive, use everything you have and somehow just survive — that’s good. Life is hard enough just staying alive
Among other songs, I like Bring Back That Leroy Brown and such
When you try to list Queen songs, super-famous songs like We Will Rock You and Bohemian Rhapsody and Don’t Stop Me Now and Killer Queen and Somebody To Love and Save Me come out infinitely, but small but sharply spicy songs, B-side-ish songs like Bring Back That Leroy Brown are also really good. What’s a B-side?
As for MVs, this might be divisive, but for I Want To Break Free, I’m on the “pro” side. I love it
Including the mysterious part in the middle. Well, there’s no part of this MV that isn’t mysterious
Also, this is purely a genuine romantic fan thing, but I loooooove Brian May. The guitar guy
Playing guitar with coins is too cool, it’s a problem
Also his gentle demeanor, and how calm he is even during live performances, I love it too much. The active Freddie, the still Brian — that’s the vibe
Recently, the performance at the London Olympics was really good…… genuinely good. Let’s consider 2012 as “recently”
I’ll talk about the London Olympics again in the Monty Python section
NARUTO Original Soundtrack
Suddenly became an anime otaku
But this soundtrack is quite important in my life, and the reason I can casually listen to songs without lyrics like techno now is probably because I used to listen to anime soundtracks like this to death back then
And the catalyst for me starting to listen to anime soundtracks was NARUTO. Thank you NARUTO
Soundtracks for anime and games have the quality of the songs themselves, plus the memories associated with those works attached, which is great
The excitement from back then, the tension during thrilling developments, all of that is packed in tight
Michael Jackson
Michael!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look this way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But sadly, I got into Michael Jackson after he passed away……
That being the case, I can’t claim with absolute certainty that I know Michael Jackson well, but they’re good. I truly love them
I like the perfectionism toward the works, or rather, I really love the feeling that everything is meticulously constructed with perfect attention to detail
On the other hand, I also like him dancing with a smile during the Jackson 5 era, in other words, I like everything
Among Jackson 5, my favorites are the mainstream ones: I Want You Back and ABC and The Love You Save, they’re so mainstream that I’ve just listed the first 3 tracks of a best-of album
Mainstream is justice after all. Great justice
In the Michael Jackson era, again it’s mainstream, but Thriller is essential. My first Michael Jackson was Thriller
The reason I remember my first song so accurately is that my middle school English teacher played the MV during class, half for fun
When I first saw the MV, it was truly shocking, and I didn’t even care when the break-time bell rang during the viewing
That was essentially a music class. Stop with the opportunistic self-talk. Okay
Among other MVs, I like Say Say Say, which is a collaboration song with Paul McCartney
It’s, like, a bit different from the other MVs and I really love it. Maybe because it’s a collaboration
The visuals are peaceful and cute. Being able to see the two of them dancing in comedian outfits, like Don and Cosmo from Singin’ in the Rain — that’s only here!
Taniyama Hiroko
Quietly good. Truly good
Where I encountered Taniyama Hiroko can, I think, be explained with the single phrase “I am an otaku”
The Hetalia Finland hand-drawn video was really good. Great, right? I am speaking to everyone who was probably watching that back then
This isn’t a Hetalia section, so I’ll return to talking about Taniyama Hiroko, but I love all the bright and cute songs, the darkly atmospheric songs, and the madness songs equally
There are infinitely many songs I want to mention, but just like with Hormone, Taniyama Hiroko has few officially uploaded songs so I can’t post links
Candine and Tenpura☆Sunrise and Parsley Parsley and Goddess of the Crescent Moon and Small Fish and Goodbye DINO and Love-Struck Chicken and such, I love them all so much
Also, I specially love the Yamaha Motor Company Song. This was originally created by Taniyama Hiroko as the company song for Yamaha Motor, as the name suggests, but
it was arranged into a really cool version by ROLLY & Taniyama Hiroko’s Karakuri Ningyo Gakudan, and it’s good, so good, so good
The album version is also really good, but there’s a regularly held live called Nekomori Shukai, and that version is truly good. It has a goodness unique to live performances
Let me talk about Nekomori Shukai. At Nekomori Shukai, the stage is in the center of the venue and the audience sits surrounding it, so
combined with the live atmosphere, it has a truly unique vibe, like you’ve intruded upon a place where music-loving residents of a forest freely gather and play music together.
It’s like this
Speaking of Taniyama Hiroko, there was a radio program called Taniyama Hiroko’s All Night Nippon, and
if I had been alive and had a sense of self back then, I would have definitely listened, but unfortunately I wasn’t born yet so I couldn’t. How unreasonable
But now, in the present, she’s doing Taniyama Hiroko’s SORAMIMI Radio! Yay!!! Thank you!!!!!
I have other complaints about the timing of my birth, and I’ll make almost the same argument later in the Denki Groove section
Monty Python
They’re a comedy group. But their songs are really good
You know how comedy has musical bits? There are lots of songs like that
By the way, I mentioned Finland in the Taniyama Hiroko section earlier, but the original source of that song is Monty Python
There’s a Monty Python movie called The Meaning of Life, which is like a collection of sketches, and regardless of the movie’s quality, it’s a film with really good musical bits, so I’ll talk about that
It would generally be classified as dirty jokes, I suppose……
By the way, the sketches are technically called “sketches,” so I’ll refer to them as sketches from here on
—– Dirty jokes from here —–
There’s a song called Every Sperm is Sacred in the movie, and translating the title gives “Every Sperm is Sacred,” but this isn’t just a punchline — it’s truly a good song with good visuals. Truly
It’s done in a musical style, and how many cast members are there in total? There are probably dozens of child actors alone
It’s so lavishly produced that I think it consumed most of the movie’s budget, with a large number of dancers dancing while loudly singing about how every sperm is sacred. I love it
It’s not just absurdity. There’s a proper reason why sperm is sacred, but I’m not an expert so I don’t have the words to discuss it
I’ve watched the footage about 5 times while writing this and I’m not bored at all. The quality is too high
—– Dirty jokes end here —–
I started feeling awkward writing that, so I’ll talk about the proper songs
When it comes to Monty Python’s representative song, it’s Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, and it’s such a masterpiece that if you gather 10 people, all 10 would start with this song
Then why didn’t this article do that?
This song is also a movie musical bit, the final song of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and it’s such a good song
“Always look on the bright side of life” — a really great song that cheers up the protagonist in the film. It hits deep
In the movie, it’s sung in a scene where you clearly shouldn’t be looking on the bright side, which is slightly funny, but that’s also good. Because this is a comedy film after all
Here I’ll return to the London Olympics story from the Queen section. This song is such a masterpiece that it was chosen for the London Olympics performance
That was good. It was really good, but I’m not sure how many people know about it, so I’m talking to myself
Eric Idle’s compositions are truly great, and Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life was also written by Eric, and I also like Lousy Song and such
Lousy Song features a sketch performed over Eric singing a song, and
Graham Chapman thoroughly disparages the song saying “Terrible. The worst. Trash. Did you write this!? This song is no good” and it’s wonderful. I think it’s a good song
By the way, Eric Idle and Graham Chapman are members of Monty Python
The gag using Graham Chapman’s (fake) ashes was good, right? I don’t know if anyone else knows this, so I’m talking to myself again
As for other favorite songs, Sit on My Face — I’m talking about dirty joke songs again
Including the sketch content, I also like Money Song. A serious financial program host heats up all by himself and ultimately sings a song about money and dances and the show just ends like that. Too funny
If I keep going, this will become a discussion of sketches rather than Monty Python’s songs, so I’ll stop here
There are lots of great sketches, and I absolutely love John Cleese’s sharp wit……
Denki Groove
With electricity, anything is possible!!!!! This year’s tour, An and Kaori no Ki, was really good
Denki is really good, but everything is so good that I don’t know where to start talking. The flavor is slightly different between early songs and recent songs. I’ll start from the earlier ones
When you say Denki Groove’s masterpiece, it’s undoubtedly Shangri-La, but that MV is actually insane and I love it so much
Takkyu’s unhinged smile gets 100 points
In the early days, I get the impression there were many hip-hop-ish, or rather, not very techno-ish songs. If you only listen to Shangri-La, it’s J-POP
Denki Biribiri and CATV and Bingo! and Cafe de Oni and Garigari-kun and Niji and Mama Cake and Dareda! and Mechanical Musume and B.B.E. and such, I like them
At the album level, I like VOXXX and Karateka from the early period, and right after Taki was arrested, I looped Karateka 100 times and was overcome with emotion at March
Also, isn’t the flow from VOXXX’s Jungle no Moko Dansen ~ Flashback J-pop Countdown really good!? It is good
Jungle no Moko Dansen is already good on its own, and the way it goes from Hanshin fans’ jeering to Space Invader and Daimajin’s Galaxy Night is something I really love
Then from there, a message to earthlings is inserted from Space Invader, and the way it connects to the dead’s book (Edison-den) after announcing this week’s song ranking in Flashback J-pop Countdown is too beautiful
What am I talking about? I’m talking about Denki Groove songs
As for the live version, the way Flashback J-pop Countdown connects to an uptempo Shangri-La at Ilbon 2000 is also really good
No matter how many times I listen, my tension shoots through the roof
As for MVs, I like Sei☆Ojisan
It’s just a home video of Denki and Schadarapaa going on a trip, but it’s funny
I absolutely love Denki’s home video MVs
Drill King Company Song 2001 is too great
It’s just clips from their past activities, so why is it this funny?
Also, this isn’t a home video, but I absolutely love the VOLCANIC DRUMBEATS MV. My favorite. The Ilbon 2000 version
Which period does the album J-POP fall under, early or recent?
Since Mononoke Dance is on it, recent?
J-POP was the first Denki Groove album I picked up, and it’s deeply memorable
The reason I picked it up first was that there was an anime called Kuuchuu Buranko, and Ichigo Musume from J-POP was used as an insert song
Though calling it an insert song is a stretch since it had no lyrics and was used as regular BGM
I have memories of wondering “Nothing song-like has appeared in the show, yet every time ‘Ichigo Musume’ is credited as an insert song. Why?” and picking up the album
I love it so much, can I talk about Kuuchuu Buranko just a little? Thank you
The OP and ED also used Denki songs, and they were really good. It was an incredibly unique anime
The voice actors’ actual faces (live-action) were used as-is, which was extremely novel
Irabu Ichirou’s Large, Medium, and Small were all good. Park Romi’s Small is cute
The director was Nakamura Kenji of Mononoke. Mononoke is good too. Let’s stop talking about anime now. Because I can’t see the end
From the Kuuchuu Buranko OP song Upside Down, you can clearly feel the recent Denki Groove. This is my personal impression
I love the Upside Down MV. You can enjoy footage of girls dancing freely
SHAMEFUL and SHAME are also really cool, and Baby’s on Fire has an MV I absolutely love
From around here, the MVs get cooler and cooler
Baby’s on Fire is a song that goes insanely hard at lives, so I love it including that. I love it. I really love it. I adore it
Speaking of songs that go hard at lives, Kao Kawacchatteiru. is also one I love to death
Quietly my favorite
Fallin’ Down and such are good too. Truly good
Denki doesn’t just have hard-hitting songs; they also have these open-feeling, stable songs that are good. Set you Free is also that kind of song
Also, when talking about recent Denki MVs, what can’t be left out is definitely Ningen Daitouryou
Denki Groove at 120 points
“Question: What are they doing?” “Answer: Destruction” — I love that so much. Destruction is good, right
By the way, there’s a song called MAN HUMAN, which is the OP for DEVILMAN crybaby, an anime adaptation of Devilman, and
this is really good, and the live footage for this song is a homage to Kraftwerk’s The Man Machine. The best. Thank you
Let me talk about Denki Groove’s radio
I mentioned Taniyama Hiroko’s All Night Nippon, but there was also a program called Denki Groove’s All Night Nippon, and I couldn’t listen to this one either. So unreasonable
Since I couldn’t listen, I don’t have much to say, but apparently the content was pretty out there, so I really wanted to listen to it in real time
In February of this year, there was a one-night-only revival radio broadcast, and I listened to that until I’d practically licked it clean. It was really good. Denki Groove has good music and good talk
ST☆RISH
Auditory stimulant. That’s what ST☆RISH is to me
Why a stimulant: because when I’ve reached my limit at work or other tasks, I have a habit of looping ST☆RISH songs while singing along and moving my hands. It works really well
When I listen to ST☆RISH, you see, my concentration goes up. I can power through work too
The most famous one is probably Maji LOVE 1000%, and the live footage of that was truly incredible animation for a female-oriented anime of that time. It was amazing. Truly
Doing the dance scenes with hand-drawn animation was truly impressive. They really did it. I watched it 100 times
Tokyo Jihen (Shiina Ringo)
Living legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tokyo Jihen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything is a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tokyo Jihen or Shiina Ringo, I really love songs that feature actual place names. When you exit the east exit of JR Shinuku Station, there lies my playground, the great amusement quarter Kabukicho
Since everything is a masterpiece, I was quite torn about which album to use in the collage, but I went with Sports. Because it was the album I listened to most
I was listening to Jihen especially often in 2010 when this album came out, and
the reason was that I was working a part-time job with women who lived along the Chuo Line and loved Tokyo Jihen and Shiina Ringo. Because of that, I’m convinced that all women living along the Chuo Line love Jihen
Gaman, which my coworkers sang at karaoke, is something I love so much, and I want to see a woman from Kansai sing Gaman passionately just once more before I die. Please
A comprehensive all-time best album came out a few years ago, so there’s no longer any need for me to list my favorite songs. At minimum, every song included in it, I love
My favorite is definitely Gunjou Hiyake!!!!!! Mainstream!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, I’m going to talk about anime again, but the ending credits of Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet were amazing, right!?!??!?!?
Tokyo Jihen’s Eien no Fuzai Shoumei was used as the ending song, and this song has a few seconds of silence in the second half, but
I wondered how they’d handle it in theaters, figuring the silence part would surely be cut since it goes quiet, but instead they skillfully used the silence part to create an incredibly cool production, and I was absolutely blown away. No words other than “amazing”
Also, Shiina Ringo has provided songs to other singers, and there’s an album called Gyoukou Nyuukoku (reverse import) where she self-covered those provided songs, and it’s the best. There are two discs: Kouwan Kyoku and Koukuu Kyoku
Shiina Ringo singing Usurai Koi Shinjuu, simply put, is the best
The Hayashibara Megumi version is also the best. Everything is the best
Kurahashi Yoeko (Yoeko)
Congratulations on Yoeko resuming activities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Yoeko is really good!!!!!!!
She’s currently active as Yoeko, but since this article will reference many songs from the Kurahashi Yoeko era, I’ll refer to her as Kurahashi Yoeko
Where’s your Kurahashi Yoeko from? Mine is from a program called Kyuuryou Meisai
It was a pretty sleazy show planned by Terry Ito, but for a time Kurahashi Yoeko’s Son to Uso was used as its theme song, and I fell hard through that
I loved it so much back then that I scraped together what little money I had and bought the MV collection DVD
Kurahashi Yoeko’s Tokyo is soooooo much my favorite. A concentrated mass of beauty. Among MVs, Tokyo is still my favorite
Also, the Koi no Daisousa MV is the best. An old anime-style MV is really good. Including the development at the end, I love it
Ningen Yametemo is also a favorite. And Ryuusei. My favorite Kurahashi Yoeko song is Ryuusei
Kurahashi Yoeko’s songs often feature someone obsessing to death over another person (mainly a lover or someone they love), and that messy intensity is what’s good
Basically nothing goes well. Nothing goes well, but they can’t give up and become a mess
But there are also slightly more forward-looking songs like Kyou mo Ame
Calling that forward-looking might be slightly off, but
that kind of thing, you know, is quietly good
Fazıl Say
A person who plays piano terrifyingly nimbly. Probably has about 30 fingers
The album I featured in the collage is terrifyingly good, and Fazıl Say and Gershwin are the best match
I think I initially picked up this album for Rhapsody in Blue, but ultimately every track was good
Truly good
Rialto Ripples is so nimble that it seems like he has 50 fingers, and for I Got Rhythm, there are no words other than “thank you.” The best
Summertime Ⅱ is the definition of a standard
Thank you for being born. These words are dedicated to both Fazıl Say and Gershwin
ARIA The ANIMATION Original Soundtrack
Sorry. I can’t really put this into words
That’s the kind of work ARIA is. All of its goodness is packed in, and that goodness would collapse if I tried to put it into words
To use an analogy, it’s like a bench warmed by sunlight, or a cat dozing off while sunbathing along the shore
Gather such concepts, wrap them in a gently sweet sugar coating, and that becomes ARIA. That’s the feeling
METAFIVE
Thank you for being born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for continuing Takahashi Yukihiro & METAFIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Takahashi Yukihiro. Truly everything was cool. Saying everything was cool might be an overstatement, but
Kimi ni, Mune Kyun. exists, so. There was also Trio the Techno and such
If I talk about Takahashi Yukihiro, it becomes a YMO section, so I’ll talk about METAFIVE
I love METAFIVE. A sparkling jewel born from miraculous connections
My favorite is Don’t Move
The moment I heard this song, I was captivated by METAFIVE. The Fuji Rock live I was watching at this time had more than half the members absent due to circumstances, but……
In terms of members, it’s basically techno, but you can’t quite call it techno either. What is this? It’s a concentrated mass of cool
I like powerful songs like The Paramedics and Musical Chairs, but Kankyou to Shinri is especially something I love too much
When Oyamada Keigo sang it live as Cornelius, I was electrified
I really love the Musical Chairs MV. Cool. A matter-of-fact goodness
They also do covers of YMO songs and such, and CUE is truly a masterpiece
BALLET is also the best. Talking about YMO again
TECHNO RECITAL is really a good album. It’s techno after all
Metallica
Metallica is good. It has character
For some songs, I’ve listened to the live versions so much that when I hear the original, my body feels it’s too stable and it feels off instead
The quality of live performances is really hit or miss, and when it’s good, it’s truly stable with a live-feeling quality sound, but
bad lives are really bad. The performance harmony collapses. Also the pitch gets lost. But that too is interesting to listen to as a recording
I actively listen to the bad-times recordings a lot, so I don’t think there are actually that many bad lives
Among the famous ones, Battery and Master Of Puppets, and also Dirty Window which I love so much
Isn’t Dirty Window really good!? I fell for it instantly in the first few seconds
Perfume
Absolute reliability!!!!!! The ceiling for their quality is unknown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thinking about it, Nakata Yasutaka’s production being absolutely reliable is amazing. Well, anyone would agree it’s absolutely reliable, but the genre itself is always pushing boundaries
Let me get right into the MV talk — I really love the Spending all my time MV
If you asked me to choose the best 10 MVs from all the MVs I know, this would definitely be included. It’s too good
Should I call it the repetition style, or — using the same footage over and over, cutting out parts, playing them in reverse, making it look the same but changing one part — I really love that kind of thing. Beautiful. Organized
Of course, for this kind of footage to work, you first need a good song and good dancing, and I think that’s a technique only Perfume can pull off. Unique. National treasure
Also, when you think of Perfume, it’s their live video technology. It’s packed with the latest technology of each era
Real-time projection mapping on the three members’ costumes while they’re dancing — at the time, I didn’t really understand what they were talking about. Because I thought it was impossible
It’s amazing. Everyone involved with Perfume is a professional. The best
One Room Disco and Naturally ni Koishite and FAKE IT and Laser Beam and GLITTER and Spring of Life and such, I like them. Tending toward the comparatively older songs
Also, it has almost no lyrics, but Enter the Sphere is something I love to death
There was a divine project called Perfume Global Site Project that distributed Perfume’s dance motion data and such, and this song was used on that page
That page was really good, but when I searched for it now, it was nowhere to be found. It was really cool
I found out about Perfume Global Site Project when it was introduced on NHK’s Tekune Eizou no Kyoushitsu, but where can I talk about Tekune? This is an article about songs, but……
Sakanaction
National treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for being born!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t imagine a world without Sakanaction. Like air. Humans can’t live without air. It’s taken for granted that it’s there, and it’s always there. That kind of existence
I really love the Shock! MV. Shimada Hisanori is good, right
He’s a concentrated mass of presence, but he blends smoothly into the MV while also standing out as the face of the single jacket. Perfect from every 360-degree angle
MV with an older atmosphere suits Sakanaction, doesn’t it. It really suits them. Shin Takarajima too. That one is Drifu Daibakusho, so
Just one line about Drifu: I also really love the opening song of Drifu Daibakusho. The idea of remixing Tonarigumi is something I love too much
I’ll return to Sakanaction
The song I first fell for was ‘Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu.’, and that’s also good. The MV is also very good
The MV is really challenging, and watching it now it feels like a high-quality concentrated mass of Sakanaction, but
when I first saw it, I was shocked thinking “What is this wildly unique MV!!!!!!!!” Getting inoculated with this MV with zero prior knowledge was too stimulating
Stimulation is said to be better the stronger it is
Also, Music is a diamond brilliantly shining in the treasure mountain called Sakanaction. It sparkles especially among Sakanaction’s songs
This is truly incredible. When you listen to a good song, I think you normally feel “this is a good song~,” but Music was different
It was the feeling of “having witnessed a completed ‘artistic work’”
It’s that high in completion, with everything necessary there, and nothing missing
In that sense, the diamond metaphor might be slightly off. Music is a sphere, you see. A perfect circle. An ultimate existence that is complete just by being that
AIDENTITY is also good, right. It feels like the face of Sakanaction from this period
I just watched the MV again after a long time and it’s pretty simple, and this is possible because of the song’s quality. The song is powerful and has centripetal force, so the MV can be simple. That’s what I think
Well, is it really that simple?
Speaking of MVs, I absolutely love Sayonara wa Emotion, and this is also in the repetition style like Perfume’s Spending all my time
Yamaguchi Ichiro captured by repetition. Another individual Yamaguchi Ichiro observing that. Good, right. Really good. This also definitely makes my top 10 MVs
Also, in the Tokyo Jihen section I talked about how I really love songs with actual place names, and Sakanaction has that kind of song too. It’s called Omotesandou 26-ji
Shibuya and Omotesando and such really suit the late night to early morning hours. Or rather, bustling places that normally have lots of people, all of those. I love when those kinds of places go quiet
.hack//SIGN ORIGINAL SOUND & SONG TRACK
Where’s your Kajiura Yuki from? Mine is from .hack//SIGN
This is what got me into MMORPGs. In that sense, it’s a deeply sinful work. How many hundreds of hours have I spent on MMORPGs
See-Saw’s OP and ED are truly my favorites. See-Saw is good, right. Unique
Among the soundtrack, I like the world. A mainstream signature song
Kajiura Yuki in general is great, isn’t she. It’s amazing. That personality where you know it’s Kajiura Yuki the instant you hear it is amazing
I also like FictionJunction YUUKA and Kalafina
Magia is a masterpiece. Hitomi no Kakera is a memorable song
Returning to the .hack//SIGN topic via Hitomi no Kakera, I generally like Bee Train works. They have an eccentric quality, but I love that eccentricity
For the .hack series, I only watched SIGN and didn’t play the games, so I want to. Because I was at my parents’ house where video games were banned
.hack//G.U. is on Switch and Steam, but for the expansion ones like Kansen Kakudai, do I need to buy a PS2? I earnestly want to play
Soutaiseiriron (Yakushimaru Etsuko)
Totally a generational thing. Back then, all of humanity was listening to Soutaiseiriron. I’m making the subject huge
Incredible personality. And it was already complete from the start. From the first album Chiffon-ism, it hasn’t wavered at all
When I first encountered Soutaiseiriron, I had no musical knowledge, and well, I still don’t, but I get the impression that Soutaiseiriron just sprouted out of nothing
Music has trendy genres, and bands that start trending often belong to some genre or another, but
Soutaiseiriron was different, not belonging anywhere. A single genre called Soutaiseiriron. That suddenly sprouted up
I think it probably does belong to some genre, me just not knowing about it, but Soutaiseiriron is Soutaiseiriron, you know?
LOVE Zukkyun and Shikaku Kakumei and Shinagawa Number and China Advice and My Heart Hard Pinch and such, I like. Extremely standard
I also like songs under Yakushimaru Etsuko’s solo name, and Tokimeki Hacker is something I love so much
There was a site called YAKUSHIMARU BODY HACK that published Yakushimaru Etsuko’s biometric data in real time. Thinking about it now, that’s variously amazing
Tokimeki Hacker was playing as BGM there, so I was always listening to it
Also, it was amazing that she sang Nuumoon ni Koishite. I was moved
If Yakushimaru Etsuko sang a Sailor Moon song, everyone would become “that era’s girl.” I made the subject huge again
Talking about Nuumoon ni Koishite, that was amazing. To think the same song would be sung by multiple artists. Quietly good
Momoiro Clover Z, Yakushimaru Etsuko, Horie Mitsuko — shifting across generations is good, right
No matter what generation, you can become that era’s girl. The era of waving toys around and playing make-believe transformation
Actually, Sailor Moon isn’t just for girls. It’s really good even for adults to read. But this is the Soutaiseiriron section, so I’ll end this topic here
Speaking of Yakushimaru Etsuko, it’s Ballet Mécanique, which is really good. Sunahara Yoshiro’s involvement is something I love too much
Okada Yukiko’s WONDER TRIP LOVER, Sakamoto Ryuichi’s Ballet Mecanique, Nakatami Miki’s Chronic Love, Yakushimaru Etsuko + Sunahara Yoshiro’s Ballet Mécanique — each has its own goodness
A good melody never fades. No matter how many times you bite into it, it’s delicious
Sengoku Rance
I’ll talk about an age-restricted game. I won’t discuss the parts that require age restriction
—– Eroge talk from here —–
I love Sengoku Rance. The time thief of my youth
I really played it foreverrrrrrrrr. So Sengoku Rance’s songs are ingrained in my ears
Suzuka is cute, oh Suzuka. Also Omachi-chan is the strongest and the best. Shimazu is unforgiven
Sengoku Rance was my first Rance, and I played it without knowing any of the prior history, but that was totally fine
The game itself was fun, so I figured I could learn the history later
I also want to clear Kichikuou Rance. Isn’t that one hard? I can never leave Leazas
Even so, I played Kichikuou up to where Majin Rei appears, so when Rance 10 came out, I was quite surprised. Doesn’t Rei look like a completely different person? From that appearance to the hair going up and suddenly becoming handsome
Rance 10 was truly good. So good that even though the series ended, I still play it sometimes
I will decorate the finished Rance story in the frame in my heart, and spend my life searching for the back of a new Rance that will never be born again
Or so I thought, but I recently learned that TADA-san introduced an unofficial mod for Sengoku Rance on his blog, and a loud voice came from the bottom of my heart
Even though it’s unofficial, I can still keep playing!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?
I can still keep playing with Rance, with everyone in that world!??!?!??!?!?!?!??!?
The first thing I’ll do after finishing this article is play Dai Sengoku Rance
I haven’t talked about songs at all. Rebirth the edge is a masterpiece
A guitarist named Yamato uploaded a video of them playing this song on Niconico, and I love it. Truly skilled. I don’t know guitar well but I can tell. The sound is precise. Appearance is an onion
Dai Akuji was also fun
Listening to Advanced On, you can hear the battle sound effects, and Sengoku World and Sengoku World - v2 have been listened to so much they’re basically ambient noise, and listening to Ontology, the emotions from struggling battles come rushing back
Also, this is about a Rance 10 song, but isn’t Grand Ending Movie really good!??!?!??!!?? The culmination of everything. The best
At the same time as being the best, it was the song that made me truly feel that the Rance series had really ended. Being able to see such a beautiful ending, I’m satisfied. That said, I’ll still keep playing
—– Eroge talk ends here —–
Kagerou Project
Kagepro was amazing, right. My generation was slightly off, so there was no one around me who was into Kagepro
The songs were good, and the songs were amazing, but I was a huge fan of Shidu, and the Shidu of Kagepro was a concentrated mass of growth potential
That the person who did the single illustration for Mekakushi Code would create the MV for Yuukei Yesterday two years later was unimaginable. I couldn’t have imagined it
Absorbing every technique and creating and publishing the best thing they could make at that time. Watching them get more and more elaborate was truly fun
Returning to song talk, it’s good that it’s an ensemble cast, or rather, that each character in each song has relationships. Each song has its own story, and gathering them all creates one story called Kagerou Project
That said, there are many parts that can’t be told through songs alone, so I supplemented quite a bit with the manga. The anime, well, I liked it and watched it to the end, but……
The cover versions of each song in the anime were soooooo good. All of them good
All good, but among them, the LiSA-sung songs are especially my favorites. Headphone Actor and Yuukei Yesterday and Yoru Baka Dicerive and such. They really suited her
DEMONDICE
Karen, thank you for being born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What genre is DEMONDICE? Rap?
I like both the early comical songs and the recent cool songs
The best is definitely Alkatraz. Both the song and the MV are comical. Good no matter how many tens of times I listen
Also, Wannabe is really good, and some DEMONDICE songs have this feel of English rap mixed with Japanese, and that goodness is packed tight. Thank you for adding Japanese subtitles
Strange Fiction is also very good, and this is a collaboration song with Rappubito
This is really good. The regular version with rap is of course good, and the instrumental version is also really good. Each has a different kind of goodness. I’m only saying “good”
For example, if the lyricless BGM version of the OP song played during a game’s final boss battle, it would feel like a final battle and you’d get super hyped, right? It’s like that
Among recent songs, I like wanting, getting, wanting. Really cool
Recent DEMONDICE is like this. The chorus feels great
Karen, you must be incredibly busy, but I want you to keep DEMONDICE going even if it’s at a small scale. I’m always looking forward to new songs
YOASOBI
The world’s YOASOBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No explanation needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It truly needs no explanation. They’re famous and everything is a masterpiece
YOASOBI’s albums are unified under the name THE BOOK, but THE BOOK 3 is especially good
What’s good about it is that 3 has Interlude before some songs
Combined with the name THE BOOK, it makes you feel like you’re reading the introduction to a story called a song
Interlude is inserted before fairly strong songs, so it also has the effect of letting you listen naturally without breaking the overall album flow. It’s placed right before Shukufuku and Idol. Both are strong
Let me talk about the English version of YOASOBI. The English version of YOASOBI is truly amazing
Is it called rhyming? The feel of the word flow from when you listen to the Japanese version is preserved in the English version. This can’t be done without putting extraordinary care into the translation. It’s too amazing
The most prominent example is Into The Night, the English version of Yoru ni Kakeru, and it’s truly amazing
Even though you’re listening to the English version, the feel of the Japanese version’s lyrics and sound is almost unchanged in places
First, the beginning of the Japanese version’s lyrics is “shizumu you ni,” and the English version is “Seize a move, you’re on me.” They’ve matched it completely
At the point I’ve written this much, I was convinced this topic would get long, so I’ll only talk about the beginning of the chorus from here
The beginning of the Japanese version’s chorus is “sawagashii hibi ni,” right? This becomes “Saw what got seen hid beneath”
And that sound is almost the same as the Japanese version. When I first heard it, I momentarily thought they’d suddenly started singing in Japanese, that’s how similar they are. Truly amazing
They’ve made them this similar only for Into The Night; other songs are also made similar, but this song is on another level
That’s how much effort they put into Into The Night, or rather, the song Yoru ni Kakeru. Truly a good song
Also, this goes beyond even the English version topic, but Harujion also has a different language version and I love it
It’s a language called Simlish used in The Sims 4, and there’s a version sung in that language in the game. YOASOBI is multi-talented
The first time I heard YOASOBI was the Simlish version of Harujion. A bizarre way to encounter them
Public Service Broadcasting
Public Service Broadcasting is the band name. They’re really good, but does everyone know them……?
Since they have little exposure in Japan, I’ll properly explain them
They’re a band with a unique worldview, playing their own music while using old footage and radio audio as material, but
I lack the Japanese language skills to explain this band, so I’ll quote from another article
https://www.indienative.com/2017/03/public-service-broadcasting/
古いパブリック・インフォメーション・フィルム、アーカイヴの映像、宣伝用のマテリアルからサンプリングを行なうその特異な音楽スタイルが話題の、ロンドンをベースに活動するミュージック・デュオ、Public Service Broadcasting (パブリック・サーヴィス・ブロードキャスティング)。
Apparently that’s what they’re like. The Japanese in the source is skillful. They now have more members and aren’t a duo anymore
I really love the album The Race for Space, which is an album themed around space development
Song titles like Sputnik and Gagarin already make it feel the part, and they sample audio materials from the era when space development was exciting and use them in the songs, which is very cool
My favorites are Gagarin and Go!
Go! probably uses control voice audio from artificial satellites or something. I’m not knowledgeable about space development so I’m writing very fuzzy Japanese, but it’s truly cool. I love it. It electrifies me
They maintain their unique worldview and it’s truly cool. Old but new. Refined
They started activity in 2009, so they’re definitely not old, but their concepts and perspectives are refined. Good
Among other albums, I really like Night Mail. Cool. Refreshing
The Baltic Fleet Remix Radio Edit of this song is truly good. The bass is sufficient
A documentary film called Night Mail was released in the UK in 1936, and that seems to be the sampling source. I know absolutely nothing about the UK
How come……
King Gnu
No explanation needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our King Gnu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A band worthy of the word “King”
I just pulled up a King Gnu promo photo to write this section, and Tsuneta-san is truly cool. Is such a perfect existence allowed?
Not just perfect, but a hard worker too. Amazing, right
Let me talk about the songs. Every song is a masterpiece
The first one I fell for was Hakujitsu. Hakujitsu is good, right
I have no musical knowledge so I can only say “good.” There should be someone in Tansu who can verbalize this better. Please do it on my behalf
Also, I like Kasa. King Gnu’s high-energy songs are good, but I also like songs like this with a slight emptiness, or rather, songs that aren’t just about momentum
Not sad songs, but songs that seem to try to fill a blank space that’s definitely there. That kind of feeling
Vinyl is also like that
For high-energy ones, Doron and Flash!!! and such
SPECIALZ is also good. For some reason this song feels like Western music. I don’t know why
BOY is also a favorite. An energizing song. In other words, everything is a masterpiece
Porno Graffitti
THE generation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But Porno’s generation is pretty broad, isn’t it. That just means they produced that many masterpieces
I listened to Ageha Chou a lot. Actually, I still listen to it
At the time, there were quite a few fan works using Ageha Chou as an image song. Let’s stop talking about unrelated otaku stuff
Saudade and Koyoi, Tsuki ga Miezu Tomo are also deeply memorable, and a girl in the same club sang these so coolly
No good, THE generation song talk just becomes nostalgia stories
Melissa is also a huge favorite. Jobairo and Haneuma Rider are also favorites. These are probably standard
Oh! Rival and such too. Century Lovers is also good
Hitori no Yoru is also a top favorite. The GTO OP visuals match it perfectly
Also, I like a song called Mahoroba○△, and this is part of the “I like songs that feature real place names” series
I can’t say which one, but you can roughly figure out the location from the song content and the place name Shibuya. Good
Peer Gynt, Op. 23
This is a set of music composed by Edvard Grieg for a play called Peer Gynt — what should I call it. Stage accompaniment? It’s a collection of songs played when the play is performed on stage
Several pieces are famous, and I think anyone has heard Morning or In the Hall of the Mountain King somewhere at least once
First, let me talk about the play Peer Gynt
It’s a story about the life of a free man named Peer Gynt, depicting him doing all sorts of outrageous things until his death
He abducts another man’s wife, becomes filthy rich then loses everything, becomes a prophet, becomes the emperor of a psychiatric hospital
If you’re okay with old kana orthography, you can read it for free on the internet. I read that version
Since it’s the stage music for such a story, in other words, Peer Gynt, Op. 23 is an image song collection for the life of a man named Peer Gynt
It’s very good. I want Grieg to make image songs for my life too. “Image songs for my life” — I wrote it myself, but I just realized what an incredibly appealing phrase that is
When you know Peer’s life, the song Solveig’s Song becomes incredibly good, so good
The final song dedicated to Peer, who did outrageous things throughout his life. The fact that it’s a lullaby is good, right
Reading the play in Japanese, the lyrics are incredibly gentle, and Grieg’s stage music is in German or Norwegian or something, so I don’t understand what they’re saying, but the atmosphere is sacred. Solemn
But also gentle. I love it
Also, I like Anitra’s Dance. A nemesis, but I like it
Why a nemesis: because long ago I tried to play it on the piano and it was too difficult and I got beaten up by it
Belleville Rendez-vous
A French animated film soundtrack. Incredibly stylish
The song atmosphere is stylish, but the MV for the theme song Belleville Rendez-Vous is like a nightmare you have when you catch a cold. But I don’t dislike that sensibility
My perception of France is extremely fuzzy, so there’s a possibility I’m just claiming it’s stylish because it feels French
Neither the work itself nor the songs are exactly bright; it’s more like a mature resignation
I fell in love with this work when I saw it playing at a bar, and that kind of place suits it
It’s not exactly dark either; it’s more like making compromises with various things and still having a reasonably good time. That kind of atmosphere
MYTH & ROID
Auditory stimulant 2. Good morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I often listen to them when I’ve reached my limit in a negative direction during work or other tasks. The positive ST☆RISH, the negative MYTH & ROID
JINGO JUNGLE is cool and I loooove it
ANGER/ANGER and Crazy Scary Holy Fantasy also get me hyped
And above all, shadowgraph is the best. Beautiful
Ever since the PV for Boogiepop wa Warawanai (new) came out, I was always looking forward to hearing the full version. I was moved when I finally heard it in full. Thank you so much for creating this song, MYTH & ROID
COWBOY BEBOP Original Soundtrack
Practically compulsory education. This is an overstatement
Tank! is an unremovable mainstream among the mainstream, and PIANO BLACK and such are refined and I like them
TOO GOOD TOO BAD is also mainstream. Uplifting to listen to. CAR 24 is also really good
I listened to American Money and such a lot, but for some reason I have the impression I listened to it a lot outside of Bebop. Anime songs are sometimes used in variety shows, right
Also, Cats on Mars is essential. Ed is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Want it all back is also a masterpiece. The vocals are cool. The playing is the best
The EGG and YOU is also good, right. The piano melody really stands out. There’s a goodness that comes precisely because it’s a simple song
MUSHROOM HUNTING and such too. What is this, bass? The low frequencies are doing an incredibly good job
Also, this isn’t strictly a Bebop song, but I truly love SHAKKAZOMBIE’s Sora wo Torimodoshita Hi that played in Yoseatsume Blues. Quietly love it
I truly love Yoseatsume Blues itself, and ideally the environment that made Yoseatsume Blues necessary shouldn’t have existed in the first place, but
it was surely created from feelings of protest, helplessness, and anger, but that too was one Cowboy Bebop. Not the end of Bebop, but part of it
That’s what I think
[Alexandros]
I fell for them via the Waitress, Waitress! MV
Thinking about it now, it’s exactly the kind of MV a band that’s starting to get big would make, but it’s cool, you know. The song has charisma
Dear Enemies is also a favorite. The guitar and bass are cool
Kiss the Damage is also a favorite
I realized that if I keep writing, I’d end up mentioning every single track on Schwarzenegger. I love this album too much. I love every song
Also, She’s Very is incredibly cool
Isn’t this cool!?!?!??!? The 2nd track of their first album, and what’s with this level of completion. Too perfect
And actually, I don’t know [Alexandros] very well from around here on, because I didn’t notice for several years that the name changed from [Champagne] to [Alexandros]. My stupidity……!!
I just realized now — Senkou is [Alexandros]!!!!!!! I love it
TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET
I like them. Very much. I played BEST SET until it wore out
JIVE MY REVOLVER and Romantic Densetsu and Jr. and STARDUST and such
The jacket art for TRIPLE BARREL is truly stylish, and every time I see this jacket, my heart races at how cool it is
Also, around the time I started getting into them, TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET + HALCALI released a remix of Konya wa Boogie Back under that name, and
it was used in a Nissan Cube CM featuring Osomatsu-kun, and it aired on TV to death, so I have memories of listening to it my whole life
I really like this version. Uptempo and good. Combined with the atmosphere of the Osomatsu-kun art on the jacket, it has a pop feel
Speaking of Konya wa Boogie Back, apparently last year a song combined with Suisei was used in a Horoyoi CM. A good melody never fades after all
I just found out it was used in a CM, but I already knew the song, and I like it. They’re beautifully combined. As if they were originally one from the start
Also, speaking of TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET, MORE BIG PARTY. This is essential
This song is refined and sooooo good. Truly good. The suspicious ultra-refined melody right from the start is the best
And above all, the lyrics are the best. “Let’s gather in that novel” is truly cool. I want to say it at least once before I die
There are a few other songs that use the phrase “Let’s gather in that novel”
GET UP AND DANCE, and recently it was used in Shougeki, the Attack on Titan ending song. Good. You’d want to use it. This makes you want to use it
I couldn’t figure out which was the original between MORE BIG PARTY and GET UP AND DANCE even after searching, but it should probably be MORE BIG PARTY
If I’m wrong, I’m really sorry
I want to talk just a little about Schadarapaa’s GET UP AND DANCE, but this is truly good. Especially for children who watched Ponkikkies at the time, it’s carved into their soul
I knew there was a FREEDOM version as the original of the Schadarapaa version, but I just looked it up now, wait—
The OP song for Kobayashi-san Chi no Maidragon S pays homage to this? What is this incredibly cheerful homage? I’m going to listen to it 100 times later. Too amazing
EGO-WRAPPIN’
I like them. Powerful. Good, right
Kuchibashi ni Cherry and Psycho Analcis and Katsute..。 and Shikisai no Blues and Calling Me and Big Noise From Winnetka ~ Kuro Ari no Marching Band and Paranoia and such
Partly because I was sampling various genres of music around this time, I can’t figure out what genre EGO-WRAPPIN’ belongs to. Is it jazz?
Anyway, they’re cool. It feels like free music
I was also listening to UA a lot at the same time, so I tend to talk about them as a set, but they’re probably a different genre. UA is also in a strange position. Not belonging anywhere
Sangatsu no Phantasia
Cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The songs are truly cute. Sweet and sour
Sangatsu ga Zutto Tsuzukeba Ii and Seishun Nante Iranai wa and such, I love songs with youth as the theme
Songs like Golden Ray are also truly good. Cute
My vocabulary has been reduced to nothing but “cute”
Also, Collage. Good. A song for the precious part of my heart that must never be dirtied
This includes memories about Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan
Humans have emotions and sensibilities they mustn’t forget throughout their lives, and those things tend to be forgotten when you’re out in society, but
Sangatsu no Phantasia’s songs gently tug at your sleeve at times like that and let you know that what’s precious is right there. That’s the kind of existence they are. Thank you for listening to my poem
The Beatles
Suddenly an extremely standard pick, and I’m surprised myself. I can’t have such a super-standard pick this late in the article
I was listening to the Red Album and the Blue Album. I probably listened to the Red one more
With Beatles songs, even if you’re hearing one for the first time, there somehow already “is” a dedicated seat for the Beatles in your heart
I feel like I just said an incredibly incomprehensible poem, but basically, the Beatles’ songs themselves are so famous that you’ve unconsciously heard them through some medium, and
the Beatles are so great that there are probably many derivative bands and songs that followed them, and
for those reasons, you get this strange feeling like you’ve known them forever. That’s what I think
So there actually isn’t a specific “THIS ONE!!!” Beatles song for me, and
I occasionally recall them and listen to an album all the way through, confirming that there’s firmly a seat in my heart
That kind of strange existence. The Beatles
Inaba Kei
I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for being born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First, let me talk about Lagtrain. Lagtrain is really good. My favorite. Including the MV, truly good
It’s so famous that many MADs were created. I like Lagtrain but its Congruent Angles
This applies not just to Lagtrain but to Inaba Kei in general, but there’s a pleasant un-brightness. Not aggressively dark, but matter-of-factly not bright. This is truly a compliment
There are days when you don’t need to force yourself to be cheerful, right? I have them. On days like that, Inaba Kei stays close to you
A cloudy sky suits them best. There are many songs like that
Other than Lagtrain, Fret Play and Rainy Boots and Himitsu no Shougakusei and Kazemachigusa and Lost Umbrella and such
Also, in the album Anticyclone, I love the moment it transitions from Pascal Beats to Cooler Girl. That’s truly beautifully connected
Like at a live, when one song ends and the guitar stops for just a moment, then immediately launches into the next song without a beat, and the venue goes wild. You can experience that sensation every time
Fuyuu Gekkou Gai is also good. I really like it
Non-Use is also good
Kuraki Mai
THE generation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or rather, it’s because I’ve been obsessed with Detective Conan the whole time. I’m still obsessed
Back then I was watching with CoRanShinRan as great justice, but now……
Among Conan-related songs, Secret of my heart and always and Kaze no Lalala and such, the early ones give the impression of being mostly calm songs, but
Growing of my heart and Revive and such intense songs are sooooo good, truly good
Slightly departing from Kuraki Mai, but among intense Conan OPs, Naifu’s Mysterious is truly my favorite. That’s incredibly cool
Returning to Kuraki Mai
Non-Conan related, I like Feel Fine! and Stand Up and such. Reach for the sky and such are quiet but have a firmly strong core and are very good
Key to my heart was a theme song for a Tales game
This also isn’t flashy in tone but has a solid core and is good, and I think that’s where Kuraki Mai’s charm lies
Ikimono-gakari
This is also generational…… isn’t it!!!!! Wasn’t there a period when Ikimono-gakari was super popular? I feel like there was a time when there wasn’t a day I didn’t hear them
What I like are again the most standard of the standard, Blue Bird and HANABI and Joyful and Hotaru no Hikari and Kimagure Romantic and such
Come to think of it, despite saying “generational,” I was actually deeply listening to 4 albums back then
Also, Ryuusei Miracle and Aki-gusa and such
Aki-gusa is truly my favorite, and I don’t think this can be called a major Ikimono-gakari song, but it’s my favorite
Also, Oyasumi. This was selected as one of the songs to play at a certain TRPG table, so I have incredibly strong feelings about it, and I keep listening to it on repeat
Nanawo Akari
Nanawo Akari!!!!!!! Cute!!!!! Useless angel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I fell instantly and completely through One Room Sugar Life
Technically, via the OP of Happy Sugar Life
Happy Sugar Life, of course I like it, but it’s a sensitive work where if someone said I’d probably like it, I’d want to interrogate them with “What do you mean by that?”
I mean, I do like it
I was just having a comment battle with an imaginary hater in my head. I am not mentally unstable
Among the first album, Hano is especially my favorite
The first album has a lot of upper-type songs, but Hano feels like it’s about to slip into downer territory
Like being in an upper state and looking at the room you’ve trashed, for a moment you almost return to your true self, but you somehow cling on so you don’t fall. That kind of goodness
That state is the most dangerous, you know
Kanzen Houki Sengen and Turing Love and such are also favorites. The way she sings Kanzen Houki Sengen is soooooo cute. Truly cute
Inoue Yousui
Can I talk about someone named Mogumogu Fuyo-do and do a little opportunistic self-talk first? Thank you. I’ll keep it brief
There used to be a person named Mogumogu Fuyo-do who made hand-drawn videos of the Touhou Project, and Communication Breakdance is famous, but
this person would sometimes select BGM for their videos from Unicorn and Okuda Masaaki and such, which for me at the time were names I’d heard but songs I hadn’t really listened to, and
I realized “Songs from around this era might be pretty good!” and when I was digging through albums for a while, I encountered Inoue Yousui. Okuda Masaaki and Inoue Yousui, isn’t that a bit of a generation gap?
Must be my imagination
Inoue Yousui is really good, and incredibly distinctive. Fun to listen to
The voice has power, and you can clearly imagine the scenery being sung about
Koori no Sekai and such, I love so much
Jinsei ga Nido Areba is especially truly amazing. You can imagine what kind of scenery they’re singing about, and the atmosphere of father and mother, and the air inside the house must feel like this. A masterpiece
Kasa ga Nai is a favorite song, and on days I forgot my umbrella, I would always listen to this song while waiting out the rain. A song that makes waiting out the rain fun
I like gazing blankly at the rain clouds while listening to the song
Another rain-connected song, Yuudachi has a completely different atmosphere and I also love it. This intensity is exactly what a sudden evening shower is
And above all, Yume no Naka e. A standard song
Conclusion
Not the artist called “Owari ni,” but this article ends here.
Tomorrow is 404-san’s An App That Creates 2 Shrines With 1 Click to Explosively Boost Your Luck.