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2011 Mar 19
 I’m not a Billy Joel fan. But I do remember this album cover. The only problem was that I never really what was up with it. I didn’t realize he was holding a rock. I didn’t know that the album was named “Glass Houses”. Up until a couple days ago, I had always just assumed he was making a silly “Saturday Night Fever” pose. Cuz dang, it sure don’t look like a natural throwing position to me. 2011 Mar 16
One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite singers, Hajime Chitose. 2011 Mar 10
Do you love the Surf Coaster too? 2011 Mar 08
Several months ago I was talking with Bay and Koa about a funny song/video named “Eat It”. I told them it is the funny version of another song by Michael Jackson. They had never heard of Weird Al and didn’t know anything about Michael Jackson, but after watching all the Weird Al videos on YouTube and then the Michael Jackson originals, the kids were hooked — on Michael Jackson! I downloaded the album Number Ones Below is my favorite tune from Number Ones, “Rock With You”: 2010 Dec 22
Since I am reminiscing about Japan (only a couple more days until I am on the plane), here’s another song that I used to listen to back then. I was probably December of 1996. I used to put my new Pizzicato Five CD ”great white wonder RARE MASTERS 1990`1996” into my Sony Discman and hop on the Friday night bullet-train from Tokyo Station to Osaka. This song was the soundtrack at the time, zipping through the stations and passing the city lights. I remember arriving in Osaka and waiting at the station, smoking cigarettes until Mariko got off work. Those were such fun times! Another P5 tune from the disc! 2010 Dec 21
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PermalinkI was jumping around YouTube watching music vids when I came across one of my all-time favorite songs: Ano Natsu no Hanabi by Dreams Come True. It goes back a ways! I think when I first heard this, I was making up my mind to move to Japan and this song kind of clinched it for me. I love it. Here it is from one of their amazing concerts, then the album song below, and lyrics (with rough translation) below that. Natsukashii! Japanese Tooku kara mune furuwasu oto ga hibiite kuru Hito de afureru teibou hagurenai you ni Imagoro anata mo dokoka de omoidashiteru no? Tomodachi ni hiyaka sareta mou natsu no hajime ni wa Kawa ni ochiru hanabira ga kieteku magiwa ni Imagoro anata mo dareka to kotoshi no hanabi wo miteru no? Nokoru kemuri kasumu daisankaku Imagoro anata mo dokoka de omoidashiteru no? Kotoshi mo kirei ne ano hi to onaji you ni kagayaku hanatachi Imagoro anata mo dokoka de chitteku kisetsu wo ikiteru English From far away, heart-shaking sounds are echoing Riverbank so overflowing with people, probably not able to peel off These days do you too, somewhere, recall… that day… Teased by friends at the very start of summer These days are you too, with someone, seeing this year’s fireworks? The remaining smoke, hazy Great Triangle [Altair, Vega, Deneb] These days do you too, somewhere, recall… that past summer’s fireworks… This year too, so beautiful, the same as that day, the shining blossoms Translations from DCTJoy.com 2010 Nov 20
Damn, Ringo’s so cool. 2010 Nov 18
A nice cover by Shiori Takei of a ZARD/Field of View tune. 2010 May 24
A couple remixes of some classic Ghibli tunes. This one has Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Totoro, Laputa, Have a nice week! |
from Amazon.com and it has been in heavy rotation on my iPod whenever they are in the car. I think it’s funny the songs they chose as favorites. Of course they love “Thriller” and “Beat It”, but I was surprised that Koa loves “Man in the Mirror” and Bay really likes “Dirty Diana”. Just recently we watched 