Just a quick post up for the long weekend. This is a really nifty concert vid* of Ami singing "Always Dreamin' About You" and Yumi singing "Watashi No Nozomi."
My best guess was this was from the Spike tour as their hair styles are similar. Anthony and Hareonna20 confirmed it was from the "2001: A Halfway of Space Odyssey." Likewise Ami and Yumi have done solo songs in concert as recently as Bring it. (I was wrong in my initial speculation, ergo some corrections Thanks guys!)
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving weekend (or for those outside of North America...a great weekend)!
(* also a nifty way to avoid doing my 15 post up... which I am still working on)
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
I got my copy of Puffy 15
Got my copy of Puffy 15 this morning (for me one day early as I think the Japan release date is tomorrow... which given time zones I guess it is not early by Japanese reckoning).
I have not dug through much beyond looking through my box from cdjpapan to verify contents.
Hopefully I will have a full post up this weekend. One good thing about this being a best of is that I could write about 75% of the review before it arrived. Until then comment away my friends!
I have not dug through much beyond looking through my box from cdjpapan to verify contents.
Hopefully I will have a full post up this weekend. One good thing about this being a best of is that I could write about 75% of the review before it arrived. Until then comment away my friends!
Friday, November 11, 2011
Tokyo Dome City Winter Festival
This is at the Tokyo Dome City Winter Festival... and it is a lighting art installation choreographed with Puffy's song RGW. It's pretty nifty, watch for yourself.
(h/t to commenter holyfooljose for the find, and theatreamanoya for the original vid nice work!)
(h/t to commenter holyfooljose for the find, and theatreamanoya for the original vid nice work!)
Saturday, November 5, 2011
My Puffy 15
This was originally a top ten list that we had punted around in comments... then someone suggested doing a top fifteen. Thanks for the extra work! But the benefit here was I had a few songs that I wanted to put into a top ten but for whatever reason they were pushed off it it.
In this whole process I got delayed for a variety of reasons. First reviewing a bunch of songs I had listed... Then boiling that down... Then going through my library to see if I had missed anything (and I had). Then I sat down and tried to quantify my song list, that too turned out to be a struggle as a bunch of songs I like for different reasons. End result is this list of songs which are not in any particular order in regards to my preferences.
Toku Suru Karada: Touching back on something Jeff said a long time back (I think circa Splurge or honeycreeper) is that this is a unique song that Puffy never has replicated. It is also one of my favorite concert songs as I think it can only be played one way. First track off their first album, it made an impression upon me.
Jet Keisatsu: Arguably "the Puffy song." I say that as it encompasses what a makes Puffy songs great. Great vocals, well produced, plenty of space for a variety of support musicians.
Mother: A sweet song about life not being so sweet. I love the nuances Mother has, but what I really like is the fact that Yumi gets to sings what I think are the more interesting parts of the song.
Mogura-like: Straight up rock and roll in the form of Puffy, a song I like in studio more than live. I will always be thrown off that it feels like a marriage of two songs, but sometimes that works... that and the wah-wah guitar sounds which I am a sucker for.
Beginnings: A song I think plays well live or in studio. It is another one of those songs that define Puffy.
Jet-Love: I really like the fusion of various pop/rock forms in Jet-Love and it is a very distinctive song.
Otomemoriaru: A song I have always liked as Puffy's vocals are dominating from the front and center. Again I always dig when Ami and Yumi vocalize on so many layers that a wall of Puffy is formed and falls upon me. This choice may surprise some of you as I tilt towards Puffy's more rock oriented songs...
Stray Cats Fever: Hands down my favorite song on one of my favorite albums. But like Fever*Fever Stray Cats Fever gets lost... which I do not understand.
Yokai Puffy: I love the craziness of Yokai Puffy (and generally I am no big fan of self referencing songs...). This song has a great set up and the piles on a rocking crazy like gasoline on a fire.
Oriental Diamond: I think Ami summed it up best (and I paraphrase) "uh oh here comes Puffy."
Sakura Saku: I have always like this song, it is well off the beaten path for a Puffy song... and I really like that. Japanese pop meets a country beat and something better than I thought possible is the effect.
My Country Road: Another Tamio-Puffy combination winds up on this list... I really like how the song is layered and Ami and Yumi's vocals are deep, rich and mature. Ami and Yumi harmonize differently which is something that took me a long time to figure out how their individual parts were being emphasized..
My Story: One of those songs that probably should not make it on the list, but all the moving fit together and the end result is one of those Puffy songs I wind up liking quite a bit.
UREI: A song I almost forgot about as it appears on the US release of Nice and the Sunrise single. Has a weird slow start and then bridges into one rocking song that reminds me of The Donnas.
Asia no Junshin: Honestly much as I love this song in its various iterations, it almost did not make the list. But then I recall like many of us, Asia no Junshin was the first Puffy song I heard... and a decade later I still am a fan. So maybe it it does deserve to be on this list after all.
Now it is your turn!
In this whole process I got delayed for a variety of reasons. First reviewing a bunch of songs I had listed... Then boiling that down... Then going through my library to see if I had missed anything (and I had). Then I sat down and tried to quantify my song list, that too turned out to be a struggle as a bunch of songs I like for different reasons. End result is this list of songs which are not in any particular order in regards to my preferences.
Toku Suru Karada: Touching back on something Jeff said a long time back (I think circa Splurge or honeycreeper) is that this is a unique song that Puffy never has replicated. It is also one of my favorite concert songs as I think it can only be played one way. First track off their first album, it made an impression upon me.
Jet Keisatsu: Arguably "the Puffy song." I say that as it encompasses what a makes Puffy songs great. Great vocals, well produced, plenty of space for a variety of support musicians.
Mother: A sweet song about life not being so sweet. I love the nuances Mother has, but what I really like is the fact that Yumi gets to sings what I think are the more interesting parts of the song.
Mogura-like: Straight up rock and roll in the form of Puffy, a song I like in studio more than live. I will always be thrown off that it feels like a marriage of two songs, but sometimes that works... that and the wah-wah guitar sounds which I am a sucker for.
Beginnings: A song I think plays well live or in studio. It is another one of those songs that define Puffy.
Jet-Love: I really like the fusion of various pop/rock forms in Jet-Love and it is a very distinctive song.
Otomemoriaru: A song I have always liked as Puffy's vocals are dominating from the front and center. Again I always dig when Ami and Yumi vocalize on so many layers that a wall of Puffy is formed and falls upon me. This choice may surprise some of you as I tilt towards Puffy's more rock oriented songs...
Stray Cats Fever: Hands down my favorite song on one of my favorite albums. But like Fever*Fever Stray Cats Fever gets lost... which I do not understand.
Yokai Puffy: I love the craziness of Yokai Puffy (and generally I am no big fan of self referencing songs...). This song has a great set up and the piles on a rocking crazy like gasoline on a fire.
Oriental Diamond: I think Ami summed it up best (and I paraphrase) "uh oh here comes Puffy."
Sakura Saku: I have always like this song, it is well off the beaten path for a Puffy song... and I really like that. Japanese pop meets a country beat and something better than I thought possible is the effect.
My Country Road: Another Tamio-Puffy combination winds up on this list... I really like how the song is layered and Ami and Yumi's vocals are deep, rich and mature. Ami and Yumi harmonize differently which is something that took me a long time to figure out how their individual parts were being emphasized..
My Story: One of those songs that probably should not make it on the list, but all the moving fit together and the end result is one of those Puffy songs I wind up liking quite a bit.
UREI: A song I almost forgot about as it appears on the US release of Nice and the Sunrise single. Has a weird slow start and then bridges into one rocking song that reminds me of The Donnas.
Asia no Junshin: Honestly much as I love this song in its various iterations, it almost did not make the list. But then I recall like many of us, Asia no Junshin was the first Puffy song I heard... and a decade later I still am a fan. So maybe it it does deserve to be on this list after all.
Now it is your turn!
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