Play You. House: Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi

Not a lot going on at the moment (that should be a hint for me to bang out some album reviews... but I am beat). However I stumbled across this little gem on Youku.



While great news about Yumi's forthcoming child, I suspect this might be a quiet year unless Ami goes into over drive with her side work... or like Yumi did and shoulder the load for the duo until the duo is back on the same page.

Also in this lull, I am probably going to spruce up Amiyumidas with a redesign... but I do have the layout backed up just in case. :)

Puffy Covers Cover

Straight from Puffy's website, here is a look at the cover for Puffy Covers*.

My initial take was that it reminds me of a Donna's album cover. Maybe a little like a comic book, but to me it is a cross between underground music magazine and velvet black light poster.**


Here is a bigger alt from Puffy's site...

* uhg this sounds so meta...
** from when I was young, so anyone born after about 1980 this may be lost on you :)

More PUFFY COVERS Info

Was scrounging around the web today for Puffy stuff (and it is pretty quiet...) and came across some new information for PUFFY COVERS via Tokyo Hive.  So credit to them for the news, which to me was interesting as a significant number of the Puffy cover songs are new recordings. 

Here are the tracks that are new recordings:

     Jet Keisatsu  (OKAMOTO’S)
     My Story  (Kishidan)
     Onna Machine Gun  (Guitar Wolf)
     Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Etc. (Group Tamashii)
     Hare Onna (Saito Kazuyoshi)
     Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi (Magokoro Brothers)
     MOTHER (LOW IQ 01)
     Tararan (ROLLY)
     Umi e to (the pillows)


PUFFY COVERS will be released on July 4th, 2012.  So it may be possible for anyone using the FedEx options we might be delayed by a day.

P.S.  For Amiyumidas readers, if you buy from CD Japan, please use the banner links on the right, it helps support the site at zero cost to you!

P.P.S.  Put a new version of "Tomodachi no Wao!" in a blog a few back... Sony applied the hammer to the one from Daily Motion... never mind how dumb is it a promotional video  gets pulled for a copyright complaint as that sort of defeats the purpose... anyways Youku once again came through, which even with short ads it remains a very useful video site for amiyumidas.

PUFFY COVERS

Due out July 4th 2012 is "PUFFY COVERS"

Here is the artist / song list:

Yosui Inoue/Tamio Okura "Asia no Junshin"
Tamio Okuda "Circuit no Musume" "Oriental Diamond (DEMO music)
OKAMOTO’S "Jet Keisatsu"
Kishidan "My Story"
Guitar Wolf "Onna Machinegun"
Group Tamashii "Nagisa ni Matsuwaru etc"
Kazuyoshi Saito "Hare Onna"
The Cro-Magnons "Hasanjyauze"
The Birthday "Darekaga"
Spitz "Ai no Shirushi"
Fuji Fabric "Bye Bye"
Magokoro Brothers "Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi"
Kazuya Yoshii "Kuchibiru Motion"
LOW IQ 01 "MOTHER"
ROLLY "Tararan"
the pillows "Umi e to"

More info to be announced.

I will kind of take some exception to what they are calling a cover of Puffy songs.  In the case of "Oriental Diamond" and "Ai no Shirushi" (by Tamio Okuda and Spitz respectively), those were released by the original composers outside of the context of Puffy.  I have heard Tamio's cover of "Oriental Diamond" and even in that rough form, he does something really nice with it.  Spitz version of  "Ai no Shirushi" is also interesting as it it guitar driven and less polished. 

Nitpicking aside it is an interesting line up.  As miuch as Puffy has done well with covering other artists it might be fun to see how "PUFFY COVERS" turns out.  On the flip side, unlike "Marching Puffy" this should be more readily available to us, should we want it.

Beyond a handful of artists, I have little knowledge of the acts appearing on the release, so I am not sure where my hopes are at beyond a general optimism. The big question is what will Puffy themselves be doing as Yumi's maternity leave is looming?  I expected a quiet front half of the year, but news is happening so with that I am encouraged.

Puffy Playing Puffy

Just a quick update. I stumbled across Ami and Yumi checking out the Puffy branded pachinko machine.

None of this is new, we covered the machine release last year.... but here is a reset.Here is the advert for the Puffy pachinko machine:

Lastly here is what I guess is a game or variety show featuring the pachinko machine.

I do not know about you, but this is going on my want list down when it cycles out of Pachinko parlors... Realistically speaking from other modern machines I have seen come on the market, this will probably be between two to five hundred dollars. Also assuming some make their way out of Japan...Have a great weekend!