Puffy Scavanger Hunt

Hey gang, it has been a little quiet. Holidays, work and some fun has distracted me a little as of late. I can across this track on YouTube and for the life of me I cannot remember which album (a single b side, a cover album... not sure) the below came from.

Your ideas?

Update... Turns out I had it all along, Tencho no Wink from the Puffy Amiyumi x Puffy cover album, here is a version by the original singer Matsuda Seiko:

Puffy 2010 Interview

Here is an interview Puffy did for the 2010 concert at Irving Plaza concert in NYC.  Nothing really groundbreaking information-wise, but it is nice to have subtitles for the interview.



Have a Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

Ami Makes Her Debut... As A Guitarist

Ami made her debut as a guitarist at Yusuke Fujita's gig the past couple of nights.

One thing I have always liked about Ami is that she is pretty diverse in regards to her musical talents and it is great to see her branching out.  I am curious to learn if she is playing rhythm or lead.

I cannot recall if Yusuke Fujita has a tie to Puffy, but I'll try to do some leg work and figure that out.  Looks like Koichi Kawanishi is drumming, so there is another friendly face in this band.   



(H/T to Blazing Gunny for the find, this also was on Puffy's Facebook page)

(All images copyright their respective owners, so thanks Natalie.mu)

Puffy On iTunes

Looking at the Puffy news on the right pane of Amiyumidas, Sony has finally made Puffy's albums available via iTunes. Why it has taken so long I am not sure, but there are plenty of anachronistic aspects of Japan (good and bad) and it looks like they have finally embraced more modern distribution models. Hopefully Amazon will be an option too as I am not an Apple person.

After snooping around the iTunes store it looks like the albums range from about 1000 yen for singles to 2000 yen for full albums. Definitely cheaper than their albums on CD (that said I like having the album, but I am old...). Now the big question is if the store is locked by region. I have never used iTunes so I am not sure what that answer is, but I will poke around unless one of you have the answer handy.

As an aside I am looking through my reviews and trying to figure out what album I want to do next. Does anyone have thoughts or requests for an album I have not yet reviewed?

Cake Is Love

My wife and I were driving around and the song "Cake Is Love" popped up on the mp3 rotation.* She started singing it like she knew it, which earned a sidelong glance from me in the driver's seat

"How is it you know this song?" I asked.

"It was a popular song, not in my generation but my older brother's." She replied.

"How is that so? You grew up in Singapore?" I asked, but I also know sometimes songs cross boundaries in Asia and the rest of the world.

She answered, "I can't remember the singer, but she was very famous and moved from China to Japan."

"You're sure?" I asked, skepticism barely concealed.

"I am sure." She replied in a tone that closed the discussion.

So this is where you people come in. There is some possibility to this as Yosui Inoue did write the words and lyrics. He has been around a very long time and written a plethora of material for other artists.

I am crowd sourcing Puffy research and hopefully you all will find better answers than I did.

*I don't use playlists as I am not that motivated and I have a certain appreciation for randomness which is a tenant of pop (i.e. popular) music.