What is amiyumidas? A fan blog dedicated (mostly) to the j-pop/rock duo Puffy with news, reviews, commentary and other things Puffy that pique the contributors' interest. As you browse the site, feel free to leave comments, in either English or Japanese. よろしくお願いします！
Apropos of nothing, really...
ReplyDeleteYou said something before about secretly wishing that the current iteration of Puffy might sound a certain way. The PRMX discs don't get a lot of time in my player, but this comment made me wonder about approaching them with this "alternate Puffy" hypothesis in mind. I'm not sure I found anything I like BETTER, but it was interesting to imagine Puffy in some weird and unfamiliar sonic settings. And a few of the tracks, such as the Strawberry Fields-esque "Your Love Is A Drug" were just surprisingly effective on their own.
This only works, of course, with the remixes that take the original vocal track and wed it to a completely different arrangement, but those are the ones I find most listenable anyway. Those remixes that chop the original recording up into tiny DNA fragments and weave a handful of them into a new pattern are usually hard to bear.
Anyway, it was an interesting what-if experiment. And I think I'm going to enjoy listening to those two CDs more now.