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Neo-Tokyo 2099 Reviews of Singles & Albums from the ’90s
An incredible Namie Amuro song and a wonderful arrangement from TK! “CAN YOU CELEBRATE?” is one of those rare romantic love ballads that I have no doubt will be used for weddings for many decades to come! It’s a great song! ARTIST: Namie Amuro CD Read More …
“Turntable” is a wonderful 40th anniversary album and a complete package that is like a bookend piece to “EXPRESSIONS”. Featuring a culmination of 40-years of Takeuchi Mariya’s work, I highly recommend this album! ARTIST: Takeuchi Mariya ALBUM: Turntable LABEL: MOON RECORDS (Warner Music Japan) CATALOG Read More …
“shake” is an awesome, addictive and fun song! GROUP: SMAP CD SINGLE: shake LABEL: Victor CATALOG #: VIDL-10820 DURATION: 17:33 RELEASE DATE: November 18, 1996 shake 黙って俺について来い shake (music track) 黙って俺について来い (music track) Reviewed back in November 1996: SMAP showed us that without Katsuyuki Mori Read More …
This album is fantastic and if you are getting into Ozawa Kenji’s music, while he has a distinct vocal style, it starts to grow on you and his music grows on you. “Life” is definitely recommended! ARTIST: Ozawa Kenji ALBUM: LIFE LABEL: EMI Music Japan Read More …
For J-Pop Eurobeat fans who love MAX’s style of music, this time classic ’70s songs get the hypertechno Eurobeat treatment by MAX, SPEED, D&D, ZERO, FOLDER, D-LOOP and Chinen Rina. Recommended! ARTISTS: (Various Artists) MAX, SPEED, D&D, D-LOOP, ZERO, FOLDER ALBUM: velfarre j-pop night presents Read More …
“SPARK” is a catchy, addictive and fantastic rock single from The Yellow Monkey! BAND: The Yellow Monkey CD SINGLE: SPARK LABEL: TRIAD CATALOG #: CODA-970 DURATION: 12:56 RELEASE DATE: July 10, 1996 SPARK MOONLIGHT DRIVE SPARK (TV-Mix) The following CD Single was reviewed back in Read More …
If you are a TK family fan, “YOU ARE THE ONE” is highly recommended! GROUP: TK Presents/TK Presents Konetto CD SINGLE: YOU ARE THE ONE LABEL: Nippon Crown, Ltd. CATALOG #: KPDD-20171 DURATION: 17:30 RELEASE DATE: January 1, 1997 YOU ARE THE ONE ORIGINAL MIX YOU ARE Read More …
For those who can’t get enough of TWO-MIX’s “Rhythm Emotion” and “Just Communication”, this remix album is for you! GROUP: TWO-MIX ALBUM: TWO (RE)MIX LABEL: KING RECORDS CATALOG #: KICS-532 DURATION: 40:58 RELEASE DATE: March 23, 1996 RHYTHM EMOTION -Second Variation ’96- RHYTHM EMOTION -Melody Read More …
Catchy, addictive and a wonderfully performed single! ZARD’s “Yureru Omoi” is highly recommended! BAND: ZARD CD SINGLE: Yureru Omoi LABEL: B-Gram Records CATALOG #: BGDH-1005 DURATION: 17:33 RELEASE DATE: May 19, 1993 揺れる想い Just For You 揺れる想い (Original Karaoke) Just For You (Original Karaoke) Reviewed Read More …
“A SMAP-related album that doesn’t feature SMAP on the vocals but the hundreds of talent musicians that were involved in the making of the funky, jazzy, big band style of SMAP music during the mid-90s” ARTIST: Various Artists ALBUM: Smappies – Rhythmsticks LABEL: Victor CATALOG Read More …
Another cool release from J-FRIENDS and proceeds go to charity to the earthquake victims in the Kansai area. GROUP: J-FRIENDS (TOKIO, V6 & KinKi Kids) CD SINGLE: People of the World LABEL: Sony Music Recorfds CATALOG #: SRCL-4500 DURATION: 24 minutes RELEASE DATE: January 1999 Read More …
“DO THE BEST” is fantastic best album containing many of the singles from 1990 to February 1995. Unfortunately, it’s not the ultimate best album and while it’s a shame that Warner Music/Pioneer didn’t allow all previous songs to be included on this best album, hopefully Read More …
Is “Fuyu no Kibun” a perfect winter compilation? Not really. It’s also subjective to the listener. But considering you are getting over 2.5 hours of wonderful music from the past and many winter songs, you really can’t go wrong, because it’s no doubt one of Read More …
The single is only Y500, so it’s quite inexpensive but for fans of the “Utchan Nanchan no Urinari!!” show or the actual Christmas special, may want to pick this Christmas single up! GROUP: Urinari All Stars (ウリナリオールスターズ) CD SINGLE: HAPPY X’mas ~ War is over LABEL: Read More …
You get 55 tracks in this magnificent best album. This may be the final Yamashita Tatsuro produced best album on CD and he no doubt wanted it to be special. And it’s a special best album featuring hit songs and also unreleased songs from 1975-2012 Read More …