--- In soundlounge@yahoogroups.com, "John Lund"
<jazzbrat_online@...> wrote:
>
> --- "elear16" <elear16@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to find which album the song "The Tide is High" by
Kojima
> > Mayumi is in. I first heard it on a commerical on YouTube.
Here's the
> > vid if that helps:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4w1e8Qn-A
> >
> > Any help is welcome. Thank you.
>
> I did a little google searching, but couldn't find it. Unless
someone else
> knows what's going on, maybe this is a track recorded for the CM
only?
>
> Although it seems as if tracks that appear in Japanese
advertisements
> tend to be available to buy -- with their appearance in the CMs
serving
> to promote the song as well as the product -- I'm stumped on this
one.
>
> Konbanwa,
> John
>
> NP: GO-THE VERY BEST OF MOBY (right now CD2 with the remixes)
>
> Also re-checking out -- but not at the same time -- the unique
take on
> the old Carpenters tune "I Won't Last A Day Without You" as
reinvented
> by Ringo Shiina with lots of vocal help from Utada Hikaru (!!!)
>
> Now that's a pairing I wouldn't have expected. BTW, I like the
results.

That was a result of them being label mates IIRC. I don't know that
they've worked together since.

>
> Now, I've gotta locate that De La Soul/Double pairing somewhere.
> Anyone know if that tune -- of which a videoclip was posted on
> youtube but removed later -- is available for purchase on a CD?
>
It's back on youtube btw. It was released w/ the parappa game sequel
as a 7 incher, I imagine there are copies out there, but not retail.
I don't know if it was on the official soundtrack.