Shoko Nakagawa a.k.a. "Shokotan" is popular media personality in part due to letting her fans know she seriously likes all sorts of things that typical idols...
Thanks Nick Is the Japanese CD the same as the LP on Rough Trade? I've seen cover images but never a full track listing (will check out the page on your site...
The Dip in the Pool sequence was apparently: a 4 song 12" EP on Alfa Moon with Seigen Ono an LP on Rough Trade, "Silence" with 2 of the Ono produced EP tracks ...
ndkent@...
Jul 25, 2009 7:22 pm
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http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/detail.asp?goods=DYCL-192 It's an album by MARIA ASAHINA (Real Name : MARIA LISA CELLA, born in WASHINGTON DC). The album (from...
Some more info I got from Mr X: There are some more Hosono Related Reissues on the Sony website. Here are all of them. ... IZUMI YUKIMURA - COME ON BACK ...
NOTE: Google Translate is now limiting how much you can translate via the paste box. This means we have to translate in bits and pieces. I have no idea what...
I searched YMO lyrics on internet and I only founds lyric from Technodelic LP. I would really like to have the lyrics for the english language songs, someone...
This was my cynical laugh of the day. For my amusement I was watching the bidding on Ryuichi Sakamoto's freebie CD called "The Land Song" which was given out...
... the bidding on Ryuichi Sakamoto's freebie CD called "The Land Song" which was given out at a building commemoration. The guy selling it had a starting...
ndkent@...
Jul 31, 2009 2:11 pm
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Reminder: YMO play at World Happiness this Sunday, August 9th. Also note that Takahashi's band Pupa will be playing. I expect the usual gang of us will be...
Today's edition of the Commmons Newsletter is all about the World Happiness 2009 concert on Sunday. Enjoy Japanlish. Much World Happiness for you! ;-Derek ~~~~...
SET list from last night's UK Japan Nightporter event :P (Details might not be perfectly correct) ... YMO - S.E.T. (1) (nihongo) YMO - Kai-Koh (nihongo) ...
The Loom & Chance section was awesome - you can't believe how stunning that track is in a club. I used to use it in the very late 80s mixed in with S: Express!...
Today Sakamoto made an OMFG massive journal entry. Due to Google becoming 'evil' lately regarding their translation tool limitations, I can't post the entire...
I think Pete Townsend married Virginia's sister. As to the culprit of her pregnancy, I tried to coax that information out of her a long time ago on a message...
... I'm confused, obviously. Who dumped Virginia and inspired the album? I heard from at least two sources that it was 'Pete Townsend's brother'. For all I...
re: Virginia Astley Off memory -- I would purely guess her ex-boyfirend's first name was Dorian given the song title on the album. Her late father, Edwin...
Going from what I hear in the lyrics, the guy's name may have been Paul? Hard to make out "poor Paul they say as you hurt and abuse them". The Dorian referred...
A little wikipedia reference refreshes my memory. Edwin Astley - Father - check Jon Astley - Brother - check Karen Astley - Sister - Married Pete Townsend -...
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Aug 28, 2009 7:23 pm
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Sugababes new single "Get Sexy" is a bleepy electronic stomper, not that great TBH, but the intro samples "Loom". Paul...
Kazuhiko Katô, ex-front man of Sadistic Mika Band (among others) has committed suicide. He was found hanging in a hotel bathroom in Nagano. He was 62 years...
Can anyone confirm that the "Myrna & Penny" doing backing vocals are the Frank Chickens? I don't know how I believe this to be true- probably something I read...
Myrah & Penny were not The Frank Chickens! Penny is Hitomi Tohyama - check her out on YouTube, she was a solo artist in her own right (mostly jazz-funk...