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Old 2010.03.17, 06:22 PM   #11
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ano ko wo mae ni shite should be studio-recorded, for sure!

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ano ko wo mae ni shite (L)
EDIT: rofl! i didn't notice i posted about it before... well it looks like even 2 years later, I got the same opinion XD
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Old 2010.03.18, 02:55 AM   #12
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Kaigun Politician!

It's pretty much the only demo song I repeatedly listened to.
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Old 2010.03.18, 03:22 AM   #13
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Shiroi E to Guitar because it's such a classic example of her early music.
I agree with the people who love demo Gamble. It's really great!

honestly, I like all unreleased songs from the demos except maybe Marvelous Day because to me it sounds like a very generic 90s jpop song they would give to one of those 3 year career life span idols.
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Old 2010.03.18, 04:09 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by a_grumble_cake View Post
Shiroi E to Guitar because it's such a classic example of her early music.
I agree with the people who love demo Gamble. It's really great!

honestly, I like all unreleased songs from the demos except maybe Marvelous Day because to me it sounds like a very generic 90s jpop song they would give to one of those 3 year career life span idols.
To me it sounds like a very generic 70s jpop song, which is why I love it. It feels retro, the low budget recording of the demo just adds to that. Like it was made before I was born. But hearing her sing something so low-key and normal, is refreshing in a strange way. The song itself feels happy in a sad way, like a song that would be played on the last episode of some sappy romance anime.

That's why I love it. Because it's Shiina singing something so un-Shiina. It's like seeing another side of her. :3
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Old 2010.03.18, 07:02 AM   #15
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No How are you? love?

How are you? Don't you give up a clemency~

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Old 2010.04.04, 06:03 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Cinders View Post
The song itself feels happy in a sad way, like a song that would be played on the last episode of some sappy romance anime.
That's one reason why the demos are really good, they seem to occupy a memorable place between happy and sad. Aozora, Headphone, New Way to Fly, 17 sound more senti-men-taru than the studio versions, like they have a different meaning, and the tape hiss kind of works for that.

I always liked:

Juwaki no Naka (especially). If I only take one song away from the SR experience it's probably this one. It's so unexpected, beautiful and transfixing. I wish it could still get a release.

Kono Ki Nan no Ki. I thought that was a traditional Japanese camping song, but actually it's by the Hitachi corporation, about a tree in a park they own in Hawaii. Oh well, she made it rock, and somehow it transforms into a really good "simple" tune.

How are You? One of those heart-in-mouth kind of songs. Despite just being piano and voice, it's got that build-up that proper Ringo tunes have. The chord that sets up the "vanishing" part is perfect. There are other songs by other people that use the same chorus chords, but not many melodies that find the sweet spot over them as well as this does.

Negative. The music-box verse is almost the definition of an SR melody to me. It almost sounds like she revisited the instrumentation of this song for Tamatebako.

Shampoo. One of the many great things about this is the way she can't stop going da-di-dahhh at various points here. Why doesn't she do that any more? Last time I can think of was Omatsuri Sawagi and that was a fantastic samba tune as well. It does a very unusual sudden key change for the chorus that totally works.

Also, the demo version of Sigma is a tune. I always thought it coincidentally sounded like the first bit of this, but on closer inspection, it doesn't.

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Old 2010.04.06, 04:54 AM   #17
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^^^ totally!

Though only being a demo, juwaki no naka is always in my top 5 ringo songs..

I'm also loving unconditional love, how are you and sigma. And 'before you walk out with you' is pretty intreuging
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Old 2010.04.06, 08:32 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by momeraths View Post
Though only being a demo, juwaki no naka is always in my top 5 ringo songs..

I'm also loving unconditional love, how are you and sigma. And 'before you walk out with you' is pretty intreuging
... Just in case you didn't know, that's a cover of Monica's Before You Walk Out of My Life (released in 1995)
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Old 2010.04.06, 12:15 PM   #19
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haha yeah i already looked that up, but thanks anyway.
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Old 2010.04.06, 03:20 PM   #20
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I haven't heard all the demos...mainly because I can't find the others, but the demo of Public Sickbed is so good.
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