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Old 2010.02.17, 08:23 AM   #121
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Tokyo Jihad 'hoped' that there would be another Shiina Ringo album, before there would be another Tokyo Jihen album. He also spoke about the hypothetical new album as if it would be the official "4th" album. justriiingo said she wanted more SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS "but not in the lame Karisome Otome fashion". Eventually Jihad or Maou said something about there being 14 tracks.

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Old 2010.02.17, 08:30 AM   #122
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Originally Posted by lazer85 View Post
oh and huge thanks to big O, do you guys need the rockin on japan interview summarized or has it been done? I've been a little too busy to read it but if you need it I'll get on it tomorrow or friday
obama917 summarised it IIRC, but there's tons of magazines and the next issue of Rockin On coming out next week. You can do it for fun/your own benefit of course.


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Old 2010.02.17, 08:38 AM   #123
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I will not allow such sloppy execution next time... Okay this is getting too crazy. Say somethin', Sheena.
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Old 2010.02.17, 08:42 AM   #124
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She's too busy hoodwinking a crowd of fat cats, liars and thieves. =P
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Old 2010.02.17, 08:47 AM   #125
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Originally Posted by Scribble R View Post
She's too busy hoodwinking a crowd of fat cats, liars and thieves. =P
are you calling me fat?
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Old 2010.02.17, 12:53 PM   #126
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Originally Posted by obama917 View Post
- Izawa says Sports was recorded at the right time when TJ grew mature as a band. Uki says he felt a stronger sense of unity as a band than before.

Kameda didn't want Sports to be the sorts of music played at a soccer studium when a goal is scored or in a gym to keep up the pace.

- A long absence of activities before Sports drove Izawa to a thought that TJ might be fading away. Then Ringo's release of SG put pressure on him. He got determined to make TJ's next album match the quality of SG. He even came to think that he would return to solo if the next album failed. Hata says he cannot pay the bills if TJ breaks up, so he will quit as a musician and go back to his hometown.
Kameda doesnt want to make a song as legendary as this?
Sports!


the band admits they've only begun to grow their pubes. I will support them and prevent Hata from becoming homeless.

...and Izawa isnt leaving the band. yay!

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Old 2010.02.17, 02:28 PM   #127
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don't get why track#1 Ikiru was listed in JP Wikipedia and Last Fm as being 5:25 long... since, according to the promotional sample CD it's 4:46 :S
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Old 2010.02.18, 03:17 PM   #128
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Japan Times review

Given that she writes the majority of the songs in both projects and works with many of the same musicians, it's bizarre that Shiina Ringo's finest moments come not in her solo work but with her band Tokyo Jihen. Last year's long-anticipated solo release "Sanmon Goshippu" ("Superficial Gossip") was a bland, overproduced collection of what sounded like game-show theme tunes. Thank goodness, then, for "Sports."


Tokyo Jihen's fourth album is another sonically ambitious stab at jazz- and funk-soaked pop, though with mixed results. Opening with an a cappella chorus of heavily processed voices that unfold into a crashing ebb and flow of rhythmic melody, "Ikiru" ("To Live") sets an ethereal tone. "Shizun Sayonara" ("Season Final") and "Nodoteki Sanpunkan" ("Active Three Minutes") refold after-dinner jazz into an urgent rush of smoke and paranoia, as Shiina sings in a voice that sounds like overcrushed velvet and cigarette burns. Meanwhile "Kachiikusa" ("Victory") and "Sweet Spot" are soulful seductions sung in almost flawless English. "Utenkekkou" ("Playing Through the Rain") and "Zettai Zetsumei" ("Last Stand") proffer cutesy melodies and, respectively, chimes and tambourines.
Though "Sports" lacks the songwriting chops that made Tokyo Jihen's previous three albums so utterly essential, the musicianship and production are staggering. A reverb-soaked theremin gives "Noriki" ("Eagerness") a mysterious B-movie feel, with a histrionic guitar and synth solo adding a touch of knowing 1980s cheese that should probably sound irritating but is instead glorious.
The standout is "Denpa Tsushin" ("Electronic Communication"): Kicking off with a hyperkinetic bassline from master producer Seiji Kameda, it soon explodes into an electronically enhanced, stratospheric pop masterpiece. The song proves that Shiina still has a bit of songwriting vigor. If she'd ladled it on a bit thicker, "Sports" could have been another killer Tokyo Jihen album; as it is, it's merely excellent. - Daniel Robson
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-b...0100219l2.html

The reviewer doesnt seem to know Ukizawa exists.

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Old 2010.02.18, 04:10 PM   #129
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Uh uhhhhh SG >>>>>>>>>> Sports
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Old 2010.02.18, 05:10 PM   #130
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Wow, I'm not even going to comment on that review.
On a side note, is it just me or are most people who are saying "SR needs to stick with Jihen" men?
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