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[petronia]

Okay is there a textual reason for Honey and Clover to be called that or did they just name it for Spitz songs? I mean, I can get behind that. I'm listening to Hachimitsu at the moment and I can imagine someone sitting there saying to herself (himself?), "I want to write a shoujo manga exactly... like... this." The sequencing on this album slays. It's not built according to "album logic" - single at track 2, best album track at track 1, ballad at track 4 and bury the filler between tracks 5 and 9. If you were Kusano Masamune in 1995 you didn't have to bother with that nonsense, because you had nothing to bury. Filler? What's that? Maybe it's the stuff that got left off the album, which stands at a neat 43 minutes (I'd like to see a list of their outtakes and b-sides from that era). No, you could afford to string your songs together like a teenaged indiepopster laying his heart bare for a starry-eyed crush by way of magnetic tape: draw her in with the first few songs, vary the dynamics but keep the flow, tell her how you feel at the end. Tell her so she remembers.

08 - Robinson
09 - Y
10 - Grasshopper
11 - Kimi to kurasetara

Find me a better four-song progression anywhere. As with all good mixes "Robinson" as track 8 is a vastly different experience from "Robinson" as a single. In the context of the album it's there to soften you up so the woodwinds of "Y" can spike you through the heart. That's as far as it can go in one direction: they pull a quiet/loud and serve up a perfect slice of sixties jangle-pop in "Grasshopper". And then you think, okay we're at the last song, now what? And then-

"Kimi to kurasetara".

Three minutes sixteen seconds to bring the flood. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

Tell her so she remembers.

Comments

Suddenly Spitz?!

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Based on the frequency distribution of insert songs in the anime, I assumed the series was named for Spitz + Suga Shikao. ^^; Like, the author's two favorite albums. Or something.

Re: Suddenly Spitz?!

[vonbrigthi.livejournal.com]

Now you're making me hanker for a duet/collab between Spitz and Suga. D:

spamming Sabina's LJ

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

...Suga/Kusano MFEO? XD

Re: spamming Sabina's LJ

[vonbrigthi.livejournal.com]

It made me feel old that I had to look up that acronym. (And was subsequently convinced for 2 minutes that it was some weird band name like m-flo, but alas.)

Anyways. But yes, it'd be the best "Songs to Listen to as the Girl You Think You Like Yet Doesn't Know Who You Are Marries Some Guy You Don't Know and You Are Sad About It But Tomorrow Will Be Nice Perhaps" album ever. Though I don't know enough about their personal magazine public lives or song lyrics to say much more about such a, um, pairing. Muahaha. And poor Kusano, relegated to uk-- *shot down*

Sorry for the post hijack. ^_^;

Re: spamming Sabina's LJ

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Aiya. Well, Kusano would also be uke to - say - Shiina Ringo, so.

Re: spamming Sabina's LJ

[vonbrigthi.livejournal.com]

;____; And then Kusano could write a song about it!

I'll just try to figure out why Suga is giggling like a 12 year old girl in this BokuOn interview, then.

Re: Suddenly Spitz?!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, then I salute the author. (Personally I don't rate Clover as highly as Sweet or Time but "Honey Sweet" may be pushing it for anything that didn't originally run in Ribon.)

I gotta send you these CDs. By which I mean I gotta write your card as well.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

If my requests are problematic and/or if you are swamped (as I suspect you are), please feel free to insert music in place of drabble. No need to spoil me with both.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

'Tis not. I know exactly what I'm going to write. I just think it's going to be one of the longer ones. ^^

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

p.s. Have you seen HachiKuro yet? It's worth watching, and not only because it wields an average of one Spitz or Suga Shikao track per episode as an emotional poleax.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Have not, but it's next in the queue for downloading (just done with TRC).

[narugami.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for uploading these songs, I love Spitz. I actually had Robinson already, but I couldn't find it, so I downloaded it again so I could listen to it in the correct order. :)

[tongari.livejournal.com]

thanks for the Spitz! I have the first 20 episodes of H&C at bp's recommendation but never got around to watching it before work and a Korean MMORPG ate my life. though if it is virtually a shoujo manga spawned simultaneously from a series of Spitz songs I think I would regret this delay ;_;

[chibaraki.livejournal.com]

I downloaded those, popped them into winamp, and the first thing that jumped into my head when I heard the first ten seconds of Robinson was 'Japanese male Dido?'

I think I need to whack my head on my desk until that thought falls back out.

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your lovely review of the CD, and especially for the songs. ♥