6/19/2023 0 Comments Bump of chicken sailing day![]() The terse, cartoonish "Doku Rokku" is the closest thing here to a throwaway, but "Sutoroberi Sheiku" ("Strawberry Shake" sound it out) is a three-part movie crammed into less than three minutes. ![]() "I'm yours" is a rumbling rave-up, "Little Lovebirds" a slow anthem spiked with melancholy lead-guitar hooks. "Haru o Ai Suru Hito" ("Spring-Loving Man"?) reprises Glay's best impression of what an unselfconsciously cheerful Eno/Lanois-era U2 might have sounded like. "Believe in fate" is twangy, headlong guitar pop, but it segues into the grand orchestral version of "Together", which edges towards "November Rain"-grade power-ballad pomp. "INNOCENCE" snarls warmly, "REGRET" clatters and surges like a military circus march, and they're up to "GONE WITH THE WIND" and "ACID HEAD", from the fifth single, before a dried-out production betrays the tracks' age. "Life", their very first b-side, chirps and pings and spins with very nearly the same mature grace as much of Unity Roots & Family, Away. More surprisingly, even, I think it comes very close to being able to pass for a plausible ninth studio album, despite containing nothing that postdates album five. The first disc of Volume 1, which simply walks through most of the 1994-1998 b-sides in order, sounds to me like approximately as pertinent and inspiring a survey of those years as the compilation which sets out to do the same task by design. ![]() Or, as in Glay's case, the b-sides may largely be more songs that just didn't fit.
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