so is it better to start with shiina ringo solo or with tokyo incident? or does it really matter?
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I think Shiina made her name (in Japan) during the "Shouso Strip" period culminating w/ very popular nurse cosplay-parody video for 'Honnou'. I think there's the most tension there between charting rock star and widening weirdness palette.
It's also the period when most of her Cindy Shermanesque personas cropped up, sort of the dominant theme of her solo career. Before switching to T. Jihen there was 1) japanese ghost persona of 3rd & final album - death, 2) final song built entirely out of samples from her back catalog (link still above), & 3) a final video which chronologically travels through all her previous video roles.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DQBWmLfxwxs&search=shiina%20ringo%20uta
― )alex(, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
imagine going to a stadium show and having that be the opening song.
what alex said. I like the Cindy Sherman reference, the song's lyrics are about an apple tree that longs to be human but settles for giving away her fruit at the end of each season -- sung by a person who keeps shifting through violently different personas, it's almost painful.
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyf9M7mt_RY&search=tokyo%20jihen
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.everlasting-dream.net/ringo/video.htm
ryan, do you have "Hatsuiku Status" (green cover, cartoon drawing) and "Gekokujo Xtacy"? I know I want the latter, the former I'm on the fence about. The youtube excerpts from "Dynamite Out" (like the one RS linked to) make me wish I hadn't passed on it.
― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 22 April 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I <3 Shoso Strip.
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, I could still go.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://shiinaringo.se/pics/Tokyo%20Jihen/jihen1.jpg
― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
ok im ordering Adult right now....
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.everlasting-dream.net/ringo/specials/patipati99.htm
Yes.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
I can see the reasons why Virgin hasn't even licensed her records in the States so far -- the english speaking world has low tolerance for pop sung in a different language. When an artist or group is selling out stadiums in Japan, the motivation to start over and slog through a tour of mid-sized clubs is low. And the few times there's been a push, the results have been mixed: Puffy, Dreams Come True, Utada Hikaru (Puffy only got a second chance after their tie-in cartoon show). So why should Virgin take a chance on an iconoclast cult-figure like Shiina...
Except I think it's completely obvious that she's the one with a chance to cross over here, Jpop for people who are usually allergic to Jpop. The sheer number of english fan sites is mindblowing, all in the relative absence of any professional critical support -- everything online is unedited, self-published, and there's a lot of it. She's really got to tour the States, it would be the loudest thing that's happened over here in some time.
http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000346.html
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
That's for sure (not that it's only true of us). I run into it a lot when I get excited about some new foreign language music.
I would go see her live.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
also, doesn't it seem odd to say ringo is the best j-pop? if anything, she shows how to subvert j-pop, and make it art-rock
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I would agree that her voice, and also her singing, are not as unimpeachable as her songwriting (and production--if she's involved with that a lot--I don't know).
What do you think of her voice on the Tokyo Jihen Dynamite Out! version of "Sounan"? It doesn't have the littlegirlishness of some pop singers, but also she isn't doing a lot of weird effects (like on her version of "The Lady is a Tramp").
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
New Ohzora Kimishima is extremely good Shiinacore if anyone's interested
― imago, Friday, 29 September 2023 22:35 (six months ago) link
oh wow that's great. shiina's an obvious influence but there's a whole lot more going on than just that
― ufo, Friday, 29 September 2023 23:52 (six months ago) link
It's great on initial listens, I've only just gotten my head around 縫層 and that was years ago
― MaresNest, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:02 (six months ago) link
Will try that!
Does anyone know why in 2023 you can get her whole discography on Spotify/Apple Music but you still can't purchase them to own in the US
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 October 2023 13:18 (five months ago) link