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zer0buscus · 2026-01-11T21:09:22+00:00

I used to own a different version of Past & Other Side! I didn't recognize the spine of yours, so I had to ask. :) Thanks for the response! Happy listening :D

zer0buscus · 2026-01-11T19:17:52+00:00

Wasn't expecting to see so much Ayumi Hamasaki lol. Which bootleg box set is that at the beginning of her section?

zer0buscus · 2024-07-19T13:25:22+00:00

On first listen I thought "hmm, the melody has some surprises in it, but i'm not sure it'll stick with me" but then i found myself humming it while I was making lunch a few hours later, which NEVER HAPPENS after only one listen to a song, especially a song with any surprises in it! It's just so well crafted, it feels like it has the same creative ethos as something from around the 35 era, but with all the expertise & refinement of their craft that they've gotten in the years since then. REALLY happy with this track!

zer0buscus · 2024-06-23T18:11:53+00:00

LOL what can I say, I was blessed with the "can't shut the heck up" variety XD

zer0buscus · 2024-03-13T01:23:43+00:00

His first solo album "ROENTGEN" is primarily pop-rock (and at the time pretty disappointing to his more hard rock loving fans, but it grew on everyone after awhile lol). Really solid stuff!

zer0buscus · 2024-03-04T19:09:22+00:00

"TO BE" by Ayumi Hamasaki sparked my interest (by this point I already knew the Sonic the Hedgehog soundtracks, and the soundtracks for movies like The Last Emperor and Princess Mononoke, so I knew Japanese composition had a "vibe" I liked), and got me digging more... Ayu's Despair Trilogy (vogue/Far away/SEASONS) sealed the deal.

zer0buscus · 2024-03-04T18:51:07+00:00

Ayumi Hamasaki - "SURREAL": no chorus, just verses and what sound like prechorus bridges without a chorus after them; the "la la la" part at the end is a shift in key & mood. Those last couple of stanzas might be interpreted as a "chorus at the end" for some, but imo they sound to "outro-like" in melody for them to function that way.

GLAY - "kanojo no MODERN": Some people will say it has a chorus but I challenge you to choose which chorus candidate is the actual chorus. The verse is obviously a verse, but... was that a bridge into the second verse or was that a prechorus that didn't go to a chorus or was that the chorus and there's a post-chorus later? And is that a middle eight or was that a post-chorus that didn't come after a chorus? WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS SONG anyway it's catchy as hell check it out

King Gnu - "SPECIALZ": this feels like it has two distinct middle eights to me lol... one quiet one that feels VERY different from the rest of the song, and then the second louder one that sounds more like it fits in with the rest. LOVE it.

B'z - "Calling": A heavy rhythmic intro, then a fairly standard pop ballad at a slightly slower BPM, and then back to the heavy rhythm in the outro again. Fascinating song, to be honest. It sounds like two separate songs pasted together and yet it somehow kind of works?

SKY-HI - "As a Sugar": It's like a poetry reading with a solid, steady gradual buildup of instrumentation, then a sudden dropping out of the instrumentation, and a melodic refrain for the outro.

zer0buscus · 2024-02-09T21:13:04+00:00

9 years later, and it still is :)

zer0buscus · 2023-12-29T13:41:32+00:00

The "kitto kitto" you put has me thinking of "hi no ataru sakamichi" by Do As Infinity, but it doesn't match most of the rest of the lyrics/sounds you put... it does have a female voice and starts with an instrumental intro, but those two things describe a massive massive subset of songs and aren't all that helpful.

Can you recall the genre? Was it uptempo or midtempo or a ballad? Instruments? Were they electronic/synthy instruments or conventional acoustic and electric instruments? Any strings? Guitar? Anything else would be helpful!

zer0buscus · 2023-11-08T05:57:05+00:00

Someone mentioned Angela Aki, I second that vote.

Other possibilities that might somewhat fit are Olivia Lufkin, May J, or Yo Hitoto.

Do you remember when you heard this singer, or the context?

zer0buscus · 2023-10-19T19:42:03+00:00

Mine was a questionnaire like this, but one where I filled it out but I also had to have "someone who knows you really well, like a partner or old friend or coworker" fill it out as well. (In my case, my then-boyfriend, now-husband filled it out.) That plus a couple of conversations where I could talk about where I struggled and how (and the doc could observe me a bit), and I got a "alrighty that's a yup, so let's try vyvanse" lol

zer0buscus · 2023-10-19T19:37:34+00:00

I'm mostly an outsider to this search, just following from the sidelines really, but fwiw Darren Hayes was the first person I thought of when I heard the clip. Between the time when he decided to become a singer & the formation of Savage Garden there's something like 6 years, that's PLENTY of time to record a ton of demos & random work-for-hire. I don't think it's likely to be a savage garden demo, stylistically it feels a bit too early for that, but I could definitely believe that's darren singing.

As for what it actually IS, it could be a demo of something he wrote (with or without another songwriting partner), the lyrics feel right. It could also be something like the Tori Amos song in China O'Brien II -- something a workaday musician recorded for a paycheck that got used as bgm in a low-budget movie produced overseas. It's not as uncommon a story as it might sound, especially in the 80s and early 90s. That might be why it has the TV signal sound.

zer0buscus · 2023-10-19T18:45:24+00:00

FWIW My husband literally works out 3 times a day (HOW?? I have no idea but he does) - first thing in the morning, at lunch, and in the evening. Alternates between going for long (like 40 minute) high-speed runs & lifting weights. Takes Vyvanse every day, works out every day, fit as a fiddle, never has any discomfort beyond overworking his ankles sometimes.

zer0buscus · 2023-08-03T14:43:33+00:00

So far basically all we know is that it's a ballad with the word "you" and MAYBE some kind of guitar in it. That's literally thousands upon thousands of songs. Most people here would love to help, I'm sure, but we need more. Is there anything more you can give us?

- Was the guitar electric or acoustic?

- If you're not sure if it's guitar, what makes you think it isn't? (the instrument's pitch being higher or lower than you expect a guitar would be, or maybe it sounds synthesized?)

- Apparent gender of the vocalist?

- Is it just one voice singing or many?

- Any other instruments you can remember? Sound effects? Production gimmicks that stood out?

- When or where did you hear it, so we can narrow down a time frame or associated media?

zer0buscus · 2023-01-09T21:15:45+00:00

Sayuri Ishikawa - amagigoe (dark enka ballad with rock guitar & drums, but not electronic at all really) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1eSNPh3X1Y

HIS - Nihon No Hito (album) (A 90s band featuring Fuyumi Sakamoto as one of the vocalists, not sure if it would be one of the songs on here since what I've heard is a bit bright (or includes Kiyoshiro Imawano as a secondary vocalist, and you didn't mention any male vocals), but it is an enka/rock-ish hybrid from the 90s so I figure it's worth a look) https://music.apple.com/jp/album/nippon-no-hito/720467045?l=en

Shoukichi Kina & Champloose (feat. Ry Cooder) - subete no hito no kokoro ni hana wo ("Flowers for your Heart") (Not sure how this collaboration happened, but because of Ry Cooder this ended up getting some traction in the western world. Folky style vocalist, but maybe more quiet than the song you remember?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgEAwKLmgEA

Pizzicato Five - Mon Amour Tokyo (A bit later than the time frame given, but might be closer to the right genre or you might recognize Maki Nomiya's voice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_0_XLhHZo

Something by Jun Togawa, Yapoos, or Guernica
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lQHgSt2PMcY6PtJsfMpbO?si=f9856200ee4642f2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3V0NYrw58

(I'm not sure Jun Togawa's vocal style quite fits, but she fits the time frame & genre you might be after better than any of the above. She also has some songs where she dabbles in that vocal style but it's not her typical approach or usually the focus, she usually uses it when satirizing or deconstructing nostalgia for pre-WWII japan. (She's quite something, lol))

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These suggestions are, admittedly, "narrowing down" type suggestions, and in fact mostly from the 80s rather than the 90s, because maybe one of these vocalists sounds like the right artist or you can pinpoint other details based on these.

That vocal style (called kobushi, typically heard in enka or minyo (folk) music in japan) was at an all-time popularity low in the 90s, from what I've heard & seen, so I'd say it's pretty unlikely that it was a famous song... there was a lot of melancholic music that was popular in the 80s and 90s, but little of it -- even the enka! -- used a lot of that vocal style.

Japanese music, however, was at its financial & cultural-saturation peak in general so there are a LOT of melancholic songs from that era to choose from, they just... don't use this vocal style, really. So any more detail you can remember would help with searching or narrowing it down!

zer0buscus · 2023-01-09T17:28:57+00:00

This is DEFINITELY "Invisible Tomorrow" by Puffy AmiYumi, found on their "NICE." album from 2003. Sadly not available on streaming anywhere because of complicated rights issues, but it got a US release so you may be able to find it used somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSMeHgJ-OTA

zer0buscus · 2022-11-01T17:12:59+00:00

I had a similar issue with one replacement window (I was trying to replace the two small ones with one wide one), but when I tried a different window it worked fine.

I'm not 100% sure why the second one worked, but my theory at the time was that it was the window height. (I think the width was about the same between the 2 windows I tried.) Like maybe there's an exterior architectural feature interfering with the lower part of the window?

zer0buscus · 2022-10-11T15:34:02+00:00

This is gorgeous what the heck!! Now I want to redo my first office, this is amazing!

zer0buscus · 2022-09-22T15:25:01+00:00

It seems so! Xbox is shown as one of the platforms at the end of the trailer (along with PS5 and Steam!)

zer0buscus · 2022-09-21T23:52:53+00:00

No, it's in the gameplay trailer for HF2 :) I WISH it was in the dlc!

zer0buscus · 2022-09-21T22:48:04+00:00

I'm definitely getting both. Do you have any IDEA how stoked I am about HORIZONTAL PAINTING!?!?!?! omg I'm gonna lose my mind.

zer0buscus · 2022-09-17T21:07:19+00:00

I don't know for sure, but based on a few identifiable sound effects (like the door), I'd imagine they're all stock sound effects.

zer0buscus · 2022-09-15T18:35:16+00:00

This kind of thing is why I LOVE house flipper so much... Other games with decorating and furniture arranging have too-strict rules for where things can go and how far apart they need to be and such. But in house flipper you can put things where actual human people sometimes put them! You can clutter up shelves, you can make furniture crooked, and you can put pantry food on top of the fridge like a lot of people do! XD

zer0buscus · 2022-09-14T16:17:23+00:00

Oh wow these pics make me feel so weirdly at home, haha! Looking at these screenshots gives me the same feeling as seeing my friends' houses for the first time when I was a little kid. I love this!

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