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Lucky bast*rd getting into DCT with a fresh-off-the-boat Magic CD... At that time I was in Japan, saw the Magic billboards up in Shibuya, but was left with just the impression of a rather weirdo band. Later, when I saw the Delicious billboards, I don't think I even matched them to the same group. Mi...

Miwa in the early pics always did... look a bit geeky. Sometime between Magic (1993) and "Beauty & Harmony" (1995) she got a hella makeover -- kinda like Gwen Stefani -- but it's nice to see semi-candid pics of Miwa now. In the picture she is promoting her show at Zepp Tokyo this Friday. I think I p...

Words: Miwa Yoshida Music: Miwa Yoshida & Masato Nakamura Morning will come again ~Feelings, please pass away~ Same as any other day, today starts nearby person looks up at the sky, clicks their tongue at giant intersection, umbrellas are blossoming Through rain and shine wishes unfulfilled because ...

words: Miwa Yoshida music: Masato Nakamura Becoming gradually impatient for this night a strained sensation pushing from behind steadily come to like this night mighty power being born Swollen subway get on towards the middle as for the battle's preparations: don't blunder -- don't retreat -- don't ...

The DCT Wonderland 95 concert tape was so good I also got it on DVD. Jei has posted the opening, so I thought it would be fun to show the last song of the pre-encore set, as it shows DCT perhaps at their absolute peak. Opening shot of monster stage with illumination http://homepage.mac.com/t_d/.Pub...

words: Miwa Yoshida music: Takahiro Nishikawa, Masato Nakamura From far away, breast-shaking sounds are echoing steaming heat -- burning in the darkness flashes awakened -- that past summer's fireworks carried on the river-wind, the aroma of gunpowder Riverbank so overflowing with people, probably n...

words: Miwa Yoshida music: Miwa Yoshida From when we first met I felt something different somebody within was nudging my heart I can't really say this to friends -- the power source of this with just to the extent of " I love you" can't be settled is what I'm feeling That's just it -- able to meet b...

Not knowing what the words mean sometimes leads me to think they say more than they really do. yeah. A lot of jpop is probably better left untranslated... Here's the second chorus from LOVETIDE: Fune wo dasou anata ga nigitta OORU Sakarawazu mangetsu no umi e deyou Put out the boat -- you're holdin...

SNOWDANCE words: Miwa Yoshida music: Masato Nakamura Falling heavily the dancing snow appears gently brushing your cheek singing "goodbye-goodbye" crossing through streets -- where to now? being blown away I suppose The last summer of the 1900's has gone savoring only the memories, autumn passes by ...

But I've also translated their writing into english, too, and was left under-impressed, eg. "a-ha-ha" boils down to not much subject when you understand all the words. Sometimes I think Japanese itself is more poetic, and it's much harder to produce strong lyrics in english. just recently I bothered...

There's very little now available about DCT in any language, I think. Their biggest success came just before the internet boom, 1992-1995. After that major exposure they kinda dropped off the pop culture radar a bit. From "The Swinging Star" in '92 to Love Unlimited in '96 was a hell of a run, but t...

http://www.asahi.com/english/weekly/feature/index.html "Sweet Dreams Come in Paris". (that's, uh, a typo. Should be 'Pairs'.) the picture is basically what I saw in concert 10/16, though Miwa was more directly in front of me. Here's a rough translation: DREAMS COME TRUE, for short "dorikamu", there ...

In January the notorious gossip weekly Friday ran this story:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/j ... 109_40.htm

that our Miwa invited japanese video director "A-san" over to her house.

The only jpop I have with me now are the mp3's I brought back with me in 2000. (TSUTAYA, one of the better video rental places also rents CD's for ¥500/week -- I took out the entire DCT catalog for a spin one week). Anyway, my iTunes library has some: hitomi (wish, kimi-no-tonari) 'wish' has some of...

Bird. funky name, but sings kind of like Miwa in "Sing-or-Die" mode, a little.

I've only heard a couple of her tracks from her 1999 days, though.
Smoky room jazz/pop.

Here's her discography:

http://www.bird-watch.net/disco/index.html