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Sweet -- I got it from the popular video site.

Just search for hanaekurata and set the filter for "this week".

The mp4s I grabbed are 480x320, which I think is "HD".

Actually the broadcast is analog TV so maybe it wasn't HD source.

The band is older than Maki!

21 means born in 1988. Too young to remember Showa Emperor or the bubble jidai. Life to her has been one big recession!

I think as an album it's weak, ie if I wanted to put a CD on I wouldn't reach for Sing or Die. But it does have two incredibly strong singles, PEACE! and ai-suru kokoro, which is my favorite DCT song. They chose to close their 2002 show in SF with ai-suru kokoro so I guess they like it too. Awesome ...

>I'm assuming DCT has turned down NHK's invitation to attend Kouhaku- with a number one single, I'm sure they were asked. nah, the selection process has to be highly political and I don't think DCT would turn down a bid, especially at this stage in their career. Though of course if Miwa just wasn't ...

>Winter Song (a funky English Version that version was basically my first introduction to DCT -- the video for it played as a special introduction to Sleepless in Seattle, which came out in December 1993 in Japan. (hey, doing a quick check I see that that movie was made by Tri-Star pictures, which i...

I'd ask her if songs were easier for DCT to write & develop in the 80s or now. Seems that she sketched out what she wanted so say early, and hit their peak by the mid-90s . . . after a while it's got to be tough to go to the well & not repeat yourself or somebody else. OTOH, technology has certainly...

FWIW, the endling location was shot here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UT ... 8&t=h&z=18

I know that place because about 10 years ago I was riding my bicycle around town and ended up there somehow.

Oh, the #1 single sold less than 500,000 CD singles . . . I wonder if we'll see any more million-sellers of physical media . . . Ah, in 2007 sen-no-kaze-ni sold 1.1M. 2006 kat-tun sold 1.038M in 2006 nobody in 2004 or 2005 had a million-seller Sakura was barely a million-seller in 2003 Hamazaki Ayum...

Singles: http://contents.oricon.co.jp/music/special/080620_01_01.html yeay! soba iru-ne is #1 my favorite J-POP song for a while & Aoyama Thelma comes across as pretty smart, classy, cool, and collected in her TV interviews Albums: http://contents.oricon.co.jp/music/special/080620_01_03.html DCT che...

Tsutaya (Ebisu store) had DCT's entire catalogue for rent, back in 1999 at least.

And yes I rented it in one go for around Y4000, and yes it was good.

amazon.co.jp has eg. DREAMAGE - DREAMS COME TRUE LOVE BALLAD COLLECTION fpr Y3190 and free shipping. Seems reasonable.

Edit: ... for Japan at least.

Searching for "HUSTLE ez" on the popular video sharing site that may not be named should bring up a video of DCT from 1989 that I hadn't seen before . . . Here's what the opening crawl says . . . Sony-Epic sponsored video concert "HUSTLE ez" to be shown at all record stores in the country in 1989 DC...

Miwa has a very honest singing voice, and you really don't get to hear her true voice much either when she is speaking in concert or (especially) in TV appearances. Her voicing in the interlude 3:40~4:00 in Ginga-he-no-Fune: Itsuka aeru MAZERAN-to RANDEVUU VIINASU-no-kougen koete is so clear and lig...

For most J-POP songs I get the most enjoyment generally knowing what they're singing about but necessarily not understanding all the words. It's fun translating songs I like but only rarely do I find deeper enjoyment of the song that way. Of the DCT catalog, SNOWDANCE and Asa-ga Mata Kuru were two w...

Featured Aoyama Thelma, Ayaka, and Hajime Chitose. Normally I don't get too excited about music shows but this one REALLY blew me away. "Soba-ni iru-ne" has got to be the catchiest JPOP song ever, and discovering Hajime's work here was really, really cool too. I'll be seeding it via JPS (search for ...

The chorus: "when [we] become naked, when [we] become naked, [we] are born again let's get barefoot, let's get barefoot, and one more time go try walking" (Translating -te miyou is nearly impossible, but the Japanese meaning is so clear!) Two of my favorite J-Pop interests in 1 video! Unfortunately,...