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Yeah, some commercial has been running it.

It's a really good song and a great record. Very bittersweet about youth and suicide. I was always surprised there aren't other Yuming fans in the 60s/70s/old Japan threads. This means the weebs have got to it now and I can't play her in the car anymore. Too bad..

Wasn't it the same thing with the Whisper of the Heart ED?

>>11434928


tsk, looks like you already answered the question that I was about to ask...

"is this song about suicide"

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sidenote: The Zero fighter aircraft that the protagonist created was used in many kamikaze missions

>>11434928
Not enough chipmunk voices or engrish for weabs like myself.

>>11434933

fucking vocaloid voice in Eva 222 ruined this song for me :(

>>11434930
There were tons of covers for that but it was a weird American song. Even Bossa Nova: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOORJJ4vptc

It would be nice if it revives those folky 60s ballads a little bit. I always wanted to track down the folk album she covered but it's hard, maybe they'll reissue it.

Just in case not everyone's quite on the same page, Yuming's "Contrails" (1973) in question was adapted as the theme of Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" (2013).

Incidentally, has anyone seen it yet?

>>11434944
Actually that's not the one I was thinking of. Too tired to remember which Ghibli film it was.

>>11434944
What's weird about John Denver?

>>11434928
>>11434933

BUT on the bright side.... these weebs will finally get to hear REAL music unlike what what's being churned out by vocaloid and autotune.

60s-70s seems to be an era when REAL MUSIC (think Karen Carpenter... etc) was crafted in pretty much the capitalist side of the world.

>40 year old song

Huh, it's true. I was convinced it was made for the movie. You can laugh now.

>>11434953
80s music was better and less depressing.

>>11434951
A lot of things but the song itself feels out of place alongside the rest of that era's pop. It seems like Miyazaki just drops random shit he likes into soundtracks and it ripples through the industry. It's scary how much Ghibli influences pop culture.

>>11434956
It's no less depressing when you realize how falsely it presents life.

>>11434953
>>11434962

Go suck dadrock cock with your 14 year old friends, you aren't impressing anyone here.

>>11434969
Dad rock is modern musicians who try to sound like that.

>>11434969
Dad rock? This here's grandpa's music. Ol Miyazaki was probably bangin' these idols left and right.

80's is dadrock, hell 90's is dadrock now.

>>11434962
>when you realize how falsely it presents life

It's still life itself that's depressing, not escapist art people use to detach themselves from it.

>>11434981
Dad as in a middle aged guy than a literal father.

>>11434992
>middle-aged guy

Well, then, he's right. You should check how Pearl Jam or Billy Corgan look today. Not a great sight. Enlightening, though.

>>11434991
That goes for any music. I find the fake and sameness of 80s pop depressive. It is complete escapism, and why do they want to escape so much? That's all it brings to mind. Not sure why you would think hippy music is depressing, it's all about enjoying life. OP song in example paints suicide as beautiful, like those cliched cherry blossoms.

>>11434992
Middle aged people listen to 80s music now.

>>11434962
>It seems like Miyazaki just drops random shit he likes into soundtracks and it ripples through the industry. It's scary how much Ghibli influences pop culture.
In this case the song was thematically a perfect fit.

>>11434944
>It would be nice if it revives those folky 60s ballads a little bit.
A month or so ago I read an article linked from /jp/ about how Reina (Morning Musume graduate) was working with a new group trying to make folk music popular again, but nobody liked it at all. Then again, it could be because after it's been "repackaged" into pop or rock or whatever it loses its classic appeal.

>>11434955


OP here

i watched the PV movie featuring the soundtrack on my iphone... i was like meh.

but then I gave it 2nd & 3rd look when I got back to my laptop and listened to it on my Sony pro headphone monitors (very revealing-type).

... (knowing at least elementary japanese) man that song made me weep a little... dat voice... dat piano

>>11435012
It's been on the rise for the past ten years in the with chamber pop and all that. Japan will probably drop some good stuff for us soon, they're usually a few years behind English music trends. I'm not sure if idol groups can be the ones to make it being in their closed off worlds, maybe some of those who left their groups to experience a harsher world could. Folk music is made by regular folk, you know?

>>11435021
It's a really good piece of music, even better if you understand it. Perfect emotion and perfect voicing.

Great song. Wish there was more like it.

The piano was on point.

>>11435040

Here's my initial impressions when I gave that track a serious monitoring treatment...

>「あの子は 昇っていく
>何もおそれない そして舞い上がる」
umm...　so where is this going (cue in steely look on my face)

>「高いあの窓で あの子は死ぬ前も・・・」
uhhhh

>「空を見ていたの 今はわからない
>ほかの人には わからない・・・」
The highlight of the song for me, and her strongest line... kinda made me wince, grimace...

>「あまりにも 若すぎたと
>ただ思うだけ けれどしあわせ」
and realization of what the intent of this song sinks in for me.


pic related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKIaqigE15c&feature=youtube_gdata

>>11435071

oldie but goodie

1st heard on eva 222 movie (for me) when they vocaloid the intro the heck out of it...

now here's the original version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PpjgWE_qaI

>>11434978

Why do you speak of things you know nothing about?

>>11435116
Very nice.

>>11434953
>these weebs will finally get to hear REAL music
>unlike what what's being churned out

Said the mentally deranged that think Vocaloid is any different from Pimped Idol 1976 Model No. 1456193 singing poor imitations of western pop and folk music. Go back to working at McD's so you can save enough money to move to Japan you stupid silly wapanese.

荒井由実's music was also used in 魔女の宅急便.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0CIVYlFnWQ

>>11435334
Rude.

>>11435334
Woah, he'll need Burn Heal for that one..

>>11435334
>... is any different from Pimped Idol 1976 Model No. 1456193 ...

wrong decade, pal

it's the 80s that really open the floodgates with uguuukawaiidesuuuu pieces of no-talent-but-well-manufactured kuzu that lives on to this day

>>11434921
I can't read MOONA ROONA, OP. Y U DON'T POST A LINK.

>>11436490
ひらがなができません
ヴィピッグゴホム
>>11434943
I really don't get what people find so great about Vocaloids, they sound like robots.
>>11434956
my negroid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcILOT5sw0

>>11434962
>It's no less depressing when you realize how falsely it presents life.
isn't that what most music is about?
even back in the 70's and 60's there where happy-go-lucky songs

>>11436885
That were about honest happiness. The 80s is all about egocentrism, plastic, and synths. Everything about it is manufactured. There's no arguing aesthetic preference in any case.

The current 2010s revival is pretty cool since it's merges a lot of stuff together.

>>11436900
Pretty sure hippies were a 70s thing and their free love was the height of egocentrism.

>>11436900
the only downside to the 2010's music scene is everybody acting like idiots and mindlessly bashing popular stars.
Haven't really listened to any of the music itself tough.
I think I'm a hipster in self-denial or something.
>>11436905
I think there are still hippies around if you look for them.

>>11436905
pretty sure hippies accepted just about every culture and thought thrown around them and were as far from egocentric as most people get

>>11435116
>implying the modern keion version isn't superior

>>11436916
There are. They grew up to be normalfags while complaining about their offspring.

>>11436917
They didn't accept paying child support.

>>11436961
that could be seen as accepting gender equality

>>11436966
Blacks must be the most gender equal of all.

>>11436991
hur hur

>>11436942
>>11435116
>>11434943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtuidZ2o-fA
It is funny how so many comments think that the song actually came from eva

>>11435008
I thought only teenagers listened to 80s music now.

>>11437092
It's like how there were those kids who listened to 60s and 70s music when I was a teenager. They heard it from their dad's collections. Kids today hear their dad's 80s music.

I can't even tell what people are supposed to be singing about nowadays. Mostly is yelling over even louder music. Or we get some songs where the lyrics repeat 30 times.

>>11437259

>crunk

>>11437909

>>11434949

>Just in case not everyone's quite on the same page, Yuming's "Contrails" (1973) in question was adapted as the theme of Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" (2013).

>Incidentally, has anyone seen it yet?


go see it if you're fan of nippon kanjou-sentouki's

The white road continues up the hill into the sky.
Wavering heat haze swept that child away,
Unrecognized, all alone, that child started to climb,
unafraid of anything, and flew away....

Longing for the sky, soaring into the sky,
That child's life became vapor trails.

Gazing at the sky out that high window,
"even now, they don't understand,"
other people couldn't understand,
only seeing a child who died too young,
... but even so, I was happy.

Longing for the sky, soaring through the sky
That child's life was vapor trails.

Longing for the sky, soaring through the sky
That child's life was vapor trails.

it was used in nichijou too

The white road continues up the hill into the sky.
Wavering heat haze swept that child away,
Unrecognized, all alone, that child started to climb,
unafraid of anything, and flew away....

Longing for the sky, soaring into the sky,
That child's life became vapor trails.

Gazing at the sky out that high window,
"even now, they don't understand,"
other people couldn't understand,
only seeing a child who died too young,
... but even so, I was happy.

Longing for the sky, soaring through the sky
That child's life was vapor trails.

Longing for the sky, soaring through the sky
That child's life was vapor trails.

Her wiki page mentioned that the nickname ユーミン was given to her by a chinese pop singer named C.U. Chen, does anyone know who he is or the kanji to his name?

Has Kaze Tachinu even come out on DVD/BD yet? I'm dying to watch it, but I can't find anywhere to download it from.

>>11443596
It's still in the cinemas, and won't leave them for the next few months. DVD/BD? Maybe this time next year.

Bahi JD will replace MIyazaki