Category: The Jukebox
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[The Jukebox] #67 – ANRI – 悲しいがとまらない I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS
While listening to some Citypop, a track that seems to be on every playlist that I have on Spotify is ANRI’s I CAN’T STOP THE LONELINESS from her 7th album Timely!! ANRI (Real name ‘Eiko Kawashima’) is a singer-songwriter from Yamato, Japan who has been releasing music since her 1978 album “Apricot Jam” and continues…
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[The Jukebox] #66 – Kazuhiro Hara – real Emotion
Every few months on YouTube, I am recommended music which I listened to years ago. One of those songs, I am featuring today. ‘real Emotion‘ is the opening song for the 2003 Playstation 2 title, Final Fantasy X-2. It’s composed by Kazuhiro Hara and arranged by ‘h-wonder‘ The song’s English vocalist is Jade Villalon. Villalon…
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[The Jukebox] #65 – Masayoshi Soken – A Long Fall
Earlier this week, Square-Enix finally released the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers OST onto streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. This gives me the perfect excuse to highlight one of the biggest memes in Final Fantasy XIV in the last couple of years: A Long Fall. ‘A Long Fall’ is the accompanying score to…
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[The Jukebox] #64 – The GazettE – Ganjisuni Akai Bara
Over the last 10 or more years, I discovered a Japanese band that I fell in love with, and something that I have never highlighted ever on The Jukebox and while I will doing a featured special about them one day, today, I wish to introduce to you all, my 2nd favourite Japanese band. Background…
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[The Jukebox] #63 – Masayoshi Soken – What Angel Wakes Me
This is the 4th song from Final Fantasy XIV that I have written. The other 3 can be viewed here. At the start of Final Fantasy XIV’s 3rd expansion, ShadowBringers, it brought a truck load of new content including dungeons and trials. One of the first trials that you encounter is at Level 73, Titania.…
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[The Jukebox] #62 – Dress Down – Kaoru Akimoto
In March of 1986, Akimoto released her one and only album Cologne under the Victor record label but went under the radar when it was initially released.
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[The JukeBox] #61 – Fortress of Lies & End of the Unknown- Keiichi Okabe
Another Nier: Automata related tune featured in the new 24-man Alliance Raid in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers titles: “The Puppets Bunker” which was released as part of Patch 5.3: Reflections in Crystal. During the first ‘trash’ pull and the in-between areas of the raid, you hear Okabe’s calming tune of when you are in the…
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[The Jukebox] #60 – Masayoshi Soken – The Reach of Darkness
Staying with Final Fantasy XIV and back in 2015, which was about a year and a half after the game re-launched, Square Enix launched the final major patch for the A Realm Reborn expansion titled Before The Fall.
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[The Jukebox] #59 – Weight of the World (Prelude Version) – Keiichi Okabe
I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy XIV and it’s music. It’s main composer Masayoshi Soken has created some fantastic music in the last 6 years of the game’s existence and he knocks it out of the park each and every expansion. At the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Paris (which I attended),…
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[The Jukebox] #58 – Rick Takeuchi – Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love
In my previous post, I wrote about listening to a new genre of music, Future Funk for the last couple of years. There has been a sub-genre of Future Funk though which has had a resurgence in the last 10 years, known as City pop. City pop is a loosely defined subset of pop music…
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