Yaida Hitomi — My Sweet Darlin’
I’ve yet to hear a Yaiko tune that isn’t hook-laden and this is the best of the lot.
Nobuchika Eri — Lights
An outstanding tune from an outstanding game.
JAM Project — Crush Gear Fight
“Crush on ride, Crush on hippy, Crush Gear Fight” … I have no idea what it means but this is one irresistible ditty.
Akino — Sousei no Aquarion OP
The show is downright annoying but I really like the opening song.
Andrea True Connection — More, more, more
A disco tune featuring a breathy porn star singing, “But if you want to know how I really feel, get the cameras rolling, get the action going …”
The Las — There She Goes
The first time I heard this song I mistook it for a sweet, catchy tune about a lovely girl the songwriter was enamoured of but close perusal of the lyrics will reveal its unwholesome inspiration.
What’s Lumines? couldn’t understand the jap website.
I heard ‘There she goes’ before, sung by Sixpence none the richer. It sounded less obscene when a girl sang it. :-)
Lumines is to Tetris what Half-Life is to Wolfenstein 3D; it’s a new, polished take on a familiar theme.
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