Shiina Ringo - Kalk Samen Chestnut Flower

The DVD I've watched the most is Gekokujyo Xstasy, I love the Honnou themed staging and the little interstitial sections.

I've decided that Yat(su)tsuke Shigoto is the best song ever, or something. The cure for depression, the motherlode, the pop moment of the noughties. It should be in every film. I can't listen to it without thinking about it afterwards for hours. I can't walk to it without strutting. I want there to be a 2000-2019 tracks poll just so I can bung it loads of points

oh the extra tsu is an era in the romanisation. i'd just copied the tracklist from somewhere and missed that lol

it's such a great song - the news broadcast & vacuum at the start and the playful orchestration over that driving beat is incredible. the Shouso Strip-style rock version on Ze-Chyou Syuu is great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkAMsngqsE4

Yeah that version is amazing too and it brings out an element of the song that's key to my unbridled adoration - it could ALMOST be a Cardiacs song, melodically - but the slow rework takes the same melodies and makes them into this divine orchestrated pop classic. It's SO good.