MHtrStevie
Jul 23, 2002, 00:57
Greetings!
Since people were discussing older J-Pop selections, I wanted to mention an interesting series of CDs. The "Seishunka nenkan" is a series of 21 2-CD sets co-produced by four record companies:
- Columbia Japan
- Toshiba EMI (?)
- Sony Music Entertainment
- Pony Canyon
Each 2-CD set focuses on one year between 1970 and 1990. They are by no means complete sets, but they're fairly representative of the popular music of the year. As an example, the 1972 set contains 11 songs which were performed at that year's Kohaku Utagassen and 8 songs which earned awards at that year's Nihon Record Taisho (including the Grand Prix winning song). Needless to say, many of these are also Oricon #1 songs as well...
They're also reasonably priced (about $23 per 2-CD set at CD Japan), so they're definitely a good way to check out some J-Pop sounds from years past.
:cool:
Hope this helps...
Since people were discussing older J-Pop selections, I wanted to mention an interesting series of CDs. The "Seishunka nenkan" is a series of 21 2-CD sets co-produced by four record companies:
- Columbia Japan
- Toshiba EMI (?)
- Sony Music Entertainment
- Pony Canyon
Each 2-CD set focuses on one year between 1970 and 1990. They are by no means complete sets, but they're fairly representative of the popular music of the year. As an example, the 1972 set contains 11 songs which were performed at that year's Kohaku Utagassen and 8 songs which earned awards at that year's Nihon Record Taisho (including the Grand Prix winning song). Needless to say, many of these are also Oricon #1 songs as well...
They're also reasonably priced (about $23 per 2-CD set at CD Japan), so they're definitely a good way to check out some J-Pop sounds from years past.
:cool:
Hope this helps...