THE VINYL PAGODA PROJECT: Introduction
I just got a stack of 45s in the mail today.
Fifty of them.
All Japanese. and dating between 1968 and 1990.
I’ll explain quickly: A couple of weeks ago, I won an eBay auction for a lot of fifty Japanese 45s. The seller, very helpfully, provided post-it notes on each single with the artist and titles written in romaji, which is a big help to this gaijin who is practically illiterate in the language that fascinates him so. I spent the past 90 minutes or so cataloging all 50 of these singles into an Excel database file.
Now the real fun part begins.
As often as I can, I’m going to write about each of these 45s - both sides, what I think of the songs, and whatever I can find out about the artists. I’ll even share vinyl rips of these recordings. For anyone interested in earlier Japanese pop/enka/kayokyoku, this should be a treat. It sure is already one for me as a collector of records and a fan of Japanese music and culture.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
I didn’t get just this intro, but this is an awesome project.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I’m looking forward to doing it. I played some of the 45s (both sides) on Monday and they’re all good so far.
June 25th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
aw man..can’t wait to see and hear what you got