I heard "Ticket to Paradise"through Keizo Nakanishi's(中西圭三) first BEST compilation, "SINGLES"(1994), and it quickly became one of my favourites among a lot of his great songs. Nakanishi's 5th single, which was released in July 1992, immediately got my toes-a-tapping when I first heard it, and as much as I like his most successful single, the ballad "Woman", which had been released half a year earlier, the Okayama Prefecture native can come up with some great uptempo stuff such as "Choo Choo Train" for the groups Zoo and Exile.
I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Keizo Nakanishi -- Ticket to Paradise
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