Since Halloween this year falls on a Thursday next week, I guess that the parties have been in full swing since last night. I checked the Shibuya live stream camera on YouTube and yep, it was busy in the main intersection with the costumed folks but it was much less chaotic than in previous years. Looks like the cops really clamped down on the raucousness this time around.
However, as it turns out, "Halloween Kai Jiken" most likely gets off scot-free since it was a track on Mariko Fuji's(藤真利子)final album to date, "Glass no Shokubutsu-en"(ガラスの植物園...The Glass Botanical Garden) released in August 1984, and the Houston and Jackson duet didn't appear until the former's debut album came out in 1985. Still, I can't blame whoever the songwriters and arranger were for using that opening riff since it sounds so cool. To be honest, though, it's not the most reassured delivery by Fuji, sounding almost child-like but maybe that was the point considering that it is Halloween. The other interesting thing is that the arrangement of the groove and synthesizers reminds me of how Yumi Matsutoya(松任谷由実)and her husband would later create for their pop tunes. But actually, the song is a cover of the original by a French singer named Lio.
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