Well, it's March 17th which means that it's St. Patrick's Day today, and the happy news is that for the first time in two years, there will be a parade touting the Irish holiday in Toronto this Sunday. Hopefully, the COVID cases will either be kept somewhat lower or at least they won't be serious ones but we'll have to see. Anyways, the above video of the 2019 parade comes from the YouTube channel for the The Toronto Sun newspaper.
As such, I was thinking about what to do to provide an admittedly tenuous connection between Japanese popular music and St. Patrick's Day. Was there anything like green kayo out there? What I could track down was a brilliant green song, and I hadn't brought one of their hits onto the blog in several years.
"Hello Another Way ~ Sorezore no Basho" (Each Place) was the band's 10th single from May 2000, and hearing it again after so long, I was reminded that it had a lot of heavy rotation on that NTV Saturday night celebrity karaoke show, "The Yoru mo Hippare"（The 夜もヒッパレ）. It was good to make its acquaintance once more especially because that distinctive buriguri sound is sounding rather nostalgic to me nowadays.
With lyrics by vocalist Tomoko Kawase（川瀬智子）and melody by bassist Shunsaku Okuda（奥田俊作）, watching the music video above and seeing the translation of those words on "Anime Lyrics dot com", I had the impression that "Hello Another Way" was the ideal theme song for an isekai anime, but actually the only tie-up it had was with Japan Air Lines for their Hokkaido campaign that year. Still, it does have that feeling of traveling to a new world so it did fit well with JAL.
"Hello Another Way" hit No. 8 on Oricon and was placed as a track on the brilliant green's 3rd album "Los Angeles" released in January 2001. It hit No. 2 on the album charts. Anyways, for those hitting the pub tonight or this weekend, enjoy St. Patrick's!
Yeah, perhaps, although I don't think buriguri had St. Pat's in mind.:)
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