"Kin"（金）Songs

From Infoseek Rakuten

 

Well, I guess the Author's Pick articles keep on giving this month. I did the "Snow" songs last week and here we are with another one. But considering that we are at the end of the year, I guess having some of these compilations to commemorate the rush of "______ of the Year" lists is perhaps quite obvious.

This morning, Japanese news announced "The Kanji Character of the Year" and it turned out to be "kin"/"kane" which means "gold" or "money". It was chosen because of the gold medals that had been won by the Japanese athletes at the Paris Olympics back in the summer and also because of all of the money hijinks involving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party this past year (probably not the only party to be guilty of that). So, there is a good side and a bad side.

Anyways, I was thinking about putting up a few songs tonight that have some connection with gold or money and even just the presence of the winning kanji in the title. It wasn't that easy but I managed to find four of them who already have a presence on the blog.

(1993) SMAP -- $10

(1977) Momoe Yamaguchi -- Imitation Gold （イミテイション・ゴールド）

(1999) Hiromi Go -- GOLDFINGER '99

(1992) Dreams Come True -- Kessen wa Kin'youbi (決戦は金曜日）