Working all those hours and days to help others. Dang it! Sometimes, YOU gotta DO something for YOU! The surgeon above finally got the hint and so this was my first exposure to cute animated ASMR. After care is important, after all.
If you remember 1991 and all that music in Japan, then you probably know about the song-and-dance group ZOO and their catchy "Choo Choo Train" with images of skiing and their distinctive approach to line dancing. I just missed out on it because I'd already left Japan from the JET Programme in the summer of that year while "Choo Choo Train" made its debut later in December. Ah, but still, I was able to hear about it somehow while back in Toronto.
Within that large shadow that "Choo Choo Train" cast, there was the coupling song "After Care". I had seen the official music video and for some reason, I'd imagined lots of seashores and water. Well, I guess my mind ran away from me since the video doesn't have those but it does have the sound of waves which probably sparked those images. In any case, "After Care", which was written by Arisu Sato（佐藤ありす）and composed by Yasunori Iwasaki（岩崎文紀）, is a slightly more soulful and much more laidback number to contrast with that dynamic main song. I'd say that it would make for the ideal after care song the day after the rampant partying from "Choo Choo Train". Enjoy the waves and the head massage for the hangover you may be experiencing.
Oh, I have ZOO's mini CD (8mm) /JR Ski Ski campaign single that includes Choo Choo Train and after care. Actually, it isn't original mine my wife bought back in 1991 (I think it was released on November 7th rather than December but I can't prove that at the moment), anyway I am familiar with "after care". And, these two songs were actually the first J-R and B song I hear unless Uta Hikaru's first CD's count (but I kind of think she has her own genre of sorts).
ReplyDeleteAh, so your wife got on the bandwagon early in ZOO's career. Good for her! I don't think I bought my copy of the single until many years later. Hikaru Utada's first CD probably didn't come out until the late 1990s so ZOO may indeed be the first J R&B work that she purchased...unless she has some early Toshinobu Kubota singles.
DeleteNo, it wasn't the first J R&B that my wife purchased (or heard); rather, it was the first that I heard when I arrived in Japan. Before coming Japan I had heard Utada Hikaru's CD and then I after arrived in Japan I found that old zoo CD in her home and this was at the same time that J Soul Brothers (the first) or Exile's cover of Choo Choo Train had been released.
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