Showing posts with label Original Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Original Love. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2026

J-Canuck's Four Favourite Songs by Original Love

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  For the Friday edition of  NHK's "Asaichi" （あさイチ）, we all got the delight of being serenaded by Takao Tajima（田島貴男） , aka Or...
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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Original Love -- Wild Humanity（ワイルド・ヒューマニティー）

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  Although I know that cool-as-all-heck singer-songwriter Takao Tajima（田島貴男） , aka Original Love, has continued to kick around up to the pr...
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Friday, January 10, 2025

Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Original Love -- Ryuusei Toshi（流星都市）

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  Number: 092 Lyricist: Takao Tajima Composer: Takao Tajima Arranger: Original Love From the 1995 album "Rainbow Race" It may have...
Friday, January 3, 2025

Original Love/Junk Fujiyama -- Ryuusei Toshi（流星都市）

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  It was a little over a couple of months ago when I got my CD copy of Junk Fujiyama's（ジャンクフジヤマ） "Shoukei Toshi ~ City Pop Covers...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Noelle's Summer Playlist （夏のうた）

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Since we are dead in the middle of summer, I'd like to share some songs that represent the hottest season of the year to me. They may no...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Original Love -- Tsuki no Ura de Aimashou （月の裏で会いましょう）~ A Follow-Up

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  In early 2018 , I posted an article on one of the many supremely catchy Original Love songs, "Tsuki no Ura de Aimashou" (Let...
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Saturday, January 14, 2023

Gosanke: Shibuya-kei Gosanke（渋谷系御三家）

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  For the past several weeks, I've been putting up the series of Gosanke（御三家...The Big Three） , the musical trios representing certain g...
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Original Love -- X'mas NO HI

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  Christmas presents on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" can come from various places, and I was lucky to find yet another one via Scott's m...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Original Love -- Your Song

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  Welcome to August 2022 ! Over here, we're now entering the dog days of summer which will hopefully mean appropriately warm and sunny w...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Original Love -- Zeroset（ゼロセット）

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Happy Civic Holiday to my fellow Torontonians and Happy Monday to everyone else! Last week, commenter Michael gave me his list of his o...
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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Original Love -- Kaze no Uta wo Kike（風の歌を聴け）

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One of the earliest songs that I wrote about on the blog was Original Love's "Asahi no Ataru Michi" （朝日のあたる道）, the band...
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Monday, February 11, 2019

Hiroshi Takano & Takao Tajima -- Winter's Tale ~ Fuyu Monogatari（冬物語）

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Y'know...this can drive a man to drink! And yep, that was the point for "Winter's Tale ~ Fuyu Monogatari" (the Japan...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Original Love/Maki Nomiya -- Tsuki no Ura de Aimashou（月の裏で会いましょう）

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Did anyone catch that Blood, Blue, Super ...any colour in the Crayola palette... Moon a few days ago? Nope, I didn't. Didn't need t...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Original Love -- Yume wo Miru Hito （夢を見る人）

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After a week of relatively mild weather ( +4 C was the peak here...pretty good for Toronto this time of year), it looks like winter has ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Original Love -- Sunshine Romance (サンシャイン ロマンス)

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I wonder if anyone reading this was anywhere near born...or for that matter if anyone's parents were born...when The Fifth Dimension ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Original Love -- Words of Love

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"Words of Love" by Original Love , aka Takao Tajima（田島貴男） is a track on his 1996 album , "Desire" which also contain...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Original Love -- Hum A Tune

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Well, it's been a while, Original Love . Welcome back to the blog! Yup, it's been about a year since I last put up a song by the ...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Original Love -- Primal

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Gotta have Takao Tajima's（田島貴男） coat there in the video. Considering that Toronto barely reached -15 degrees C today, that would ...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Original Love/Mika Nakashima -- Seppun (Kiss) （接吻）

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As I mentioned in the other article for Original Love's "Asahi no Ataru Michi" （朝日のあたる道）, that was the tune that first expo...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Original Love -- Asahi no Ataru Michi （朝日のあたる道）

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Apparently, the singer (and only member) of Original Love , Takao Tajima（田島貴男） , disliked being labeled as Shibuya-kei. In fact, accordi...