When I saw his funeral pictures I thought it was a morbid joke, it's just wrong. The more time passes, the more I want to go back and change it somehow. It's funny, it's not like yesterday had any more chance of bringing him back than today does. But it still feels like it gets more and more and more awful.
Wow, thanks for that link, there's a lot of interesting stuff!
About what kiddywonkus said, I think they just said that for the MUSIC album that they finished and put out after his death. They finished it and finished performing everything they scheduled for the year, it seems like, and I think they're going to stop now. Unless Shimura had some more songs tucked away. As great as Yamauchi was singing Ai ni and Mirror, I don't want anyone else's voice. Even though I loved some of the singers who performed with them at Fuji Fuji Fuji Q, most of it was awful. The songs just aren't meant for anyone else to sing. Even Quruli, who I love, destroyed the songs.
From what I can gather from that site, it seems like it was caused by a combination of extreme overwork and missing his country home. I love what he says about kids who grow up in the country needing spells in nature to regenerate. So true! This makes it doubly sad I think because he wasn't a reckless young waster who threw his life away, but someone who was flowering into one of Japans greatest poets and musicians. Does make me teary just to write that!
This is what happens when artists are treated like a business!
No-one else should sing his songs I think. Though it seems a shame. It says a lot about what he was.
I never knew the lengths he went to, I just figured he was some sort of musical wizard, but he must have worked himself to exhaustion. He always seemed like he wanted to go on, do more, write more... So at least his short life was very full. I think no matter when you heard his music you have to be moved by it, it's his very being put into song.
He wrote a song, Bye Bye, for that godawful Puffy duo. Their version is grating and awful. The MUSIC album has his version, and it moves me to tears.
Thanks for introducing my blog!jrt10_bkkJanuary 5 2011, 03:39:26 UTC
Thanks for introducing my blog, Fujifabric International Fan Site in your own blog! It was Mr. Shimura's dream to seek a global audience with English lyrics, but he couldn't, at the end. It is really cheering for me to know that there are many of you out there who love his music as much as we do.
I wish my blog offers brief insights, which give some back ground and explanation to the many reference made in the lyrics to Japanese traditions, culture and life! Mr. Shimura passed away, but his music stays forever!!
Re: Thanks for introducing my blog!dame_ningenJanuary 5 2011, 04:27:38 UTC
You are very welcome! I really enjoyed reading your posts and translations. Your blog is quite unique and I think Shimura would have been very happy that you wrote it.
His music will live forever, that is for sure! And eventually the whole world will love him. ^____^
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Apparently the band is still going to try and go on, but he wrote like all the lyrics and most the music so I just don't see how...
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The more time passes, the more I want to go back and change it somehow. It's funny, it's not like yesterday had any more chance of bringing him back than today does. But it still feels like it gets more and more and more awful.
Wow, thanks for that link, there's a lot of interesting stuff!
About what kiddywonkus said, I think they just said that for the MUSIC album that they finished and put out after his death. They finished it and finished performing everything they scheduled for the year, it seems like, and I think they're going to stop now. Unless Shimura had some more songs tucked away.
As great as Yamauchi was singing Ai ni and Mirror, I don't want anyone else's voice. Even though I loved some of the singers who performed with them at Fuji Fuji Fuji Q, most of it was awful. The songs just aren't meant for anyone else to sing. Even Quruli, who I love, destroyed the songs.
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This is what happens when artists are treated like a business!
No-one else should sing his songs I think. Though it seems a shame. It says a lot about what he was.
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He wrote a song, Bye Bye, for that godawful Puffy duo. Their version is grating and awful. The MUSIC album has his version, and it moves me to tears.
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It was Mr. Shimura's dream to seek a global audience with English lyrics, but he couldn't, at the end.
It is really cheering for me to know that there are many of you out there who love his music as much as we do.
I wish my blog offers brief insights, which give some back ground and explanation to the many reference made in the lyrics to Japanese traditions, culture and life!
Mr. Shimura passed away, but his music stays forever!!
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His music will live forever, that is for sure! And eventually the whole world will love him.
^____^
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