Congratulations to all those who played this week’s Japanese Music Quiz!
Seems like it was a tough one (guess I should have included more Naruto theme songs, huh). Few people got more than a couple. Although one Japanese music champion out there, managed to grab an 18.5 out of 20, only a few hours after the quiz went up last week. Anyway: all 3 winners received their coupons: thanks to everybody else for playing…
And without further ado, the solution:
#1: Yellow Magic Orchestra – Behind the Mask (Fantastic Plastic Machine remix).
#2: A much tougher one: Bird – Game
#3: Überfamous Theme from ルパン三世, covered by no-less-famous Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
#4: 60′s classic 夜明けのスキャット, sung by 由紀さおり.
#5: Misia’s Sunny Day (remixed by Joe Clausel).
#6: Another delightfully dated 60′s Japanese classic: どしゃぶりの雨の中で, sung by 和田アキ子.
#7: Shibuya-kei legends Pizzicato 5, singing a very jazzy live version of Audrey Hepburn Complex (couldn’t find a link to the version I have, so had to link another less jazzy version, but you can also check out the very trippy 80s original music video).
#8: Cornelius – Drop: ’nuff said…
#9: Personal 60′s J-Pop favourite of mine: 奥村チヨ singing the surprisingly outrageous 恋の奴隷.
#10: A bonus track meant to weed out the amateurs from the pros (and it did)… Akakage’s 恋のCha Cha Cha…