[WORLD GROOVE] Currently listening to Makihara Noriyuki – GREEN DAYS
November 3, 2007 by Dennis Amith
ARTIST: Makihara Noriyuki
CD SINGLE: GREEN DAYS
LABEL: J-MORE
CATALOG #: YICD-70036
DURATION: 18.8 minutes
RELEASE DATE: August 15, 2007
- GREEN DAYS
- Donna tokimo. ’07
- GREEN DAYS (Backing Track)
- Donna tokimo. ’07 (Backing Track)
In the early 90′s, among the going back and forth with the Being groups, Fukuyama Masaharu and SMAP, I would always see a flood of videos on the top 20 featuring Makihara Noriyuki.
Purchased his album “SELF PORTRAIT” and thoroughly enjoyed his music. It’s happy and he has a recognizable singing voice and throughout the years have built his career by providing us with great music, great lyrics and great music playing.
Makihara Noriyuki is literally a one man machine when it comes to his music and I always look forward to his CD single releases to this day.
So, here we are with his 36th CD single “GREEN DAYS” which is the theme song for the Fuji TV drama “Ushi ni Negai o: Love & Farm” and a song that was used for the CM for Toyota Ractis.
In always a Makihara-fashion, “GREEN DAYS” features a happy, rock songs featuring Makihara’s usual style and background vocals. (Note: Makihara’s songs have a similar distinct feel to them but at the same time, each are different).
I actually have been playing a lot of this song quite a bit because it’s a very enjoyable, catchy song and it’s great to hear his music continue to have that same flair that he exhibited in the early 90′s.
As for the coupling song “Donna tokimo. 07″, the song is used for an NTT CM. The song is a revised version of his 3rd CD single released back in June 1991 (where it was used for a commercial in 1992 for Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan).
The song happens to be one of Makihara’s most popular songs ever and its great to see him do an update of this song.
The last two tracks are the backing tracks of the two songs.
As for the CD insert, pretty much all that is on the insert is the lyrics and credits.
Makihara Noriyuki is like Mr. Children for me. I don’t get sick of it. I highly anticipate each CD single release and I know that each release would be quality.
“GREEN DAYS” is no different. It’s a very cool, happy, enjoyable and catchy song that if you are an a Makihara fan, you’ll embrace it.
The remake of “Donna Tokimo.’07″ was definitely a great addition as a c/w song and I’m quite please with the CD single overall.
Give it a try!
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