Limited Chords Works Volume 1 Puts No Chords Works Volume 0 to Shame
[It’s a gag, so please forgive the … charade.]
Blogger and VIP seiyuu fangirl j1m0ne struck gold with a foolish play at some of my favorite anison classics. I mean, Setsu Getsu Ka? Anybody remember that piece of seiyuu image album goodness? It’s like a best-of of a forgotten portion of the seiyuu-idol history, way back 10+ years ago when the .com was blooming and Megumi Hayashibara was at peak popularity.
And j1m0ne remembers it. And that’s just track 1 of this many-splendored-thing (36 total, with 3 intermission pieces). Free to download and listen to it over at j1m0ne’s blog. You should also read the liner notes available at the same. Limited Chords Works Volume 1, the supposed part one of potentially more-than-one in a series of guitar covers of various anime songs–image albums and OP/ED from and related to anime–cuts to the chase. It delivers the antithesis of a hackneyed, karaoke delivery that is too usually found on line, done by fans. Sure, things like “empty spaces between tracks,” “post-processing” and “Limited Takes Works” go out the window in the process.
I promise your hearing will not be permanently damaged (by the music alone)!
Short of reviewing it proper like fellow anison fan zzeroparticle, I’m going to just highlight what was interesting. It’s probably best you listen through the album first and give j1m0ne’s liner notes a read first. Yeah, this is like, extensive comments, but it doesn’t really matter right?
Tracks 9, 22, 36: Mayoi Snail indeed. The jokes goes, Hachikuji sometimes stutters, perhaps on purpose, perhaps not, when she says Araragi’s name. She then apologizes. As you hear in these three “intermission” tracks.
Track 1: You know that’s about how much nonsense I’m going to write for a bunch of these. How much? Like my first paragraph or two up there? Yeah, too much. But it’s SOS!
Track 2: This is kind of the odd ball I think, but it’s a great song on its own.
Track 5: I remember this song to be worse than heard here, honestly.
Track 8: The rendition of God Knows is, well, different. But this is one track that gets a lot of coverage and I’ve heard a wide range of takes on this already. J1m0nes doesn’t add much beyond the funny title.
Tracks 10, 11: Well, they’re definitely how I remembered these. If at all.
Track 13: I think this is one of the highlights. I mean, track 2 was good for the song it covered, but this one is like “hey can j1m0nes do a cute tongue twister?” The answer is yes, but not while singing. Props to Enomoto!
Track 14: Seriously, this was like, the song I wanted to get an autograph for when Rie Tanaka came to America (which I failed to do so). And too bad this isn’t the “bad” rendition of that song, loooool.
Track 18: Should be properly titled “Fry Pray.” Possibly the best re-arranged cover in this album. Also, I really like the laid-back style rather than the high-pitched, “HAY KIDS C IS FOR CAT” delivery used in Cross Game proper.
Track 19: When I listen to this album there are a number of tracks that I know I’ve heard somewhere but I couldn’t pinpoint it. This is probably the best example. It’s almost as odd as the one time when I went to see Sister Mayo perform and she did that one Cyber Nation Networks song “Get My Future.” Note that I had not heard of this song since, like, 2001, until this freaking past spring. Took me a long time to dig it out of my mind!
Track 20: I think J1m0ne can actually go full out Horie copycat on this song. Very fitting.
Track 21: This is a nice song for a project like this, because the original is a bit of a “limited works” piece too. It almost channeled the same feeling as the original piece!
Track 25: Best J1m0nes track ever. I have a soft spot for this song, I guess.
Track 27: zzero-man covered it better than I could.
Track 28: I like the brisk guitar arrangement, fits this song well (conceptually).
Track 29: See track 19, but this one was easy to pick up (I don’t know why).
Track 30: Tough song to do, as she mentioned in her own notes.
Track 31: I think it’s a good follow-up. You know, about flow. Plus, it’s a good choice.
Track 32: If Limited Chord Works is a show, the crowd should cheer at this, right? The delivery could be better (looool) but it’s a great choice.
Track 34: And as with this.
Track 35: Good way to finish things off.
Sure, it’s a bit of a gag but it’s not common that you’ll even find youtube videos of amateur people singing and playing at the same time, in the same take. It has that kind of a charm to it. Sure, it’s probably not recorded like how this was, but that was two people doing it inside a studio… And the song selection crits, surely.
omg omo not you too.
… you deserved it!
Blame me since I egged him on after he suggested the idea :p
As for track 5, I don’t think I’ve heard the Hazumu version only. The regular ending by Yuumao was pretty good though.