Year In Review: Track List 2009 from #MALKeionbu
One thing I did recently was compile eighteen tracks cherry-picked anime music, and it results in a bunch of files that you can download (at your own peril). It represents a successful and experimental 26 weeks worth of activity for zzeroparticle’s MyAnimeList club, in which the participants discuss anime music. As I write, the club is on its merry way to week 33.
If you know me well enough you’d know music is my favorite niche within the fandom that is related to anime. Some cosplay, others fap to games, I attend Yoko Kanno’s concerts. In fact this may very well be why I am not big on manga: no music! And I go beyond that J-Pop or J-Rock stuff–I care also about anime songs and BGM.
The actual name that #MALKeionbu stands for is “Anime Music Piece of the Week club.” As you can see it isn’t really all that of a name, so the nickname is preferable IMO. It’s also no surprise it coincided with K-ON’s airing. I’ve already talked at some length about K-ON’s appeal from the strength of its source material, so I will not repeat it here. From another perspective, what we do at #MALKeionbu is precisely what Yui and the girls do at their club meets. It’s not serious business.
Still, it is like joining a club. I have to check the club site on a regular basis and listen to the entries when they are posted. I also opt to write and post my opinion each week, but that is optional. It’s another social circle, except these people shares this anisong fetish, and that’s always fun just being able to chat about things nobody pay attention to while watching anime.
Short of turning this into yet another recruit post, I will just tell you about the “best of” collection. Methodologically it is composed of the winning entries we’ve had from weeks 1 to 26. Members then can opt to rank the list, and I compile everyone’s preferences into a finalized track list by trimming it down to less than 80 minutes and arranging the ordering of the tracks. The gang helped put together a liner note file with the track names and credits, plus some notes.
Not bad for 3 weeks’ worth of work. I hope you enjoy it; it might very well be the weirdest set of 18 anisongs that you only know ~30-70% of. And I mean everybody would know 30-70% of it, regardless how unfamiliar or how expert you are with anisong! It’s the oddest thing. If you care to give it a spin, make sure you read the liner notes for some randomness!
Year in Review 2009:
- Introduction
- Otagei
- Streaming
- Figure Imports
- Retrospective
- #MALKeionbu
- N^2 List
Reminds me I need to get back to attending club regularly…
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