The Complete Ribbon Singles!

As I’d mentioned in earlier posts, some of my favorite tracks by Pony Canyon Idol Trio ribbon were songs that were featured as exclusive “B” sides to their early singles, such as “Circus Parade” (the c/w of  Sobani Iru Ne) and my BIG favorite 1/2 Ticket (the B side of their debut single Little Date).

I’d always been frustrated that the only copies I had of those songs were crude rips of the original 3.5” mini disc singles, and so I was THRILLED when Pony canyon released their “Singles Complete” collection with both A and B sides and all totally remastered!

Unfortunately, I didn’t know about this CD release until it was too late- all the copies had been sold and the double disc colelctions was now OUT OF PRINT! Arghhh, that’s the problem of not being plugged in the the J-pop scene… quite often I am MONTHS behind finding out about new releases, and such was the ribbon one.

By that point the only way to get my hands on that ribbon CD was through secondary markets like ebay and amazon. Not only were the pickings slim, but when they DID have it the crafty sellers were selling em for upward of 180 dollars!

As the years went by I got used to the idea of never having that elusive CD in my collection. Now, I’d checked Amazon Japan before, but of the most part, the sellers don’t ship outside japan. But lo and behold, there was a seller willing to ship to USA, and JUST today, the CD came in! AWW YEAHHH!

Wasted no time throwing those discs in the player and ripping ‘em to MP3 and have been BLASTIN’ them out LOUD! Aw MAN, they are JUST as FANTASTIC as I’d hoped and I am now riding HIGH on a ribbon buzz!!!

Worth every single penny!

Tracklist:

Little☆Date

1/2 no Ticket 

Soba ni Iru ne 

Circus Parade

Ano Ko ni Yoroshiku 

BA BU RU

Virgin Snow

Koko ni Oide

Taiyou no Yukue

Maybe, OK!!

Silent Summer 

Lady ni Naritai

Sore wa Iwanai Yakusoku

Rakuen e Ikou 

Deep Breath

Yasashii Uta

Taiyou ni Hi wo Tsukete

Tadashii Heart no Yuke

"S"ENSATIONAL WIND

LET'S GO

Do You Remember Me?

Heartbreak

Be My Diamond!

Sotsugyou

Yoake Nante Iranai 

Merry-Hurry de Aishite

Nippon Cha Cha Cha

The collection also came with an exclusive-to-this-collection-only track “Nippon Cha Cha Cha” which turned out to be 5 minutes of classic “wacky” ribbon with lots of zany dialog, sprawling song structure and LOTS of laughing, LOL!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com