All the Stars are Coming Out Tonight

logical_fish @ 2014-02-12T11:07:00

2014-02-12T18:07:46Z

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woah, look, it's a journal update

2011-03-18T18:08:19Z

So, in a strange little state right now. Been getting consecutive bad marks for three grades now, which has been alternately throwing me into depression and the kind of desperate comforting that stems from the IT'SONLYFIRSTYEARDON'TFREAKOUT mentality that I'm halfway afraid will make me slack off even more. Because me? A slacker.

I should be worried and anxious and all kinds other of gut wrenching feelings that make me want to hurl vomit projections at the closest person clutching an A grade paper, but the sad thing is, the sun is finally shining in Calgary and nothing makes me happier than good weather. I think if someone could bottle sunshine and rainbows and rainy days that smell nice and are all silvery and not drizzly but pretty and shiny they could usher in world peace. Wow, try saying that sentence all in one breath.

Fridays with sunshine are the best kinds of days. I used to like them because they were the only day I got out of university before some heinously late hour in the night, but even with volunteering (and because of it, getting out of uni at a heinously late hour), I still love them. I'm not usually one for the TGIF kind of thing, especially since I still spend most of Saturday tidying up after school work and working, but this semester, Fridays are golden.

Things going in life right now:
+SCHOOL: Which is going badly right now. I don't know what the reason is, because I'm studying like always, and I think I do well in tests and things. But then the grades come back, and they're either hilariously bad or lower than I expected. Trying to keep a chin up, but I'm seriously getting freaked at this point

+WORK: Going well. My boss thinks I barf rainbows, which is really sweet and nice of her. It's convenient to be working on campus too, so yay.

+VOLUNTEERING: I actually like working at the tax service, what's up with that? I attribute it to my never being able to keep my nose out of other people's stuff. Seriously, if you leave me in a house, I will be going through your book cases in a second. Still not completely sure that I'm filing returns right, and I might apply for general instead of E-file nest year, because E-file is pretty easy.

+HEALTH: Ugh, going in the wrong direction. I'm stagnating right now, which, yeah, sure, no pressure, but it's just another thing.

TL;DR: Things are less than ideal, but because there is fanfic and sunshine in the world, I will survive

logical_fish @ 2011-02-12T10:58:00

2011-02-12T17:58:09Z

Saturday and I had to wake up at seven thirty today. What insanity is this.

The sad thing is that seven thirty in the morning is rather a lie in for me. It's an hour and thirty minutes more than I get to sleep, and I woke up ten minutes before my alarm. In my first year of university, and already I've developed the sleeping habits of an eighty year old woman who loves to knit.

But I digress. The reason for my heinously early start to the day is the Volunteer Tax Program, the initiation rite of passage for all aspiring general accountants. We have yet to sacrifice a virgin lamb yet, but they assure me that that's coming after lunch, which is good, because all the coffee is gone and most people are drooling on the cream tablecloths. I had two small cups of coffee liberally laced with sugar and two strudels the size of my face (everyone gave me very dubious looks at the buffet table, as though one was supposed to renounce sugar in the name of looking Earnest and Serious. However, the day I renounce sugar is the day the sky rips open in a splurge of alien tendons come to take over the world), so I'm jittering in my seat and tapping my foot. Everyone else trying to take a nap is giving me very dirty looks.

Trying not to have a panic attack when these people seem to expect me to remember two hours worth of tax return information, and to read fifty booklets worth on how to not get stabbed in the eye by an irate client or get a lawsuit filed against me because I bollocksed up a tax return spectacularly. The waiver forms aren't making me feel any better- in case I do get stabbed in the eye, the volunteer tax program waives any responsibility whatsoever. Don't you love it when the people you work for have your best interest at heart.

logical_fish @ 2011-01-10T12:14:00

2011-01-10T19:14:57Z

Winter break is over, dammit, and that means I'm back to waking up at six every morning and running helter skelter. My imitation of a chicken with it's head cut off improves with daily practice.

Went for a workout today: staring listlessly at a huge bank of snow and pretending to read a year old Vogue while I sweat my pores clean. (Or dirty. Probably dirty) Tried not to die of hypothermia when I stepped outside. We're at minus 21 today. The weather network gleefully informs us that there will be an almost-whiteout later this week, temperatures dipping enough to freeze your state of mind and a glass of water

My New Year starts now, really, with uni and everything and I have one resolution: STOP PROCRASTINATING. I'm a grade-A, class of it's own procrastinator. Wikipedia is now banned forever from my address bar, because I really don't need to know the origins of Hello kitty when essays beckon to me.

[Album} capsule- Player

2010-03-02T21:31:15Z

NAME Player
ARTIST casule
RELEASE 3-3-2010
BITRATE 320kbps
TRACKS
1. Stay with You
2. Player
3. I wish You
4. The Music
5. Factory
6. I was Wrong
7. Can I Have A Word
8. What do you want to do
9. Hello
10. Love or Lies

DOWNLOAD@weseethemuzik

罗志祥- 罗生门

2010-01-14T22:07:40Z

NAME Rashomon
ARTIST Show Luo
RELEASE 15-1-2010
TRACKS
01.罗生门
02.爱的主场秀
03.生理时钟
04.习惯就好
05.危险的念头
06.爱疯头
07.爱不单行
08.搞定
09.为什么要在一起
10.老实讲
11.WOW (feat. Elva Hsiao)
12.In Your Eyes(feat. Rainie Yang)

DOWNLOAD HERE

NAME Hua Mulan OST
ARTIST Various
RELEASE Unknown
TRACKS
01.木兰星 (Jane Zhang)

02.木兰情 (stephanie Sun)

ayaka- MTV Unplugged

2010-01-14T04:51:40Z

NAME ayaka MTV Unplugged
ARTIST ayaka
RELEASE 13-1-2010
TRACKS
1. Jewelry day
2. I believe
3. Why
4. Te wo Tsunagou (手をつなごう)
5. Good Night Baby (グンナイベイビー)
6. Blue Days (ブルーデイズ)
7. Human Nature (Michael Jackson Cover)
8. Mikazuki (三日月)
9. Okaeri (おかえり)
10. Yume wo Mikata ni (夢を味方に)
11. Arigatou. (ありがとう。)
12. ﾌﾞﾙｰﾃﾞｲｽﾞ (Blue Days)
13. WINDING ROAD
14. Minna Sora no Shita (みんな空の下)

Oh my God, oh my gaaawd, it's here, it's finally here! ayaka's last release till she gets back, MTV Unplugged is an acoustic version of all her songs. And of course, because it's ayaka, they're perfect. Like UT-TER-LY PERFECT. Words do not begin to describe how much I miss her. Anyway:

DOWNLOAD HERE

NAME Gloria
ARTIST Yui
RELEASE 20-1-2010
TRACKS
01. Gloria
02. Muffler
03. It's all too much ~Instrumental~

Comments make me feel good, most especially because I have an exam tomorrow. I should be studying. Like, really.

logical_fish @ 2010-01-07T01:19:00

2010-01-07T08:18:51Z

The morning shines bright and blue, and the birds are singing. The sky is dotted with small shreds of clouds, and the general atmosphere is so good that any one tilting their heads up to smile at them in benevolent affection would think that they were curved in smiles back. Beijing shimmers softly as the winter presses her chill kisses over the city. The traffic hums in dull murmurs, the jams so long that more than one family has dozed at the wheel. Street peddlers cycle slowly through the snakes of battered cars, cigarettes dangling from their lips languorously. China loves to look at his city, this place of ugliness and beauty. Graffiti smears the alley, but in his mind’s eyes, he can see the Forbidden Palace, austere as a pearl in a still, moon-lit pond.

He is not looking at the city now. He has a sleek black cell phone out, and with proficiency he wishes would come to him other than in times of extreme agitation, is texting his boss with as much rapidity as water breaking loose from a dam. His fingers fly over the keyboards, and when the (lazymotherfuckingstupididiotic) dragon texts back, Wng, im in a meetng. Cn ths w@it? He nearly breaks the keyboard of his Blackberry in frustration.

He settles for calling the bloody dragon instead.

One ring, two, three… finally a voice answers, irritatedly, “This had better not be you.”

“WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING??!!” China screams at him. “WHY AREN’T YOU SENDING OUT NUCLEAR WARHEADS AIMED NORTH?!”

His superior sighs, and there is a faint rustling of paper and a discreet cough he recognizes to be Hu Jintao’s. While his true leader is a dragon, the embodiment of his past, he has other bosses too. In the background, he hears Wen Jiabao saying, his voice amused, “Oh, just go to him, Long. He won’t calm down otherwise.”

Good man, Wen. He had voted for him in the Party’s election, and is glad he had.

“I have a feeling we shouldn’t indulge him,” his boss answers. China opens his mouth to begin a deluge of insults beginning with turtles and ending in less comfortable methods of intercourse with animals, but it cuts off when Long hastily agrees that he will be there. He shouldn’t be this agitated, he knows, but this is what that- that bastard does to him, and he hates that he can still do it after thirty years.

The dragon arrives in less time than possible, considering the thick lines of immobile traffic, and he arrives in sleek human form, encased in a suit.

“Now,” he says, “What is this about?”

“This,” hisses China, “is about that.”

Description is not necessary. Long has lived far longer than China’s four thousand years, but even his mouth sags a little at the sight.

Sunflowers. There are dozens, hundreds, thousands of them piled everywhere. Spread over the ample roof of China’s comfortable house, and lining the walk way to the building. Perfect, lush, beautiful sunflowers, glimmering and winking at the two non-humans as they both contemplate the sight, China with murder in his eyes and nuclear warfare twitching to go, and Long, who is everything from amused to shocked to amazed.

They’re beautiful specimens of sunflowers. Long stoops to pick them up, and his long fingers catalogue the smooth touch which runs through his fingers like gold ink. Wonderful, amazing sunflowers, lining the path like riches fallen from the sky in trains of brown and shocking yellow.

“Well,” China clearly expects a response now. “What are we going to do about this?” The answer he hopes from Long is obviously one that goes along the lines of: “Why don’t we haul out our nuclear missiles and send them north into that bastard’s wasteland?”

Long sighs. “Don’t you think it’s rather romantic?”

“Romant-!” China doesn’t splutter- it doesn’t fit into his image of careful culture and elegance. But now, he gives a very good impression of a good, old-fashioned splutter of indignation. “I’ll show that bastard romantic! He thinks that he can just split apart and ignore me for thirty years, then come back and shower these- these nuisances over my house- I am going to show him what I will do to his brilliant thinking. That bloody bastard!”

Long shrugs. “You’re swearing more in an hour than I’ve heard you swear in a decade. Decide what you want to do with these, San Guo, because I don’t interfere with lover’s quarrels.” With that and a snort of what might be laughter, he turns on his heels, vanishing in a plume of slender smoke.

China stares. Lover’s quarr- “Dammit!” he swears again, and tramples over the sunflowers for good measure.

Dammit, dammit, dammit. He needs a glass of mao tai.

The night refreshes his memories of the past, and China stares up at the wooden planks of his ceiling. In his hand is a crumpled sunflower, and China traces its mutilated petals with his gaze still fixated above.

“I don’t know these,” China breathed, his face pink-cheeked. Russia looked at him, but China did not see the pleasure he took from noting the Asian nation’s strength since he had last seen him. China saw Russia’s smile, cold for everyone else, flare with warmth for him as he pressed the flower into China’s hand.

“I’ve heard of them before of course-“ China stopped as Russia moved closer.

“These are sunflowers,” Russia said. “They are for adoration.”

“Ado-“ China fumbled with the Russian’s pronunciation of his language before the light dawned. “Oh,” and his face turned redder than ever.

“The whole world knows that,” said Russia languidly. China immediately opened his mouth at the perceived barb, but Russia cut him off smoothly. “But they don’t usually know that the sunflower is also for haughtiness and arrogance.”

“Are you saying that I am arrogant and haughty-?” began China furiously.

“Yes,” and Russia smiled another one of his warmth tinged smiles that made China’s stomach drop with annoying rapidity. “I am. And I am also saying that I adore you for it.”

… The memory blurs and ripples, and it is trick of his mind. It is most definitely not because when China moves his hands up to his eyes, he finds them wet.

He realizes he sounds like a stupid, heart sick girl as he remembers this, but China is not prone to break downs often, and when one rains his roof with sunflowers, there is no escaping the past. China swears again, swears at his northern neighbour, swears at his own stupidity, and swears at his boss for being right about the swearing.

If Russia expects any kind of thanks, or blushing renewals of love, he will be sorely mistaken. China throws on his robe and pads outside. The night air is cold, and the flowers are dull with frost. China looks at them silently, at the grand parade of broken memories, eyes hooded and his breath hanging in the air in white puffs. Abruptly, he begins to shred every single flower, destroying their effervescent colour. He rips petals and leaves away, leaving them to decay on his path. The yellow will fade to brown, and they will die and be blown off by the wind. Petals like wounded carcasses float down to the ground, and China slams the door behind him.

He dresses for the next meeting in blood red, always his favourite colour. The colour of determination, the colour of battle, and China will need all the encouragement he can get to tell Russia politely that if he so much as waves another flower in China’s face, his corpse will be stuffed into a firecracker and that he, China, will commandeer a special seat just to see the cracker explode and shower the world with little Russia-sized leftovers.

It’s a lot of bravado, and much of it will never said. China is not stupid, and he knows Russia has a stockpile of post- Cold War weapons which make for their poor aim in their sheer quantities. He’s not afraid of Russia, but only idiots are not wary of that over-sized child and his cold, thin-lipped smile.

He heaves a sigh and tugs at his ponytail once more for luck in the United Nations bathroom. Then he straightens his shoulders, and marches into the meeting room, his strides long and purposeful as his legs bring him to Russia’s…

… empty seat.

Wait, what?

Russia is always in meetings, more often than not cradling a vodka bottle and drawing unrelated-to-current-meeting-topics circles on the pad of paper he should be taking notes on. When he’s not in meetings, it denotes a Cold War-esque disagreement with America, and America certainly hasn’t been doing anything of late.

The meeting goes badly. China should be talking about his policies on global warming, but his mind runs in frantic, useless whirls.

He’s not here. Why is he not here? Maybe he’s sick- Perhaps he’s dead. Maybe he fell of my roof putting those sunflowers there, and he’s broken his neck. No, Nations can’t die; he’d heal. So why is he not here? Does he have a cold?- Russia has been in bad shape thanks to the recession. Then how would he put flowers on my roof? I wonder where he got those flowers- they’re so expensive in winter. I’ve told him about spending his money on stupid things. I wish he’d listen, but then again, he never does. If he’s dead, he deserves it, for that stupid prank. What if he’s dead in my garden? I hope not.- Nations can’t die!-

It makes less and less sense when he thinks about it. By the end of the meeting, he has lost his notes on climate change, and poured ink over his briefcase because he wasn’t prepared when America called him up to speak, losing his footing as he went up to the podium.

This is all some evil plot to make me look stupid in front of the international community, fumes China, dabbing ineffectually at his suit.

When he gets home, he’s still snarling at the lack of understanding he has gained from the commute home about Russia’s whereabouts- or rather, his lack thereof.

At least his roof is clear of ridiculously effete sunflowers. China glances at the box he had dumped them in from his burst of outrage last night as he goes in, and has a pang of remorse for the mutilation of something so innocently charming. They had looked like magic last night, blown off the roof and dancing in the wind…

He kicks the box into a corner. He’s not going to think about that.

“Bastard,” he says aloud. “If you want to say something, at least say it to my face.”

He throws off his jacket- with relief; he hates Western suits- and begins pottering around his house, filling a tea pot with tea leaves and boiling water. Soon, the house is heated and muggy with the smell of expensive tea, and China is able to relax.

He’s being stupid, he muses, drawing a long breath of tea as he sips. If Russia wants to absent himself from meetings, it’s not to him to protest. They haven’t talked in thirty years now.

No, that’s not true. Russia has been an ally after they mended their differences. It had been a patchy fix; an alliance built on mutual distrust. The world still holds a memory of them being one: Russia and China, the two indomitable reds, even as the world turned starker and starker around them. China wishes it were that simple: sometime thirty years ago, they went down their own primrose paths.

The doorbell rings, and he puts away the reflection for another time.

“Yes?” he says, opening the door and peering around him. A rotund child peers back up at him, his eyes solemn and serious.

“Er,” China says, unsure of this unexpectedly short visitor. “Did you need something?”

The child nods, and says in a thick Beijing accent. “I’m lost.”

“Oh,” China is immediately concerned. He lets the child pulls him urgently by the hand, yanking him out from under the cover of his roofed porch.

“What-“ the word begins as a question, and ends as a choke.

An explosion of ardent yellow flowers burst over his head as he steps out from under the safety of his porch. Whole and on fire, they land on China and around him, showering explosions of russet gold and rich brown.

He stands motionless and the child is already gone (Four thousand years and he still believes in children? Naïve, naïve), no doubt gone to retrieve his reward for luring China out. He is left standing there, surrounded by flowers, some marred by his reaching hand and others, countless of others beautiful and whole, a promise to remember.

China stands, almost awe-struck, his mouth hanging open and his hands half-raised to catch the miracle blossoms. They shine in the setting sun, silk caught to flame, and the sight is so amazing that he’s laughing before he can help himself, remembering when it used to be him who was amazing Ivan with his fireworks. He has to bite his lip before he can make himself collect them and push them through a shredder.

He keeps one though. Just one, and it does not mean that Russia has won yet.

It doesn’t mean that he stops trying. Russia seems to be using all his Cold War espionage tricks to sneak in as many flowers into China’s house as possible. Boxes are no longer sufficient to hide them; China stares at the sheer mass of blooms in his living room and tells himself that the only reason he stopped shredding them is because it takes too much time. Besides, they look almost fetching, yellow against dark walls.

The flowers arrive in different, ingenious guises. Russia never simply leaves them in his house, or by his door. He seems to delight in tripping China into his diabolical plots, no matter how the latter nation tries to avoid falling for them. The most memorable of his subterfuges is when China once bought large fire-crackers to celebrate the New Year. He had pulled the string, and instead of flowers of smoke, flowers of auriferous splendour flew out, tossed into the air as though by a wilful child’s hand, and raining down on his family.

China leaves messages on Russia’s phone daily, when his briefcase is suddenly peppered with posies the size of his fists, when he is tossed a bouquet by a man dressed as a bride, when Japan hands him a Shinatty stuffed with sunflowers before turning tail and running to avoid the explosion.

The messages go something along the lines like:

Mess with my files again and I will stuff all those stupid flowers into your eyes and pinion them there with a fork. Answer your phone, you alcoholic.

And:

If the bride was supposed to be a hint, I will hunt you down and make you wear that dress when I shove you to the church with your sister. Pick up your phone.

And:

Shinatty has been ripped apart and is now hanging from my roof, as you will soon be as well if you don’t stalking me with flowers. If you want to tell me something, how about answering your phone instead of trying to drown me with flowers?

Russia fails to reply to every one of these carefully enunciated messages, which has China raging and fretting if his neighbour isn’t dead. Not that he’s worried; all he wants is for this barrage of buds to stop.

China stares belligerently at the flowers piled in his house, glowering at their cheerful splashes of colour. He cannot say that the sight of them cheers him very much: somehow, they remind him of the hollow ache in his chest and that a certain (fuckingirresponsiblecomepletelydeadwhenIfindhim) someone has been missing for weeks now.

He can’t wrap his head around this: this absence of Russia’s, and the endless barrage of sunflowers. China is strong and proud, but he has never been secure in relationships, and above all, he needs to know before he can take the leap of faith.

He admits he misses Russia. For his smiles, his child-like acceptance, for a dozen things unnamed.

He does not admit that it is more than that. For his own pride, for his barriers, for a hundred things gone wrong.

Even the other nations are beginning to notice his absence, and in a sea of more than two hundred of them, all battling political, racial and ideological differences, that is something. China feels a slight twinge of jealousy when America is the one to realize Russia’s non-existent attendance; that odd, out-of-angle relationship he used to share with Russia when they were staring at each other across the barrel of a gun seems to give him a kind of intuition. He finally looks up from his papers one day, and asks Where the hell is Russia?

And then there is the realization that nobody knows.

China is not blind. He sees the nations giving him odd little side-long glances. The Sino-Soviet split was mended publicly, out of respect for traditions, but they’re not like that anymore, and China wishes the world would stop thinking that they were. He’s beginning to think it too.

But they lost what it took years ago, and China cannot understand why Ivan sends him flowers if he won’t answer his calls.

Sometimes, when Russia has been gone for more than a month now, China pretends that the sunflowers are a way of saying I love you. He counts them when they arrive, reliving memories. I love you, one, two, three times… on and on. It’s not an admission of anything, when the thoughts are in your head and never on your lips.

It’s not like he looks forward to them. Intuitively, Russia gave up on the public displays long ago. Perhaps a memory of China’s sense of propriety, which included strictly platonic displays of affection in public, restricts his natural effervescence. After the house-lined fiasco and the shower of flowers bursting over his head and the bride (oh God, the bride) Russia leaves the theatrics, and works on simply having flowers there.

Two hundred and one, counts China silently, when he finds his boxes of tea emptied and filled with petals. He finds the tea stuffed in a neat box in his pantry, and is pleased- ludicrously pleased that Russia didn’t simply toss them out. He remembered that China can never function in the morning without his tea.

Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. He is pathetic, and this is pathetic, and so is Russia, for ignoring him.

China slams down his cup of tea, and picks up his phone. He dials.

Predictably, no one answers. China holds the phone absently to his cheek, and stares at the blank space between his calligraphy paintings on his kitchen wall. He counts down the rings till he is led to Russia’s voicemail. Five in total.

The person you are trying to reach is currently unavailable. Please leave a message after the tone. *beep*

China is beginning to hate that smooth, clinical beep.

“Look,” he breathes, feeling awkward talking to a machine. “Look, I’m not angry about the flowers anymore. I just… want to talk to you. Please.” This is beginning to sound like begging. “So come out, you utter and complete idiot.”

It begins slowly, a barely perceptible falter. It’s like one less tea leaf in a pot, the certainty of it moving in shadows. China thinks though, that he can pinpoint when it starts, the day the postman stops handing him heavy bouquets and the day there is room for variety in his vases.

It’s nothing, he tells himself, and arranges the aureate flowers in a cerulean vase. They look pretty that way. Two hundred and two.

And then- and then, it keeps on trickling, like a faulty tap. China stares at the flowers in the seat of his car- it’s too cold now in Beijing to walk, and China will die before he steps into public transport in his city- and furrows his brow. They’re smaller than usual.

Still, two hundred and three.

By the end of the week, the bouquets have stopped coming. Sunflowers come in pairs or singly, no longer as part of extravagant bouquets.

China tries to read this as some kind of code for- something. He examines every facet of this inconvenient phenomenon and finds that he cannot explain it by anything except that Russia is slowly losing interest.

The words ‘I told you so’ is at the back of his mind, and his head hurts for the rest of the week. It is not a good time for China: everything he sees is turning yellow and his head is spinning and there is an itchy cough at the corner of his throat, probably a result of the day he got one- one- flower and then went to the park to kick at the snow and throw rocks into the pond without a coat. He thinks about killing the postman, but decides against it. Then he thinks about killing Russia, which is sadly, not going to be sanctioned because of the oil deal they signed last week.

The bastard hadn’t even bothered to show up at the signing. China had waited and waited.

China collects all his received flowers with as much calm and dignity as he can, and shoves them all down the whirring blade in his sink.

He should have done it a long time ago.

The middle of the week confirms it: there is a stuffiness in his nose, a dull throb in his head, and everything around him is yellow. China hacks into the phone and tells Long that he won’t be able to come to the meeting today.

Long acts polite and sympathetic in response to the curt message snarled over the phone, and pretends not to know that China’s mood has been worsening ever since the flowers stopped coming, four days ago.

“Rest up,” is the last thing he tells his nation, before going back to the meeting with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao.

China throws down his phone with uncharacteristic disdain for neatness and wonders vaguely if he would feel better if he chopped off his head. It would stop the aching, completely horrible pain at the edge of his left eye. God, he’s getting old.

Confucius would recommend tea, and possibly calm, but China’s arms are too heavy to contemplate handling a pot. As long as he sits here in his kitchen breathing in the fumes of the last long jing he had made, he will be fine. His chest hurts too, dull and hollow, but that’s just part of the cold.

He’s sitting in the kitchen because it is his favourite part of his house, not because he’s waiting for flowers that stopped coming.

Quiet. The silence is his house weighs down like a heavy blanket. It is not a quilt, not the kind you can snuggle into and shut out the world and all its headaches. It shifts in his consciousness like silk sheets, damp and sleek and cold. China tries to ignore it. Rest, just rest.

He really wants some tea.

Lying in the quiet, he breathes slowly and evenly, as though he is practicing Tai Chi. This isn’t all that bad, he muses, as long as he keeps absolutely still and lies with his eyes closed. As long as the peace continues, and everything is absolute quiet-

The doorbell rings.

The silence hangs in shock, then shatters into irretrievable pieces. A sharp pain shoots into China’s head.

”Chao!”

Fumbling and slow, he shuffles to the door, swearing under his breath and condemning the idiot at his doorstep to numerous levels of hell. Pulling it open irately, he opens his mouth to tell them to go away and –

Russia grins at him, cherubic and innocent. He waves a little. His hair shines in the tepid winter sunlight.

China is suddenly very aware that his robes are a little dirty, and that his hair is a mess.

“Zdravstvuj,” he says, and his voice has not changed in thirty years.

“What-“ China’s voice sticks to his throat, vocal cords frozen as his mind scrambles to switch gears. “What are you doing here?” The run on: after disappearing for so long? hangs in the air, obvious but unspoken. Russia ignores it.

“I came to see you!” he proclaims, as if it is obvious. “See—I even brought you fruit as a get well present.” China glares at him. Bearings collected, he folds his arms over his chest and stands ever so slightly to the left, making it clear that he is barring the entry to his house.

“Go away.”

Russia only smiles back at him. “I don’t think you should be standing out here in the cold when you’re sick. Let me in, and we can discuss it inside your house.”

China snorts. “As if. I wasn’t born yesterday, Braginsky.”

“But I can make you some tea. You always like to have tea when you’re sick, and I know you can’t have made any for yourself in this state.”

Damn him. China wavers; he really does need some tea. Finally he nods yes. Russia smiles at him gratefully, and steps out from the cold and into them muzzy warmth of China’s house.

“Take off your shoes,” he instructs him. He can at least still give orders.

Russia does, obediently, and lines them up against the door like he’s always done. China stares at his large hands placing his shoes neatly against the wood- they’re even the same colour from what he remembers. The whole afternoon is taking on a sepia tone, as though China is looking back at this from a vintage camera.

Without waiting for him, Russia strides into the kitchen. China hears him opening the cabinets and drawers, lighting the stove, putting a kettle on to boil.

His head pokes back out.

“You still keep everything in the same place, Yao,” he grins nostalgically. “I’m not surprised.”

China shrugs, deigning to answer. He makes his way into the kitchen, settling himself carefully on a stool so that he can watch Russia potter in the kitchen. It is oddly soothing.

The tea takes a while. China’s stove is old, and the heat spreads unevenly to warm the kettle. Russia doesn’t seem to mind; he rocks back on his feet and stares at the old kitchen as though he is reliving every memory he ever had in it. His hand tentatively touches cupboards and shelves that have nothing to do with the tea. He shoots China glances occasionally, violet and unreadable, but China does not stop him. Then the kettle is shrieking, and Russia hurries to lift it off. China orders him around, his voice demanding. But Russia knows China well enough to see that he is comforted by the familiar smell of black tea.

“No, no sugar in it, bai chi. Who drinks sugar and tea together?”

“No, not that pot. That one- no, that one. The one to the left.”

“I don’t want it very bitter, so stop steeping it already and pour it out.

Finally it is done. Russia tries to help China to the table- “You don’t look very steady on your feet”- only to have his hand slapped away. He tries to shove away another smile; China pouting is an image he remembers well.

China sees it, and asks sharply, “What are you smiling at?”

“Nothing,” says Russia, and grins even wider.

Silence. Comfortable on Russia’s part, but China is curled into a tense ball. The tea wraps its soothing smell around him as he hooks his hand around the mug, like gentle hands persuading a child to smile, but China cannot. He raises his head and glowers at Russia, who ignores it.

They talk of little things, Russia chattering away about what he was doing away (visiting the Balkans and his sister Ukraine) and how his phone died when he was there, China answering stiffly only when it is required of him. The rest of the time he glowers at his tea, trying to find out what is strange about it.

“What happened to the flowers I gave you?” Russia suddenly asks. If China would pay attention, he would notice a current of tightness underneath that sing-songing child’s voice.

“The flowers?” he does not. “Your ridiculous flowers? I threw them out.”

“Ah.”

Somehow it all culminates. The tea feels odd in his hands, and so does Russia, sitting here in his kitchen, abruptly looking down at his hands as though China is the one who broke his heart. His head hurts and everything is so goddamn yellow, his hair is a mess and Russia is still sitting there looking at his hands, not saying anything except that ‘ah’.

He’s had fucking enough of it.

“’Ah’?” he explodes. “Is that all you can say- ah? I have had the worst time in my life because of you. Out of the blue you decide to send me hundreds of sunflowers, and you’re not there to explain them! I have been trying to find you for weeks now and you never called me even after I left you all those messages. And then- and then I actually started liking your stupid flowers and you stopped sending them! I was even counting them, because- because you once told me that sunflowers stood for love and adoration. So of course I had to shove them down the sink or else I’d be an idiot and you have no right to sit there and look like I just stabbed you in the back!”

Russia is looking up at him now, and there is a sparkle of hope in his lavender eyes.

“You liked them?” he repeats.

“No!- yes!- I- not at first,” China trails off uncertainly. There is another awkward silence, with Russia flashing a whole panoply of emotion, his eyes shining strangely, and China fighting with himself. He will not ask, no he will not. He is not going to be so weak-

“Why did you stop sending them?” he says finally, hating himself for having to know.

Russia suddenly turns red.

“I didn’t,” he mutters, and stares down at his hands studiously.

“Yes you did,” contradicts China.

“No, I didn’t,” Russia mumbles. “I- ah, I,” his back stiffens and suddenly he sounds as though he’s speaking in front of the United Nations. “I took the liberty of somewhat violating your sovereignty by replacing certain landmarks around your house with ones that I felt would be more… intriguing.”

“What does that mean?” China scowls. “And since when have you cared about sovereignty?”

Russia flushes even redder and China tries to focus on what he will say next, instead of how attractive that colour looks on Ivan’s pale skin. “I just… replaced some things. Switched your cushions for some yellow ones. And your slippers. And some of your plates. And your tea boxes. And now, your tea cup.” He motions to the one China is holding.

“Hmm?” He looks down, and finally realises what was wrong with the tea. It’s in a mug, instead of a neat tea cup, and there are masses of sunflowers plastered, grinning, over it. He stares around his house, and sees, for the first time, why everything is yellow.

Yellow cushions on his couch, with tiny, elegant sunflowers embroidered on them, instead of his sedately grey ones. His feet are encased in yellow, smiley sunflower slippers, in lieu of his red ones. In a daze, he hobbles off his chair and shuffles to his cupboards. Yellow plates, all screamingly bright and probably picked up at a thrift store. Each lined with sunflowers at the edges. Tea boxes renamed and rearranged, yellow and covered in sickeningly familiar flower patterns. Four days worth of missing flowers.

“You- you did that?” he asks, incredulous. He rounds on Russia, who is nervously chewing his lip. “You broke into my house and stole my plates and my slippers and my cups?! I’ve been thinking that I’ve been dying or going insane, because everything is yellow! You complete motherfucking bastard. Do you have no sense of borders, of privacy at all? You violated my sovereignty! I am not one of your Balkan states, or your third world countries. You do not come into my country without my permission, especially not to do something so- so completely stupid and idiotic. I don’t care if you think my rule is worth nothing in my country- if you don’t care about my sovereignty. If you think you’re going to force me back to you, you’ve got another think coming, you son of a turtle, you-“

Russia has been edging closer all the time, his eyes wide and scared, and just a little wild. China breaks off when he realises Russia’s violet eyes are close to this face, and his breath is blowing hot on his lips.

“I do,” whispers Russia. “I do care about your sovereignty.” And with that, he kisses China.

It feels like a million things all at once. It feels like a rush of hot air and a slap of cold, it tastes like vodka and peppermint candy, it feels new and rushed and messy, but most of all, it feels like the same kiss, thirty years ago. Russia’s tongue strokes along China’s, and before he knows it, he’s clinging to Russia, eager for more contact, despite his headache, despite his anger, despite everything.

“I don’t want to force you back,” pants Russia, when they break apart. He speaks closely, nose bumping nose as he stares at China. “I want it- I want it to be you, not a threat.”

And this is fragile. Like the petal of a flower, though their positions are anything but delicate. China’s fingers are twisted around Russia’s scarf almost to choking point, and he is unsure if he should lash out or resume contact. Russia is scared and asking, not demanding, and China knows that this is it. This is the leap of faith he’s never able to take.

But he’s never wanted anything else so badly.

“Fuck,” China hisses, and pulls Russia back down.

“Why can’t we keep the round one?”

“You want to know why? Because you broke into my house and replaced all my plates and my tea cups and my tea. You have no ground to stand on. We are not keeping the round plate.”

“But it’s cute! It’s got a smiling sunflower on it!”

“… Throw it out, Ivan.”

Notes:
- Long: literal translation: Dragon. An unorigianl name for China's boss.
- Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao: the current leaders of the People's Republic of China. Voting in the Communist Party is not composed of different candidates from different political parties. Candidates are selected from the Communist Party.
- San Guo: literal translation: third country. Because China was a warring state before it became a united country, it was called san guo for a period of time, because it was split into three divisions all vying to control all of China. Long is older than China, so he calles China by that name.
- Russia had a history of storming out of UN meetings during the Cold War, especially when in disagreement with America. Or else it just used it's veto power like the <s>bitch</s> nasty Russia is.
- Espionage is a credited Russian trick, though it was later adopted by the rest of the world. Spies existed before, but hardcore espionage emerged in the Cold War, thanks to the Stalin's paranoia.
- Zdravstvuj: 'Hello' in Russian (Babel Fish; don't blame me if it's wrong)
- Traditionally, Chinese tea is drunk without sugar or lemon.
- China does have a touchy thing about sovereignty. Even today, there are border fights with the US, especially along the sea. There is also a disputed area somewhere in India, that hasn't really been settled on yet. During the Korean War, the Chinese were involved because American forces were advancing too close to their border. The Soviet Union also wanted to control China because it was a large communist country. However, the Chinese Communist Party was unable/did not accept much help from the USSR when it was trying to establish itself, partly because it meant accepting tied aid, and also because the Russians were on the side of the Kuomintang before it became clear that the CCP would win.
- The Balkans are obviously a Soviet sphere of influence. After the Cold War, Russia also tried to establish it's influence in third world countries by lending a lot of aid.

[Single&Song] You Were.../BALLAD and Good Day

2009-12-28T21:20:16Z

NAME You Were.../BALLAD
ARTIST Hamasaki Ayumi
RELEASE 28-12-09
TRACKSpw = kmc
01.You were... (Original mix)
02.BALLAD (Original mix)
03.RED LINE ～for TA～ (Original mix)
04.You were...(Music Box mix -retake version-)
05.Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～ (Orchestra version)
06.You were...　(Original mix -Instrumental-)
07.BALLAD　(Original mix -Instrumental-)
08.RED LINE ～for TA～ (Original mix -Instrumental-)

Password: kmc

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NAME Can We Go Back
ARTIST Koda Kumi
RELEASE 20-1-2010
TRACKS
01. Good☆day

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Credits to: jona and LuverofLuv

Comments are deliriously appreciated. Share, credit, and all that.

Rainie Yang, Zhao Wei and Kimi

2009-12-24T08:57:19Z

NAME Raine and Love...?
ARTIST Rainie Yang
RELEASE 1-1-2010
TRACKS
01. 雨愛
02. In Your Eyes
03. 匿名的好友
04. 青春鬥
05. 調皮的愛神
06. 折疊式愛情
07. 要我的命
08. 絕對達令
09. 新流感
10. 二度戀愛

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NAME We Are All Big Directors
ARTIST Zhao Wei
RELEASE 09-05-09
TRACKS
01. Happiness
02. 大导演
03. 幻与幻想
04. 江子城
05. 觉醒
06. 走散
07. 时间停了
08. 游园会
09. 木兰香
10. 老板娘

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NAME Diamond
ARTIST Kimi
RELEASE 10-12-09
TRACKS
01.梦想的窗
02.和你在一起
03.钻石
04.阴天气球
05.Oh My Angel
06.两边
07.Happy Birthday
08.夜风
09.想念
10.Tonight

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The last decade or so was a good, old-fashioned, rapid let's-change-the-world thing. Seriously, looking back at all the stuff that happened, I'm surprised I'm still alive. But hey, we survived a (actually, many) pandemics, there's actually a black president in America, and if you're reading this, you're still alive.It's 2010, so HAPPY NEW YEAR, GUYS!

So, for your new year resolution, it'll be to express your utter gratitude more for that awesome person uploading this stuff, right? (Hint: it starts with pressing that post a comment thing-gum on your screen)

It must be Christmas: Kuroki Meisa, Amuro Namie, F.I.R., YUI, Ikimonogakari and Girl Next Door

2009-12-21T00:16:54Z

NAME Next Future
ARTIST Girl Next Door
RELEASE 20-1-2010
TRACKS
01. Jump
02. Infinity
03. Winter Crystal
04. 空へ
05. Tri△ngle
06. Seeds of dream
07. Artemis (Instrumental)
08. Orion
09. 無防備な純愛
10. 涼風薫花 (Instrumental)
11. sa・ku・ra
12. Be your wings
13. 恋の魔法
14. FRIENDSHIP

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NAME ATTITUDE
ARTIST Kuroki Meisa
RELEASE 2010-01-01
TRACKS
01. ATTITUDE (Intro)
02. Are ya Ready?
03. Kind Of Guy
04. #1
05. No Restriction (Interlude)
06. Late Show
07. Stand Up!
08. Before Dawn (Interlude)
09. Awakening

Password: kmc

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NAME Past<Future
ARTIST Amuro Namie
RELEASE 16-12-09
SUMMARY I had this on my computer, and spare time, since it's winter break. All of you probably have it, but whatever.
TRACKS
01. WILD
02. Dr.
03. MY LOVE
04. COPY THAT
05. FAST CAR
06. LOVE GAME
07. The Meaning Of Us
08. Defend Love
09. Steal my night
10. Shut Up
11. FIRST TIMER
12. BAD HABIT

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NAME Hajimaru no Uta
ARTIST Ikimonogakari
RELEASE 23-12-09
TRACKS
1. ハジマリノウタ~遠い空澄んで~
2. 夢見台
 3. じょいふる
 4. YELL
5. なくもんか
 6. 真昼の月
 7. ホタルノヒカリ
 8. 秋桜
 9. ふたり -Album version-
10. てのひらの音
 11. How to make it
12. 未来惑星
 13. 明日へ向かう帰り道

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NAME GLORIA
ARTIST YUI
RELEASE 20-1-10
TRACKS
01. Gloria

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NAME Let's Smile Together
ARTIST F.I.R
RELEASE 25-12-09
TRACKS
01.Find my way
02.I am here
03.向日葵盛开的夏天
04.纪念日
05.冲浪季节
06.红潮
07.荆棘里的花
08.让我们一起微笑吧
09.猫头鹰的梦
10.WE ARE
11 Hero

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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMMMMGGGG. IT'S HERE, IT'S FINALLY HERE. F.I.R.'s new album, after two years of inactivity!! Let's see a happy dance.

Credits to: christibenio@kmc, edjpop and debittoo@kmc

Comments are gorgeous. Share if you want, but remember to credit. Gloria's only a preview version, obviously.

Growing Season- Younha

2009-12-11T02:25:23Z

NAME Growing Season
ARTIST Younha
RELEASE 11-12-09
TRACKS
1. Say Something
2. 오늘 헤어졌어요
3. 좋아해
4. 편한가봐
5. 헤어진 후에야 알 수 있는 것
6. LaLaLa
7. 스물두 번째 길
8. 오늘 헤어졌어요 (Instrumental)
9. 헤어진 후에야 알 수 있는 것 (Instrumental)

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Credits to: AsianReloaded and Soompi

Nakashima Mika, Amuro Namie, F.I.R.

2009-11-28T20:35:46Z

NAME Fast Car (from album Past<Future)
ARTIST Amuro Namie
RELEASE 16-12-09
TRACKS
01. Fast Car

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NAME Always
ARTIST Nakashima Mika
RELEASE 20-1-2010
TRACKS
01. Always

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NAME We Are
ARTIST F.I.R
RELEASE 25-12-09
TRACKS
01. We Are

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I'm trying not to post up so many single songs now, but I found a HQ rip of Amuro Namie's Fast Car, and then a couple other songs, and I'm bored, so I might as well share. Comments are like cherry pie.

Credits to: warriorsould@KMC, kay20XX@youtube.com, AbsolutelyDesign@youtube.com

alan- My Life

2009-11-20T22:39:13Z

NAME My Life
ARTIST alan
RELEASE 25-11-09
TRACKS
01 reflection ～overtune～
02 Swear
03 One
04 見つめていたい
05 涙 (Smooth Jam Mix)
06 Lost Child
07 Butterflies
08 Essence of me
09 Call my name
10 白い翼
11 Nobody knows but me
12 BALLAD ～名もなき恋のうた～
13 久遠の河
14 my life

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NAME Simply Good
ARTIST Kozue Ayuse
RELEASE 18-11-09
TRACKS
1. close to you～ずっとそばで～
2. ヤミツキ
3. あのねのね
4. トオリアメ
5. バンビのしっぽ
6. Un-controllable～いつでも君だけ～
7. こよいキミに恋をして
8. KISS KISS KISS
9. LUV CRUISIN’
10. ONE
11. How Beautiful
12. Don’t let you down

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UPDATE: Sorry, didn't realise the files were password-encrypted. It's 'kmc'

Credits to: jpopmusic.com and noname0485@ KMC

Yuna Ito, KinKi Kids and AKB48

2009-10-29T04:42:10Z

NAME Let It Go
ARTIST Ito Yuna
RELEASE 11-11-09
SUMMARY Ito Yuna releases a single reminiscent of Superfly's increasingly popular style. I find it amazing how she manages to switch styles so well. Let It Go's intro is nothing special, but the chorus just blows you away. The song is for the cellphone-novel soon to be movie, Tenshii no Koi. The full single will be uploaded as soon as possible.
TRACKS
01. Let It Go
02. Happy Days
03. Let It Go (inst.)
04. Happy Days (inst.)

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NAME River
ARTIST AKB48
RELEASE 21-10-09
SUMMARY The music video for 'RIVER' has a cool, 'dashing' quality to it. It differs greatly from their usual cutesy style. The filming was done at Iruma Airbase in Saitama with the full support of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. They shot a dance scene where a helicopter served as backdrop, and three other scenes dubbed 'river', 'jungle' and 'base.' (aramatheydidn't) River is the first AKB48 single to hit the top spot on Oricon.
TRACKS

River
君のことが好きだから (Kimi no Koto ga Sukidakara) (Songs:Under Girls)
ひこうき雲 (Hikōki Gumo) (Songs:Theater Girls)
River: Off Vocal ver.
君のことが好きだから: Off Vocal Ver.

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NAME Swan Song
ARTIST KinKi Kids
RELEASE 28-10-09
SUMMARY I've just gotten into KinKi Kids. Swan Song's intro is very dramatic. But I have yet to listen to the rest of the single. Vocally, I find KinKi Kids to be a little weak, but the instrumental of Swan Song is brilliant.
TRACKS
01. スワンソング
02. サマルェカダス～another oasis～
03. 深紅の花
04. スワンソング - Backing Track -

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Credits to: Kiamessi@blogspot.com, aramatheydidn't and jpopmusic.com

Comments are ever-gratifying. I have a chemistry test of kinetic molecular theory tomorrow, so I should probably be studying right now.

[Single] Ave Maria!~Schubert~- Hirahara Ayaka

2009-10-22T06:16:34Z

NAME Ave Maria!~Schubert~
ARTIST Hirahara Ayaka
RELEASE 21-10-09
SUMMARY Yet another release from artist Hirahara Ayaka. I have to say that I'm impressed with this version of Ave Maria. I find Hirahara's songs to be really quite boring, and since her last release, Mio Amore! was such a disappointment, it's a surprise to find that Ave Maria! (why all the exclamation marks?) is a poppy song. The acapella vocals in the background and into of the song are especially good. I'll upload the rest of the single when I can find it.
TRACKS
01 Ave Maria! ~シューベルト~
02 AVE MARIA ~カッチーニ~
03 Ave Maria! ~シューベルト~ (inst.)
04 AVE MARIA ~カッチーニ~ (inst.)

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EDIT: Full single uploaded. Click link.

Comments are gratifying. That is all.

Swear- alan

2009-10-14T02:06:04Z

NAME Swear
ARTIST alan
RELEASE 04-11-09
SUMMARY alan's new single will be used as a Bourbon biscuit CM. The Tibetan artist has been gaining rapid popularity in the JPop world, and for good reason. Netizens are beginning to dub her the new Ayumi Hamasaki, but alan's unique wails are unique and gaining her more recognition.
TRACKS
01. Swear
02. Beauty
03. Swear (Instrumental)
04. Beauty (Instrumental)

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Credits to: edJPop

Update: Full single uploaded.

Comments are awesomely awesome. Come on, people, cheering works!

Elva Hsiao & Michael Buble

2009-10-08T23:17:43Z

NAME Diamond Candy
ARTIST Elva Hsiao
RELEASE 09-10-09
SUMMARY Elva Hsiao is back again with a new album and a brand new image. The earphones featured in the album cover cost more than $13,000 dollars, and evidently Elva's company feels she deserves them, because promotions included them spending another mint for a brand new wardrobe. And Elva Hsiao isn't disappointing them- her album hit 20,000 copies before it was released. The promoted track, Bling Attracts Love, is catchy and addictive. Parallels have been drawn between it and Britney's Womanizer, but that's for you to decide.
TRACKS
01. 豔遇
02. 闪闪惹人爱
03. 倒数
04. 我陪你哭
05. 同步呼吸
06. 不爱．请闪开
07. 钻石糖
08. 坦白
09. 我们多久没牵手
10. 颤栗传奇

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NAME Crazy Love
ARTIST Michael Buble
RELEASE 09-10-09
SUMMARY Canadian Jazz singer Michael Buble comes back with another album, Crazy Love. Pairing together classic composition and his smooth voice, the album also features two original songs, Haven't Met You Yet, a swingy, fun song, and Hold on. Buble had a hand in the lyrical composition of both songs.
TRACKS
01. Cry Me a River
02. All of Me
03. Georgia on My Mind
04. Crazy Love
05. Haven't Met You Yet
06. All I Do Is Dream of You
07. Hold On
08. Heartache Tonight
09. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
11. At This Moment
12. Stardust
13. Whatever It Takes

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EDIT: Sorry, I listened to the Michael Buble album and found out that most of the songs tended to cut off before they were done. A new version has been uploaded for the people with the same problems. And the link's been fixed.

Credtis to: new-releases.com and valenmusic.blogspot.com

Comments are tasty like candy. I love 'em lots. It was a pain uploading Buble's album, because apparently people decided that it would be fun to mix up the names on the album. So I had to sort them out, and it was, as aforementioned, a huge pain. So COMMENT!

SNSD, f(x), Nakashima Mika & Perfume

2009-10-08T04:14:37Z

NAME Chocolate Love
ARTIST Girls' Generation/SNSD
RELEASE 08-10-09
SUMMARY SNSD is back, this time with a cute, retro song for the Samsung Chocolate phone. Produced by Blooshy& Avant (who has produced Britney Spears, BoA and Crystal Kay). The song has been released as a digital single, and is paired with f(x)'s version of the same title song.
TRACKS
01. Chocolate Love

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NAME Chocolate Love
ARTIST f(x)
RELEASE 08-10-09
SUMMARY f(x) is back again, this time with promoting the Samsung Chocolate phone alongside ultra-popular girl group SNSD. For those who find SNSD a little too sweet for their taste, f(x) combines electronic punch and sophisticated vocals to add the dark twist to the chocolate love.
TRACKS
01. Chocolate Love

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NAME Shooting Star
ARTIST Mika Nakashima
RELEASE 04-11-09
SUMMARY Mika Nakashima is back again, this time with a slow moving ballad that's meant to be a continuation of her Orion. Radically different from Candy Girl, Nagareboshi is a tranquil, pensive song that showcase Nakashima's vocals.
TRACKS
01. 流れ星
02. Memory (feat. DAISHI DANCE)
03. 流れ星 (inst.)
04. Memory (feat. DAISHI DANCE; inst)

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NAME Triangle
ARTIST Perfume
RELEASE 08-07-09
SUMMARY Yeah, I know everyone's got this by now, but I've had it sitting on my computer for a while, so I might as well post it up. Perfume is back with a new twelve track album, with 7 new tracks and several remixes. One Room Disco, Dream Fighter and thir first chart topper, Love the World is included in the album

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Update: Nagareboshi full single uploaded

Credit goes to: blossomlicious@wordpress.com, allkpopdreams.com, Utena, and yamix_x@4shared.com

I love comments, and I'm running out of ways to persuade to comment when you download. So. Fact: The sparker of the Second Opium War was started today. I'll come up with a catchy 'comment-when-you-download!' phrase another time.

Yao Yao, Monkey Majik & Yuna Ito

2009-10-06T23:32:23Z

NAME Love's Embrace
ARTIST Yao Yao
RELEASE 25-09-09
SUMMARY Teen model Yao Yao goes smoothly from promoting online games to the Taiwanese music industry. It shouldn't surprise you to hear that Yao Yao's fans are mostly otaku boys when you listen to this album, or when you see the MV for the title plug. Because this girl cannot sing. Her voice is styled and overly-cute and stiff, and I hate her. I didn't before, but now I do, I completely hate her. The MV makes me embarassed to be related to the same ethnic race as this girl, seriously. She makes weird cute/slutty faces, and she's all 'Oh aren't I adorable' which she isn't, BTW. The only person I've seen who can pull of the cute is Rainie Yang, and even she kicked the look for her latest album last year.
TRACKS
01. 愛的抱抱 (Love's Embrace)
02. 放棄你 (Giving Up on You)
03. 來不及說再見 (Not In Time to Say Goodbye)
04. 愛的抱抱 (Remix ver.)

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NAME Gate
ARTIST Yuna Ito
RELEASE Unknown
SUMMARY Yuna Ito was commissioned to produce a song for the soundtrack of Gate. Official art is for her album dream, not the song.
TRACKS
01. Gate

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NAME Rainbow Coloured Fish/Open Happiness/MONSTER
ARTIST Monkey Majik
RELEASE 28-10-09
SUMMARY Monkey Majik is releasing their new triple a-side single, heavy with rock influence. I love Monkey Majik for their quirk and wack. Open Happiness is used for a Coca Cola commercial, and Monster for a car commercial. Rainbow Coloured Fish has yet to be leaked, but with a name like that, I can't wait for it.
TRACKS
01. 虹色の魚
02. Open Happiness
03. Monster

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Click on names to download. . Tracklist for Monkey Majik is not official Credit goes to: mika@wordpress, asialoud and doumo. Credit if you're taking, ~~or a MONSTER will get you. Oh, see what I did thar?~~

EDIT: FULL SINGLE FOR MONKEY MAJIK UPLOADED.

Angela Zhang- The Fifth Season

2009-09-25T05:17:11Z

NAME The Fifth Season
ARTIST Angela Zhang
RELEASE DATE 25-09-09
SUMMARY After taking off on hiatus for a heart disease, Angela Zhang is back again with a new style and a completely new look. The Fifth Season looks like it's going to be a strong album, what with positive reviews already received on the promoted track "White". I haven't listened to this album yet beyond White, but I liked that song a lot, so I'm looking forward to trying this one out
TRACKS
01. 第五季 (Di Wu Ji) [The 5th Season]
02. 白白的 (Bai Bai De) [White]
03. 看得最远的地方 (Kan De Zui Yuan De Di Fang) [See The Farthest Place]
04. 幸运之吻 (Xing Yun Zhi Wen) [Lucky Kiss]
05. 摇摆头 (Yao Bai Tou) [Swinging The Head]
06. 偶尔 (Ou Er) [Occasionally]
07. 我要你的 (Wo Yao Ni De) [I Want You To]
08. 寻找爱蜜莉 (Xun Zhao Ai Mi Li) [Looking For Emily]
09. 再快乐一点 (Zai Kuai Le Yi Dian) [A Little Bit More Happiness]
10. I Started A Joke

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NAME Maru Kaite Chikyuu (China)
ARTIST Unknown
RELEASE 25-09-09
SUMMARY Another segment of the Maru Kaite Chikyuu series. China's doesn't happen to be my favourite- his seiyuu sounds too much like a girl trying to be a guy, so vocally, this song is quite weak. Then again, most anime songs tend to be. Still, the instrumentals in this are more interesting that most in the Hetalia-verse of MKC's, so try it.
TRACKS
01. Maru Kaite Chikyuu (China)

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Credits to: yukana@blogspot, YouTube

ayaka Complete Discography.

2009-09-08T06:09:03Z

At only twenty two, ayaka is a gorgeous singer/songwriter with a set career on the J-music scene. Since debuting in 2006, her first album has sold more than a million copies, debuting at the third spot, the highest sale figure for a new artist since Nakashima Mika's True (2002). It re-entered the charts again three years later, peaking at 72 before dropping out again. She sang one of her most famous songs, I Believe, for her best friend Miki Ando at the World Figure Skate Championships. The song has since been covered by Sing Chew and Eric Martin (Mr. Big). Her biggest hit, Mikazuki, sold three hundred thousand copies in it's first week, and besides being covered by Mariana Ochoa, is slated to become a drama by TBS in September 2009. From slow ballads to upbeat, energetic songs, ayaka always showcases the power of music. And with a combination of beautiful vocals and comforting composition, along with a gorgeous personality, she's one of Japan's best artists.

Recommended tracks for albums are listed in reviews, strongly recommended tracks are bolded. Songs are available for download separately and as a whole single. Click on single/album name to download the complete version. Instrumentals and most lives are only included in complete version.

COMPILATION ALBUM

NAME ayaka's History 2006-2009
RELEASE 23-09-09
ORICON N/A
SUMMARY ayaka's first compilation album. For those who don't want to try a dozen new songs to see if they like a new artist, ayaka's History compiles the best ayaka singles as decided by Warner Bros. and fans from Japan and elsewhere. Bonus track of Minna Sora no Shita is unavailable. Album is only in .rar format; if you want a single song, scroll down.
TRACKS
Disc One

I Believe
Melody
Real voice
Mikazuki (Crescent Moon; 三日月)
Winding Road (ayaka×Kobukuro)
Jewelry Day
Clap & Love
Why
For Today
Te wo Tsunagou (Let's Hold Hands; 手をつなごう)
Ai wo Utaou (Let's Sing About Love; 愛を歌おう)
Okaeri (Welcome Home; おかえり)
Anata to (With You; あなたと) (ayaka×Kobukuro)
Yume wo Mikata ni (Allying with Your Dreams; 夢を味方に)
Koi Kogarete Mita Yume (A Dream in Which I Yearned for Love; 恋焦がれて見た夢)
Minna Sora no Shita (Everyone Under the Sky; みんな空の下)

Disc Two

Yume no Kakera (Fragments of Dreams; 夢のカケラ)
Blue Days (lit. 'Buru- Deizu'; ブルーデイズ))
Sky
Peace Loving People
Power of Music
Konya mo Hoshi ni Dakarete... (Being Held by the Stars Again Tonight...; 今夜も星に抱かれて…)
Goodnight Baby (lit. 'Gunnai Beibi-'; グンナイベイビー)
Start to 0
Kimi ga Iru Kara (Because You're Here; 君がいるから)
Arigatou. (Thank You.; ありがとう。)

Disc One: PART ONE and PART TWO. Disc Two: PART ONE

SINGLES:
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NAME I Believe
RELEASED February 1, 2006
ORICON #3
SUMMARY ayaka's debut single, reaching 3rd on Oricon when it first came out, making it the highest selling debut single in seven years, since Utada Hikaru in 1999. It was the opening theme to Rondo, and has been covered by Sing Chew and Eric Martin. I Believe is one of the standard ayaka classics. The piano bridge is excellent, and ayaka doesn't do as much ad- libbing here as she begins to later on. Her vocals come out clearly in the song, and the piano backgroud is gorgeous.
TRACKS

I Believe
Yume no Kakera (夢のカケラ; Broken Pieces of Dreams)
I Believe (Inst.)

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NAME melody~sounds real~
RELEASE 16-05-06
ORICON # 14
SUMMARY melody is ayaka's second single, and only did relatively well on Oricon, reaching fourteen. melody itself is a little rocky, and has an excellent vibe to it. It feels like a day at the beach. Blue Days is a complete contrast to that: it's soothing and calm, and to be honest, a little boring. ayaka's vocals in Blue Days are a lot softer, which makes hearing it right after melody interesting.
TRACKS

Melody: Sounds Real
Blue Days (ブルーデイズ)
Melody: Sounds Real Live Version
Sha La La: Live Version
Blue Days: Live Version (ブルーデイズ)

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NAME Real Voice
RELEASE 19-07-06
ORICON #11
SUMMARY Real Voice was used as the opening (ending?) theme of the JDrama Suppli (or Sapuri), The start of Real Voice features ayaka's voice, heavily filtered, and chimes are in pretty prolific use throughout the song. ayaka's voice is very strong, which is perfect for this. While it's composition is a little boring, I recommend anyone with safer tastes to try it out. Peace Loving People is a deliciously warm song, and was performed at Kouhaku . The beginning of the song starts out a little too fast, but slows down later.
TRACKS

Real Voice
Peace Loving People
Real Voice (instrumental)

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NAME Mikazuki (三日月)
RELEASE 27-09-06
ORICON #1
SUMMARY Mikazuki is probably ayaka's best known single, selling about 300,000 copies in it's first week. While it's her fourth single, Mikazuki was actually recorded before I Believe: a PV was recorded before I Believe was released. A second PV was recorded later, so this song has two PVs, one featuring ayaka in a sea cave and one of her singing on top of a lamp post. I don't think I need to sell anyone on this- if you're a fan of ayaka, you've heard this song, and if you've heard this song, there was no way you could have possibly released it. ayaka does best with ballads. No matter how much I love her upbeat stuff, it's still her ballads that I love the most. The swell of ayaka's vocals whenever the music builds is gorgeous, the piano background is gorgeous, the whole delicate feel of the song is gorgeous. Seriously, this song is perfect. Kimi no Kisu De features a deeper side of ayaka's vocals, a little like Ai mo, Uso mo, Shinjitsu. The part where she truly belts out this song is magnificient. This song is a little like dark chocolate- rich, with a burst of Oh, wow when the climax of the flavour hits your tongue.
TRACKS

Crescent Moon (三日月, Mikazuki)
With Your Kiss... (君のキスで..., Kimi no Kisu de)
Pieces of Dreams (夢のカケラ, Yume no Kakera)
Crescent Moon -Instrumental ((三日月 -Instrumental, Mikazuki -Instrumental)

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NAME Winding Road
RELEASE 28-02-07
ORICON #2
SUMMARY Winding Road is ayaka's first official collaboration, and it's with the duo Kobukuro. The song was made to promote the Nissan cube, and only contained 2 songs to the usual 4 in a single. The first part starts out acapella, with all three voices, then gradually the instruments join in. I'd never heard of Kobukuro before this, but they blended beautifully with ayaka. This song is crazy fun to sing to: the part where they're ad-libbing is awesome, and the whole song involves a belt-out chorus and an energetic, you-can't-help-but-sing-to-me vibe. I really hope that in the future, when ayaka is back from hiatus, she'll do another collaboration with Kobukuro.
TRACKS

Winding Road
Winding Road (inst.)

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NAME Jewelry Day
RELEASE 4-07-09
ORICON #2
SUMMARY The name of the single Jewelry Day is explained by ayaka to be: a day filled with shimmering light, like a box full of old jewelry that shines when the sun hits it. Jewelry Day is boring, slow and stretched out. The end is the best part of the song, where the instruments meld together and drift out. I'm Alone is a lot more forceful. It's typical of the early ayaka, really acoustic, with a belt out chorus. It didn't stick out too much though.
TRACKS

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NAME Clap and Love/ Why
RELEASE 05-09-07
ORICON # 3
SUMMARY Clap and Love/Why is ayaka's first double a-side single, and it's one of my favourites. Why is most definitely the better known of these two songs: it was the ending theme for the aforementioned game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, while Clap and Love was the opening theme to the obscure Jigoku no Sata mo Yome Shidai. Now I love both of these songs. Clap and Love is radically different from both ayaka's normal style of singing and it's sister Why. It's heavy on the rhythm and beat, and has the catchy sound of hands meeting each other in the background. ayaka's vocals are really forceful in this song, almost ferocious. There are times in the song where she's not so much singing as drawing out a phrase in a loud voice, which emphasizes the whole rebellious tone of the song. The PV of Clap and Love is one of my favourites, because it gets away from the gentle ayaka and shows us a completely different side of her. In contrast, Why is serious, brooding and a little angsty. The underlying mood that ayaka manages to capture in this song is powerful and beautiful. The chorus of Why is especially effective.
TRACKS

Clap & Love
Why
Peace loving people (Live Ver.)
Clap & Love (Instrumental)
Why (Instrumental)

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NAME For Today (album art not official)
RELEASE12-11-07
ORICON N/A
SUMMARY For Today was first released as a digital single, without any kind of physical release planned. It was used for a Pocky ad, and was later included into her second album Sing to the Sky because of it's popularity. The lyrics of For Today are all about focusing on the present. The song rushes at you like an oncoming train, and ayaka's vocals are almost as loud and rough as they were with Clap and Love, with just a little musical edge to curb it from going out of control. The clash of cymbals and the drum in the background and ayaka's voice in combination make it a kind of crazy joy-bomb for me.
TRACKS

For Today

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NAME Te Wo Tsunagou/ Ai Wo Utaou (手をつなごう/ 愛を歌おう)
RELEASE 05-03-08
ORICON #7
SUMMARY Te Wo Tsunagou means Let's Hold Hands. It starts out with a gentle tune from a guitar, sing-songing over and over again. Then ayaka joins in. The guitar remains a constant throughout the whole song. ayaka's vocals at the one strong point of the song is a sharp contrast to the whole dreamy feel of the song, and it grounds you a little. The electric guitar is especially expressive; it's one of the major highlights of this song. There are more alternate versions to this song than any other ayaka song, I think, but one I would recommend listening to is the Sing to the Sky live concert one. Compared to Te Wo Tsunagou, Ai Wo Utaou is always a little overlooked. The chorus is really happy and confident, and it's mix of piano, vocals and great lyrics make it a good B-side.
TRACKS

Te o Tsunagō (手をつなごう)
Ai o Utaō (愛を歌おう)
"Mikazuki" (三日月) <2007/12/20 日本武道館Live ver.>
"Te o Tsunagō" (手をつなごう) (Instrumental)
"Ai o Utaō" (愛を歌おう) (Instrumental)

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NAME Okaeri (おかえり)
RELEASE 14-05-08
ORICON #6
SUMMARY Okaeri, meaning Welcome home, was used for the JDrama Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend). It won her a Gold Artist Award in the 2008 Kayousai Best Hits, and was also performed for Kouhaku. The bagpipes in the song- yes, there are bagpipes- to me sound as though they're piece together this song. Okaeri is one of ayaka's masterpieces, and the emotion in this song is amazing. It's really about family, and she wrote it when she moved away from Osaka to Tokyo. Her vocals here have a softness and gentility that completely precedes all her other songs. Meiro is rougher than Okaeri. It's a little like Gold Star, but darker, focusing on the lower ranges of ayaka's vocals. It's a powerful song, but I wouldn't recommend listening to it after Okaeri, because it'll grate a little.
TRACKS

Okaeri (おかえり)
Meiro (迷路)
Te wo Tsunagō (手をつなごう) <2007/12/20 日本武道館 LIVE ver.>
Okaeri (おかえリ inst.)
Meiro (迷路 inst.)

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NAME Anata To (あなたと)
RELEASE 24-09-08
ORICON #2
SUMMARY The second collaboration between ayaka and Kobukuro. Anata To was also used to promote the Nissan Cube, but the similarities with it and Winding Road end there. While Winding Road's an energetic, up-beat composition, Anata To is slower, a little more dulcet. If Winding Road is about going forward, then Anata To is about taking time to appreciate the things in life. The PV of this is also one of the better ones that ayaka's company comes up with, despite of the crazy hair piled on top of her head. Like Winding Road, the single is only made up of the one song and an instrumental, instead of the usual four.
TRACKS

Anata to (あなたと)
Anata to (あなたと inst.)

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NAME Yume Wo Mikata Ni/ Koi Kogarete Mita Yume (夢を味方に/恋焦がれて見た夢)
RELEASE 22-04-09
ORICON #6
SUMMARY Yume Wo Mikata Ni was released nearly eight months after Anata To. It was part of the Benessee campaign to cheer on high school students in their studies. The things I like most about song is the piano intro, because it reminds me of falling water, and the strong background chorus, which is stronger than in any other ayaka song. The song's got heartwarming atmosphere, brought about by light chords and beautiful percussion. This is one of my favourite singles to be released, because of the remarkable ballad in this single. Koi Kogarete Mita Yume is one of the best ballads that she's ever done. This song is just so, so beautiful. It's also really, really long, coming in just over six minutes. It's not exactly melancholy, but it starts out that way, till near the chorus, where her voice gains momentum and strength. Another bonus in this single is that it comes with the live of Kimi Ga Iru Kara, which is awesome.
TRACKS

Yume wo Mikata ni (夢を味方に)
Koi Kogarete Mita Yume (恋焦がれて見た夢)
Kimi ga Iru Kara - Live ver.(2009/2/13@SHIBUYA-AX)
Yume wo Mikata ni (夢を味方に inst)
Koi Kogarete Mita Yume (恋焦がれて見た夢 inst.)

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NAME Minna Sora no Shita (みんな空の下)
RELEASE 08-07-09
ORICON #4
SUMMARY Minna Sora no Shita roughly translates to Everyone Underneath Our Sky. ayaka completely outdid herself on this single, and I would love to see this performed live (That PV does not count). The beginning of the song involves a grand intro by several instruments, and then a constant drum beat in the background. The lyrics and ayaka's belt out are excellent. Arigatou is also a fairly good song. I was expecting and half-hoping for another ballad, but Arigatou turned out to be, as her label said, "a continuation of Kimi Ga Iru Kara', which to me, means a mini-nuke of joy. It's brassy and bouncy and cheers me up immediately. The single comes with a live of Koi Kogarete which is, as ever, perfect.
TRACKS

Minna Sora no Shita (みんな空の下)
Arigatōu (ありがとう)
Koi Kogarete Mita Yume (恋焦がれて見た夢) - (2009/4/22/Budokan Live ver.)
Minna Sora no Shita" (みんな空の下Inst.)
Arigatōu (ありがとう Inst.)

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ALBUMS

NAME First Message
RELEASE 01-09-06
ORICON #1
SUMMARY First Message is ayaka's first album. It was initially pushed back to produce Mikazuki, but when it was released, managed to make it to the top spot on Oricon, exceeding most expectations of popularity. It was the highest selling debut album since Nakashima Mika's album four years prior, and has to date sold over a million copies. It re-entered the Oricon charts at near the hundred fifties three years after it's production in 2009, and peaked at seventy two on April of the same year. The album has fifteen tracks, and includes message, which ayaka wrote herself, and I Believe, as well as Mikazuki. Recommended tracks are (besides singles; reviews for those are above) 1, 3, 6,12 and 13.
TRACKS

NAME Sing to the Sky
RELEASE 25-6-08
ORICON #1
SUMMARY While less popular than First Message, I like Sing to the Sky a lot better. First Message has the absolutely brilliant tracks like I Believe and Mikazuki, but overall, I like more songs on Sing to the Sky. The album includes all of her singles from Jewelry Day to Okaeri. The first hundred copies were released with golden tickets hidden in fifteen of them, that could be traded in for a special disc. The CD has sixteen tracks, with a bonus track (I Believe, English ver.) The album also re-entered the Oricon Charts in 2009, gaining a position of 84 before dropping out again. Recommended tracks are (excluding singles): 3, 8, 9, 13, and 15
TRACKS

COVERS, OTHER SONGS ETC.:

SING TO THE SKY CONCERT RIPS

Only single, miscellaneous and concert links are mine.

Credit to: various uploaders on 4shared, ayaka_believe, beyondthesea, jpopmusic, iHoneyjoo, wikipedia etc.

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UPDATE: I Feel the Earth Move and I Love You covers added to misc. list. Kaze ni Naritai, I Believe and Jewelry Day single links fixed.

Candy Girl- Mika Nakashima

2009-09-06T23:51:42Z

NAME Candy Girl
ARTIST Nakashima Mika
RELEASE 30-09-09
SUMMARY For her latest single, Namashima Mika is bringing in a gothic cicus theme. Candy Girl is a jazzy, fun song, produced with reknowned RnB/ Hiphop producer icedown. It comes in four versions, Regular, and Limited A, B, C. The B-Side, SMILEY, was written by Nakashima herself. This is a radio rip. Official verion will be uploaded as soon as possible.
TRACKS
01 CANDY GIRL
02 SMILEY
03 CANDY GIRL (Instrumental)
04 SMILEY (Instrumental

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Credits to: thesaurus.com, aramatheydidn't, nijirobus and YouTube.

UPDATE: Download link is now for the full single. Links in the names are for individual song.

Alive/Physical Thing- Koda Kumi

2009-09-02T22:14:31Z

NAME Alive/ Physical Thing
ARTIST Koda Kumi
RELEASE 16-09-09
SUMMARY Koda Kumi returns just two months after her last single to deliver a new 2A-Side single! The song 「Alive」will be the theme song to the highly anticipated movie "Kamui Gaiden", and is described as a magnificent classical-themed ballad. 「Physical thing」 is a hot, edgy dance number. There's also an .mp4 version of the Alive PV up for download. YouTube embed if you don't want to waste your computer space.
TRACKS
01 Alive
02 Physical thing
03 Alive (Instrumental)
04 Physical thing (Instrumental)
05 TRICK TOUR LIVE音源(初回仕様限定特典)

Credit to: jpopmusic and blogspot

UPDATE: Physical Thing has been added to the DL list. Just click on the song names from now on to download.

DOWNLOAD .mp4 HERE

Comments are appreciated, and absolutely neccessary. Share these songs if you want, but credit is a must.

UPDATE: Full single uploaded- click on single name to download. Thanks to: bestfiction

Angela Aki, Ayaka Hirahara & YUI

2009-09-01T04:51:52Z

NAME Ai no Kisetsu
RELEASE 16-09-09
ARTIST Angela Aki
SUMMARY Angela Aki's ninth single. The title track is called Ai no Kisetsu, which translates in Seasons of Love. If anyone's interested in Angela Aki, I recommend also listening to her Tegami. Full single uploaded.
TRACKS
01 愛の季節 | Ai no Kisetsu
02 エミリー | Emily
03 It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday (Motown cover)

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Credits to: jpopmusic.com.

NAME Mio Amore!
RELEASE 26-08-09
ARTIST Ayaka Hirahara
SUMMARY This single was a bitch to find. I have no idea why, but it's the first single in a long time where I haven't even been able to find the title track before it's official release. So a little history here: the reason why I got into Hirahara Ayaka was because she had the same first name as ayaka. I find her vocals a little stiff, and definitely not as good as ayaka's, but I like that she works classical pieces into her songs.
TRACKS
01. Mio Amore!
02. Moldau
03. Mio Amore! (inst.)
04. Moldau (inst.)

Credit to: arya92

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NAME It's All Too Much/ Never Again
RELEASE 14-10-09
ARTIST YUI
SUMMARY The album art above is not the official album art. For lack of an official cover, I'll have to bear that for now. It's All Too Much is YUI'S fourteenth single, and will be used for the movie Kaiji. Never Say Die has a PV download link below tracklist.
TRACKS
01. It’s all too much
02. Never say die
03. again ~YUI Acoustic Version~
04. It’s all too much ~Instrumental

NEVER SAY DIE PV

Comments are a must if you're going to download. I skipped studying for a test to find and upload this stuff. Feel free to share, but credit is appreciated. Also, if anyone could tell me how to do those picture sheets that people use to show what a video entails, that'd be appreciated. I'm a complete noob at stuff like that.

UPDATE: Angela Aki's DL link is now to full single (thanks to bestfiction). YUI'S Never Say Die and acoustic version of again has been uploaded.