Btw what do you all think about the cover/s?
Looks like it's basically the same style like on the IM A SINGER cover, but in white color this time. Nothing spectacular. And personally... I don't like it at all. ^____^°
Regarding the track list: I looked up all these songs today, cause I was curious and I did not knew all of them. Toshi is actually really taking on only the biggest hits. Most if not all are the original singers greatest/most famous songs. So all are well-known by the japanese public and the album could have the potential to become really popular among the japanese fans. But then again... what do I know?
- Masquerade is a self-cover, he performed it on the show Fantasy on Ice:
https://youtu.be/tCnyNvxKz3A- CRYSTAL MEMORIES is also a song from Toshi himself:
https://youtu.be/La7-eQZ_3p0- A cruel Angel's Thesis is the opening to the famous anime Neon Genesis Evangelion:
https://youtu.be/Nafii87gdzs- Manatsu no Yo no Yume by Yumi Matsutoya was the theme song for the TV-Drama "Dare nimo Ienai" and
according to wikipedia sold over 1,400,000 copies and became the 89th best-selling single in Japan
- Yuki no Hana is a song by Mika Nakashima that was very popular in Japan and got covered by several other artists already:
https://youtu.be/aRQxLcPrLes- Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen... well we all know that one, don't we? ^^° And we already heard Toshi sing this:
https://youtu.be/hmv6Eo9nGuk- Konayuki by Remioromen was used in the japanese TV-Drama "1 Litre of Tears":
https://youtu.be/VtZgUoEeeXY- Oh my little girl was released after the death of singer Yutaka Ozaki and became his greatest hit:
https://youtu.be/XrOvHNIi2rg- Kanpai by Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi is a song that became very famous throughout Japan in 1980, he originally wrote it for a friends wedding:
https://youtu.be/uISgAvJ78Ms- Story by AI is probably her most famous song:
https://youtu.be/B2fPYlGKdXM- Nagoriyuki is a hit single by
Iruka, a japanese folk singer:
https://youtu.be/FwXluXjBaqw- Memory from the musical Cats was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber... I wonder what Toshis take on this might sound like...
https://youtu.be/4-L6rEm0rnY