Bump of Chicken: essentials, p. 2.

This playlist is sadly lacking because it only has one song from Yggdrasil, the most beautiful album of all time. You should just download the album here (right-click/save), change the .boc to .rar and listen forever.

1. Harujion

2. Kudarenai Uta ♥

3. Special Song ♥♥♥♥

4. Everlasting Lie (Acoustic version)

5. Melody Flag ♥

6. Hokiboushi (I think - Track 2, at any rate)

7. Stage of the Ground BEST INTRO EVER

8. Namida no Furusato

9. Wasshoi (Hidden Track)

10. Makkana Sora wo Mita Darou Ka

11. Bench to Coffee ♥

12. Jyoushaken (”Right to Ride”) ***this is the only one off Yggdrasil I’m including - it’s so fucking awesome that I couldn’t not put it on here. ♥♥♥

13. Cheers - To Become Flowers (Hidden Track). God their joke tracks are wonderful and amazing :D :D :D: D

Bump of Chicken: essentials

okay, so this really isn’t the fullest list of essentials, in fact there really needs to be an entire separate playlist after this one because I left out “Rem” and “Only Lonely Glory” and “Sailing Day” and “If Only We Could Go through the Same Door” and “Melody Flag” and “Stage of the Ground” and “Danny” and “Washitori” and “K” and “Karma” and “Special Song” and “Arue”.

but I just made this playlist for Epon at her request, and this is the essential get-hooked-on-Bump of Chicken in 5 Songs Or Less playlist, so I thought I’d share it with you guys. :)

(My all time favorites are marked with a colon x.)

1. Diamond.

2. Planetarium

3. Sharin no Uta

4. Supernova

5. Holiday.

6. Dandelion

7. Fire Sign

8. Snow Smile

9. Taiyou

10. Hybrid Rainbow

11. Ginga Tetsudou

12. Guild

Translation:
Artist: Bump of Chicken
Title: Guild
Words: Fujiwara Motoo
Music: Fujiwara Motoo

how long has it been since you were given this job “to be human”?
it doesn’t feel like you’ve ever been adequately paid for your services.

somewhere along the way you realized your error,
you understood ‘it wasn’t a job’
but it was too late, now you could only see it as a job.

it doesn’t make you sad, just tired
“let me rest”, who do you think you can ask that of?

What was taken from you, and what did you take?
going through your routines, you’ve forgotten little by little.
was it the world or you who got dirty?
whichever, you should open your eyes.
it’s all part of our maddeningly straightforward lives.

the starving husk, waits patiently to be fed
“won’t someone care for me”, it tells no one, only thinks it.

how long has it been since you were let go from your job “to be human”?
you’d hoped you could just get by with hard work and sweat.

you recalled many things
I wonder if you can face up to all those dazzling things?

eventhough life isn’t beautiful, nor can you live it mildly
will you still be allowed to keep breathing?
half hearted attempts to smile, crying before the mirror
Isn’t it obvious? You don’t realize it because you’re hiding it.
a life that just goes from morning to night.

howling to be loved, afraid to be loved
you take refuge in the cage,
I’ll pull you out through the space between the bars.
admit that you’re dirty, the world is all yours.
It doesn’t matter, you’re meant to live as you are.
it’s all part of our maddeningly straightforward lives.

given and then released from this job,
how long has it been? what have you been doing?
It’s what you wanted. It’s what you chose.
You understood, “it’s not a job”

Translated By: Brian Stewart & Takako Sakuma

THEY MAKE ME SO ETERNALLY HAPPY.

Remember, remember

I have sort of wasted this whole entire day, and I had great plans for great things I was going to do and ways I was going to make today productive and special. Instead I mostly wound up sleeping too much and eating leftover halloween candy, and vainly trying to make edits on a fic that seems to be a deep regression of my writing goals back to the year 2002, and reading Hikaru no Go fic that i’ve already read, because fandom has stalled the fic production liines, to my infinite sadness.

I just reread Mirabella’s 5 Things fic, Issues, and was momentarily struck with the kind of emotional paralysis that comes when you read something truly superbly crafted and put together and well-written - that onslaught of ‘ohmygod, there’s no way i’ll ever be that good, that careful, that polished, that crafted, that good at creating sheer loveliness‘ that I assume is a natural kind of writer’s envy.

Only today, in that moment, I started thinking about how much I wish I could just push that kind of thinking aside and believe in my own ability as much as I have believed in the abilities of everyone around me. That got me started thinking of all the things I want to give myself as a writer and as a human being.

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Not another post about Bump of Chicken.

I keep saying I don’t have anything to update about except Bump of Chicken. Last month I heard “Hybrid Rainbow” for the first time and seriously, you guys, I nearly made a post that was five feet long. It’s one of the most beautiful fucking things I’ve ever heard in my life. How are they so phenomenal? How?

That was a hint for you to download this song and listen to it fifty thousand times, by the way.

This post might turn out to be that way too, honestly. It’s like every time I hear them something happy explodes in my chest. I got Becky to listen to them, too, which pretty much made my week. Bump of Chicken will take over the world, one song at a time.

I love them so much, guys. I don’t really get into PVs at all but I saw the PV to “Snow Smile” for the first time recently and it nearly made me cry. I have no idea what the literal translation is but after seeing the PV all I can think is:

Once upon a time, Fujiwara Motoo was talking to his guitar.

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you were sleeping next to me - i might as well have been alone

my life is so hard.

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