Rate Albums
Cover of 山谷初男の放浪歌集 新宿

山谷初男の放浪歌集 新宿

山谷初男 with はちみつぱい

24 October 1974

Folk

Average
10.0
Ratings
1
Your rating
Log in to rate
Reviews
1
Lists
0
Tracklist 14 tracks, 54:39
  1. 1昭和11年新宿2丁目の娼家、桃園桜の欄干に腰かけて歌える少年の春の目ざめの詩4:08
  2. 2人生は歌謡曲だよ、桃ちゃん4:54
  3. 3ゲイバー「オベロン」6:21
  4. 4歌舞伎町の少年探偵団3:26
  5. 5日活ロマン・ポルノのヒロイン、ジプシー・ローズ嬢賛江3:39
  6. 6終電車の中で書いた詩1:49
  7. 7童謡3:23
  8. 8誰も俺の名前を知らない6:43
  9. 9中村屋前のチョコレート将軍2:45
  10. 10人生は汽車に似てるね3:36
  11. 11ロング・グッドバイ5:31
  12. 12貯金通帖のブルース2:32
  13. 13こがね虫2:37
  14. 14菅原文太を見にゆくブルース3:16

Reviews

10/10

What happens when a clueless north-country boy comes to the big city and gets swept up in its charms and its filth, when the sake flows like a Tokyo river and the romantic relationships are as entangled as the metropolis' seedy backstreets and as obscured as the invisible stars? You get a wonderful album that's as much theater as it is music, peppered with just the right amount of found sounds and narration. Genre-wise, it's all over the place, and that's just what it should be: but that sole, mournful, dark-cabaret violin holds it all together. This album is basically one long love poem to Shinjuku, taking the good with the bad and embracing it all. And if you ever visit Shinjuku, you'll understand.