The Japanese for “curious” is “a heart that loves strangeness.”

Front Cover | MP3s

1. Memorial Address (take 2 version) – Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Candy Pop (Kid Whatever Pole Position Remix) – Heartsdales featuring Soul’d Out
3. Taste Your Stuff – m-flo
4. Signal (Album Remix) – Do As Infinity
5. GLAMOROUS SKY – NANA starring MIKA NAKASHIMA
6. STAND BY YOU – SHAKA LABBITS <3 175R
7. Dreams – SIAM SHADE
8. Kimi ga Oikaketa Yume (“The Dream You Chased”) – Gackt
9. Life’s Like a Love Song – Hitomi Yaida
10. illusion – globe

I like all of the songs on this CD. In fact, most of them I love. These tracks are Japanese pop pablum at its finest – charters, each and every one.^* But they’re also wonderful songs. My hope and intent is that, despite its provenance, everyone likes this CD. How you feel about yourself afterward is up to you.

_{*While the “Pole Position Remix” did not chart, the original did. I claim a moral victory, as well as an awesome one. Besides, nobody’s in any danger of confusing either track with the latest Forkcast.}