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| Best songs of Yasutaka Nakata per project
Curated by none other than ya girl Hurrican. because y'all know what time it is. | | 1 |  | Capsule (JPN)
Sugarless GiRL
Starry Sky
This has been a super close tie almost with the title track, Music Controller, Retro Memory and More More More. This is a fantastic slice of Indie-Rock influenced, hard hitting House music with a great use of Synthfunk-tones, unusual bass-warbling, a big anthemic chorus and a guitar solo as a post-chorus that is SO GOOD they actually use it twice. Great stuff, super catchy and one hell of a ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA37DbXmx9E | | 2 |  | Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Nandacollection
Saigo No Icecream
probably a weird choice, but Nakata just uses Kyarys innocent charm in the most effective way here. Channeled through glimmering synths that are playing a surprisingly subdued and more melancholic chordprogression, this song is pure rage about not getting to have the last strawberry icecream and kinda threatening the person who got it. It's a more subdued affair for Kyary, it's well structured and the chorus is a definite sleeper. Definitely an underrated gem in her discography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5tfdf3f8FI | | 3 |  | Perfume
JPN
Nee
This is where Nakatas talent in vocal-chopping and expanding melodies really comes through, and more efficiently than in that one song on Control. The way he interweaves the three voices in the fragments on the post-chorus, making way into a super relaxed but tense verse is nothing short of amazing, and when he expands the chorus in the next repetition into one of the most satisfying high notes I have ever heard in a pop-song ever, you know you can just go right with this one. Also has a strangely unsettling dark, glitchy bassline underneath the glittery fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbeGeXgjh9Q | | 4 |  | Meg
Beam
OK
This is definitely an unexpected choice given how unspectacular this song is in it's standard electro-pop production, but come on, these are straight up some of the best melodies ever recorded. Every element of this song is just wonderfully catchy, there is not a single unmemorable second in here. The fact that the lyrics, i think, from what I can gather, talk about an affair with lots of complicated feelings and a deep sense of longing for more also gives it a surprisingly dire tone, which is executed wonderfully in a dancing your tears away kind of manner. One of the top 10 best popsongs ever written, in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Gm7gnSXAQ | | 5 |  | Ami Suzuki
Supreme Show
Super Music Maker
I actually hate this project and finding a decent song on here was hard work, but the slightly more prominent funk-grooves on here kinda won me over. Still, better stay away from this. Yuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ouXqXWoTI | |
Hurricanslash
02.14.18 | I'm back, and definitely won't stay that active for long, but I wanted to do this list real bad, so here ya go.
I love Nakata, in case you couldn't guess that from this list, and aside from Supreme Show, I don't think he has any bad projects, maybe World Of Fantasy, so, yeah, this was a lot of fun for me. | Archelirion
02.14.18 | Gonna have to check those Meg and Ami Suzuki tracks out for sure. Nee in particular is unfairly good... and dangerously catchy. | Hurricanslash
02.14.18 | You should actually check out the whole Meg album, it's super underrated and has some of his best production choices/melody-writing ever.
And about Ami, yeeeeee, if you want to, sure, but I can't stand it except for 1/2 songs. | foxblood
02.14.18 | nice list, I love Ami Suzuki and Meg. there's also COLTEMONIKHA, NAGISA COSMETIC, Hazel Nuts Chocolate, and he has made music with a ton of different models. | foxblood
02.14.18 | World of Fantasy is amazing | gryndstone
02.14.18 | I would have to go for Music Controller or 5ive Star for best capsule track, good choices on KPP and Perfume | Hurricanslash
02.15.18 | I mean, Music Controller was a very close runner-up, soooo, yeah. |
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