Comments on: Keiichi Suzuki’s Web Sites

By: Naja

Naja — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:25:15 +0000

Reginald Tyrwhitt: Actually, only Uchoten’s version of the song was written as “kimi wa GAN na no da” (actually, 君はGΛNなのだ, Λ instead of A), and the Uchoten album where that song was released was called “GAN”.
But Suzuki’s version of the song (which was actually released years later than Uchoten’s version), is entitled 君はガンなのだ. Japanese people often refer to cancer as ガン (Gan), often in katakana for some reason.
I’ve translated the lyrics and it makes sense that it means “You have cancer”, “you have a gun” wouldn’t make any sense, the song has lines such as “you’re waiting in a cold room, rolling up in white sheets”, “your home, the woman you love, nothing matter anymore, because… wonderfully, you have cancer”.
The song is actually very cold and sinister, but touching and calm at the same time.

By: Reginald Tyrwhitt

Reginald Tyrwhitt — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:35:39 +0000

Naja, bigbangbabyalex: I think it’s a pun. That’s why GAN is capitalised, to sort of infer that it’s a romanisation of English.

By: Naja

Naja — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:08:49 +0000

By the way, the lyrics for “kimi wa GAN na no da” were written by Itoi, music by Suzuki.
The lyrics are by far some of the strangest lyrics I’ve ever read. (“You have cancer, wonderfully you have cancer!”)

By: Naja

Naja — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:57:18 +0000

Sorry I wrongly used your name in my post above.

By: bigbangbabyalex

bigbangbabyalex — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:55:35 +0000

bigbangbabyalex: WOW! thanks for that link with “Kimi wa GAN na no da”, actually the first version is by Uchouten (Japanese new wave band), but the song was originally composed by Suzuki indeed, I’m not sure why it was first released by Uchouten, and then by Suzuki on 1993 (the Uchouten version was released in 1988).
Also, GAN means cancer in japanese, so it means “You have cancer”, the lyrics are really weird.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:32:53 +0000

Number 9 was the closing credits to tokyo godfathers

great movie but I thought Hirasawa Susumu did all the music for Tokyo Godfathers…

Well Awesome song

By: NickCaz

NickCaz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:15:02 +0000

Boy, that song on his Myspace really gives a Harvest Moon vibe.

By: bigbangbabyalex

bigbangbabyalex — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:24:14 +0000

http://blog.livedoor.jp/ufreyr/?v=sm4213974 – here is another song that I think was cowritten with Itoi, and I believe it is track 3 roughly translated as ‘You Are A Gun’ on Keiichi Suzukis solo album, “The Lost Suzuki Tapes”. This video has two versions of the song back to back, both of them are pretty sweet. If anyone wants the audio only I can happily oblige.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jRbiB3Zeg4 – here is a more recent song by Keiichi Suzuki on his latest solo album from 2008, “Captain Hate and First Mate Love”.

http://vgmdb.net/artist/364 – this site lists a bunch of soundtracks he was involved with. For those interested, the Mother soundtrack subsections list which songs he composed and which songs Hip Tanaka composed in the notes part at the bottom of each.

Unlimited Lumpia – theres an interview where Itoi explains why Shogo Sakai was given the duties of writing the music for Mother 3, mostly because he was more personally involved, which can be found here http://mother3.fobby.net/interview/m3int_02.html

By: Unlimited Lumpia

Unlimited Lumpia — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:31:13 +0000

I always wondered why Keiichi Suzuki didn’t compose the music for Mother 3…

The Mother 3 soundtrack composed by Shōgo Sakai was still pretty good, but it didn’t come close to the catchy quirkiness and vast musical diversity Mother 2 was known for.

By: SamWibatt

SamWibatt — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:06:47 +0000

Aha, got it – cool! I’m sure Beethoven is thrilled, wherever he is.