People have their own ways to meet with music. When you are young, you may talk to your friends about hip singers or groups on TV, or you may dance to the music with the guidance of a kind of choreography. When you grow older, you may listen to the music under the guise of doing your homework, or you may have a date with your favorite songs in your car player. When you do a job, you may be away from music, or you may do humming of today's songs for the juvenile in course of woriking. Music is only a by-player of the life for most of you, but it blows your mind as today's vigor or as yesterday's reminder. The songs you love or you are recommended are good. And also you may be impressed by the songs you hear and listen to from where you haven't never connected with, because you can never consider or imagine the way in which you meet with them. DJs give you some good seasoning on the music they play, with their talking to someone just like you. RADI'O'PAPER will introduce to you the songs I have on CDs.You can't hear them here, but you may be not able to resist hearing them anywhere.(2004/06/12)
Furthermore, there are sites I often make use of or take references from. As follows :
*Amazon (www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk)
The well-known and biggest web-order shop. It's interesting to read customer reviews which were written by many hot fans. Some songs can be heard partly.
*HMV(www.hmv.co.jp, www.hmv.co.uk, www.hmv.com)
At the Japan site, the rate of discount and points is sometimes higher and profitable. It's regrettable that shipping rates from abroad have got so higher.
*TowerRecords (www.tower.jpAwww.tower.com)
Japan shops of the same name are in charge of other company. At the U.S. site, many box sets can be got reasonable.
*Djangos(www.djangomusic.com)
My favorite CD web shop. It allures me because it does free shipping worldwide if you buy over some dollars. (It's regrettable to say that this ship has folded before Christmas (2007))
*All Music Guide(www.allmusic.com)
You can search various artists or songs. You can find some Japanese artists on this site.
*Collectables Records(www.oldies.com)
*Rhino Records(www.rhino.com)
(www.rhinohandmade.com)
*Hip-O Records(www.hip-o.com)
(www.hip-oselect.com)
*Curb Records(www.curb.com)
*Varese Sarabande Records
(www.vareseSarabande.com)
*Ace Records(www.acerecords co.uk)
*Union Square Music(www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk)
*Blues Interactions(www.bls-act.co.jp)
They release various compilations with their own flavors.
! BEWARE ! Many lyrics-searching sites are ready for pop-up windows and some may contain spyware-like scripts or extra cashes. I cannot owe you any responsibility for these sites.
*Lyrics on Demand
(www.lyricsondemand.com)
*Leo's Lyrics Database
(www.leoslyrics.com)
*sing365 com (www.sing365.com)
*Lyrics Download Com
(www.lyricsdownload.com)
These sites help me to get lyrics hard to know what they say.
*Where Did Our Love Go? : The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life)/Nelson George (Omnibus Press)
*The Death of the Rhythm & the Blues/Nelson George (Penguin USA)
*Music Man : Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, and the Triumph of Rock'N'Roll/Dorothy Wade & Justine Picardie (W W Norton & Co Inc)
*Sweet Soul Music/Peter Gulalnik (Back Bay Books)
*Soulsville USA/Rob Bowman (Schirmer Trade Books)
*The Whereabouts of the Soul/Peter Barakan (Artes Publishing)
No matter how we may gather informations from internet, the persuasive power or the volume of information cannot be more than those who put themselves in the music business or interview directly with the persons concerned. There are fine books besides ones I mentioned above. I want to read them when I have time to spare.