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Shiroi Hane
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Trivia for Falling Down is that the Japanese single had a music video by I.G in the same style and re-using assets from the EotE OP.
No mention yet of Whisper of the Heart and County Roads. The original was never played, but it did have an Olivia Newton-John cover for the ED. Honorary mention to the reworked version of Sugar Baby Love from Snow Fairy Sugar.
My father had that song on a compilation in the car and it took me ages to figure out why I saw buildings collapsing in my head whenever it came on. |
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John Thacker
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No, not Gilbert and Sullivan, the Victorian writer and composer of comic operas. Gilbert O'Sullivan, the Irish-English singer-songwriter with early 1970s soft rock hits (who changed his first name to sound like the pair above.) Another interesting "failed to get the license" example (but not OP or ED) is the use of Louis Armstrong "What a Wonderful Word" in episode 6 of Vandread. I think that one got replaced not only for the US release, but also the Japanese home video release. (The latter with a cover, the former with an entirely different song.) |
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CheechMonger
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I've got the Viz DVD sets of MI, and mine does not have the Gilbert O'Sullivan openings or endings; the regular opening and closing themes were used, at least on the DVD I have. |
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IanKen
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I like it though, a nice cover. |
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DeTroyes
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I stand corrected. Its been 30 years since I last watched Maison Ikkoku. Must rectify that one of these years. |
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Gina Szanboti
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"For The Love of Life" by David Sylvian was the first ED for Monster. That's another one that didn't make it to Viz's English version (did Madman manage to license it?), at least not the vocals. Somehow they still used the music and made it an instrumental closing.
Then again, Monster's international releases ended up with all kinds of weird issues with the music besides this and "Be My Baby" and "Over the Rainbow," etc., like using the original OST background music, but shuffling it around to put pieces into other scenes from where they were heard originally. That's never seemed like it could be a licensing issue, since the tracks were still being used, just in different places. I think only Japan and Korea ended up retaining the original soundtrack, iirc. |
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Mugen1style
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How about the OP from Black Heaven Cautionary Warning By the former guitarist of White Snake and Thin Lizzy as well as a bunch of other bands John Sykes.
Loved Ego proxy, ParaKiss, Eden of the East, Lain, Degaldo's in GSG was really cool I had never heard of them before that. Shiver is still a stalwart on my play list many good English songs used in anime to many to list. Glad others are listing many i had forgotten about. |
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donhumberto
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That's a good one for sure. I remember when I rewatched Monster in English I was surprised when that episode came because I clearly remembered hearing "Be my baby" in the original version. Also, if I'm not mistaken, something similar happens again later on in the series with "Somewhere over the rainbow" (which was again replaced in the English version). Anyway, I would also like to add David Sylvian's "for the love of life", Monster's hauntlingly beautiful ED (which was also, sadly, removed form the English version). Truly one of the best ED ever and very fitting to one of the best (if not the best) anime series ever. (oops, it was already mentioned a few posts above and I hadn't realised, my bad) Oh, and more recently I'd also like to add that montage that appears at the beginning of A Silent Voice to the Who's My generation. Totally loved that scene |
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harminia
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I'd forgotten but Fractale had the song/poem Down by the Salley Gardens as the ED. There was a version in English and a version in Japanese, both sung by the same person, Hitomi Azuma. They're both really nice and fit the show.
When Marnie Was There also had an English ending song, but I believe it was written for the movie or something.
Oh man, I remember that. So catchy. |
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Kadmos1
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That was one of the most beautiful and romantic movie scenes that I have ever scene. |
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