Top 4 Over-Sung, Over-Rated, and Over-Rotated (in Japan) ‘70s Pop Songs (Notes from Under the Tatami Mats–66 … My Adventures in Japan)

Imagine there's a country where you can escape the insidious influence of pop culture.

By the time I left Canada, I thought I’d heard enough of these overly familiar and over-rotated pop songs.

I was right.

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Years later, by the time I left Japan, I had heard them too often.

Much too often.

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   Introduction to – “Notes from Under the Tatami Mats”  _{(right-click on title)}

Top 3 Enka Songs (Japanese Blues)

Top 4 Alternative, Trad-Rad Music

Top 3 Concerts

... and more

Links to my Other Series …

      Introduction – "Intro to Vocab-ability"   _{(right-click on title)}
      Guide – "Guide to Entries"   _{(right-click on title)}
      Index– "Index" to all Chapters and Sections   _{(right-click on title)}

      Lou Reed – "Anthology of Memorable Lyrics, Part 1"   _{(right-click on title)}
      Lou Reed – "Anthology of Memorable Lyrics, Part 2"   _{(right-click on title)
Images sourced from Google Images, unless otherwise indicated or unless my own.}