Marunouchi Sadistic
| "Marunouchi Sadistic" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Ringo Sheena from the album Muzai Moratorium | |
| Released | 1999 |
| Recorded | 1998 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:56 |
| Label | Toshiba EMI, EMI Music Japan, Universal |
| Writer(s) | Ringo Sheena |
| Producer(s) | Ringo Sheena |
"Marunouchi Sadistic" (丸の内サディスティック Marunouchi Sadisutikku?) is a song by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena. It was recorded for her debut album Muzai Moratorium in 1999.
Ringo Sheena released her debut single "Kōfukuron" in May 1998, followed by "Kabukichō no Joō" in September. Her third in January 1999, "Koko de Kiss Shite.," became a hit, being certified platinum for 200,000 copies shipped to stores by the RIAJ. This was followed by her debut album Muzai Moratorium in February 1999, an album that was wildly successful, selling over 1,000,000 copies since its release.
A small section of the song was first released on the "Kabukichō no Joō" single, on the track "Jitsuroku (Shinjuku nite)" (実録 －新宿にて－?, "Actual Recording (In Shinjuku)") , which featured a clip of Sheena busking in Tokyo, performing a medley of "Marunouchi Sadistic" and "Kabukichō no Joō."
The song was first recorded in an English language demo called "A New Way to Fly," which was recorded while Sheena was home-staying in London.
The lyrics talk somebody who has just moved to Tokyo for work, and the title references the Marunouchi Line, one of the major train lines in central Tokyo, as well as several neighbourhoods reached on the line, such as Ochanomizu and Ginza. The song also mentions many guitar-related words, such as the Rickenbacker 620 model guitar, Marshall amplifiers, a Pro Co RAT pedal amplifier and Gretsch guitars. Blankey Jet City vocalist Kenichi "Benji" Asai is mentioned in the lyric, "And then I strike some Benji on my Gretch." (そしたらベンジー、あたしをグレッチで殴って Soshitata Benjī, atashi o gurecchi de butte?) The 2008 English lyrics similarly keep the references to places in Tokyo and to guitar paraphernalia, but further mentions Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
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