[1984] Bread & Butter (ブレッド&バター) - Second Serenade (Full Album)

Tracklist: 1. Baraketa Initial [0:00] 2. Old Friends [3:31] 3. Samui Asa [7:41] 4. Miracle Touch [12:12] 5. Moon Eyes [17:12] 6. Ano Hi no One Scene [22:23] 7. Hikishio Café [27:25] 8. Mou Tachidomaru Koto wa Nai [32:26] 9. Sayonara [39:45] Arranged by Jun Sato CD purchased by me, ripped/scanned by squidlin Recently at work, I had been sorta struggling with trying to figure out what new music I could possibly listen to while I get my tasks done. I had heard about Bread & Butter ages ago at some point but never really made the effort to actually check out any of their albums before, so I started off with their "Monday Morning" album, and... WOAH!! Probably one of the better JP albums I've listened to in a while. It's SO good! Naturally this drove me to check out what other albums they had to offer in their discography. "Second Serenade" is one such album (out of many) that caught my interest while I was digging. Released in 1984, this album—as of me writing this out, at least—only has a shitty vinyl rip uploaded online. CD rips exist online, though these omit any scans for the album, so I decided to go & purchase a copy myself. While I'm glad to have gotten this on CD, the 90s CD re-issue of this album omits a bunch of artwork that the original LP version had. Consequently, I chose not to put in that many scans on this upload, but I still would have posted this regardless just for the fact alone that someone needed to put this album's CD version up at some point. Putting that aside: this is a great album, I think you guys will like it. "Miracle Touch" and "Ano Hi no One Scene" are my favs from here. Final note: this CD re-issue contained an extra track from their 1986 LP-only mini-album release, "Remember My Love". This might shock you guys, but despite it being a track arranged by Stevie Wonder himself, I omitted it from this album. Firstly, because I wanted to present this album as it was during its original release (with regards to track listing and all that). Secondly... it pains me to say this but I really do not like the track at all. The arrangement sounds basic as hell and really does not fit with "Second Serenade" at all. I appreciate that they added it in as an extra track, but still... Anyways, enjoy!!