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Where to start with DREAMS COME TRUE

Start with うれしい!たのしい!大好き!(‘EVERLASTING’ VERSION) — LOVE GOES ON..., 1989. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 10 DREAMS COME TRUE tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.

This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 10 DREAMS COME TRUE tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 10 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.

The collection leans hard on one record: 5 of the 10 tracks come from LOVE GOES ON... alone.

Every dated track here falls between 1989 and 1991, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.

Every track is filed under j-pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.

10tracks in the room
5albums
1989–1991years covered
j-popfiled under

Three ways in

The one track, if you only play one

うれしい!たのしい!大好き!(‘EVERLASTING’ VERSION) — LOVE GOES ON..., 1989. Of the 10 DREAMS COME TRUE tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.

If you want the ambient end

未来予想図II — LOVE GOES ON..., 1989. The lowest energy reading of any DREAMS COME TRUE track in the room (32 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.

If you want the driving end

うれしい!たのしい!大好き! — Ureshi Hazukashi Asagaeri, 1989. The highest energy reading here, at 70 out of 100 — a 38-point swing across the collection towards driving.

Where DREAMS COME TRUE sits in the room

Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are DREAMS COME TRUE's average coordinates and the range they cover.

KnobAverageRangeLow → high
mood5836–72melancholy → euphoric
energy5532–70ambient → driving
density5343–59sparse → wall
head · body4831–60cerebral → groove

All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.

What is here, record by record

AlbumYearTracks
LOVE GOES ON...19895
Dreams Come True19892
Ureshi Hazukashi Asagaeri19891
Anatani Aitakute19891
Million Kisses19911

Every DREAMS COME TRUE track in the room

TrackAlbumYear
あなたに会いたくてAnatani Aitakute1989
それでも恋は永遠Dreams Come True1989
週に1度の恋人Dreams Come True1989
LAT.43°N ~forty-three degrees north latitude~LOVE GOES ON...1989
LOVE GOES ON...LOVE GOES ON...1989
うれしい!たのしい!大好き!(‘EVERLASTING’ VERSION)LOVE GOES ON...1989
うれしはずかし朝帰りLOVE GOES ON...1989
未来予想図IILOVE GOES ON...1989
うれしい!たのしい!大好き!Ureshi Hazukashi Asagaeri1989
未来予想図Million Kisses1991

Near neighbours in this room

These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to DREAMS COME TRUE's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.

What the open databases say

MusicBrainz lists DREAMS COME TRUE as a group, from Japan and formed in 1988. Its contributors tag the artist pop, j-pop and video game. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.

Questions

How many DREAMS COME TRUE tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?

There are 10, across 5 albums. 10 of them carry a date, running from 1989 to 1991. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.

Is this a best-of, or a ranking?

No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.

Where do the knob numbers come from?

They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 10 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.

Can I listen to these here?

Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 10 of these 10 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.

Get on the list

The room is in private beta — 14,971 tracks by 5,585 artists, including these. Leave an address and you go in the queue in order. No newsletter, no marketing, no third parties: the address is used once, to let you in.