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Where to start with Junko Ohashi
Start with Sweet Love — THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI, 1998. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 20 Junko Ohashi 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 20 Junko Ohashi 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 20 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The years need a caveat: 12 of 20 dated tracks land in the 1990s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The head/body knob swings 47 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Sweet Love — THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI, 1998. Of the 20 Junko Ohashi 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 cerebral end
貴方しか見えない — THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI, 1998. The lowest head/body reading of any Junko Ohashi track in the room (14 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Celebration — THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI, 1998. The highest head/body reading here, at 61 out of 100 — a 47-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Junko Ohashi 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 Junko Ohashi's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 56 | 31–69 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 56 | 32–72 | ambient → driving |
| density | 53 | 30–62 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 47 | 14–61 | cerebral → 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
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 | 6 |
| ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 | 6 |
| ゴールデン☆ベスト 大橋純子 シングルス | 2003 | 5 |
| LIVE LIFE | 2014 | 2 |
| Tea For Tears | 2009 | 1 |
Every Junko Ohashi track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| カナディアン・ララバイ | ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 |
| サファリ・ナイト | ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 |
| シンプル・ラブ | ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 |
| ビューティフル・ミー | ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 |
| 眠れないダイヤモンド | ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 |
| 鍵は返して | ネオ・ヒストリー | 1993 |
| Celebration | THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 |
| Sweet Love | THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 |
| Time after Time | THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 |
| 恋に溺れて-Crazy about you- | THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 |
| 男と女 | THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 |
| 貴方しか見えない | THE BEST SONGS OF JUNKO OHASHI | 1998 |
| OOH BOY | ゴールデン☆ベスト 大橋純子 シングルス | 2003 |
| たそがれマイ・ラブ | ゴールデン☆ベスト 大橋純子 シングルス | 2003 |
| キャシーの噂 | ゴールデン☆ベスト 大橋純子 シングルス | 2003 |
| サンバ・ソレイユ | ゴールデン☆ベスト 大橋純子 シングルス | 2003 |
| シルエット・ロマンス | ゴールデン☆ベスト 大橋純子 シングルス | 2003 |
| テレフォン・ナンバー | Tea For Tears | 2009 |
| SMILE AGAIN -2014- | LIVE LIFE | 2014 |
| たそがれマイ・ラブ -2014- | LIVE LIFE | 2014 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Junko Ohashi's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with S. Kiyotaka & Omega Tribe — city pop, 57 tracks
- Where to start with Shizuka Kudo — city pop, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Yukiko Okada — city pop, 10 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Junko Ohashi as a solo artist, from Yūbari, Japan and born in 1950. Its contributors tag the artist clean up and city pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Junko Ohashi tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 20, across 5 albums. 20 of them carry a date, running from 1993 to 2014. 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 20 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 20 of these 20 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.