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Where to start with Shizuka Kudo
Start with Sayonara no Gyakusetsu — Shizuka Kudo Original Album Collection, 2012. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 18 Shizuka Kudo 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 18 Shizuka Kudo 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 18 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.
Every track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The head/body knob swings 41 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
Sayonara no Gyakusetsu — Shizuka Kudo Original Album Collection, 2012. Of the 18 Shizuka Kudo 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
美粧の森 — カレリア, 1989. The lowest head/body reading of any Shizuka Kudo track in the room (22 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
嵐の素顔 — 工藤静香ベスト, 2001. The highest head/body reading here, at 63 out of 100 — a 41-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Shizuka Kudo 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 Shizuka Kudo's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 62 | 39–71 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 61 | 32–72 | ambient → driving |
| density | 52 | 30–63 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 51 | 22–63 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gradation | 1988 | 4 |
| Mysterious | 1988 | 3 |
| Shizuka | 1989 | 2 |
| 工藤静香ベスト | 2001 | 2 |
| カレリア | 1989 | 2 |
| Intimate | 1991 | 1 |
| Shizuka Kudo Original Album Collection | 2012 | 1 |
| Rise Me | 1993 | 1 |
| Joy | 1989 | 1 |
| 静香 | 1988 | 1 |
Every Shizuka Kudo track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Mugo N...Iroppoi | Gradation | 1988 |
| MUGO・ん・・・色っぽい | Gradation | 1988 |
| Natsu ga Kureta Miracle | Gradation | 1988 |
| 夏がくれたミラクル | Gradation | 1988 |
| Kindan no Telepathy | Mysterious | 1988 |
| Mysterious | Mysterious | 1988 |
| Wine Hitokuchi no Uso | Mysterious | 1988 |
| FUーJIーTSU | 静香 | 1988 |
| Sabishii Yoru niha Watashi wo Yonde | Joy | 1989 |
| Fu - Ji - Tsu | Shizuka | 1989 |
| Hadashi no Lion | Shizuka | 1989 |
| カレリア | カレリア | 1989 |
| 美粧の森 | カレリア | 1989 |
| Arashi no Sugao | Intimate | 1991 |
| Doukoku | Rise Me | 1993 |
| 嵐の素顔 | 工藤静香ベスト | 2001 |
| 黄砂に吹かれて | 工藤静香ベスト | 2001 |
| Sayonara no Gyakusetsu | Shizuka Kudo Original Album Collection | 2012 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Shizuka Kudo's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Yukiko Okada — city pop, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Suchmos — city pop, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Iyo Matsumoto — city pop, 25 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Shizuka Kudo as a solo artist, from Hamura, Japan and born in 1970. Its contributors tag the artist pop, j-pop, おニャン子クラブ and idol kayō. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Shizuka Kudo tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 18, across 10 albums. 18 of them carry a date, running from 1988 to 2012. 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 18 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 18 of these 18 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.