Where to start with Wink
Start with Ai Ga Tomaranai -Turn It into Love- - Remastered 2013 — At Heel Diamonds (Remastered 2013), 1988. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 16 Wink 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 16 Wink 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 16 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 energy knob swings 43 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
Ai Ga Tomaranai -Turn It into Love- - Remastered 2013 — At Heel Diamonds (Remastered 2013), 1988. Of the 16 Wink 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
冬のフォトグラフ — Song Selection ~25th Celebration~, 2013. The lowest energy reading of any Wink track in the room (35 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Shining Star (Remastered 2013) — Twin Memories (Remastered 2013), 1989. The highest energy reading here, at 78 out of 100 — a 43-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Wink 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 Wink's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 59 | 31–73 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 68 | 35–78 | ambient → driving |
| density | 55 | 34–64 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 49 | 34–67 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| At Heel Diamonds (Remastered 2013) | 1988 | 3 |
| Twin Memories (Remastered 2013) | 1989 | 3 |
| Wink MEMORIES 1988-1996 | — | 2 |
| Especially For You ~優しさにつつまれて~ (Remastered 2013) | 1989 | 2 |
| Song Selection ~25th Celebration~ | 2013 | 2 |
| Velvet (Remastered 2013) | 1990 | 1 |
| Moonlight Serenade (Remastered 2013) | 1988 | 1 |
| Queen of Love (Remastered 2013) | 1991 | 1 |
| Back to front | 1996 | 1 |
Every Wink track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Ai Ga Tomaranai -Turn It into Love- - Remastered 2013 | At Heel Diamonds (Remastered 2013) | 1988 |
| LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE ~悪いあなた~ (Remastered 2013) | At Heel Diamonds (Remastered 2013) | 1988 |
| 愛が止まらない ~Turn it into love~ (Remastered 2013) | At Heel Diamonds (Remastered 2013) | 1988 |
| 渚物語 (Remastered 2013) | Moonlight Serenade (Remastered 2013) | 1988 |
| Especially For You ~優しさにつつまれて~ (Remastered 2013) | Especially For You ~優しさにつつまれて~ (Remastered 2013) | 1989 |
| 涙をみせないで ~Boys Don't Cry~ (Remastered 2013) | Especially For You ~優しさにつつまれて~ (Remastered 2013) | 1989 |
| Samishii Nettaigyo (Bonus Track) - Remastered 2013 | Twin Memories (Remastered 2013) | 1989 |
| Shining Star (Remastered 2013) | Twin Memories (Remastered 2013) | 1989 |
| 淋しい熱帯魚[Bonus Track] (Remastered 2013) | Twin Memories (Remastered 2013) | 1989 |
| Sexy Music [Bonus Track] (Remastered 2013) | Velvet (Remastered 2013) | 1990 |
| 真夏のトレモロ [Bonus Track] (Remastered 2013) | Queen of Love (Remastered 2013) | 1991 |
| 愛を奪って 心縛って | Back to front | 1996 |
| Samishii Nettaigyo | Wink MEMORIES 1988-1996 | 1996 |
| Sugar Baby Love | Wink MEMORIES 1988-1996 | 2011 |
| ジャスミンは哀しい香り | Song Selection ~25th Celebration~ | 2013 |
| 冬のフォトグラフ | Song Selection ~25th Celebration~ | 2013 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Wink's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with リアムMAZE1981 — city pop, 12 tracks
- Where to start with Suchmos — city pop, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Shizuka Kudo — city pop, 18 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Wink as a group, from Japan and formed in 1988. Its contributors tag the artist j-pop, idol kayō, pop, dance-pop and hi-nrg. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Wink tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 16, across 9 albums. 16 of them carry a date, running from 1988 to 2013. 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 16 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 16 of these 16 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.