Gekokujyo Xstasy

Gekokujyo Xstasy
DVD edition cover.
Video by Ringo Sheena
Released 7 December, 2000
Recorded 26 April and 31 May, 2000
Venue
Genre J-pop
Length 90 minutes
Label Toshiba EMI
Producer Inoue Uni
Ringo Sheena chronology
Seiteki Healing ~Sono-Ni~
(1999)Seiteki Healing ~Sono-Ni~1999		 Gekokujyo Xstasy Hatsuiku Status Gokiritsu Japon
(2000)Hatsuiku Status Gokiritsu Japon2000
Gekokujyo Xstasy
Tour by Shiina Ringo
Start date April 17, 2000
End date June 7, 2000
No. of shows 15
Shiina Ringo concert chronology

Gekokujyo Ecstasy (下剋上エクスタシー, Gekokujō Ekusutashii), stylized as gekokujyo Xstasy and also known as Revolt Ecstasy, is a video album by Japanese singer and songwriter Ringo Sheena, released on 7 December 2000 by Toshiba EMI. It contains a live recording of Sheena during her first tour of the same name.

Sheena also released the video album Hatsuiku Status Gokiritsu Japon (発育ステータス 御起立ジャポン, Growth Status - Stand Up Japan)" simultaneously.


Outline

Gekokujyo Xstasy was the first nationwide tour for Shiina performed from April 17, 2000 to June 7. The live video takes up two performances at NHK Hall and at Fukuoka Sunpalace mainly from this tour.

The stage design of the tour makes a hospital a motif like her single "Honnou." The stage setting imitated an operating room, and an ECG Monitor or an anatomical model of the human body, etc. were arranged on the stage, and the synthesizer and the drum set were laid on operating tables. Shiina wears a white dress looks like gauze bandages with which she blinds her body. Four members of the tour band also wear the white coat.

The recorded songs are chosen from the second album "Shouso Strip" mainly. Some songs containing single "Koko de Kiss Shite", "Gibs", etc. were not recorded. New songs "Yattsuke Shigoto" and "Gamble" shown during this tour weren’t recorded, but, they were recorded in Shiina’s live album "Zecchōshū" instead.

Tracklist

All tracks written by Ringo Sheena, except "Love is Blind" by Janis Ian.

No.TitleLength
1."Instinct" (本能 Honnō) 
2."I Am a Liar" (虚言症 Kyogen-shō) 
3."Queen of Kabuki-cho" (歌舞伎町の女王 Kabukichō no Joō) 
4."Blue Sky" (あおぞら Aozora) 
5."A Broken Man and Moonlight" (月に負け犬 Tsuki ni Makeinu) 
6."Identity" (アイデンティティ Aidentiti) 
7."Caution" (警告 Keikoku) 
8."Love is Blind" 
9."Correct City" (正しい街 Tadashii Machi) 
10."Playing With Blocks" (積木遊び Tsumiki Asobi) 
11."Excuse Debussy" (弁解ドビュッシー Benkai Dobyusshii) 
12."A View of Happiness (Joy Ver.)" (幸福論 (悦楽編) Kōfukuron (Etsuraku-hen)) 
13."Crime and Punishment" (罪と罰 Tsumi to Batsu) 
14."I Am an Addict" (依存症 Izon-shō) 
15."Sid & Daydreams" (シドと白昼夢 Sido to Hakuchūmu) 
16."Sickbed Public" (病床パブリック Byōshō Paburikku) 
17."Marunouchi Sadistic" (丸の内サディスティック Marunouchi Sadisutikku) 
18."Special Track" (スペシャル・トラック Supesharu Torakku) 
Documentary
No.TitleLength
1."Part One" 
2."Part Two" 
3."Part Three" 

Notes:

  • "Special Track" is a medley of songs featuring Gen Ittetsu's string orchestra "Kachiikusa Kinen Gakudan" and pianist Masato Minagawa:
  1. "A Driving Rain in Darkness" (闇に降る雨, Yami ni furu ame)
  2. "A View of Happiness" (幸福論, Kōfukuron)
  3. "Remote Control" (リモートコントローラー, Rimōtokontorōrā)
  4. "Correct City" (正しい街, Tadashii Machi)
  5. "Ordinary Night" (同じ夜, Onaji Yoru)

Personnel

  • Vocals, Electric bass guitar: 椎名林檎Shiina Ringo
  • Electric bass guitar: 亀田誠治 Kameda Seiji
  • Electric guitar: 弥吉淳二 Yayoshi Junji
  • Synthesizer and Electronic keyboard: 皆川真人 Minagawa Makoto
  • Drums: 村石雅行 Muraishi Masayuki
  • Strings: Gen Ittetsu's Kachiikusa Kinen Gakudan (勝ち戦記念楽団, victory memorial orchestra)

Tour Dates

Date Shi (City) Ken (Prefecture) Venue
April 17, 2000 Utsunomiya Tochigi Tochigi General Cultural Center
April 20, 2000 Kanazawa Ishikawa Hondanomori Hall
April 24, 2000 Niigata Niigata Niigata Prefectural Civic Center
April 26, 2000 Shibuya Tokyo NHK Hall
April 28, 2000 Shibuya Public Hall
May 13, 2000 Hiroshima Hiroshima ALSOK Hall
May 15, 2000 Kagoshima Kagoshima Kagoshima Citizen's Cultural Hall
May 18, 2000 Nagasaki Nagasaki Nagasaki Brick Hall
May 22, 2000 Takasaki Gunma Takasaki Civic Hall
May 24, 2000 Osaka Osaka Well City Osaka
September 9, 2000 Sendai Miyagi Sendai Sunplaza
May 31, 2000 Fukuoka Fukuoka Fukuoka Sunpalace
June 2, 2000 Nagoya Aichi Nagoya Public Hall
June 5, 2000 Sapporo Hokkaido Well City Sapporo
June 7, 2000 Morioka Iwate Morioka Civic Cultural Hole

References

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