Why FtC disbanded is still a mystery to me. It is something I still can't accept, but it is not really surprising. Recently, more and more bands come and go. And besides, FtC had been making music for more than 10 years. But I honestly don't want to use the word "disband" when referring to their situation. I don't know the real reason. I want to get more information from Japanese FtC fansites (using an online translator), but that is too tiresome, and I get all envious and depressed reading their FtC live reports. Anyway, I only have a hunch why they stopped. But looking at FtC's indies cds somehow strengthened my idea.
Let me show you the tracklists of two indies albums: 太陽の虜 (Taiyou no toriko) and MASK, which, according to
grass thread, were released in 1995 and 1996, respectively (the cds are kept away, too lazy at the moment to open them and look at the dates). In Taiyou no toriko, Tatsuya was their drummer, then in MASK, Tohru. FtC were still visual during these days. Um, the Writer column is always empty when I pop in a cd, but knowing Japanese bands, most of the time, the vocalist, in this case, TSUTOMU, wrote the lyrics.
太陽の虜 (Taiyou no toriko)
MASK
All of them composed the music to one song or more. Indies FtC is so old school ♥♥♥
Now here is the tracklist of their 2nd to the last major album, neverland. I would have shown the tracklist of marvelous but I can't seem to make the link in their official site work, and I don't have the cd (yet).
neverland
Okay, I'll add their SINGLES COLLECTIONs, released in 2005.
FANATIC◇CRISIS THE BEST of SINGLE COLLECTION 01
FANATIC◇CRISIS THE BEST of SINGLE COLLECTION 02
Someone's obviously oozing with musical talent. Add his contributions to
Takashi Hagino's release. *sigh*