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All information courtesy of Sam Scali

English Title: Powerful Railway Line 2
CD Label: BKM
CD Number: G.R.F.T02
Music Composed by: Various composers
Music Performed by: Bukimisha Weird Secret Society
Number of tracks: 8 [1 hidden]
Running time: 31:58
Number of discs: 1
Year of release/manufacture: October 30, 2022

REVIEW

September 19, 2023

CDR featuring a capella performances of Japanese railroad songs, some based on folk songs from around the world. Also included are vocal renditions of two Akira Ifukube film cues that scored scenes of railway destruction.

Note: The first volume in this series, released in 2007 (G.R.F.T01), was a DVD featuring 394 railroad songs.

Bukimisha CDs are available to non-Japanese buyers through BOOTH (The International Indie Art Marketplace) by using a proxy service or other intermediary: https://bukimisya-maal.booth.pm/

Translations courtesy of Sam Scali.

  1. Train Poppo (Oyama no Nakayuku)
  2. Train Poppo (Train Train Poppo Poppo)
  3. Soldier's Train
  4. Hashire Chotokkyu (Go Super Express)
  5. Tokaido Line Aizawagawa Railway Bridge ("The Mysterians", cue M3)
  6. Unmanned Shinkansen Bomb ("Battle in Outer Space", cue M32)
  7. First Collection of Tokaido Railway Songs
  8. Hidden Track