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Yes No Wave Music[YESNO 008] Shorthand Phonetics - Apparently...I'm In Medicine / Love, or the Illusion of the Beginning Symptoms of It (September 1, 2007)
"Apparently...I'm In Medicine / Love, or the Illusion of the Beginning Symptoms of It" is the second full-length LP by lo-fi indie rock band Shorthand Phonetics. It was released on the internet in May of 2007. Like the previous LP "Fanfiction", this was also recorded into a webcam mic to a NEC Versa E680. Sonar Home Studio 4 was used extensively for production and FL Studio 6 was chosen for post production and mastering.
"Medicine / Love" is a fifty-three minute concept album that narrates the life of Hanabishi Hideaki, a Japanese first-year medical student in Eiroku University, as he transistions into a new semi-independent life away from the troubles of High School (documented in the first LP "Fanfiction". Specifically "Medicine" explores the first six months of his med-school experiance. Unexpectedly for him, Hanabishi runs into the same problems he that has hounded him since High School especially concerning the opposite sex. the opposite sex.
The ten tracks in order of coherence are...
01. "Chivalry Is Lost on Some People",
02. ""Your Name is Fujioka Tsubasa, Right?...Oh Yeah Forgot to Introduce Myself, I'm Hanabishi Hideaki! Nice to Meet You."",
03. "New Adventures in Meta Songwriting",
04. "Love Is Evol Spelled Backwards (Bet I Can Beat Your "Final Fantasy X" Completion Time...If I Actually Had a Playstation 2 That Is)",
05. "Luck, Is All. (^.^;)",
06. "The She's Got What She Needed From Me Waltz",
07. "Yes in the Morning, No in the Evening",
08. "My Alice Can Kill You, My Alice Can Kill You Dead",
09. "Natalies for Glasses II (Yesterday I Found a Needlessly Long List of All the Obvious Pros and Masochistic Cons of Never Seeing You Girls Again I Made In One of My Old Notebooks, Realised How Stupid Making That List Was, and Gained Confidence to Slow Down. Takk.)" and
10. "It's Not That She Is Nothing, It's Just That She's Not Everything"
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