Week 34 Day 1 - 4th Avenue Cafe

So it's Tuesday, and I'm only at my first post. In any case, this week's post will be back to your good ol' decent anime songs. Let me start it off with:-



Song: The Fourth Avenue Cafe by ラルク アン シエル
The Fourth Avenue Cafe by L'arc-en-Ciel


This song was used as the ED4 (albeit temporarily) for the hit samurai show, Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story [るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- | Rurōni Kenshin Meiji Kenkaku Rōmantan], or more commonly known as Samurai X. The ED found below:-




[Credit-less version]

However, this song was only used for a mere 6 episodes due when one of L'arc's member was found of illegal drug possession. L'arc eventually replaced that member, and 9 years later, released the single to the song in 2006.

Anyways, lyrics can be found here.

And additional stuffs here:-


[Live concert performance from 2006: 15th anniversary. The 1994 just indicates when this song was first written perhaps]


[Another live performance vid.]


[Nice piano cover]


[In synthesia, if it helps in piano playing]


[Elec guitar cover]


[A very decent 'acoustic' uttatemita.]


[Random uttatemita by DA∞. Sounds pretty decent]


[A Ruroke (short form of Rurouni Kenshin) AMV]


[Short MAD from Tales of the Abyss]


[Hatsune MIKU cover. Not the most well-done but, meh.]


[Kagamine RIN cover. Much better IMO]

And that's all I have. I should tell the story of how I hunted down this song back when I had low resources on what the ED's title was. It didn't help that the ED was only played so few times when I watched it weekly on the tele. But in any case, I found it, and there was much rejoicing (for myself only), only to realize ED6 was so much more superior.

Anyways, on to the next post. Ciaoz!

Note: It's sad that L'arc had to wait 9 years to release the single, but it is well worth the wait (to some anyways)