Island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~
island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~
Song Information
Artist: Brad Holmes
Composition/Lyrics/Vocals: Brad Holmes
Arrangement/Other Instruments & Drum Programming: TDK Design Inc.
Guitar: Ian Bell
Recording Engineer: Masaki Honda
BPM: 114
Length: 1:38
Movie: Spooky Graphic (aboardgraphics) (porting by mito)
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 10thMIX & drummania 9thMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
WELL THERE SEEMS TO BE A WHOLE LOT GOING ON I'M CONFIDENT NOT TOO MUCH WILL GO WRONG YEAH BUT MY PREFERED STATE IS ON THE BEACH YEAH LYING LOOKING BACK AT LIFE AND SAILING OUT OF REACH WELL LYING ON AN ISLAND IN THE SUN YEAH, LYING ON AN ISLAND IN THE SUN SO HAPPY IN MY FOOL'S PARADISE WELL, I'M CONTENT TO SIT HERE AND JUST LET LIFE PASS ME BY THE WAY LIFE IS IT USED TO BRING ME DOWN EVERYTHING I SAW WHEN I LOOKED ROUND, YEAH YEAH BUT I'VE STILL GOT SO MANY THINGS TO DO WELL, I SOMETIMES WISH WE ALL COULD HAVE OUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO WELL LYING ON AN ISLAND IN THE SUN YEAH, LYING ON AN ISLAND IN THE SUN SO HAPPY IN MY FOOL'S PARADISE WELL, I'M CONTENT TO SIT HERE AND JUST LET LIFE PASS ME BY
Song Connections / Remixes
- The original version of island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~, titled island in the sun, can be found on The Hitmen's Tokyo album.
- An acoustic version of island in the sun can also be found on Tokyo.
Trivia
- This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.
- island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ is Brad Holmes first and only original composition in BEMANI.
- During the first GUITARFREAKS 10thMIX & drummania 9thMIX location tests, island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ had a generic video. It received its unique video on the September 26th, 2003 location test.
- In the Arcadia magazine, pre-release screenshots of GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX's song selection screen showed island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ appearing twice on the same screen.
- island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ is available in GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX & drummania 10thMIX with an e-AMUSEMENT account.
- island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ has been made automatically available in Standard Mode as of GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V.
- island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ has never been on a CS release of GuitarFreaks & DrumMania.
- island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ is one of the unlocks of GITADORA FUZZ-UP's Daishuugou atsumare together! GITADORA All Star GIG! (大集合あつまれトゥギャザー!GITADORAオールスターGIG!) event. It can be unlocked from August 9th, 2023.
- island in the sun ~GFdm Ver.~ received a new jacket in GITADORA FUZZ-UP.
Song Production Information
Mutsuhiko Izumi
It's an original song written by Brad Holmes, a well-known vocalist on GFdm, who sang "USED TO ROCK'N ROLL", "PARTY HARD", "SUMMER SUN", "BORN TO BE WILD", "HIGHWAY STAR", "STILL OF THE NIGHT", and more!
Actually, he is both a drummer and a guitarist. It's amazing.
Listening to this song makes me want to relax somewhere on a southern island.
It's so soothing.
Video Production Information
mito
Hello, mito here.
I was in charge of porting the movie to the game console.
It has a great impact, doesn't it?
Once you see it, you will never forget it.
If there was an island like this, I would want to go there once, right?
Right?
Right?
It might be a little scary.
TqY
This clip was produced by Aboard Graphics of Spooky Graphic.
Difficulty & Notecounts
GF/DM difficulty rated from 1 to 99.
GF/DM XG and GITADORA difficulty rated from 0.00 to 9.99. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
GuitarFreaks & DrumMania
Original Series
Game | Drum | Guitar | Bass | Open | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | |
Notecounts | 223 | 472 | 582 | 218 | 357 | 400 | 263 | 391 | - | 218 | 357 | 400 |
GF10/dm9→GF/DM V2 | 12 | 23 | 33 | 16 | 27 | 42 | 15 | 39 | - | 18 | 31 | 46 |
GF/DM V3→V8 | 12 | 23 | ↑40 | 16 | 27 | 42 | 15 | 39 | - | 18 | 31 | 46 |
XG & GITADORA Series
Game | Drum | Guitar | Bass | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Master | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Master | Basic | Advanced | Extreme | Master | |
Notecounts | 169 | 283 | 512 | 582 | 107 | 205 | 279 | 400 | 88 | 177 | 391 | 391 |
GITADORA FUZZ-UP | 1.80 | 2.70 | 4.80 | 6.50 | 2.30 | 3.80 | 6.00 | 7.60 | 2.20 | 3.10 | 5.70 | 7.20 |