Y&Co. is dead or alive
Y&Co. is dead or alive
Song Information
Artist: Y&Co.
Composition/Arrangement: Tetsuya Tamura
BPM: 145-876
Length: 2:05
Genre: 90's RAVE
VJ: Steins
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
Soundbites include "Y&Co. is dead or alive".
Song Connections / Remixes
- A long version of Y&Co. is dead or alive can be found on Y&Co.'s album, BEST HIT YCO.
- A spiritual successor to Y&Co. is dead or alive, titled Y&Co. is still alive, can be found on S2TB Recording's J-RAVE Nation compilation.
Trivia
- Y&Co. is dead or alive has the highest BPM of any beatmania IIDX song to date, surpassing the previous record of 455 BPM set by Spooky.
- Also, Y&Co. is dead or alive holds the third highest BPM at any point in all BEMANI games, only surpassed by gigadelic(m3rkAb4# R3m!x)'s 916 BPM from SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS, and Tohoku EVOLVED's 1020 BPM from DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX.
- Y&Co. is dead or alive is most likely a homage to the song James Brown is Dead by L.A. Style, and its answer-back song, James Brown is Still Alive!! by Holy Noise featuring The Global Insert Project.
- Y&Co. is dead or alive is Steins' first beatmania IIDX video.
- Y&Co. is dead or alive received Single and Double Black ANOTHER charts in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST.
Song Production Information
There is no meaning to the title. It does not matter who the group is or the game....
The original title "○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ is dead" was dangerous because that would imply that we were actually dead. (Laughs)
Video Production Information
Hello, beatmania fans. This is my first movie I've made.
I'm Steins, thank you.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and Textage.cc.)
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | 黒 (Black) | Normal | Hyper | Another | 黒 (Black) | |
| Notecounts | 296 | 569 | 921 | 1222 | 1478 | 549 | 936 | 1202 | 1414 |
| beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS→17 SIRIUS | - | 5 | 9 | 10 | - | 5 | 10 | 11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 12 |