I made an entry about Casiopea's "Take Me" a long time ago. Well, here's another one from the Japanese Jazz Fusion band. "Smile Again" for me is a complimentary song for "Take Me." If the latter is a tearjerker, "Smile..." makes you smile again (like the title says) and bring back sanity to you.
This is not your ordinary happy song, with happy melodic lines, major chords here and there, and musically anything that can be attributed to happiness. Actually, the song has a persuasive tone, a haunting melody, but when played after "Take Me," will make you smile.
It's not only because Smile Again is a happy song. If you play these two side by side, you can see that there's a striking similarity. They seem to have a single theme. Take Me, like what I've said in the previous entry, is about pleading someone to love him but failed. Smile Again, on the other hand, is just like saying, "hey, it's alright. life goes on."
And by the way, I might forget to mention that they both ended with a question mark.
Smile Again is included in the album, "Cross Point" released in 1981, with Issei Noro on guitars, Minoru Mukaiya on keyboards, Tetsuo Sakurai on bass, and Akira Jimbo on drums.
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