Whether H∧L is a group of four, two, or ten members, I think we still need to bring back older composers. To have Kunio Tago do "Together When..." was a fantastic idea, and we just need more than H∧L and Tetsuya Yukumi (OMG).
I'm not trying to turn this into a "composers-you-wish-would-come-back-or-feel-need-to-go" thread, I was just saying.
Maybe it's not the loss of members that make the songs seem less creative, but the fact that there are only so many ways to write a song out there, a melody or arrangement is bound to be repeated or sound recycled, just like lyrics. That's just what I think. I'm not saying that's a fact.
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