Total rip-off from Japan: 54 Nude Honeys

Their's a example of the worst things you can export from Japan: a girl band dressed like bondage doll slut, playing staticaly uniform dull produced so-called "garage punk". Thanks to Marc Zermati who propulsed them to an ephemeral glory, they splitted up. Anoying jap-english out of key singer, armless drummer, poor cd packaging, that's fucking aweful crap for deaf j-pop fan fetishists.


Punk rock divas my ass. Cause we all know that the only girl group which really rocks are The 5,6,7,8's.

Beginning with a death...

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's guitarist, Abe Futoshi died on July 22, 2009. He was 42. Imawano Kyoshiro, now Abe, that's a lot of solar eclipses for Japan this year.
Ironic pretext to present them...

Formed in 1991, they broke up in 2003. There's a lot of online english sources on them cause they are quite known overseas, but i reassure you, it's not another "ultra-cool kung-fu garage punk from Japan" as uninformed press usually like to qualify japanese bands (notify the quasi-systematic use of words as kung-fu, tsunami, tougher that Hiroshima, kamikaze and affiliated when talking about japanese bands). I don't don't have any starting point to qualify their music, exept than nothing filters through their steamroller-like deafening wall of sound. That's Rock and any others adjectives are superfluous. Chiba Yusuke (vocals, guitar) often seems to scream, but once you'll pass this pitfall (if this is one for you) you'll discover than a lot of their song are actually very well composed and even if they're poseurs, even if the lyrics are sometimes repetitive, this band deserve its reputation. I would like to upload the LP long version of Dany Go but i can't encode my records, so try to get Gear Blues,amazing double LP on Triad with great gatefold packaging.
This video is kind of long, but it's awesome. Thrilling footage of Abe's guitar playing (watch that with the proper material!).　

Introducing The Neabeats

We're sliding away from punk now, and getting to another core: genuine rock'roll like in the old days. Seriously, who would this band formed in 1998? The Neatbeats are the finest in their category: mersleybeat, rock'n'roll, beat, it's damn good to dance to. But what's the point? Doing exactly the same music as it use to be done in the 60's? But your missing the point asking those questions. Here it's about doing what you like, and make girls and boys dance till the end of the night. If your still in the dark, i warmly recommend "Neat-At-Best", a compilation of 25 songs which will give you a good idea of the band's musical universe. They're from Osaka, recorded steadily since their debut in 1998 with some american releases on Get Hip records. Manabe Takashi (Mr. Pan, third from left) is writting a very interresting blog: Mister Pan's Diary (in japanese). The song I choose to present is a 6min long blues/garage race, "Big Red Partner". Damn good.


And if you wanna dance, here's "Shinkû Pack (bottle pack special)" an exclusive song of "Neat-At-Best"↓
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zik5yftdu0i