Japan's Best and Sexist Girl's Rock Band's (Nov. 2011)

It's a Sunday and I have friends coming over for massive drinking and a barbeque. That means I'm pretty booked with sheet to do.

Kinoko Hotel

Nevertheless, here's a blog post that I've wanted to write for quite a while. There are lots of people who think Japanese rock bands suck. Most of them do. But, strange as it may seem, there are lots of really good Japanese rock bands, it's just that they never get hugely popular in this country as Japan is obsessed with stupid crap like AKB48 and girls doing soft porn video.


AKB48 are terrible. Anyone who buys their CDs should be shot (to put them and the rest of us out of our misery).


But, like I said, there are many good Japanese rock bands. Especially sexy girls bands... And there's also a very cool Retro thang going on here that I really like... Oh, and by the way, the best Japanese bands don't sing in English because they don't give a sh*t about the American Top 40... You shouldn't either... I mean, why would any good band want to be like Lady Gaga or Madonna anyway? 


For your Sunday viewing pleasure, here are several. First two up from my current favorite Japanese girl's band (I change favorites weekly)...Enjoy!

Kinoko Hotel - Fool

Kinoko Hotel - Midnight Angel Baby:

Molice - Ms. Panic

The Milkees - Lovelever:

Red Bacteria Vacuum - Roller Coaster:

Thee 50's Highteens - Surprise Sun:

The Let's Go's! - Rock & Roll Star:

Who the Bitch - Summer:

Hell, seriously, there's a lot more! I'll be posting about them too soon. Stay tuned!

Thanks to Ken Nishikawa and George Williams who has the Top 5 countdown online every week.

Rock Music is Absurd

This has nothing to do with Japan excepting that I sent an e-mail to many of my friends the other day stating;


"Sometime in the Sixties rockers began posing as disgruntled artists, mad at the world and all that; in the Nineties AND TODAY this pose remains a rigid convention of a highly artificial genre that pretends to smash conventions and refuses to admit it’s artificial at all."


This was a quote from an article by Joe Sobran that is perfectly on the mark. The article in question talked about how rock music was pretentious as hell and had lost it's purity in the 1950's as everything it ever could do was already explored by 50's artists.


Unfortunately he was right.


Rock's last gasp was the Punk boom of the 1970's.... But that doesn't matter anymore. Rock music is boring today.　 


Just to show you how totally pretentious and ridiculous today's rock musicians seem, here's a famous video by the Rolling Stones. It's a big hit called "Start Me Up"


Now, watch this video to see just how ridiculous Mick Jagger and these poseurs look:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8CtWUY7nvg&feature=related 





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed36UQX8kXQ&ob=av2e