It’s Top 3 Video time! The best of the Top 3 videos for April 17, 2016 chosen by vote by millions of young, nubile Japanese high school girls in uniforms from all over the country!
This week I want to feature 4 videos of 4 of my all-time favorite Japanese bands.
And did someone say, “Hot Girls”? I did? Yep. From Kyoto, this 3 girl and 1 guy band are sexy as hell (I mean the girls are). This video was originally made for an online music video channel called Gotcha TV. I worked there! It went bankrupt! Urgghhh!!!! But this band is still rocking today!
#4) The Soap – Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scf3xBQV-cg
Next up is one of the most fucking radical Japanese rock bands you’ll ever see. Their name is Moja and they are a duet on bass guitar and drums. It blows my mind that these two can make so much noise with just two instruments. They are hot live! Come to Japan! You must see this band live! Here’s their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/MOJA-203061873063258/?fref=ts
#3) Moja – Hello Hello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6K0aaVtnWs
Next up is what is most probably my very favorite Japanese all-girls band of all-time. Their name is: Su凸ko D凹koi. What does that say? Good question. I don’t know exactly either. Let’s just call them “Su Ko D Koi.” This particular song is awesome. It’s called, “Busu” (“Ugly” in English) and it’s about the laments of a girl who thinks she is ugly. She sings,
“Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly…. I know I am ugly….
But, I got a boyfriend and we have been going out.
But one day, out of the blue, he hit me for no reason.
I woke up in the hospital and he had his head in his hands.
Then he was gone….
But, I finally was able to realize that finally, he treated me like a woman!
I was happy!”
……It’s kind of like the old 1950s song, “He Hit Me, and It Felt Like a Kiss” by the Crystals but with a 2015 twist! Here’s Su Ko D Koi’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ssttddkk/?fref=ts
#2) Su凸ko D凹koi – Busu (Ugly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCTjm5YGJ-c
Finally, at #1 this week is one of Japan’s most famous, yet still cool, rock bands, The Privates. These guys have been rocking for over 30 years and have released 28 albums to date. Just this week, for Record Store Day, they released their cover version of the 1966 garage classic by the Litter, “Action Woman.” Here’s the Privates’ FB page. Go Like it! https://www.facebook.com/ThePrivates/?fref=ts
#1) The Privates – Action Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHfjMx31Dw
Well, that’s it for today! I hope you enjoyed our Japanese Punk / Rock special! See you next week!!!!! – Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
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