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Tokyo Kid Brothers/JA Seazer/Tenjo Sajik

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krautymckraut Nov 17, 2005 01:09:03

Replying to The Seth Man

MC,

Tenjo Sajiki's Death in The Country soundtrack and Throw Away the Books Let's Go Into Streets are twisted operatic/orchestrated freakouts with some cool fuzz guitar excursions and doom riffage (particularly the opening to Death in the Country) The actual "songs" on these cds are absolutely fucking monster (though they're all under 3 minutes...bummer) Unfortunately, there's a lot of sparse spoken word bullshit and not enough jams. I will gladly burn you these for they are certainly not worth 34 bucks a piece.

and Seth, thanks for the info on the Tokyo Kid Brothers box. I had been planning to save up for it (based on the pulverizing genius of "Throw away the books..."), but now i know better.

The Seth Man Nov 17, 2005 02:19:36

Replying to krautymckraut

krautymckraut,

Hey, no problem -- I know the feeling

The descrpition of that box intrigued me so much, I ordered it

When it arrived, I took a look at the covers first and...uh oh: one of them looked like a Chic album, one of them looked like a Sadistic Mike Band album where they went troppo; another sleeve depicted them hanging out in an "English-styled pub" ...

I only sensed immediate trouble when I played the 1971 album with a stark black and white representation of the Statue of Liberty, a Coca-Cola bottle, etc and even THAT one was unengaging as fuck

But what made me pack it up at once and re-post it back to where it came from was this picture of T.K. Bros. -- everyone dressed nicely in typical clothing, with one of the guys front and centre decked out like a German officer

The album's name was "Cherry Wars"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And if that wasn't bad enough, the whole thing stank of Peter Allen

I don't like to run any records down, but this one was so appalling, it amazed me that they had jumped the sharkl as soon as they did

The live 1982 show that was disc one made me wonder if it was mipressed with the soundtrack of the Japanese road show for 'Cats'

(...the horror....the horror...)

I'm still not clear what the TRUE connections between Tokyo Kid Brothers, Tenjo Sajiki, A Laboratory of Play and J.A.Seazer are (But for the moment, I can wait so don't tell me if you know)

With that said, the Tenjo Sajiki verison of "Throw Away The Books, Let's Go Out In The Streets" has extremely raw versions of SOME of the tracks on the Tokyo Kid Brothers version of the album

achuma Dec 7, 2005 01:38:42

Replying to krautymckraut

I found most of Death in the Country [Den'en Ni Shishu] to be pleasant enough but pretty dull, non-rockin', conventional in a Japanese quasi-folky way, and very different to the heavy freak-out stuff and underground rock I'd come to expect from these guys. Only one or two tracks really start to rock or do anything out of the ordinary. After TKB's 'Let's Go Into the Streets' and J.A. Caesar's 'Kokkyou Junreika' and 'Sealbreaking' I was sorely disappointed after this one showed up in the mail, and disappointed I'd put so much effort and stress into securing a copy. So, to me it sounds like you're talking about a different album when praising this one in the same breath as the others.
On the other hand, the more recent soundtrack 'Pilgrimage of Blood' is also totally different to the earlier stuff that I love, but I really love this one too. It's more atmospheric and hardly rocky at all. Reminds me more of Goblin's atmospheric moments, but without sounding like Goblin. It's a varied soundtrack and hard to describe.