Northstar

Woke up today for some unknown reason I had this phrase that just went through over and over and over in my head "you're absolutely fabulous"

of course I knew it was from a song from a LONNNNGGGGG time ago, and I remember there was once I woke up with the same lines too..

Anyway tried to google it and of course came back with a million hits... Then suddenly I ACTUALLY remembered who sang it! NORTHSTAR.

have TOTALLY forgotten about this band. I loved this band and playing their songs TOTALLY reminds of of the August '03. I remember playing this band NON-STOP tthat entire summer. Man listening to Taker Not a Giver, I think I can smell the ocean and feel the breeze of Torrance that summer when mom visited and we were staying with Aunt Mei for a few days....

I saw them live only once before they broke up, it was a REALLY REALLY small show at the Roxy on Sunset and they didn't even go on till 12:30am... My last bus back to Northridge was at 12:20, at Reseda/Ventura no-less! But I stayed on for the show and it was cool!! Coz there were basically like a dozen of us left in the pit at that time. A great show nevertheless!

Taking Back Sunday calls this "The Best Band Ever"- and even has that endorsement sticker on Northstar's Is This Thing Loaded? CDs!

Check it!!!

Man... can't decide which song is the best! So since I woke up with Cinderella on my mind, Cinderella it would be then! I liked the demo version of the song better though, but the hard drive won't power up, so I don't have it!!


And yes, today, I think I really miss America... =)

I don't know what American music became in the end, but I sure as hell know they were REALLY good at one time! And I'm really glad I got to be there at that moment.


今日のー曲：－


Northstar - Rigged & Ready

Rigged & Ready - Northstar


Northstar - Cinderella

Cinderella - Northstar


Northstar - Taker not a Giver

Taker Not A Giver - Northstar


Northstar - My Ricochet (Acoustic)

My Ricochet(Acoustic) - Northstar

Lunkhead - Komorebi (木漏れ陽)

木漏れ陽が優しく降って
いつかの秋を思い出した
こんな風の気持ちよい日は
誰かに何故か優しくしたくなる

何もかも受け止められる気がしていた
でも何一つ受け止められてはなかった

世界はどれだけの事を思い出に変えて進むのだろう
だけどいつか忘れていくから悲しいけれど生きていける

君はいつも笑っていた
そして時々泣いていた
あの一言が言えたなら
僕らは今でも笑えていたのかな

たまに君の事ばかり思い出してしまう夜が来る
だけどいつか忘れていくから悲しいけれど生きていける

ああ僕らはどうしてこんなにも
大事な物ばかりをその手からこぼしていくのだろう

嬉しい事があれば笑い、悲しい事があれば涙する
当たり前の生活を抱きしめて僕らは生きていく
たまに君の事ばかり思い出してしまう夜が来る
だけどいつか忘れていくから悲しいけれど生きていける


Can't believe it took me SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO frigging long to feature this song. Epic Fail. =_=


This is the FIRST FIRST FIRST ever Lunkhead song I heard when I downloaded a J-indies mix on jpopsuki in July 2006.There were quite alot of the usual J-rock/J-indies band on that mix but I totally fell in love with Lunkhead's song only.

Of course, at that time it was IMPOSSIBLE to find anything Lunkhead online... I think there was only Chizu available... and then a few monts later when I got back to CA, Tsuki to Tenohira was also uploaded by then.


But I really, really, really loved this song and I still do very much. When I first heard this song, I thought it was absolutely beautiful.

The part of this song I love the most is the first chorus where Odaka-san sings, "Sekai wa dore dake no koto wo, omode ni kaete susumo no darou?"

I remember the feeling this part gave me was of someone who is trapped by troubles of this world, but he takes flight and fly away to the sky above...

I STILL don't know what this part means (Oh, How i wish I could ask Yoshitaro one day... But I think it's better luck asking Yamashita-san, because at least he can explain it in ENGLISH!)... That's because apparently, the part can't be translated... Grammatically, it doesn't make sense.

But, I can still remember those mornings I played this song on the train on the way from Boston to Framingham... I remember when the train passes Fenway Park, there is a part along that route where it comes out of a short tunnel and you can see the lights through the window... And I can still remember listening to this chorus play as I looked out of the window on one of those mornings...

I also remember printing out the lyrics to the song and transcribing it to hiragana so I could memorize the lyrics... I remember I was memorizing the lyrics while I waited for the train from Framingham back to Boston and I still remember at one of the stops, I was holding the lyrics and trying to sing it with Odaka-san... DUDE, his PRONUNCIATION was TOTALLY DIFFERENT yo!!!

And most of all, I remember, it was this time that I liked Plastic Tree and Lunkhead... And it was around winter on the year before I left America. And I remember telling myself "I want to see Plastic Tree live... and I also want to see Lunkhead live," --- And i think that was the moment I decided that the only way to do that was to leave America to go back to Malaysia, because with the immigrant status that I was in, I could have never gone to visit Japan... And I wanted to visit Japan.... Because I wanted to go for LIVE... and to do that, I had to come back to Malaysia.

So..

That's how I came back.

Because of this song.


今日のー曲：－

らんくヘッド　-　木漏れ陽

Komorebi - 木漏れ陽 - LUNKHEAD

S.R.S.

Been totally listening to.... S.R.S.

Well well, I first checked out this band when their latest single "Wonder Song" was on display and promotion in the HMV store in Shibuya.

However, because of the cheap ass me, I wasn't willing to fork out 1800円 for 3 songs, I did not purchase their CD. There was one really cool song in the single that I really liked though, but 1800 was just too much!!!!!

I was really lucky tho, coz so happened, FOR SOME UNKNOWN BUT GREAT REASON, jpop.cn had the single!! I mean, it's totally really lucky coz this band is almost totally unknown! 

Anyway, I found out that they are signed to Toy's Factory (Tsubaki's lable). They sound typically Japanese (indie) rock but I really really love their song さよならボクサー Sayonara Boxer (I think that's what the katakana translates to!!!). It's a slow paced really beautiful and melodic rock song. It's wonderful, very beautiful. And the vocalist has a quite a high pitch soothing voice.. Really nice, very well arranged and put together song!

Well, here is their song!

Check it!

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.srsnet.jp/index.html
OFFICIAL MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/srsnet

今日のー曲：－


S.R.S. - さよならボクサー　（Sayonara Boxer)

さよなら - S.R.S

Shimokita Roundup2

If there EVER was a Japanese indie rock band equivalent of the Hajj, THIS, Shimokita Roundup, would be it and Shimokita would be Mecca!!!!!

And to think, I WILL BE MISSING OUT ON THIS HAJJ!!!!!!!!!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaa~~ Ahhhhhhhhh....... If there ever was a music pilgrimage.......... Waaaaaaa~~~~