So today I had a longggggggggggg break and was feeling rather depressed... But for some reason Good Morning America's 空ばかり見ていた was playing in my head and somehow... I just felt so motivated to get their album, uncharacteristically of me...! CDs in this country is WAYYYYYYYYYY to expensive, and to buy CDs as a means of checking out a band is WAYYYYY tooooooo expensive and can be rather dissapointing. I rather pay the 2500 yen for a show and check out 3 - 4 bands at the same time.
Anyway, so I dragged my fat ass to Shibuya's Tower Records to get the album and check out some music meantime...
I should, actually, go to Tower Records more often... They actually have quite good recommendations most of the time :)
Bands that Didn't make the 2000/1800yen cut:
Actually there were quite a number of them.....
1) Fleet
2) Yuey (I'm so sorry! I actually liked these guys!)
Bands that ALMOST/MIGHT make the 2000/1800 yen cut:
1) GOOD ON THE REELS
Actually... this band was NOT BAD.
They had those typical Japanese-indie-rock band kind of sound that I quiet like EXCEPT for that one fact: their sounds were too typical.
Where have I heard those same tunes before? In the countless other J-indie-rock bands of recent times.
So, really unfortunately, the album, while good, offered nothing of a fresh breath nor a fresh take of the scene, and thus, I don't think I'd pay 1500yen for their 7-track EP. Actually, the CD purchase came with a 500 yen voucher but even then, I don't think it's worth 1500 yen.
Bottom line: 800円 is okay...
2) Mondaysick - School
This is a 6 track EP.
Apprently, this band is also from Hokkaido, like Galileo Galilei.
They actually had really good sounds. NOT typical, like GOOD ON THE REELS.
However.... They had those mellow and depressing kind of tunes.
Actually I like those kind of sounds a lot... low, slow, depressing, mellow, with strings and rock blended together, like intermittent strays of light gliding through the thick fog... Yes, those.
HOWEVER....... SIX, SIX, SIX tracks of those kind of sounds just drives you to suicide.
It's good, my dears, if you had TWO or at most THREE, of such kind of tracks in an album of perhaps, 12 songs... But seriously, SIX BACK TO BACK is REALLY a downer.
Please be careful when you choose your tracklist!
Bottom line: hmmm... mayyyybe 600 - 800 yen
3) Butterfly inthe Stomach - deadstock
Actually, this band is mostly a BUY had it not been 2500 yen for the album. What's this damn you Japan. Just coz a band is signed doesn't mean you should jack their damn CDs up past 2000 yen. SORRY. Cheap ass like me just won't buy your CD even though your band is damn good.
Actually, I see the lead singer of this band perform a lot, when I go for The Challenge's live. He plays in the band as a side project and I really like The Challenge.
I quite liked Butterfly inthe Stomach a lot because after checking all the other bands (especially after GOOD ON THE REELS and Mondaysick), this guys offered a very, very fresh new sounds and their album and the band had an edge in their music that doesn't mimic anyone buy their themselves. I think this is what differentiates REAL BANDS from crappy ones. Srsly.
Unfortunately, as I have mentioned... 2500 yen is just a definitely NO WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY for me.
Unless you're Tsubaki.
heh.
Bottom Line: hmmmm maybe 1800 yen! heh
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