OSCA is an all time great vid, read that there's a new TJ live DVD out, is this from it?
― MyFatherWillGuideMeUpARopeToYourMum (MaresNest), Saturday, 9 October 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Possibly. I only just found it while doing a youtube search for Kimaru videos. I haven't been following their story very closely after Sports left a bad taste in my mouth, but I guess I have to keep paying attention.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 October 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoGZIwLWvt0
"I want to become a pizza delivery man's girlfriend." Hahaha.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 October 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not even sure what that's supposed to connote, if anything.
Also, Uki seems to be jamming more than usual on this live OSCA:
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
That was meant to be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVdubQGlOI
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 October 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Even her count-ins have symmetry.
― MyFatherWillGuideMeUpARopeToYourMum (MaresNest), Saturday, 9 October 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Worst Tokyo Jihen costumes ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVatwqiw7ds
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 October 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Phase II has touched the sacred "Sounan" and it doesn't sound bad, though Dynamite Out! still owns this one, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbEUbulkGg
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 10 October 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"Zettaizetumei" from Sports sounds pretty good here too, I have to admit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lERlAzuc1qU&NR=1
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 10 October 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ultra C (which has the above Kimaru, Zettai Zetsumei, the alt. Sounan, etc.) might be their best DVD, end to end. The only real low point is Sweet Spot, but that song's hopeless. It got me to revisit Sports at least, which is something.
― 11spp, Monday, 11 October 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh cool, that's good to hear, might get on EBay and grab a copy.
I think I might have mentioned it upthread, there are some Sports track performed live on 'Music Japan' which are downloadable from the Sadistic Gossip blog. Watching them somehow made me turn a corner wrt my low opinion of Sports, now I'm digging it. You are right about Sweet Spot though.
― MyFatherWillGuideMeUpARopeToYourMum (MaresNest), Monday, 11 October 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh fuck, this is a great OSCA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNlSfMylzU
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, does anyone understand the rationale behind these awful outfits? And I hate it when Shiina Ringo changes her beautiful hair color. Really strong performances though.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
c'mon those outfits are great
lol at Uki's 'Walk This Way' reference @ 2:07
these Ultra C clips are still a little on the Vegas side, but this looks a lot less stiff than Expo '08, which was the first new Shiina DVD I knew I didn't need to buy
Didn't end up spending too much time with 'Sports' as an album but I listened to the song Zettaizetumei a lot
thanks for posting these, RS
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I have to admit, I don't care for SR's poutiness (isn't that a word) on the Zettaizetume clip. I also really hate what she's done to her appearance here, as I said before, and for some reason it makes me think she is unhappy. It just looks unhappy, but maybe that's just me.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the fact that she sings the album's happiest disco song like it's an agonized ballad (I wonder what the lyrics are -- I like her lyrics more than ever
her current cypher is vegas torch singer and it is what it is, but it's not like she was ever projecting 'happy' back in the days of ol' crazy-eyes
― Milton Parker, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, it's not that her stage persona isn't projecting happiness but that somehow I'm reading actual personal unhappiness into this new image. Of course this could be 100% projection, not least because I am pretty unhappy at the moment. But I guess also there's the temptation to predict where she goes next, and I somehow see her veering away from this look, and maybe even sound, pretty quickly. (But that could just be wishful thinking, like all the Tokyo Jihen-haters who predicted they'd never put out a third album, or even a second I think.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It does make me wonder about the lyrics for that song. I have trouble judging the lyrics from the translation, but they generally seem really smart. (No surprise there.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 October 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder what the lyrics are
Zettaizetsumei translation is now up:
http://www.nostalgic-lavender.net/ringo/zettaizetsumei.html
(Thanks Frecklegirl!)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 December 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, new single coming out in February. I wish they'd put out another really good studio album (or, I dunno, put out a regular live album or live compilation or something).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 December 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
while the title is an idiomatic phrase meaning "stalemate", the literal translation is "absolute despair"
thanks frecklegirl!
― Milton Parker, Friday, 24 December 2010 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"Sounan" continues to amaze me. Easily one of my favorite songs from the last decade.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 January 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG Shiina Ringo did a photo shoot at White Sands Monument in New Mexico! I've long fantasized abouot seeing Tokyo Jihen shooting a video here and having access to them because so few people would know who they were. Could happen.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/01/shiina-ringo-is-luminescent-for-maquillage-cosmetics/
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 27 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i54.tinypic.com/2yytnnr.jpg
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 27 January 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
They should do a tour exclusively of New Mexico.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 27 January 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Preview of Shiina Ringo/Tokyo Jihen collaboration with Chiaki Kuriyama (I'm going to put the more interesting one first):
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/?70006318_DFCL-1760&70006318_DFCL-1760_01SFLhttp://www.sonymusic.co.jp/?70006318_DFCL-1759&70006318_DFCL-1759_01SFL
(This is all just coming via Electric Mole, obv.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I have no idea who Chiaki Kuriyama is but apparently she was in Kill Bill.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not as though SR has a surplus of good songs these days.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 29 January 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
And here's the preview of the new Tokyo Jihen single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVmJMJULenA
It's really difficult to form any impression on the basis of this, but it sounds pretty commonplace.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The cooking eggs shot bothers me for some reason, but I was squeamish about eggs when I was a kid and have retained some of that (despite eating them, as long as they are cooked in ways I find acceptable, which definitely doesn't include hard-boiled or sunny side up--I don't want the yolk and the eggs too separated or it bothers me). Anyway, she's had lots of food in her videos over the years (maybe more with Tokyo Jihen than solo).
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 29 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if TJ did in fact shoot any video footage at White Sands? Could've been for a different single.
Is Milton on vacation?
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 29 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I obviously haven't been watching Electric Mole carefully enough. Actually, I think when I tried clicking on this before it didn't load and I just thought, meh whatever, I can wait.
http://ceron.jp/url/www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Lrj9kmxJM
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoa, yeah, that certainly looks like New Mexico.
Kameda, as an actor, has about one facial expression.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty unexceptional song. Maybe their least distinctive so far. Hopefully I will have to withdraw that comment after listening more, but I don't know. . .
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, not sure why I didn't just do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Lrj9kmxJM
A bit blah but not awful.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus christ how did this band get so fucking boring
miss u tokyo jihen mk 1
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you checked out any of the segments from the Ultra C dvd, on youtube? They definitely still are capable of great things in live performance. It does seem a bit perverse that they are putting out such quotidian singles though. Shiina Ringo seems pretty enthusiastic about making money these days, by any means necessary. Maybe motherhood has brought this out in her.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
am downloading that chlorine semen chestnut album atm - will listen tomorrow
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking forward to all your crazy comments about it. :P
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, was it acoleuthic who was going crazy over the dreaming and hounds of love recently in one of the kate bush threads?
dude if that is so, then i am fucking excited for your liveblog of that particular shiina ringo record
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
ok starting it now
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope you are using headphones.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I am ^_^
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Shuukyou is fucking awesome, needless to say. Distorto-orch pop with a TUNE et demie. Unbelievably cool.
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
omg this outro is mad! :D
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link