If you think this video of Japanese girl group synth band Cosmos is horrible, I feel your pain.
On the other hand, if you think it’s awesome in a sort of David Lynch way, I also feel your pain.
Give it a look and let me know what you think!
via blackisblack
It's no worse than any music by white people! Where is the bass player?
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So true. It's not about color, it's about the music!
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There's something about the jittery camera-work that suggests the work of either a proud parent or an excitable older camera-man. There's something about the overall stage set-up that shouts '1980's chat show'. There's a bizzarely repressed sexuality in the girl-with-the-breath-controller. Most bands would raunch this asset up to the max. So, overall, a deeply curious proposition. Was this actually made in, say, some provincial Japanese city c. 1979? If so, all is explained. But if this was filmed just the other day, then it's an incredibly knowing pastiche which is absolute in its intentions to demonstrate that it isn't 'knowing' about 'knowing'. For comparison, check out the video to 'true romance' by Golden Silvers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8
which is concerned about 'showing' that it's 'knowing'. For me, the plain truth is – whatever it does or doesn't do deliberately, it doesn't work. Musically and visually, it's out of date and not of sufficient intrinsic merit to make it a 'timeless classic'. But damned interesting, nonetheless…
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There's something about the jittery camera-work that suggests the work of either a proud parent or an excitable older camera-man. There's something about the overall stage set-up that shouts '1980's chat show'. There's a bizzarely repressed sexuality in the girl-with-the-breath-controller. Most bands would raunch this asset up to the max. So, overall, a deeply curious proposition. Was this actually made in, say, some provincial Japanese city c. 1979? If so, all is explained. But if this was filmed just the other day, then it's an incredibly knowing pastiche which is absolute in its intentions to demonstrate that it isn't 'knowing' about 'knowing'. For comparison, check out the video to 'true romance' by Golden Silvers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8
which is concerned about 'showing' that it's 'knowing'. For me, the plain truth is – whatever it does or doesn't do deliberately, it doesn't work. Musically and visually, it's out of date and not of sufficient intrinsic merit to make it a 'timeless classic'. But damned interesting, nonetheless…
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There's something about the jittery camera-work that suggests the work of either a proud parent or an excitable older camera-man. There's something about the overall stage set-up that shouts '1980's chat show'. There's a bizzarely repressed sexuality in the girl-with-the-breath-controller. Most bands would raunch this asset up to the max. So, overall, a deeply curious proposition. Was this actually made in, say, some provincial Japanese city c. 1979? If so, all is explained. But if this was filmed just the other day, then it's an incredibly knowing pastiche which is absolute in its intentions to demonstrate that it isn't 'knowing' about 'knowing'. For comparison, check out the video to 'true romance' by Golden Silvers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8
which is concerned about 'showing' that it's 'knowing'. For me, the plain truth is – whatever it does or doesn't do deliberately, it doesn't work. Musically and visually, it's out of date and not of sufficient intrinsic merit to make it a 'timeless classic'. But damned interesting, nonetheless…
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There's something about the jittery camera-work that suggests the work of either a proud parent or an excitable older camera-man. There's something about the overall stage set-up that shouts '1980's chat show'. There's a bizzarely repressed sexuality in the girl-with-the-breath-controller. Most bands would raunch this asset up to the max. So, overall, a deeply curious proposition. Was this actually made in, say, some provincial Japanese city c. 1979? If so, all is explained. But if this was filmed just the other day, then it's an incredibly knowing pastiche which is absolute in its intentions to demonstrate that it isn't 'knowing' about 'knowing'. For comparison, check out the video to 'true romance' by Golden Silvers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8
which is concerned about 'showing' that it's 'knowing'. For me, the plain truth is – whatever it does or doesn't do deliberately, it doesn't work. Musically and visually, it's out of date and not of sufficient intrinsic merit to make it a 'timeless classic'. But damned interesting, nonetheless…
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There's something about the jittery camera-work that suggests the work of either a proud parent or an excitable older camera-man. There's something about the overall stage set-up that shouts '1980's chat show'. There's a bizzarely repressed sexuality in the girl-with-the-breath-controller. Most bands would raunch this asset up to the max. So, overall, a deeply curious proposition. Was this actually made in, say, some provincial Japanese city c. 1979? If so, all is explained. But if this was filmed just the other day, then it's an incredibly knowing pastiche which is absolute in its intentions to demonstrate that it isn't 'knowing' about 'knowing'. For comparison, check out the video to 'true romance' by Golden Silvers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8
which is concerned about 'showing' that it's 'knowing'. For me, the plain truth is – whatever it does or doesn't do deliberately, it doesn't work. Musically and visually, it's out of date and not of sufficient intrinsic merit to make it a 'timeless classic'. But damned interesting, nonetheless…
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There's something about the jittery camera-work that suggests the work of either a proud parent or an excitable older camera-man. There's something about the overall stage set-up that shouts '1980's chat show'. There's a bizzarely repressed sexuality in the girl-with-the-breath-controller. Most bands would raunch this asset up to the max. So, overall, a deeply curious proposition. Was this actually made in, say, some provincial Japanese city c. 1979? If so, all is explained. But if this was filmed just the other day, then it's an incredibly knowing pastiche which is absolute in its intentions to demonstrate that it isn't 'knowing' about 'knowing'. For comparison, check out the video to 'true romance' by Golden Silvers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8
which is concerned about 'showing' that it's 'knowing'. For me, the plain truth is – whatever it does or doesn't do deliberately, it doesn't work. Musically and visually, it's out of date and not of sufficient intrinsic merit to make it a 'timeless classic'. But damned interesting, nonetheless…
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You might also listen to shakatak 80's nightbird…
http://www.shakatak.com/
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Japan produced some really good synth music back then, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM9qs8KCkDg
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prole art threat?? who dat, a cleveland cat?
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rofl… the little keytar bit was awesome. they rocked that song about as hard as it could rock?
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Awesome. Er, full. No, some. Full.
No jam, though.
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Kind of bland yet upbeat. This has a retro disco type beat and I wouldn't call it horrible really, it just OK.
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Reminds me of the Runaways in the 80′s everyone was so busy taking about them being girls than listen to their music They were really very good I like these guys
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Shame on you. This makes me feel butthurt.
This is not “horrible” music. This is a fine example of japanese fusion of the era. It has that same j-fusion aesthetic that you find in a lot of like-minded bands of the time and place. Dry, high energy, positive. This same style was incorporated into the music of early YMO and Casiopea. The same aesthetic was used in the west within the synth fusion cult. Download Zebulon’s 1980 self titled album and George Duke’s “The Aura will Prevail.”
ps – the woman using the breath controller is Keiko Matsui, who went on to forge a very, very successful compositional career. Her work is well known and she’s far from obscure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzqsWxau_gI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otXPz2Z1RAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0uoqrzwWYw&feature=related
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