I really hate common short band names. It just makes searching for information on them much harder. This is why I love bands names that are uncommon non-dictionary names. However, this love and hate is limited only to the band names, and not to the music. If a weird name band produces crappy music, there’s no way I’m loving them. Similarly, if there’s a band with a (common) dictionary word as a name that produces nice music, I’m falling for them, in a straight sense. A band like 鴉 is what I’m talking about here.
I’ve loving what I’m hearing so far from this 3 piece band.
Galileo Galilei, a Japanese band comprising of member who are all younger than me. They used to be a 4 piece band, but their lead guitarist left recently. Now, they are left with 3 members; the guitar/vocals and bass being 18 and the drums being 16. At those ages, they have achieved what I can only dream off.
The reason why I’ve decided to mention 粕汁ず,a Japanese band which I spotted on Youtube while searching for Radwimps covers, is simple. These guys, and girl, simply adore the alter ego (味噌汁’s) of one of my favourite bands, and they all share the goal of performing together with 味噌汁’s.
Don’t mind the afros (Hey, an afro did help Luffy win a battle!) and school uniform outfits, just enjoy their performance.
So far, 粕汁ず has recorded 2 originally composed songs.
Before episode 6, I was expecting that the school festival live performance would slightly salvage the already ‘meh’ image I had for K-ON!. It’s usually these live performances that make a music themed anime memorable, or so I thought. Just take a look at BECK, or even non-music related anime like Haruhi. The live performance are always the zenith of shows that contain them.
Before the space-time warp
Then came along K-ON!, which failed terribly. The main reason which actually held a glimmer of hope to save the show was the school festival live, and it was so disappointing.
