No Borders No Race: Episode 314 | B3 - Boston Bastard Brigade
King Baby Duck rekindles his love for the web comic Swan Boy, whereas Mel Brooks's History of the World, Part Two shows why nostalgia can be both good and bad. Manual Cinema brings a new take on Frankenstein to the stage, with some amazing results! Finally, on A Bastard's Soapbox, the firing of Dilbert.
PLAYLIST (with album/single links):
YUKI - Time Capsule (from the album Parade ga Tsuzukunara)
TRI4TH - Just Roll (from the album CALM & CLASH)
Avatar - Valley of Disease (from the album Dance Devil Dance)
Shoko Nakagawa - Gozen Roku-Ji (from the album Shototan self cover)
Queen Bee - Violence (from the album Juuni Jigen)
BIKE - O Torto Santo (from the album Arte Bruta) [in stores May 5]
The Q-Tip Bandits - Better Place (from the album Melancholy Flowers)
GA-20 - ATL (digital single)
Last Legion - Pansarmarsch (from the album Metall, Blod & Aska)
Sumire Uesaka - Play Your Heart (from the MY SADISTIC ADOLESCENCE♡ EP)
Ayumi Hamasaki - Dreamed a Dream (from the album Remember you)
The Room - Cursed Islands (from the album Restless Fate)
Crystal Kay - How You Feel (from the Start Again EP)
Stratocaster Seaside by Suspended 4th, which I probably could have also put in the previous slot, but the frantic tempo and overall vibe of the song always fill me with a desire for speed. (There are two recorded versions of this song. I prefer the single version to the album version, but both are good.)
10:A song that makes you sad
The Guide to Success is a good song, and apart from being kind of a downer in general, I was listening to it quite a bit when a person I considered a pretty good friend became... not that. So now when I hear it, I think about that time. But it's alright.
14:A song that you would love played at your wedding
This is simply not going to happen, so instead I will give you more than double in the next one.
24:A song by a band you wish were still together
I have so many of these. Marah in the Mainsail became Coyote Kid, who in turn became not a band anymore.
And since those are both essentially the same band, I'll also include Art by Numbers, who made one album in 2012 and then never again. I think they may have some relation with Artificial Language, but I've yet to actually do any proper investigation into that.
27:A song that breaks your heart
Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce. The song itself is very sweet and not particularly sad at all, but as it was recontextualized by Jim Henson in The Muppet Show, it takes a particularly somber tone for me every time I hear it.
紡ぐ / とた
空っぽ / AYANE
border line / Chilli Beans.
Naked / YUKI
灯火(feat. miida) / Tokimeki Records, miida
TURN IT UP - feat. Candee & ZOT on the WAVE / LANA, Candee, ZOT on the WAVE
Resonance / (sic)boy, Only U, KM
UZUMAKI / DJ CHARI, DJ SHINTARO, MAsayoshi Iimori, OZworld
iceberg / Shnayhon Yoso
It Is What It Is / Wez Atlas
光 / TRI4TH, TOSHI-LOW
ハクセキレイ / Uru
Be Crazy / Hannah Warm
緋寒桜 / れん
Bones / the engy
Spice /monje
40.5 Dream / CHAILD
deadpool / Peterparker69, Jeter,Y ohtrixpointnever
I Love You - DJ Mitsu The Beats Remix / イハラカンタロウ, DJ Mitsu The Beats
Shanghai Dub / Dubb Parade
立春、坂道にて / Ran
Saṃsāra / RiL
SOLD OUTではなかったものの、会場は超満員。昨年のメジャーデビュー以降確実に勢いと人気が増しているのを側から見ていても感じる。(来年はSXSWとBlue Noteだって。)
19:30オンタイムに開演。
今回はレコ発ツアーなので、最新作中心は勿論のこと、おなじみの楽曲も織り交ぜた安定のセットリスト。冒頭「ぶちかませ」「Shot The Ghost」「Go Your Way」と新作から3連チャン。カバー曲も挟みながら、後半目で「Stompin Boogie」「Guns Of〜」「DIRTY BULLET」など定番ナンバー登場。カバーは定番のFiesta(The Pogues)や、I Want You To Be My Babyもお初。個人的に大好きな曲なのでテンションぶち上がり。ブリッツの音響とも相まってとにかく凄い音圧なのだが、バンド全体のグルーヴが桁違いにレベルアップしてる。元々卓越したプロの人達ですら、こんなにも変わるとはビックリ。
やはりインディ→メジャーへ、個人→事務所所属となり、規模感が大きくなると、本人たちのレベルも一歩上がるものなのだなぁ。