Things. I wrote them.
First up, a guide to buying city pop in Tokyo. I know I said I’m not the world’s biggest fan of city pop, but I am the world’s biggest fan of Tokyo record stores, so I think that should be enough to be of help to people looking for this stuff.
Second, I went to a dope Space Invaders exhibition and wrote about it for Retronauts! So go read that!
Pop Will Eat Itself
92° (Boilerhouse ‘The Birth, The Death’ Mix)
The Incredible PWEI Vs Dirty Harry
92° (Boilerhouse ‘The Birth’ Mix)
Finding a 12″ single of a song I don’t own by a band I like is a rare event in Tokyo. That has less to do with the fact that 12″ singles aren’t really that big here and more to do with the fact that I own a fuckton of 12″ singles. This is a track off of Wise Up Suckers, and I had totally forgotten about it entirely until I listened to these remixes. Wise Up Suckers isn’t the greatest PWEI album, that award obviously goes to “This Is The Day…” but it’s still a damn fine listen and a great time capsule of the era from which it came. These remixes (and the B-side in between) great, can you dig them?
Also my copy was signed? So that’s weird.
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I’m not going to lie and say that I know a shitload about this artist. They could be a lost legend of the 80s Japanese synthpop scene, although I doubt it. I’m just going to say that I really like this cheesy as hell dance tune and I thought that yinz might like it too. It’s not like, great, or anything. I feel like I found the Japanese equivalent of Pretty Poison of something, but it’s a good jam for happy times.
Love PWEI and this track. Am with you on their best album. Signed copy is making me jealous
This Is This appears, after many years of acquaintance, to be becoming one of my favourite albums. Every time I’m on a train it gets the nod ahead of everything else. I claim it’s the British Paul’s Boutique and I’ve yet to be definitively proven wrong.
Pretty sure you mean the album “CURE FOR SANITY”. I think that “Wise Up Suckers” – aside from being a bangin’ single – was the name of a cut-rate compilation.