I do remember The Pop Group, fronted by Mark Stewart. Saw him perform live years later, must've been around '83 with his group The Mafia, super heavy dub, great performance in Hal 4 in Rotterdam where I also saw Palais Schaumburg, and a performance from Einsturzende Neubauten with that other great post punk band Abwaerts.... Oh, and thanks again!
When Pig Bag came to Tokyo, I was going to go but decided not to. I remember now that I was relieved later because the reputation was scattered. That was around '83 too, as I recall. About a years later or so, Indonesian music（Elvy Detty...) started to be introduced in Japan. Those were days... Y
Ah I was never really into Pig Bag myself back then, '83 was all about This Heat, Metabolist, Wire, The Stranglers, Talking Heads, Zazou Bikaye, Cabaret Voltaire, James White/Change & The Contortions, Chrome, Fela Kuti, Gang Of Four, loads of Dutch and German post punk bands and jazz, always jazz for me.... Then around what was it, '87, 88 Public Enemy came out with their It Takes A Nation album and I went fully on hip hop for many, many years but I got so disgusted with hip hop and what it was becoming, forget around what year but around the time Eminem and the likes started to come out that I left that totally behind me.... I was always into traditional music, since the early 80's so I really got into that, the Indonesian traditional music and still am, plus all the other old Indonesian music, seems like a never ending journey :)
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啮啮(Pop)樂隊(the original Pop Group!!) – Lemonlike Moon
= 月兒像檸檬 (Hong Kong Popular Cha Cha)
Title track is Japanese pop song from 1967 Harumi Miyako
the queen of melisma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLm34DpQWx4
Listen Her Soul
Famous Enka song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHt4siM6Wk
Original title is ”Night Walk under the Lemon Moonlit”(It's a bit Tom Waits-esque）
Teresa Teng version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv2s1VRBrLk
Obviously, it's the band of our man.
yoshio
I do remember The Pop Group, fronted by Mark Stewart. Saw him perform live years later, must've been around '83 with his group The Mafia, super heavy dub, great performance in Hal 4 in Rotterdam where I also saw Palais Schaumburg, and a performance from Einsturzende Neubauten with that other great post punk band Abwaerts.... Oh, and thanks again!
ReplyDeleteWhen Pig Bag came to Tokyo, I was going to go but decided not to.
ReplyDeleteI remember now that I was relieved later because the reputation was scattered.
That was around '83 too, as I recall.
About a years later or so, Indonesian music（Elvy Detty...)
started to be introduced in Japan.
Those were days...
Y
Ah I was never really into Pig Bag myself back then, '83 was all about This Heat, Metabolist, Wire, The Stranglers, Talking Heads, Zazou Bikaye, Cabaret Voltaire, James White/Change & The Contortions, Chrome, Fela Kuti, Gang Of Four, loads of Dutch and German post punk bands and jazz, always jazz for me.... Then around what was it, '87, 88 Public Enemy came out with their It Takes A Nation album and I went fully on hip hop for many, many years but I got so disgusted with hip hop and what it was becoming, forget around what year but around the time Eminem and the likes started to come out that I left that totally behind me.... I was always into traditional music, since the early 80's so I really got into that, the Indonesian traditional music and still am, plus all the other old Indonesian music, seems like a never ending journey :)
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