Well, as you all know I’ve been incredibly sick.  Haven’t had a flu/bug like this in a long time.  Add to the fact that my boss has been calling me everyday and every night even on weekends about work crap (and I cant bill for the time he harasses me), I needed to stumble over some music that made me feel good.

It’s times like this I need to find me some music I like.  So I was combing YouTube for videos.  Some of you may know, in the past year I have developed this taste for Japanese pop music courtesy of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Human Audio Sponge/Sketch Show.  There’s a spin off from these bands from the drummer/vocalist Yukihiro Takahashi that I’ve fallen in love with called Pupa.

If any of you have been in the car with me this summer, you have inevitably heard some of this stuff.  Well, I have been overjoyed to find that they have put out a follow up album called “Dreaming”.  The title track (which I’ve instantly fallen in love with) has a video.  Here it is:

What I have found charming about this band is that there are so many instruments at play.  Further research on YouTube of their live concerts shows them up on stage with so much junk (horns, guitars, drums, keyboards, everything) that the musicians barely have room to be on stage.  It’s quite interesting.  This is a video of them live performing one of my favorite songs from their first album. Yukihiro Takahashi sings lead vocals on this one. He’s gotta be like a million years old by now. The lyrics saying, “is this the way how it’s supposed to be…” is a question I ask myself every freakin day!

No dance music, beautiful blond bitches with boob jobs, plastic surgery patients, fat black lady singers screaming over top, or great stage show here folks, just good music being played by talented people (something that is sorely lost on today’s music purchasing public). Imagine this in music! Real live harmonies and the thing I love the most … sustained droning electric guitars. This stuff sticks to my ear like glue, and somehow makes me happy with all the bullshit going on in my pathetic life.

Either way, be rest assured this is getting high rotation on WMOM.

Enjoy some Dreaming Pupa (and laugh at the name like I do!) It’s Burt Bacharach meets the Japanese!!