[atsonicpark]

True, I don't understand the point of those compilations in general. If anything, just keep compiling their albums together; you could put every single one of their albums (minus singles but including ep's) on 4 cd's easily. Compile neu and eno onto one disc; that'd be great. When I saw them live, they only played songs off of polysics or die vista, which was basically a greatest hits... so, not a single song off of karate house except ELECTRIC SURFIN GO GO. So, I think that was the point: compile their "greatest hits" for the myspace enthusiasts. Whatever.

[batreleaser]

i just wish i could go to a local record store and look under polysics and find something else besides compilations with the same songs on it, i dont see why they dont release their alblums over here. it totally bums me out.

[atsonicpark]

It was cool, at a local store, I found all their domestic CD's for $5 used. Don't know who the fuck sold all those there, but..

Neu and Now is the Time are the only albums completely released here, I think. Which is sad. No songs at all from For Young Electric Pop on ANY of their albums released here -- the fuck?

For a band similiar but.. a bit better.. than Polysics, check out Spoozys.

[batreleaser]

spoozys eh? are they japanese as well.

japan is really owning the competition for great art as well, not just even talking about music, but so many fantastic painters/drawers/filmakers etc... are blowing minds in the western hemisphere. i subscribe to juxtapose magazine, seems like everytime i open it up it mentions multiple japanese artists.

and the music scene, just amazing. noise, spazz, psych, electronic, thrash (FUCK ON THE BEACH), just so many interesting bands coming out there. it seemed the boredoms had a lot to do with the huge influx of underground musicans in japan, but please correct me if im wrong.

[atsonicpark]

Sure, I think Boredoms have a lot to do with it. I also think John Zorn's label has a lot to do with it (Zorn is pretty mainstream, afterall; he won the genius grant!).

Japan really is the best, I don't want to sound like a Japanophile because I don't love shit JUST BECAUSE it's Japanese.... but pretty much the only music, movies, art, cartoons, comics, video games, electronics, television shows, books, etc etc etc come from Japan or Japanese people. I don't know why....

On the other hand, there is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amount of just straight-up awful shit there. More so than we have here, probably. I mean, their society is extremely fucked up... what the majority of people like over there is just awful, awful J-Pop (not good J-Pop) and .. Britney Spears. Japanese people LOVE Britney Spears and our American actors and stuff. Their whole CULTURE is fucked up but respectable. Their views on honor and tradition and respect.. I think we could learn a lot from Japanese people...... but yeah.. the so-called "underground" shit there is amazing. In fact, I often wonder if bands like Boredoms are actually more popular here than over there (obviously, they're more popular over there just because of the higher population, but I dunno... they certainly have toured outside of Japan a lot more than in Japan, for example, no doubt because of the costs of touring there but still..). I also have noticed that Japanese music is SO fucking .. tight. Or tightly loose, but.. it's always so, so ... maybe not technical but.. it always really seems to achieve its goal. Regular "rock" bands over there are what we refer to as "math rock" over here, for example. I think the word I'm looking for is "dedication".

..........Miike said that all extreme Japanese art made in the last few decades are in response to the nuke dropping. I always found that interesting.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

You guys are forgetting japanese porn.

www.jheat.com

[atsonicpark]

Yeah, I thought that went without saying though?

I almost exclusively watch Asian porn stars, and my favorite porn genre is bukakke..

[batreleaser]

well its the same as the u.s. pretty much, people like "us" make up a much smaller group of people than people who bought the new britney spears alblum and worry about what brad pitts relationship status is yknow, haha

[Everyneurotic]

the boredoms had definitely an impact on the scene (for once, they were one of the first bands to make an impact coming out of osaka instead of tokyo) and it's opening to the western world (bringing pussy galore, zorn and sy to play), but they themselves were already affected by many things that impacted japanese underground music.

les rallizes denudes, the free jazz scene, ybo2 and hijokaidan had a bigger impact as a whole.

still, polysics are more like a pop band, aren't they?

[atsonicpark]

I never thought they were pop. They have some straight-up pop songs, but I guess "new wave" fits best.. eh?