Curieuze titel ("Live Greatest Hits") voor een curieus werkje - ik heb nochtans de hits nog niet voorbij horen komen.

Dat mag de pret echter niet drukken. Ben pas bij de eerste track maar die is toch wel op en top Gero; op de achtergrond ratelt een drumcomputertje, nu wat sneller, dan wat trager, terwijl Gero-P driftig hijgt en kreunt (de credits: "Voice, Masturbation, Ejaculate"). Op het einde een gladde Japanse soulklassieker als afsluiter. Dat belooft dus wat, ben benieuwd naar de rest van de tracks. De schots en scheef Engelse blurb op de hoes (die onleesbare lettertjes links op de hoes die niet eens over deze plaat gaan) is trouwens helemaal de moeite waard. Ik citeer letterlijk:
Let me correct it this way. Anything can be ambient.
A Japanese band, "THE GEROGERIGEGEGE" 's
famous "TOKYO ANAL DYNAMITE" is an album that the band,
which had been a noise band, challenged (or pretended to challenge)
a hardcore punk.
It contains as many as 75 tunes in total but all of them can be heard only in less than 40minutes, which means 1 song is surprisingly short.
But they deliberately put track indication signals for each song.
You can notice that scathing malice is hidden here as soon as you hear it.
Because almost the "same" songs lasts from the beginning to the end.
Most of the titles are too embarrassing and vulgar to utter like
"Sex of Sazae-San and Masuo-san".
"Masturbation of Tra-chan" (all of them are well-known comic characters) and "xxxxxx of Yoko Minamino (female idol),
but "cover" versions of 10CC like "I'm not in love" or the Stones are also included.
Compared to that in "TORTURE GARDEN", a work of 50 songs in 40minutes by Naked City (John Zone),
who was also influenced by hardcore, each song is complicatedly composed and arranged, perhaps any one song
of this "TOKYO ANAL DYNAMITE" was not "composed".
It has a clear and consistent style throughout the album that screaming of a title followed by absurd and destructive performance, or I'd rather say, primitive breakups of sounds by guitars, bass guitars and drums lasts till the end.
Of course, the members are just screaming the titles in "covers" too.
In addition, though this album is a live recording, even several "tunings"
(I can not namek out why on earth such a sound needs tuning at all)
are counted as one song. But while
I kept on listening to the work with no musical sense or nothing but a noise.
I began thinking that such a sound
which totally refused "generation of meaning"
(even the titles contribute to "meaninglessness")
should be "ambient".
"THE GEROGERIGEGEGE" is a "noise",
At least, for me.
"TOKYO ANAL DYNAMITE" is more suitable for BGM than KLF.
ATSUSHI SASAKI
Ik zeg: hulde!
