Gaijin Kanpai Ep.129 - "flumpoop"

Attention, members of flumpool: We have seen your butts. That is all.

129 - flumpoop
V-Rock Disney / flumpool - akashi
Download: [iTunes/M4A] | [MP3]
 

This week the boys & girl of GK review the much-anticipated V-Rock Disney compilation album, and tackle the very difficult goal of reviewing the latest flumpool single without thinking about the band's first album cover too much. We also talk about sharing our Japanese pop culture with other people in our lives, because sharing is caring. Awww.

The uStream was anticipated to return for this episode but unfortunately, due to technical difficulty, did not. Perhaps you'd like to join us this week as we try again? We still record on Wednesday nights, but now at our new time of 10:30 PM Eastern, 7:30 Pacific. Come by and say hello! We'd love to have you.

And now for this week's show notes! Yaaaayyy!!

[SHOW NEWS]:
- Look for a new GK PV Play!
- NEW SEGMENT: "J-Doing?"
   - Jaylee gushes about SweetS
   - Zer0 introduces the BF to JMusic
   - LoKi recounts his tale of watching Mei-Chan no Shitsuji with @phinom11 

 Opening/Closing: Stereopony - It's a Wild World

[GK-AA] Picks:
 LoKi [09:19]: the GazettE - Remember the Urge
 Zer0 [10:27]: Anna Tsuchiya - Master Blaster
 Jaylee [16:45]: J Soul Brothers - Fighters
 Erin [12:23]: Quruli - Wonderful GERU

[EPISODE MUSIC] (in order)

[SINGLE REVIEW]:  flumpool - akashi:
 - [18:06] akashi
 - [23:19] kakusei IDENTITY 

[ALBUM REVIEW]: V-Rock Disney:
 - [27:13] nightmare - Friend Like Me
 - [30:41] Plastic Tree - Chim Chim Cher-ee
 - [34:44] ware - Can You Feel the Love Tonight
 - [39:19] DASEIN - You'll be in My Heart 

[NEWS]:
- CHARTS!
- Kago Ai discharged from hospital
- Angela Aki is pregnant; still wearing glasses
- Hamasaki Ayumi is burning bridges at Music Station

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[B-ROLL]: N/A

[NEXT WEEK]:
- [Album] Kalafina - After Eden
- [Single] Acid Black Cherry - Pistol

Comments

[Jasmin D.]

Great podcast as always! I enjoy listening and the reviews every time! The only thing I feel indifferent about is your review on flumpool. As a fan of flumpool, I completely agreed with the opinion of Akashi. It was quite boring for what it was, and compared to their other works, this honestly was the worst single(at least from my viewpoint). I noticed that Akashi was the chosen song for the 78th NHK National Music Contest, so the song was written to be easy to be sang and played, just like "Yell" by Ikimonogakari. Thus this song may have been too easy to listen to and not as vivd as what you all seem to be used to.
But this not really my point. I beleive what you all heard was not the best, and I ask that you please give flumpool another chance. There are many great songs by them, for example: Natsu Dive(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkgN6axQfe4), MW- Dear Mr. and Mrs. Picaresque(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwJ-B3JpxI&feature=relmfu) and Quville(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkOvIJK5ADk [though this song is best when you know the lyricshttp://snylo.livejournal.com/753.html]).

If you've tried them already or listened to these songs just now and still don't like them, then it's okay.

Thank you for reading and thank you for podcasting. :)