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oritsu_luv ([personal profile] oritsu_luv) wrote2010-02-26 08:34 am
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GUILTY PREASURES

Today is Li-chan's birthday. Yay Li-chan.

Thanks to Oreska Band, last night I discovered a delightful CD. They kept babbling about this guy named Scott who they're touring with now. Then they posted a picture of Scott, who turned out to be a hot, long haired Scene Boy. My interest was piqued. Who is this Scott, I wondered.

To Google I went.

Scott, I learned, is Scott Murphy, a young American singer who had released two collections of pop-punk covers of famous J-pop songs. Pop Punk covers of famous J-pop songs!?

I went to Wikipedia, where I learned that Scott was not only all of the above, he was also a member of the pop-punk group Alistair, with hits such as 'Jacob thinks I'm gay'.

So off I went to procure the albums, named respectively Guilty Pleasure 1 and 2. (Or, as the Japanese site I went to had, Guilty Preasures.)

And I have to say, I love them. The songs are a lot of fun, he somehow transforms every song into rollicky pop-punk. His accent is a little gaijin-y in some, but on the faster harder songs he does very very well.


And most importantly, he happened to cover several songs that are very close to my heart:

First Love

Love Machine (with special guest vocals by some former Musumes!)

Voyage (yes, the song by Ayumi Hamasaki)

Nada sousou by Rimi Natsukawa (Okinawan folk into Pop Punk!)

And, there's even an English language cover of Kabuki-cho no jou, which tickles me to no end, because it's a translation of the original which means it's still about the singer's mother used to be the Queen of the Red Light district, and how the singer is proud to assume the crown.

This album really made me smile.


Off the top of my head, I can think of three people on my FL who need this album. ([livejournal.com profile] karasu,[livejournal.com profile] emmayori, and [livejournal.com profile] megu_megu this means you!)

Seriously guys. A pop-punk cover of Love Machine. Where has this been all my life?

[identity profile] oritsu-luv.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have g-mail or something? I can send it to you.

The Love Machine cover is the best also because the lyrics are soo feminine. It's fabulous!

[identity profile] ex-karasu511.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
ha ah ha. xD
I will check it out! :D