Kome Kome Club -- KOME KOME WAR

 

Hump Day getting you down or tired? I think that I may have just the tonic for you. And if you thought that "FUNK FUJIYAMA" was zany, then please get a load of this one!

Contributor nikala provided her take on one of Kome Kome Club's（米米ＣＬＵＢ）signature tunes over seven years ago with its own singular music video. Well, this time I'm providing an earlier just-as-wackadoodle tune by the always entertaining band led by Carl Smokey Ishii（カールスモーキー石井）, "KOME KOME WAR".

Their 7th single from August 1988, "KOME KOME WAR", written and composed by the entire band with arrangement by singer-songwriter Nobuo Ariga（有賀啓雄）, has lyrics that are as gibberish-y as the music is catchy and funky. I'm not even going to go anywhere into analysis mode with these words; I will merely look at them, nod and smile. The main words, aside from the title, are "semete, semete, semete" (attack, attack, attack) and "yamete, yamete, yamete" (stop, stop, stop), and that's all you need to know since the music is the thing here and the music video, directed by Ishii himself, provides tons of distractions. Everybody gets involved in a K2C video!😎 All that hard work led to it earning the band a Grand Prize in the international version of the MTV Music Video Awards that year, according to J-Wiki.

Of course, if you had the opportunity back then, the ultimate way to enjoy a K2C song was actually going to one of their concerts. Not sure how much it cost to attend one of their events but considering the showmanship, the lavish settings and the over-the-top arrangements, I'm sure that it was well worth it. In any case, "KOME KOME WAR" reached No. 5 on Oricon and first made its presence on an album via the band's 4th album "GO FUNK" which came out in September 1988. It hit No. 1 and quickly became the 25th-ranked album of the year.