Salon Music -- Spike Me Into Space

 

It was just within the last several months that I've become acquainted with the duo Salon Music and listening to one of their earlier entries, the 1983 "Duet ni Muchuu"（デュエットに夢中）, they started out as this cute New Wave act.

Then, while I was searching for more of their material on YouTube, I came across the music video for "Spike Me Into Space" which was a track on their 1999 album "round5 shaggy bee". Well, it looks like vocalist and bassist Jin Yoshida（吉田仁）and vocalist and keyboardist Hitomi Takenaka（竹中仁見）kinda went Ramones rock with the latter's voice hitting some more depths. I was just mentioning about Martha and the Muffins' "Black Stations/White Stations" and their slightly avant-garde video and here is Salon Music's video which goes even further with the Monty Pythonesque cut-and-paste animation. Perhaps the full title of the song could have been "Spike My Drink and Then Spike Me Into Space".