It's been nearly a couple of years since I posted my most recent Go-Bang's song and there's nothing like one of their songs to get the blood flowing.
Never heard of "Ultra Peace Go!Go!" before but then again, I never got their May 1989 second album "Special 'I Love You'". In fact, I don't have any albums by them...just the singles. So I guess I missed out on quite a bit.
Starting off with a weird riff that sounds like either an intro to a news program or a New Wave song, the arrangement happily shifts into the typical Go-Bang's footloose and fancy-free happy pop-rock melody that probably would have been fine as an opening or ending theme for a similarly-themed anime. Certainly, with that title, perhaps it should have been. Written and composed by vocalist Kaori Moriwaka（森若香織）with arrangement by Akira Mitake（見岳章）, too bad that there wasn't a video to this one.
G-Bang reminds me a little of early Shonen Knife, like "Pretty Little Baka Guy" and "712".
ReplyDeleteI'd always wondered who Go-Bangs reminded me of...and it turned out to be Shonen Knife, although they debuted in the early 1980s. There does seem to be a subtle undercurrent of punk with both bands.
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