JET LAG -- Everytime You Need

Almost a couple of months ago, I introduced the band JET LAG which had a four-year stint between 2000 and 2004. I liked the first song I heard by them "Back of my mind", the title song from their first mini-album released in 2000. It's quite the cafe-friendly tune with a certain sunny Shibuya-kei sort of feeling.

Now I give you another track from "Back of my mind", "Everytime You Need" which I think is more of a straight pop song although that indies vibe is still retained. Not quite as polished as the title track, it still has a good steady uptempo beat and the arrangement of "Everytime You Need" including the wah-wah guitar reminds me more of Original Love. And of course, the semi-joke here is that sole member Takao Tajima（田島貴男）has made it clear that Original Love hasn't embraced Shibuya-kei at all.

Although JET LAG has long been disbanded, I hope that the individual members have been finding continued success wherever they are.

JET LAG -- Back of my mind

Happy Father's Day to everyone! Our family took dear ol' Dad for breakfast at the nearest diner, so I'm still digesting my breakfast of sausages, potatoes and multiple cups of coffee, and this is after having lunch.

The above photo is of a cup of Viennese Coffee that I had one day during my last visit to Tokyo a few years ago. Yes, I figure that coffee connoisseurs are looking at that with the huge stratum of whipped cream and facepalming with abandon but I can gladly live with the disdain. It wasn't going down my gullet as often as Brown Cows did, but it was something that I often ordered during my days in Japan. If' I'm not mistaken, I had that particular variety at a cafe near Waseda University with some former colleagues.

A cafe Sunday...always a nice thing in Tokyo, and I think that was the case even before Starbucks and Seattle's Best Coffee came into town about 20 years ago. That's exactly the place I want to be to hear this particular song by the now-defunct group JET LAG, "Back of my mind". Unfortunately, there's very little written up about them except that they had their existence between 2000 and 2004 with "Back of my mind" coming out as their 1st mini-album in September 2000.

I couldn't even find out who was in JET LAG. But I do like "Back of my mind", and I agree with some of the various folks on various websites who describe their work as being very sunny and friendly for those cafe-inhabiting types on a weekend. The legendary singer and songwriter Carole King was used as a comparison for the sounds emanated by JET LAG, and this particular title track is enough to shoo away anything blue, outside of the sky.

Supposedly, one of the former members has gone to another band called IRIS. Not totally sure about the availability of any CDs for JET LAG, but "Back of my mind" is up on Apple Music.

A Shiro Noir from Komeda's Coffee in
Shinjuku.