boredoms

listening to a ton of japrock/japanoise courtesy of jon teague, who gave me an mp3 cd which i thought wasn't registering on my itunes until today, when i noticed i had a ton of new songs by a bunch of japan artists. right now i'm digging the boredoms, friends of nirvana 'n' sonic youth, former lollapalooza main-stagers who had recs out on major u.s. labels back in the '90s. on 1993's pop tatari, they churn out madcap avant-garde noise that recalls early mothers of invention, the residents, the beastie boys, hawkwind, and funkadelic, including a song about coca-cola ("bocabola") and a twisted cover of little willie john's "fever" ("heeba"). by the time they cut 1998's super ae (wherein all of the song titles begin with "super..."), they'd added more krautrock and psych influences, while vision creation newsun from 2001 introduced a new sound, heavy on percussion and acoustic gtrs. fascinating stuff.