Blog #8 Feeling Better to Grapevine and Smile?

I feel a lot better now that my boyfriend and I have talked things through. I hate feeling upset about things. But what can you do? Moving on...
Got a little spending cash today and decided to mosey on over to a thrifty and just randomly select a couple interesting looking CD's. I picked up:

#1

GRAPEVINE/ Chronology - a young persons' guide to Grapevine-


Here's what THIS website said about them:

"The vocalist had been singing blues and soul, and the band had been influenced by the Beatles, Neil Young & XTC.....their inevitable encounter in Osaka, was the beginning of this incredibly talented group.
The band's live performances and self-released cassette tape alone were enough to quickly get people's attention and offers from major records labels.

Grapevine - Kazumasa Tanaka - Vo/Gtr, Hiroyoshi Nishikawa - Gtr, Toru Kamei- Drums and Makoto Nishihara - Bass, signed to Pony Canyon in 1997 and in September of that year, released a 5-track E.P "Kakusei" (translated into English means 'awakening / disillusion'). In 1999, a second E.P "Slow" became a smash hit and the album "Lifetime“ entered at no.3 in the national chart - a remarkable and exceptional achievement for an up and coming band. Since then, every album that Grapevine has released, is always in the top 10 of the charts, backed up with large-scale nationwide touring by the band.

2002 saw the departure of bassist Makoto Nishihara but with the excellent support of Satoru Kaneto (Bass) and Isao Takano (keys)."


All in all, I'd say that this stuff is interesting to the mind that enjoys listening to anime music. I love anime. I don't know. This album just seems to flow very quick paced and very guitar rhythmic. I like Tanaka's voice a lot, for me he is reminiscent of Tokyo Hotel and yet I'm sensing... Veer Chasm? Anyway you guys should check these guys out!

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#2

Smile . Maquee

THIS guy blogs, calling them: "Mild mannered Southern-Cali kids indulging in startlingly dynamic, slab-olicious grunge, with the occasional jarring excursion or three to keep things interesting. They were on Atlantic Recruits in '94 for about one week. Like you care."

I haven't had the opportunity to listen to much of this. So far I just heard a lot of yelling. I keep seeing this band pop up as a "Power Punk". I think I also read somewhere that this album didn't do very well back in the nineties. Led to the band ending a deal with Atlantic Records and signing back on with their original label Headhunter. Anyway, I hope that I end up liking it sometime. All music has it's mood.

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