Like Nue, These (pronounced 「 テーゼ 」, not „these“) were among the few openly anarchist punk/hardcore bands in 80s Japan. 429 from 1987 was their first flexi 7“. The music is not punk in the traditional sense, but more in the way of using punk as an open playing field to express their ideas, maybe like Chumbawamba did it in the beginning. That’s how you get a 6 minute piano ballad, with an end of total musical destruction on Side A, and a weird, upbeat hybrid of rock’n’roll, soul and punk on Side B. I guess it all makes more sense when you understand the lyrics.
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