Category: Masami

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London Lots – ビバ！クリスマス 7“

I guess the fairest term to describe this combined release by The Bad Lots and The London Times would be „novelty“. The London Times were a mid-eighties mod/rock band, while The Bad Lots were one of Masami Hosoya‘s post Ghoul outfits. Both teamed up in 1987 and recorded „Viva! Christmas“, a cheeky rock’n’roll song, complete with harmonising „aaaahs“, organ, a cheesy key change and silly spoken word parts by what sounds like half a dozen singers (actually: nine).

This flexi remains the closest thing resembling a studio release by The Bad Lots, who only had one (live) compilation track during their existance, with some more tracks on Masami Hosoya’s memorial compilation „Masami Meets Melody Mates“.

For Masami completists and fans of novelty christmas songs:

Viva!

I hope this strange flexi is an appropriate end to the strangest year I had never hoped to live through. My best of wishes to all of you, stay safe and stay healthy!

抗独

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v.a. Devil Must Be Driven Out With Devil

Fucking hell, this must be among the ugliest, trashiest cover artworks ever! The “Devil must be driven out with devil” compilation, released on Hold Up in 1986, has a wild mix of hardcore and metal on it, as evidenced by the “very eighties” band pictures on the insert.
Lip Cream, Ghoul and -to some degree- City Indian represent the hardcore fraction, though Ghoul are already pretty heavy and weird in this line-up. Casbah, United and Saver Tiger all play pretty tame metal stuff. Lip Cream definitely deliver the best shit on this record.

Why is the metal monster’s axe all bent?

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Ghoul – Oi! Oi! 7″

“Oi! Oi!” is the last release of Ghoul’s original incarnation. Originally intended to be a track on the ADK Omnibus Vol. 3, Ghoul had to release the song themselves as a one track flexi, because ADK’s Tam vanished in 1985 before the compilation could see the light of day. Musically “Oi! Oi!” lives up to its name: it’s a complete departure from Ghoul’s earlier heavy primitivity and much more like Masami’s solo stuff.

Running down the backstreets?

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Masami – Final Days 7″

Remember the crazy singer of Ghoul I wrote about? After Ghoul went through their dozens of incarnations Masami played in a couple of other bands (e.g. Sqwad and The Bad Lots) and also released some solo records. Even though one of the songs is a reworking of Ghoul’s “Oi! Oi!”, this solo 7″ of his is wildly different from most of his other output. The songs are more Oi! and street punk with none of his usual metallic madness. Does anybody know how this came to pass? And even more importantly:

Who’s that old guy on the cover?

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