Melt Banana
 

best japanese group. :hphones:

Check this

It should keep you Melt Banana fans busy for a while.

Melt Banana are one of those bands , you pick up their albums in record shops to make you look as though you`re broad minded & experimental in your tastes in music , but on no account do you buy them.

better japanese bands:

Dir en Grey
Malice Mizer
Miyavi
despaires ray

try those on for size pip squeak.

And Afri Rampo

I have a shirt that says "mr bungle + melt bannana", its an old poster.. Are they good?

Anyone familiar with the Hyper Hindu Squatters? They sort of remind me of Melt Banana.

not at all. It's a poor try at goth rock.

Melt Banana rule.

Oaethan are cool too, but they're from South Korea. So not really Japanese.

Melt Banana is an amazing band, I have Cell Scape and it's awesome.

It's not for anytime listening, but if you're on crack or something it's pretty crazy.

*BUMP*

Melt Banana should be feeling more love,
I'd say they're the greatest live band I've ever seen
and one of the most high-octane bands I know of
in general.

Also, does anyone have
MxBx 1998/13000 Miles - At Light Velocity?

I have Charlie, Cell-Scape, Scratch or Stitch
if anyone is interested just pm me.

melt banana in show blow out my brain

You're listening to Melt Banana... they're so hard that by the conversation of hardness in the universe you wouldn't have any hardness left for your cock!

MELT BANANA MELT YOUR FACE OFF

I bought Teeny Shiny years and years ago after hearing alot about them. I got headaches so I stopped listening to it, but every now and then I'll find myself remembering tracks like 'Free the Bee'. Brilliant, really

:bowdown:

Saw them the other night at ULU, stunning. Ive never seen such an amount of energy explode in such small spasms. They were also incredibly tight, the the guitarist's technical efficiency was wowzers. They lacked a bit of charisma but definetly go and see them if you get the chance, its a life affirming experience.

(PS, DJ Scotch Egg rules you all)

You're forgetting about Luminous Orange...great Japanese shoegaze band.

Cell-Scape is probably one of the best albums of the 00's. It was a whole new heavy to me. There you have these crushing riffs and static from the guitarist and yet it all remains so innocent. Probably because the singer yelps like a small puppy. I can't think of many more noise bands who are as stupidly loud yet have that same amount of warmth to their music.

They are the definition of demented genius.

I remember listening to a track from one of cardboards comps, so just got hold of Cell Scape. Thoughts later :)

Thoughts now as I listened to this today on my MP3. Fucking A. So impressed with this. The juxtaposition really works. As PMO says the the almost childlike whelps of the lead singer against fast guitar riffs with electronic filters dotted around the soundscape. Phenomenal stuff. If you all wanted to get into some Noise Rock, I could'nt think of a better start. I'm buying this baby tomorrow, if the local indie has it.

For me at least it's the most accessible noise rock i've come across along with Big Black and maybe some other bands that aren't coming to mind right now.

Not the early stuff though, haha!

I saw them on that tour in 95. They were pretty good live.

Not as good as F*ck on the Beach, but yea, I really do like Melt Banana.

I forgot how awesome these guys are... pure fucking awesome. I had the opportunity to see them with Tool awhile back but, decided not to... damn do I regret it.

NO WAAY!

Japs:

Afrirampo and the boredoms too

O then Merzbow, then Masonna


Oh and also check out this japanese Johavah Witness guy, hes amazing!
Maher Shalal Hash Baz

goto (they wont let me post url links yet)
experimentaletc.blogspot.com/search/label/Maher%20Shalal%20Hash%20Baz]exp etc

that is a great blog too!

about him (from lastFM) "Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo (工藤冬里), a Japanese naivist composer and musician. The name is taken from Maher-shalal-hash-baz in the Book of Isaiah, and translates roughly as “Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder.”

Tori Kudo has been cagey about details of his life before MSHB. He was once a member of a shadowy, revolutionary political party in Japan, although he has dissociated himself from politics since becoming a Jehovah’s Witness. He also works as a ceramicist."

I keep coming back to Melt-Banana every few months, such a fun group. I really love "Scratch or Stitch" and "Charlie", both immensely powerful and fun, but other than that I have no real words at the moment to describe their sound. Well, I guess I could effectively describe them as sounding like what would happen if a little scotty dog got a hold of PCP and a laser pistol, and hardcore punk rockers battling the ferocious beast with crash symbols and super fast power chords.



I found a really old live video on youtube that's really worth watching, it amazes me how every note is played surgically and precisely, almost as if I'm listening to a studio version. Also, Yasuko is looking pretty hot too, god bless her.

Melt-Banana is some good folk.

But for realz, face shredding, bowel numbing, mind melting grindpop at it's best. I played a MB song for my friend, and he asked me if they actually know how to play their instruments. Pshawwww, Agata is one of the most innovative and gnarliest guitarists out there, and Dave Witte shreds the drums. Even though he's only a session musician. Cell-Scape is one of my all time favorites.

He sounds like an insecure elitist idiot to me. Let me guess, hardcore metalhead, or die hard blues fan?

Hardcore metalhead :) lulz

Funny, i remember when i first heard melt banana, i thought it sounded like a angrier version of deerhoof :)

Melt Banana - Lefty Dog