- Release Info -
Artist: Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Album: Sing In Japanese
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Playtime: 15:55 min
Genre: Punk
URL:
Rip date: 2011-09-16
Street date: 2011-09-14
Size: 33.12 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 278 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes -
By now, everyone knows Me First and the Gimme Gimmes as the all-star-punk-rock
supergroup-cover-band that exploded on the scene in the 90s, and made every
other shitty pop punk bands ironic covers obsolete with their debut Have a
Ball. Theyve since tackled almost every genre under the sun, with albums of
showtunes, RB jams, classics from the 50 and 60s, pop hits, cheesy
mom-favorites, country songs and most recently a slew of songs by Australians
for their 2011 EP entitled Go Down Under. Well, never ones to rest on their
laurels, the boys from the Gimmes are back with their most ambitious project
to date, one that takes them far from the dingy back rooms of suburban
roadhouse karaoke bars, halfway around the world to the clean, brightly lit
karaoke bars of Tokyo. Thats right folks, Spike, Mike, Joey, Chris and Dave
are back and this time shits gotten positively Japanese with the latest EP Me
First and The Gimme Gimmes Sing In Japanese And not since American Ninja has
Japanese culture been so thoroughly beaten at its own game.
Okay, first things first. The title of the ep is completely accurate in that
front man Spike Slawson actually took the time to learn how to sing the songs
in real-live, honest-to-pete Japanese. But wait, nameless shithead writing
this bio I can hear you say How the fuck did he do that Japanese is hard.
Did he take an immersion class or something No. See, that would be too easy.
In the universe of the Gimmes, the way shit works is that bassist Fat Mike (of
Nofx fame) calls one of his Japanese friends, who writes out the lyrics
phonetically for Spike and then Spike carefully sings them. THEN they get a
bunch of Japanese tourists to come into the studio (The Foo Fighters 606
Studio to be exact) and listen to the vocal takes and deem them
comprehensible. The results are Gimmed up versions of all your classic
favorites like Takuryo Yoshidas Kekkon Shiyoyo, Kai Bands Hero and
Tulips Kokoro No Tabi. I know Right You havent lived til youve heard
what Spike and the boys do to Kekkon Shiyoyo, boybelieve me. You will hardly
recognize it
Okay, so anyway you get the idea here, right The Gimmes have already shown
the world that they can do just about anything. Theyve sold Neil Diamond
songs to punk rockers and reduced a stadium of Pittsburgh Pirates fans to
angry tears using Stairway to Heaven as their only weapon . Theyve gotten
two guys from Lagwagon to play showtunes with gusto. Theyve selflessly ruined
a young boys bar mitzvah for the pleasure of the listening public at large.
Theyve got a guy from the Foo Fighters doing whole tours that dont feature
anyone screaming out for Smells Like Teen Spirit. Theyve gotten Fat Mike to
not be the most talkative person on a stage. Theyve mastered every single
form of pop music in the western world and now theyre taking their
Voltron-esque brand of ass-kickery to Voltrons homeland and showing the world
that even in Japanese the Gimmes are speaking the international language of
rock.
And theyre not stopping with Japan. The Gimmes are planning on doing eps in
Spanish, Italian, German and French in the near future, thereby answering the
eternal question is every single culture on earth better if a bunch of drunk
bay area weirdos add their own twist to it with a resounding YEAH YEAH
YEAH
- Track List -
01. Hero ( 2:33)
02. Kokoro No Tabi ( 2:12)
03. Kekkon Shiyoyo ( 2:43)
04. C-C-C ( 2:08)
05. 22 Sai No Wakare ( 2:17)
06. Linda Linda ( 4:02)
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