Transparent Things by Fujiya & Miyagi

This is one CD I do not care if I keep or not. If someone can provide a good home for it, I can part with it, email me if you are interested. When I first heard the name of the band was Fujiya & Miyagi, right away my mind went to, the owner of a sushi restaurant in Uptown and the old guy from Karate Kid. So what kind of music would two old Japanese guys make? Not this music, that is for sure. These are actually English guys from what I could gather. I purposefully try to not to find out much about the band, including reviews of the album. It would only prejudice me in one way or another so I try to go into the CD pretty blind. The music is mostly instrumental, a lot of bass, synthesizer, and drums. I guess you could call it electronica but I am not completely convinced. It did have some good beats in some of the songs but they are so weird. Most of the songs also sound surprisingly similar. There is the one song that the Current plays called "Ankle Injuries." I never knew that was the name of the song because for a great deal of the song, they just repeat the words "Fujiya Miyagi." I always thought that was the name of the song too. If you listen close enough to the words though, they say "ankle injuries" during the song. That's another thing with the CD that I wasn't super thrilled with, it felt as though the singer wasn't really singing. It felt like he was reading a poem, perhaps an Emily Dickinson or e.e. cummings poem, because the words never seemed to make much sense. Ok, I probably need to step back a little. The CD is not as bad as I am making it out to be, it just isn't my style.

My favorite song was Collarbone. The guy says the whole bone thing towards the end of the song, you know, the neck bone connected to the collarbone, etc. At the beginning of the song too, he says "Got to get a new pair of shoes to kick it with her, not kick it with you." Wow, that's pretty cruel but sometimes that's the way it goes. I also liked the beats in that song. You could feel the groove and dance with that one. I don't always have a deep meaningful reason for liking a song, it just needs to entertain me a little.

Why in the world would Ross buy this you ask? I did ask that. As I have said before though he had extremely eclectic tastes. He might have been attracted to the CD by the song on the Current but he also did like electronica music when it came to dancing. I remember one of the first times I went out with him. He invited me to go dancing with him and some of his friends. We went to First Avenue for Danceteria. He and his friends danced for hours. I couldn't keep up! I think that is one of the things I found most attractive about him. He was a man who liked to dance and was good at it, none of that white man's overbite with him. He could thrash with the best of them but he could also groove with the best of them.

I am going to try something here. Here is a link to a Youtube video for the song Collarbone. It's kind of a cute video. Let me know if this works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMBndXAaPrw