To me, this is the essence of Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It's that feeling of youth that so many other J-rock bands try to capture, but none quite as strongly as AKG. It's a shame that it hasn't been used in an anime yet, but here's hoping Bocchi season 2 picks it up
The college kids who invented modern emo are now the divorced dads giving you sterile divorced dad indie rock.
This track is not that though, IMO. The main riff is as addicting as Never Meant's. Singer Mike Kinsella's aging vocals give just the right amount of lostness to elevate this song into one of the best from this band of sad dads.
Radiohead are my favorite band, weird politics aside. And as much as In Rainbows is my favorite album of theirs, I do wish we got this version of Videotape as the closer instead.
Whereas the album version was skeletal, mournful, and resigned, this version of Videotape almost sounds celebratory or blissful. It's a dignified acceptance of one's death.
Opening with one of the most badass lines in all of rock, you're thrown right into the cigarette smog of Patti Smith's machismo-filled cover of Gloria. First she hooks you with undeniable swagger, and then the track builds in intensity until she ah-ah makes you hers. I guarantee the chorus will be stuck in your head all day.
Your MC description reminds me of a demon/baddie role in [Blood on the Clocktower].
The role can swallow victims and then bring them back to life later in the game.
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