The Pillows - Good Dreams

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:05 am

Picked this up the other night, been listening to it and my other major jrock purchase (AKFG's 'Soruba') a lot lately.

Anyway, the Pillows. If you've only really gotten into their stuff from FLCL, I highly recommend picking up this album, either off the 'net or when the new convention season begins. The best tracks would have to be Walkin' On The Spiral, その未来は今 (the single released right before the album), and Good Dreams. They're also announcing a new tour, although most of the tickets have probably been snapped up by the fanclub by now. Definately a strong showing for a band's 15th anniversary...

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:30 pm

Woohoo!
I actually got their single album not so long ago,
and I can definitely agree with dokool that その未来は今 was an awesome track.
Got to get my hands on Good Dreams.

FLCL fans- get 'em while they're hot (which they are always :] )

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:54 pm

AMVfreak wrote:Woohoo!
I actually got their single album not so long ago,
and I can definitely agree with dokool that その未来は今 was an awesome track.

What's the single album called? Every record store in Tokyo has pretty much all their albums on display... there was also a tribute album released a month and a half ago ('Synchronized Rockers'), but it's a tall order at 3000Y.

Can't *wait* to see them in concert...

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:08 pm

dokool wrote:What's the single album called? Every record store in Tokyo has pretty much all their albums on display... there was also a tribute album released a month and a half ago ('Synchronized Rockers'), but it's a tall order at 3000Y.

Can't *wait* to see them in concert...

Hehe...
Well the single album was released on 10/6
and is called その未来は今
I guess they shoved in the same song into Good Dreams, it appears.
As for Synchronized Rockers, man that album was awesome shtuff.

Can't *wait* to see them in concert...

OMGFWTF
lucky bastard.
;_;

Nonetheless, enjoy the concert, gotta love 'em.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:40 pm

AMVfreak wrote: As for Synchronized Rockers, man that album was awesome shtuff.

I'll wait till it shows up in recycle stores here. I mean, I want to get it, but 3000Y is a wee bit much.

Can't *wait* to see them in concert...

OMGFWTF
lucky bastard.
;_;

Nonetheless, enjoy the concert, gotta love 'em.[/quote]

Yeah, I see them a week <i>after</i> I see Asian Kung-fu Generation... that's gonna be a loooooooong week =)

Of course, nothing's in stone until I physically recieve my ticket, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Rurounikeitaro · Post by **Rurounikeitaro** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:37 pm

15th aniversary?? How old are they? They didn't sound that old on their album!? "I should have bought it instead of downloading to know the info"

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:02 pm

Since when is 15 years old, old? Even for a band...

...if you want old, you should know my favorite

***

Err, anyway, my brother's been showing me some non-FLCL-related Pillows material lately, and I gotta say, I was impressed. I'd really like to own some of their work eventually.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:27 am

Otohiko wrote:Err, anyway, my brother's been showing me some non-FLCL-related Pillows material lately, and I gotta say, I was impressed. I'd really like to own some of their work eventually.

One thing to remember is that they didn't record the songs just for FLCL, they were all songs that were on previous albums. One could consider the FLCL soundtrack a 'Best Of.'

Oh, and the band members are 35 (Sawao Yamanaka, vox+g), 40 (Shinichiro Sato, d), and 42 (Yoshiaki Manabe, g).

This basically means that they formed in their 20s. Not unreasonable at all.