Underground Follies I"Three Nocturnal Creatures" by Sony recording artists
Yura Yura Teikoku,
interpreted by semi-pro dancers from the Koenji
Awa Odori Association,
according to comments.
The staring rubber masks I don't know about.
The almost immovable trunk of the guy in the middle is something not easy
to imitate. Although watching the whole thing is like watching a GIF animation
looping for three minutes.
Yura Yura Teikoku formed in 1989 and moved on to other things 2010.
Their website is now a commercial for Kirin flavored sake in a can.
The band profile from their old label Mesh-Key says Shintaro Sakamoto used
to shave his eyebrows and wear waist-length hair like a folkloric ghost.
In this video, they actually appear.
ゆらゆら帝国で考え中 MV2012 OCT 26 by KxExBx (03:10)
Yura Yura Teikoku
"Kangaechuu (Thinking It Over)" from Yura Yura Teikoku
Underground Follies IITHE TIMERS feat. ZERRY (Kiyoshiro Imawano) live on Fuji TV
Holy wow. This performance is legend, come to find out.
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TIMERS at JP Wikipediaja.wikipedia.org/wiki/タイマーズIchiro Furutani looks back on the
Kiyoshiro Imawano / Timers FM Tokyo incident 2016 NOV 19 by Staff for A Hole Full of News (JP)
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It was the 1989 October 13 live broadcast of a series called "Hit Studio R&N"
on Fuji TV. The YT uploader labeled this a "broadcast incident" in the sense
of a mishap, but it was no accident.
Parody Japanese versions of English-language hits were standard fare for the Timers.
But their second song is a suicide attack on media censorship in revenge for having
some song content banned from radio in Tokyo and Sendai due to violations of
broadcast standards.
The Timers had also had anti-nuclear songs curtailed by their label Toshiba,
a major supplier to the nuclear power industry.
During the broadcast, the group made a bandit substitution for "Gizensha (Hypocrite)",
the expected second song they had rehearsed.
Reportedly the atmosphere at rehearsal had been strange enough that the Timers
had already been privately cautioned against doing anything funny on air.
The show's producers could have killed the sound, but they didn't (local re-broadcasts
were censored). The hosts appear shocked but amused on camera. There were apologies
and so forth afterwards, but at the time people were either frozen in disbelief or
a little drunk on the feeling that nothing can stop this.
Whoa. Haha, I told you not to trust them. "Hey, FM Sendai!! I'm talking to you too!" I'm calling in sick tomorrow morning.Afterwards, the angry remonstrations and repercussions. The apologizing started before
the band left the set ("Unpleasant — FM Tokyo-san, sorry, it's inexcusable").
The Timers got banned even more than they had been, and Toshiba put them on hold
for 3 years afterwards as a combo punishment/apology to the powers that be.
The fates of the people running the broadcast are not recorded, but if they were all
hung from a transmitter tower, they went out as heroes of the revolution. Particularly
the mixer who folded in the audience reactions — ice-cold professionalism under fire.
Thanks to Fuji TV and the home tapers, 28 years later we can still experience the time
the Timers began by calling FM Tokyo rotten bastards, weak, and in the pockets of the
politicians, and ended by offering to engage in sex with them, and Sendai too.
Liberally salted with the most impermissable common term in the language.
All to the tune of "Long Tall Sally".
Oh my god, he didn't just say that. He said it! He said it AGAIN!!