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like were people super into Big Brother & The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, Grateful Dead, The Jimmi Hendrix Experience, etc? I find this album so interesting from a historical point of view and just a cultural one too. All of it is sung in english, the only japanese song (左足の男) is an instrumental, and the little conversations they have at the start and end of each side, did japanese people then know the english to get anything from those? I'm not sure, but I am curious about these things, maybe there were tons young hippies in Tokyo who were super into the California Sound™ and all that but not as much into japanese music of the time which was populated by Group Sounds groups covering foreign music. Genuinely not sure though, just talking out of my ass here, though I know people like Haruomi Hosono did listen to Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield, except unlike a bunch of the Group Sounds bands they just took inspiration from them to make their own thing.

I swear the best thing about here is the music from the 60s-80s. so many great musicians came into their own due to the awful conditions the country was in during the military dictatorship. People Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jorge Ben Jor, Mutantes, Raul Seixas.. I love all of them a ton. bossa nova, samba, rock, psychedelic rock, tropicalia really is my favorite movement. socially conscious music feels like it be forever relevant in this country, there's so many Raul songs that could apply to the 70s and the 2020s just as easily.

*the psychedelic rock/experimental avantgarde band that goes by that name not the failed fascist state.

feel like I should expand my horizons of 60s experimental music. I've yet to really dive into The Mothers (of Invention), Captain Beefheart (and his Magic Band), there's probably other stuff there I don't even know about but I do love the united states of america. excellent fucking album through and through.