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Fukuoka, Japan (1995 – 2002)
One of the biggest and most influential bands of the Japanese indie rock scene, Number Girl was a quartet hailing from Fukuoka, Japan. Formed in 1995, they gradually gained a following in their hometown, and soon released their first album, School Girl Bye Bye in 1997. The band was later picked up by Toshiba EMI and released their major label debut, School Girl Distortional Addict.
Initially somewhat evocative of the Pixies and Sonic Youth, the band evolved and found themselves creating their own unique mixture of indie rock and traditional Japanese sounds in their subsequent albums, Sappukei and Num-Heavymetallic (both produced by Dave Fridmann.
They disbanded in 2002 when it was announced that bassist Nakao was leaving the band, and the former members moved on to other projects - Mukai and Inazawa formed Zazen Boys. Tabuchi formed toddle shortly after Number Girl’s breakup and joined bloodthirsty butchers as an official member after being a guest guitarist for a number of shows throughout their Kouya Ni Okeru tour in early 2003. Nakao joined SPIRAL CHORD after their original bassist left, and shortly after formed SLOTH LOVE CHUNKS.
They disbanded in 2002 when it was announced that bassist Nakao was leaving the band, and the former members moved on to other projects - Mukai and Inazawa formed Zazen Boys. Tabuchi formed toddle shortly after Number Girl’s breakup and joined bloodthirsty butchers as an official member after being a guest guitarist for a number of shows throughout their Kouya Ni Okeru tour in early 2003. Nakao joined SPIRAL CHORD after their original bassist left, and shortly after formed SLOTH LOVE CHUNKS.
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Genlki wrote:
Such a blissful band.
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kaitokid05 wrote:
19K?!? LETS GO
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JoshP1134 wrote:
Definitely has the same rhythmic feel, and yeah probably a rip-off. "Num-Ami-Dabutz" was basically the band's rewriting of their previous songs on their 2000 album, "SAPPUKEI": "ABSTRACT TRUTH" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBSU89r9Zq0] and "U-REI" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5TWrRupGU]; both songs which had spoken word over _____ rock arrangements. The frontman, Mukai Shutoku, has an eclectic taste of music. For SAPPUKEI, he mentions in an interview on the band's DVD the following albums: Rolling Stones' "Black & Blue", Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back", Hüsker Dü's "Zen Arcade", and I think one more, but my point is being that he most likely have come across the Pop Group in his life. You can see his blog (which he rarely updates these days) of his recent musical snags here: http://www.mukaishutoku.com/mukai_past.html
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pauloemanuel wrote:
am I the only one to think that "num-ami-dabutz" sounds like a rip-off of "She is beyond good and evil" from The Pop Group?
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jakobdorof wrote:
getting into this band courtesy of Tim Rogers' awesome new book. http://twitter.com/number108
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greenapple34 wrote:
I love this band!!!
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neurozero wrote:
=)
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Tai-Jin wrote:
Steadily growing to become one of my favorite bands! Wish I still had the chance to seen them live sometime, the DVD will have to do though :-(
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opetyope wrote:
私は、このバンドを愛しています。たま、らんよね。
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kaitokid05 wrote:
those seventh chords man
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SinkingStarship wrote:
Lawrence: I think all of NG's songs are in standard tuning, except a few where Mukai uses drop-D. It's definitely not like Sonic Youth with all the weird tunings (which I thought at first, too.) However, they use capos a lot. Check live videos in you're unsure.
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lumbercartel wrote:
THIS IS SOME TIGHT SHIT
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kaitokid05 wrote:
18K. MOAR MOAR MOAR
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yui-kun wrote:
First time fangirling on NG's shoutbox after 11k+ scrobbles. They're probably the only band that I will love forever.
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kaitokid05 wrote:
I KNO RIGHT?!
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giantroot wrote:
They are SO BAD ASS
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LawrenceLaFlame wrote:
Does anyone know what tunings Number Girl may have used?
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Acquisition wrote:
yum
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_KevMusic_ wrote:
Ugh. Just ordered a lot of their stuff of amazon.jp. So! We'll see how it goes.
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Germaphobe_ wrote:
<3 [2]
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