Dear listener, every now and then I enjoy posting music that is absolutely, 100% pure batshit. So, allow me to submit a tune by a Japanese expatriate duo that is equal parts brilliant and bat guano, that being Cibo Matto. Right off the bat, I don’t know if I could possibly recommend a group that generates music that is more absurd, but at the same time completely hypnotic in tone. During their genesis in the mid to late 90’s, their music was originally heavily centered around the subject of food. That’s right… food. And with songs entitled ‘Know Your Chicken’ and ‘Beef Jerky’ in their earlier musical efforts… needless to say, I had a little bit of trouble connecting with their discography at first. This tune, Sugar Water from 1996’s Viva! La Woman, was my first sample of CM’s tunes and was delivered to me by way of Season 2 Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Screw the haters, that show ruled! Years later, I keep going back to this tune and this group’s catalog if I’m feeling mindless and in the mood to chill. In over two and a half decades, this duo managed to crank out a grand total of three full length albums. While they’re not a household name, they did at least try to shed their food-centric underpinnings and create a handful of records that varied in structure, theatrics, and themes. While CM’s music never really sold big in the U.S., it sold even worse in Japan. However, to their credit, I keep coming back to their catalog because it’s just fun, catchy and good in small doses… sometimes in a so bad its good kind of way. And don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t post batshit music if I personally didn’t like it. This group produces tunes that manage to be endearing, entrancing and artsy. For that reason, I have been won over for many years by their Shibuya style, which is a hell of a lot more thoughtful, original, interesting, humorous, and vital than any ‘modern’ (see also ‘dumbed-down’) corporate radio-friendly music. If you need a little bit of escapism or if you’re just in the mood for something different and even better than modern chillout/chillwave, smash play and enjoy!
It was the episode where Buffy is being a twat about dying in the previous season and is teasing Xander with a sexy dance at The Bronze. If you understood any part of the previous sentence, how’s it feel to be with me in nerd-virgin hell? Image source: https://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267029140/first-listen-cibo-matto-hotel-valentine
"Why did Ichigo end up with Orihime instead of Rukia?!"Because no punk would fall in love with a rich girl who's part of a military system if they're best friends with an autistic trans girl.Hope this helps <3
some of y’all really liked what I did with the Dico part of my last fic (putting him in his place and slapping him around a little) so now I’m definitely considering doing a full fic…