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December 01, 2004
Beat Crusaders
No updates last week -- Sarah and I were traveling around the state, making the big circuit from Bloomington, to West Lafayette, to Muncie, and back. (And no, we weren't trying to hit all of the Scotty's Brewhouse locations.) I've have a lot of work this week, getting ready for two in-class presentations. But things should be better after this afternoon.
So I've been listening to some tracks by the Beat Crusaders recently. They're a Japanese band (of course) that plays some punky power-pop with great crunchy guitars and very synth-y keyboards. I've been listening to the "Hit in the USA" single, which is how I recently encountered the band -- the song is the opening theme to the Beck anime. (Which has nothing to do with the multitalented former folksinger Beck.) The songs the track is backed with are pretty good too -- I can envision some midwestern punk band I would have seen at a small practice space in the 90s playing a song like "Supercollider" (minus the slick production and keyboards) and "B.A.D." has synths that sound like they're straight out of Van Halen's "Jump." I'll certainly have to track down more of the Beat Crusaders's stuff.
Posted by brianruh at December 1, 2004 10:17 AM
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hey i've been tryin to get ahold of some beat crusader stuff. can you kinda direct me a bit? i've spend the entire day scouring google and yahoo search engines.. but ya.. all i've come up with is hit in america so any further directions would really be appreciated thanks!
alex
Posted by: alex at December 16, 2004 02:43 AM