Sounds From The Junkshop #122 - Electric Eel Shock
"When I am high, my axe is acid!" - Electric Eel Shock - Scream For Me It's often been said that the Japanese do rock 'n' roll slightly different to us Brits. Cultural barriers, call it what you will but it's safe to say that the vast majority of Japanese rock bands I've encountered down the years have often mixed brilliance and oddness. Cases in point - Guitar Wolf (Link Wray obsessed leather clad garage punks who covered Rumble in a different style on every single one of their albums), EZO (Gene Simmons managed facepaint clad hair metallers whose albums inevitably sounded like '80s Kiss but much heavier)*, Shonen Knife (Kurt Cobain approved all-girl Ramonesy pop-punks with a hard edge) and Mika Bomb (same thing except ten years later and minus the Kurt endorsement). I mean, granted, not everything in this genre works (as anyone who remembers Babymetal's truly dreadful nails-on-chalkboard attempt at thrash will tell you) but sometimes you en...