Ongaku: Abingdon Boys School
Starting up something new here at the blog. I am a pretty big fan of Japanese music, typicaly rock. I thought perhaps I would share the bands I like with you here and there. Ongaku is the Japanese word for music….I hope. If I am wrong tell me XD. First off is a new band that I have become obsessed with, Abingdon Boys School.
Let me see, where to start off. The band is simply amazing. One of the better rock bands I have seen. They have only released one actual album so far, and according to wikipedia 4 different singles. Since I am lazy, here is the wikipedia band bio ^^.
“Stay away”, an English-language song written by Nishikawa and composed by Shibasaki, was on Love for Nana ~Only 1 Tribute~, a tribute album to the shōjo anime and manga series Nana. The band also recorded a cover of the Buck-Tick song, “Dress” (ドレス Doresu?), featured on Parade ~Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick~, an album featuring covers of Buck Tick songs by various artists.
The band performed their first live concert, “CD Data Present Music Evolution ’06″, on November 24, 2005, alongside other bands UVERworld and Tsubakiya Quartet (椿屋四重奏 Tsubakiya Shijūsō?). CD Data (CDでーた?) is a Japanese music magazine.
The band announced on September 3, 2006 that they would make their official debut through Sony Music Japan’s Epic Records (also T. M. Revolution’s record label). Their first single, Innocent Sorrow, used as the first opening to the anime D.Gray-Man, was released on December 6, 2006 and peaked at #5 on the Oricon music charts.
On 16 July 2008, Abingdon Boys School will release a live DVD from the Live concert they held in February 2008. The DVD will be sold in two versions, a limited edition with two DVDs, different packaging, pictures, and stickers. The normal edition will contain only one DVD. The price will be 5,565 yen for the limited edition and 5,040 yen for the normal edition.
The b-side song off their Innocent Sorrow single, Fre@k $HoW, was used in a tribute compilation CD for the movie Death Note: the Last Name.
Their second single, Howling, was released on May 16, 2007. It was used as the first opening to the anime Darker Than Black and peaked at #4 on the Oricon charts in its first week. Their third single, entitled Nephilim, was released on July 4, 2007, and was used as the main theme to the PlayStation 3 game FolksSoul. The single reached a peak of #5 on the oricon music charts.
On July 7, 2007, a.b.s performed their three singles as well as the b-side from their latest single NephilimJapanese leg of Live Earth in Tokyo. [1] “Lost Reason” at the
The band’s first full studio album was released on October 17, 2007. [2] Their 4th single, Blade Chord, was also released on December 5th, 2007 and was used as the theme song to Sengoku Basara: Heroes. They have also recorded a song for the Luna Sea: Memorial Cover album, a full album of Luna Sea covers dedicated to the defunct rock band. The song they covered is called “Sweetest Coma Again”.
A personal note from me though, one of my favorite songs by them is Innocent Sorrow. It just has this nice beat to it. The band all togehter is very talented, glad I ran across them. Anyway, hope you check them out sometime if you are into this type of music.
Here is the link to the full wiki on them: Abingdon Boys School
Never heard of them, I will check them out when I get the chance.
Fresh J-Band, huh??
Must hear it, since it was pretty new!! XD and L’Arc’ll also be vacuum in the next three years.. T.T , so it’d satisfy me if i found new ongaku to be heard..
They are a sick band!!!!!
With T.M. Revolution as Vocals, so cool!!!!!!
I do like their songs!!!!!
I’ll have to check them out. I’ll also have to make a post about the j-music I’m into soon here. I got quite a collection of artists I’ve become hooked on.