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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #15 on: September 25, 2007, 05:13:39 PM »
I actually got my copy today, the day it released in Japan. Was I pleasantly surprised! ;D ;D :D :o I was expecting to get it tomorrow on Wednesday.

I really like the album. A lot. I wrote a short review on CDJapan.

My personal faves are Sayonara-sama, Ghost PUFFY, Oedo Nagareboshi IV, Island, Kuchibiru Motion, Closet Full Of Love, and Oriental Diamond.

I really hope someone on this board who knows Japanese can translate this album. I'm dying to know what is up with "Ghost PUFFY". As far as I can tell, some guys tell PUFFY a scary story, then PUFFY Monster comes and they're yelling something about Ami and Yumi in the chorus. It's really confusing. And man, it has one heck of a long introduction! ;D
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #16 on: September 26, 2007, 11:43:47 AM »
What a nice surprise  :o  8) I just got home and found my Honeycreeper copy here already (in Finland). I guess in Japan the release day means that it's delivered on THAT day. I like their thinking  ;D

I'm listening it right now and first thing that hits me are the 'lo-fi' ish, garage like sounds. Me likey a lot but that's something that may need a bit time to get used to.

My initial favourites Oriental Diamond, Ain't Gonna Cut It, Kuchibiru Motion, Boom Boom Beat, Youkai Puffy (Ghost Puffy), Closet Full of Love, Hasan Jauze, Oh Edo Nagareboshi IV, Island. Oh dear i love this music!

Thank you Puffy for kicking my butt once again  ;D Please carry on!

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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #17 on: September 26, 2007, 12:38:42 PM »
I like the album. A lot. I've only listened to it once, so I can't elaborate until I hear it some more. But it's good.

Did anyone else get the free t-shirt? I was floored when my parcel came in a huge box today; I was only expecting two CDs and a DVD, which should have come in a smaller box. Lo and behold, I got one of the special "honeycreeper" T-shirts! I can't believe it! Of course, I can't wear it because it's a medium, but it's still cool to have! Along with the shirt, I also got a little sticker (I think) with the album cover on it and some text.

As for the shirt itself, it says "honeycreeper" in large katakana letters on the front, then on the very bottom of the back it says (also in katakana): "Puffy New Album honeycreeper", with a little drawing of a bird.

Off topic, but the DVD I got -- Suzuki Shoko: Life,/ Music & Love features Yumi quite a bit in interviews (from 2004), and there's even a clip of her and Ami singing with Shoko back in 2001 or so, so that was another welcome bonus.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #18 on: September 26, 2007, 01:14:27 PM »
I'm listening it right now and first thing that hits me are the 'lo-fi' ish, garage like sounds. Me likey a lot but that's something that may need a bit time to get used to.

Well this sounds promising from a musical standpoint, but have they just given up even trying to be mainstream in Japan at this point?  Not that there's anything wrong with that if they really just don't care (and more power to them if they don't), but it's not like they're some indie band that happened to get a record deal.  The whole reason they exist is to sell lots of albums and make a lot of money.  Maybe they don't care about that anymore, but I just worry about the kind of support they're going to continue to get from their record label and management.

I probably won't get my copy for the next few days, but I'm intrigued now.

Did anyone else get the free t-shirt? I was floored when my parcel came in a huge box today; I was only expecting two CDs and a DVD, which should have come in a smaller box. Lo and behold, I got one of the special "honeycreeper" T-shirts!

Dude, where did you order from?  I ordered from CD Japan, I am hoping to hell that's the same place you ordered from.

I'm gonna update my blog post about the shirt with this little tidbit of info...
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #19 on: September 26, 2007, 01:43:58 PM »
It probably isn't, because I didn't get all that stuff! I'm sad now.

If it IS from CD Japan, I'll have to question them about it, since I got the First Edition honeycreeper.

Jeff, I dunno if you'll like PUFFY's new sound or not .The overall album's got a glammy rock feel to it, like Kuchibiru Motion. But they can't be PUFFY without having different sounding songs on it. The very last song, Island, is an Irish folk song with electric guitars in the background! That was very unexpected.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #20 on: September 26, 2007, 01:57:16 PM »
Actually, my order was from CDJapan.

I'd scan the shirt or get pictures, but today's been a very bad day for my computer, so that won't be happening any time soon. You can see the image on Jeff's blog, anyway. The sticker is just the album cover with a little pink box underneath describing the promo t-shirt thing.

The booklet is neat -- lots of close up head shots of Ami and Yumi individually. They look a little sweaty in some of the photos, but not bad.

It's true that some of the tracks have a rougher, low-fi rock sound, but that's balanced by the singles and especially Butch Walker's tracks. "Ain't Gonna Cut It" sounds exactly like ELO to me, while "Closet Full of Love" sounds like some '80s song, but (irritatingly) I can't figure out which one. "Youkai PUFFY" is strange -- three full minutes of what sounds like a radio play, followed by a four minute song (yes, the track clocks in at over seven minutes). Other songs like "Sayonara Summer" are also quite poppy.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #21 on: September 26, 2007, 02:22:21 PM »
Actually, my order was from CDJapan.

When did they ship yours?  I'm just wondering if there's some correlation.  This shirt thing seemed to be extremely last-minute.  Well, now I'm going to be pissed off if I don't get one.

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It's true that some of the tracks have a rougher, low-fi rock sound, but that's balanced by the singles and especially Butch Walker's tracks. "Ain't Gonna Cut It" sounds exactly like ELO to me, while "Closet Full of Love" sounds like some '80s song, but (irritatingly) I can't figure out which one. "Youkai PUFFY" is strange -- three full minutes of what sounds like a radio play, followed by a four minute song (yes, the track clocks in at over seven minutes). Other songs like "Sayonara Summer" are also quite poppy.

Ami's got a new post up on Amigator where she talks a bit about Youkai PUFFY.  I can't really get all of what she's saying even after doing an auto-translate (I never can), but it seems like it does start out with some sort of ghost story before going into the song itself.  Anyway it seems like it's the song she's most impressed with.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #22 on: September 26, 2007, 03:16:29 PM »
I didn't get the email notifying me my stuff had been shipped until yesterday morning -- however, according to the EMS tracking log, my parcel was shipped out Sunday morning (my time, so late Sunday evening in Japan). Also, I ordered my disc from CDJapan almost as soon as it was listed for sale, so that may also have had something to do with it.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #23 on: September 26, 2007, 04:03:52 PM »
It's not that every purchaser of the CD can have the t-shirt.  It's only for lottery winners.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #24 on: September 26, 2007, 08:48:14 PM »
I really hope someone on this board who knows Japanese can translate this album. I'm dying to know what is up with "Ghost PUFFY". As far as I can tell, some guys tell PUFFY a scary story, then PUFFY Monster comes and they're yelling something about Ami and Yumi in the chorus. It's really confusing. And man, it has one heck of a long introduction! ;D

From what I can understand, this group of guys rings Puffy's doorbell, and Yumi says something like "Who could that be at this hour?"  Then the guys start talking in Korean, and Ami repeats it confusedly.  Yumi realizes that they're talking in Korean, and asks "Kankoku no hito? (Are you Korean?)", then Ami asks "Dochira sama? (Who are you?)". 

Then the guys say their names, adding "-sama" at the end of their names, which is beyond extremely rude in Japan, btw, lol.  Ami asks if they are Korean, then the guys say that they are like from ancient Japan (? Don't know if I heard this correctly), then say that they want to tell a scary story.  Ami is excited and says "Kikitai! (I want to hear!)", but Yumi complains, "Zen zen kikitakunai yo..(I don't want to listen at all..)"

The guys begin to tell a scary story about Youkai Puffy.  I couldn't really catch any details, but as the story goes on, Ami gets scared and says "Kowai yo! (That's scary!)" and Yumi says "Zen zen kowakunai yo (This isn't scary at all)".  They tell more of the story and say that there's a song about it, and saying how it's "hen" (weird). 

Ami and Yumi open the door, and frighteningly ask, "Konna kao desu ka?", which would mean something to the effect of "What's wrong with your face?" (I think).  Then all the guys should "The end!!".  Then the song starts.

Whew, I'm surprised I understood the majority of it!  This really helped my Japanese skills..

EDIT: BTW...."honeycreeper" is #17 on the Oricon Charts!

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #25 on: September 26, 2007, 10:55:39 PM »
 :( I pre-ordered my copy from Yesasia and it still hasnt shipped off yet >:(. I NEED IT NOW!!
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #26 on: September 27, 2007, 12:56:44 AM »
I'm listening it right now and first thing that hits me are the 'lo-fi' ish, garage like sounds. Me likey a lot but that's something that may need a bit time to get used to.

Well this sounds promising from a musical standpoint, but have they just given up even trying to be mainstream in Japan at this point?  Not that there's anything wrong with that if they really just don't care (and more power to them if they don't), but it's not like they're some indie band that happened to get a record deal.  The whole reason they exist is to sell lots of albums and make a lot of money.  Maybe they don't care about that anymore, but I just worry about the kind of support they're going to continue to get from their record label and management.


Well, i must say the garage thing is not all over the Honeycreeper but i would say it's there more than ever before. BTW, I ordered from CD Japan but didn't get t-shirt.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #27 on: September 27, 2007, 04:32:11 AM »
EDIT: BTW...."honeycreeper" is #17 on the Oricon Charts!

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

#18 now... but still not bad.  Would be nice to see it going up instead of down, though.  Hit & Fun hit #9 on the daily chart IIRC.

Lot of competition this week, though.  Look at all those 9/26 dates on that chart.
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #28 on: September 27, 2007, 09:13:59 AM »
From what I can understand, this group of guys rings Puffy's doorbell, and Yumi says something like "Who could that be at this hour?"  Then the guys start talking in Korean, and Ami repeats it confusedly.  Yumi realizes that they're talking in Korean, and asks "Kankoku no hito? (Are you Korean?)", then Ami asks "Dochira sama? (Who are you?)". 

Then the guys say their names, adding "-sama" at the end of their names, which is beyond extremely rude in Japan, btw, lol.  Ami asks if they are Korean, then the guys say that they are like from ancient Japan (? Don't know if I heard this correctly), then say that they want to tell a scary story.  Ami is excited and says "Kikitai! (I want to hear!)", but Yumi complains, "Zen zen kikitakunai yo..(I don't want to listen at all..)"

The guys begin to tell a scary story about Youkai Puffy.  I couldn't really catch any details, but as the story goes on, Ami gets scared and says "Kowai yo! (That's scary!)" and Yumi says "Zen zen kowakunai yo (This isn't scary at all)".  They tell more of the story and say that there's a song about it, and saying how it's "hen" (weird). 

I think DoAsPafii well explained the first part, so I will explain the latter part.

The three Koreans (Byon-sama, Don-sama and Goi-sama) begin to tell a scary story about what Goi-sama experienced when he was in bed in a hotel room with his girl, doing what one does when he is in bed with his girl.
But their story deviates a lot and they keep on cracking nasty obscene jokes (translating those jokes into English is beyond me).
So Ami says, "Hey, their story IS scary, but in another way.", and Yumi says to them, "I will call the police, okay?"
Then, they say please don't, and get down to telling the story.

Their story goes like this:
In the hotel room, Goi-sama noticed a loud noise coming from the next room.
He thought the noise was a snore, and he went to the next room to tell the guy stop snoring.
Coming near to the room, he realized the noise was not a snore but a song.
The door was slightly open, so he peeked at the room to find there were two scary ghosts, PUFFY-ghosts, singing a very dreadful song and dancing in a very dreadful step.

After telling that, the three Koreans yell "That's so scary! That's so scary!" unanimously, until Yumi stops their yelling.
"Pardon me for interrupting your talk, but...", say Ami and Yumi, showing their faces to the guys, "DID THE GHOSTS LOOK LIKE THIS?"
Then the Koreans cry "Aaaaaagh, THE GHOSTS!!"
...Yes, the three Koreans were speaking to the very ghosts they were talking about.

TRIVIA
  • This punch line (telling a ghost story to the ghost) is a parody of "The Mujina of the Akasaka Road", or Story of Noppera-bo, by Lafcadio Hearn.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppera-b%C5%8D
  • The lyricist (Kankuro Kudo), the songwriter (Taku Tomizawa), and the voice actors in the intro of this song are the members of a punk band "Group Tamashii", whose CD tracks are often filled with this kind of comedy skits.
  • Kankuro Kudo is a famous scenario writer in Japan.
  • The band's front man, Sadao Abe (Byon-sama in this skit), is a well-known actor. If you have ever seen a movie "Shimotsuma Story" (aka Kamikaze Girls), you may remember him as "Unicorn Ryuji".
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Re: All About Honeycreeper
« #29 on: September 27, 2007, 09:28:36 AM »
The band's front man, Sadao Abe (Byon-sama in this skit), is a well-known actor. If you have ever seen a movie "Shimotsuma Story" (aka Kamikaze Girls), you may remember him as "Unicorn Ryuji".

Well, that's awesome.  That is one of my favorite movies, I am almost ashamed to say.  (Puts me squarely in otaku-ville.)
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