Category: Music

Omokage Lucky Hole: His Load Was Huge

While a fair amount of Omokage Lucky Hole songs tend to fall into either the categories of uncomfortably seedy comedy, dark biting satire, or both, a lot of their songs also tell pretty serious and dire stories about tumultuous relationships between men and women. OLH songs can paint pretty...

Adventures in Purchasing Obscure Indies CDs: Omokage Lucky Hole’s Melo

About two years ago I wrote an article on the Japanese indies band Omokage Lucky Hole. It’s not a great article–it’s written alright, but the translations of the titles and my understanding of the songs’ contents are pretty poor. I haven’t gotten that much better over the past two...

Lupin III’s Mysterious Background Muisic

You may hear people say that the music in Lupin III is smooth enough that even the ears of music people will perk up. And yes, the music that appears on those Lupin III soundtracks is quite good. Those soundtracks are gigantic lies. Just recently I was powering through...