Last week we included a song that saw a trio of Thai's singing a rather terrible song together, of course that wasn't the only time where we saw some Thai boxing icons singing, and needless to say many of the songs weren't great. The song for this week is Samart Payakaroon's "อ่อนซ้อม", which translates roughly as "Soft rehersal". The video and the song all sort cheesy and a mess. Don't expect any musical mastery here, but it is a rather humourus video and one that sees one of the greatest kick boxers in history not taking himself too seriously. A bit of silliness is never a bad thing and this is certainly silly.
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When three of the baddest mofo's in Asia team up you'd expect something brilliant, exciting and hard hitting. Instead we saw Khaosai Galaxy, Samart Payakaroon and Somluck Kamsing give us something that was...unique. The trio, which are genuine combat sport royalty in Thailand, come together to give us something rather bizarre. We can only assume this has come about from either at the pub or a crazy bet. Not is the song...not very good musically, but the outfits the three men are wear are just bizarre. Khaosai Galaxy is often regarded as one of the best Super Flyweights in history, Samart Payakaroon is one of the greatest Muay Thai fighters ever, and a damn good boxer as well, and Somluck Kamsing won an Olympic gold medal. This is not a trio of men you can push around, so we really need to wonder who came up with this idea....and whether they are hiding following this mess. Somewhere in the weird world that we live in a Thai singer, who is credited as Anna, or Anna Curry, recorded this masterpiece of comedy. The song "Khaokor, Khaosai", which is presumably dedicated to the Khaokor Galaxy and Khaosai Galaxy, is less than 2 minutes long, and we don't really know what she's saying but the video for the track is absolute gold and one of the best things we have seen in a very, very long time. Imagine Peter Gabriel's legendary "Sledgehammer" music video, with worse production values and a lot of magic mushrooms. We're not going to guess the lyrics on this song we implore you to give the video a watch, it's so fun, enjoyable and silly. Recently we've shared a few videos of songs that have some connection with boxing but not an an actual fighter being involved. That changes today as we turn to Thailand and the legendary Khaosai Galaxy, and his song "ขอบคุณครับ", pronounced k̄hxbkhuṇ khrạb". The name literally translates as "Thank You". Given that Galaxy was a notoriously heavy handed boxer with a tough chin and was dubbed the "Thai Tyson" this song is pretty odd. The song is just pure, wonderful, unadulterated, cheese. Khaosai sounds less like a feared boxer and more like a rising male child star. This is...certainly a weird one...but one well and truly worthy of a listen. It's so odd to hear this sort of a song come from Khaosai. For the second week running we're not getting a music video with any actual boxer's in it, but instead "Boxer" in the title with Yamaarashi's hard rock "Boxer's Road". With the title being in English, and being repeated numerous times, we can't deny the song's links to boxing but it's actually a song we suspect will have more of an appeal with American rock fans than many other tracks we include here. Fans of bands like Disturbed, System of a Down or even Limp Bizkit are likely to enjoy this one. As Yamaarashi combine rock and rap in a really interesting track. Don't get us wrong this wasn't what we were looking for for this section but given we've actually enjoyed the song we felt it was a worth inclusion in this rather eclectic weekly addition to the site. Next week we promise we will bee back to normal service with a music video featuring a boxer, or a song sung by a boxer! For a second week running we've not got a video with an actual boxer in it, but this is a song called "Boxer" by Japanese rock band Nitroday. The song sort of gives us vibes of English rock band Placebo, in terms of vocals at least. Whilst not the best video, in fact the acting in the fight scene is nothing short of hammy and the sort of thing you'd see in a 1980's B movie, there song it's self is pretty decent. Despite being called "Boxer" we only actually see a replica wrestling title, with a WWE title being flashed on screen. If nothing else we suggest a few will get a laugh out of how poorly choreographed the fight at the end of this is. After back to back cheesy music videos featuring Guts Ishimatsu we turn to something a little bit different to kick off a new month. The track here is a Jrock song called "PRAYING RUN" and is recorded by a band called UVERworld. If we're being honest it's a song we genuine quite like and like many other Japanese rock songs it combines English and Japanese lyrics to give it a catchy and odd sound. This video doesn't feature any actual boxers in major roles, but does feature quite a bit of boxing in the video. Not only is the sport depicted in the video but footage is filmed at EBISU K's box boxing gym and the old style OPBF title is also shown on screen. Whilst we haven't managed to identify any any boxers here, we do suspect some of the background cast are legitimate fighters.
We finish our month of Guts Ishimatsu related music videos as we bring you the adorable Tsuribit, a 5 piece Japanese pop group, and their song "Makenai gattsu 〜 itsuka sekai o tsuriagemasu ", which translates roughly as "Unbeatable Guts-Someday I'll catch up on the world".
The music video starts with Guts doing an office job and from there things get weird as we watch the 5 members of the band, in full cheerleaders get up, dancing, singing and later being joined by Ishimatsu in what goes down as a truly bizarre video. The juxtaposition of 5 dancing smiling teenage girls and a depressed looking Guts is just a strange, strange image. Add the song on top of that, and you get a very odd experience. It seems like June is our month of songs that, in some way, having a connection to former world champion Guts Ishimatsu. We began the month with one he recorded, the second song was one about him and today we bring you a video in which Guts plays a small cameo in. The song, which translates as "Heaven on the Beach" is performed by Southern All Stars and we get a few glimpses of Guts through the video. He's very a cameo in the video, but it's enough for us to include the video. Unlike many of the songs we'll include in this this is a really up beat, silly and fun song that we're genuinely recommending. It's cheesy, it's fun, and it's the sort of song that maybe we all need to just enjoy, especially in the dark times we've all been having recently. Also whilst we're not hugely familiar with Southern All Stars they really do seem a very likable band, and have been regarded as one of the most significant bands in Japanese history. Whilst there are Japanese musicians we are fans of, we won't pretend to be know it alls of the Japanese music scene and we really don't know much about Young Husband other than that their music is J Pop and in 2012 he released a track that roughly translates as "If I Am? Even if the World Becomes an Enemy?" Thankfully we're not hear, really, to talk about music or Japanese culture, but instead look at the times where professional fighters have featured in music videos. With that in mind we thought we'd share this 2012 release which features a young looking Kazuto Ioka, who was the the then WBC Minimumweight champion. The video is nothing too interesting, but it's certainly not the worst video or song out there...we're not going to say it's anything amazing, but there is certainly worse out there. |
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