{"id":1162,"date":"2005-09-08T03:29:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T08:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2011-11-04T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:20:28","slug":"band-of-the-month-september-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Band of the Month &#8211; September 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boom. Check this, kids. This month&#8217;s band is another one of those foreign ones. Also, they&#8217;re another one of those bands that nobody&#8217;s heard of, and I only came across because they were featured in a video game. And to top it all off, they play a style of music I <s>almost<\/s> never talk about, but absolutey love to listen to. Today, we pay tribute to the Asianest surf gutar band this side of anywhere: the Surf Coasters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/botm\/surfcoasters.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Yeah, they&#8217;re this Japanese surf band that absolutely rocks. Well, that&#8217;s maybe saying a bit much. You see, I&#8217;ve only really heard about a total of seven or so songs from them, but trust em on this one, they&#8217;re good. I originally heard of &#8217;em when I found out they were headlingin the soundtrack to Musashi: Samurai Legend. Turns out they were just doing the main theme, but any publicity is good publicity, right? After I sampled the sweet tune known as &#8220;Samurai Struck&#8221;, I myself was quite struck and immediately went on a search for more. Sadly, music by the Surf Coasters is harder to come by on the internet than a website without ads. It&#8217;s out there somewhere, but you&#8217;re going to spend a lot of time and effort looking for it.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s something new to learn about me: I love surf music. Not a big fan of the sport so much, but nothing can even compare to the wail of a surf guitar. And you all know what I&#8217;m talking about, whether you think you do or not. The Surf Coasters (just like any other surf band worth it&#8217;s salt) has covered &#8220;Misirlou&#8221;, and you know &#8220;Misirlou&#8221;. Think Pulp Fiction. If nothing else, it&#8217;s the easiest SC song to find, so go check that out. You&#8217;ll recognize it immediately. The only surf song more well known is Wipeout, but that&#8217;s like the definition of surf music. Anyhow, Surf Coasters rock.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Misirlou&#8221; is great, but at least some of their other stuff shines too, like &#8220;Shark Attack&#8221; and &#8220;Kuroshiro&#8221;, or even the mellowed-out &#8220;Adventures in Paradise&#8221;. I really haven&#8217;t heard many songs other than the ones I mentioned, and I&#8217;m not about to make a complete list, but it&#8217;s all been good. I&#8217;d say more, but I&#8217;m not sure what to say, and I&#8217;m pretty much satisfied with giving a more obscure band a turn in the spotlight. So yeah, go download some tunes by the Surf Coasters, if for no other reason than to help me in my search for more. I&#8217;d import, but it&#8217;s damned expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Also, good news for me! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet-megaman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Megaman<\/a> is finally back after being down for like the whole summer. (EDIT &#8211; Or not so much&#8230;) You probably don&#8217;t give much of a damn, but it was an important part of my &#8220;daily rounds&#8221;. And on a completely different note, I go back to school in three and a half hours. After 14 months of not-learning, my brain has gotten used to being used as little as possible, so we&#8217;ll see how this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boom. Check this, kids. This month&#8217;s band is another one of those foreign ones. Also, they&#8217;re another one of those bands that nobody&#8217;s heard of, and I only came across because they were featured in a video game. And to top it all off, they play a style of music I almost never talk about, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Band of the Month &#8211; September 2005<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botm","category-irl","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}