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defrogIt’s fair to say the majority of my 45 collection is fairly mainstream – which is to say, the artists and songs are mostly ones yr likely to have heard of, and still hear on oldies stations from time to time.
A few are pretty obscure, and I’ve posted some of them already. I’m not really sure which qualifies as the most obscure 45 in the collection. But surely this 80s metal song about samurais is a top contender.
Grand Prix were a British metal band from 1978 to 1984, and this was the title track to their third and final album. Two of them went on to join Uriah Heep while vocalist Robin McAuley later teamed up with Michael Schenker.
I’m not even 100% sure why I even had this. I think I inherited it from a friend who was enamored with the whole samurai mythos. And listening to it now, I’m not entirely sure why I thought it was worth inheriting. I guess it does have that kind of earnest epicness that a lot of UK/European 80s hair-metal bands displayed – proggy arrangements, fist-raising anthemic choruses in four-part harmony, cheesy synths, serious riffage, and pretentious lyrics about Honor and Glory and Warriors and Kings and etc. It’s kind of like a Manowar-Europe non-aggression pact for Japanese culture buffs and Styx fans. Or people who love their metal kitschy.
Anyway, there it is.
PRODUCTION NOTE: It took me forever to find this one on YouTube, because (1) I couldn’t remember the name of the band, and (2) without that information, when you Google “samurai” and “song” you inevitably get that Michael Cretu song, which is even more “80s” than the Grand Prix song.
The sword is yr soul,
This is dF
A few are pretty obscure, and I’ve posted some of them already. I’m not really sure which qualifies as the most obscure 45 in the collection. But surely this 80s metal song about samurais is a top contender.
Grand Prix were a British metal band from 1978 to 1984, and this was the title track to their third and final album. Two of them went on to join Uriah Heep while vocalist Robin McAuley later teamed up with Michael Schenker.
I’m not even 100% sure why I even had this. I think I inherited it from a friend who was enamored with the whole samurai mythos. And listening to it now, I’m not entirely sure why I thought it was worth inheriting. I guess it does have that kind of earnest epicness that a lot of UK/European 80s hair-metal bands displayed – proggy arrangements, fist-raising anthemic choruses in four-part harmony, cheesy synths, serious riffage, and pretentious lyrics about Honor and Glory and Warriors and Kings and etc. It’s kind of like a Manowar-Europe non-aggression pact for Japanese culture buffs and Styx fans. Or people who love their metal kitschy.
Anyway, there it is.
PRODUCTION NOTE: It took me forever to find this one on YouTube, because (1) I couldn’t remember the name of the band, and (2) without that information, when you Google “samurai” and “song” you inevitably get that Michael Cretu song, which is even more “80s” than the Grand Prix song.
The sword is yr soul,
This is dF
