Sunday, January 21, 2018

Southern All Stars

Artist: Southern All Stars ( サザンオールスターズ )
LP: Hot Uneasiness ( 熱い胸さわぎ )
Song: "Willfully Sinbad" ( 勝手にシンドバッド )
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I didn't realize when I picked up this 1978 Southern All Stars LP at Everyday Music a few years ago that I was acquiring the debut album of the #1 most influential Japanese rock group of all time. (According to a 2003 list, anyhow.) At one point Southern All Stars' songs held 44 spots in the weekly Top 100 Japanese singles chart. That hardly leaves room for anyone else! You can read about the group here and go here to find their entire discography.

I'm afraid my smart phone English translations may be a little off—at least I hope so. Otherwise the Southern All Stars are simply full of nonsense. Wikipedia provided the translations above. (With mine, the album title came out as "Hot Chest Rave," with their debut single called either "Sinbad Without Permission" or "Arbitrarily Sinbad.") Anyhow, I've done the best I could. Google-translated English lyrics to "Willfully Sinbad" included below. Enjoy!


Willfully Sinbad

Chigasaki people of sand and sand and waves disappear 
and memories of summer days disappear into eyes a little
Even so, my tears do not stop
How awful like a lady a little hot tonight
I'll burn a burst of burns
* I remember you until a while
I remembered you 
Shy heart I can not stay like 
the rouge color just came floating * 

** What time is it?
Well what kind of temples are you?
Wait a moment and what time is it now?
It is still an early magical thing
Looking at you, it is the essence of the Moon Raw Row... **

When can I meet Ai Nami lover
Why do not you draw your eyes 
like crowding yourself together

Even the house where Enoshima got to see 
is forgetting that a woman crawling nearly as a dream

No, no I got the sound of the waves tonight
Talking to the man's heart
Waist of the chest of the breasts

[ Southern All Stars ]

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