22 March 2023

Thirsting for Blood

 

One year ago today I featured Wendy O Williams & the Plasmatics.
 

In a comment, Neil Dawson sez: "Will you ever do an entry on the Bloodthirsty Butchers?"

In response, I sez: "Neil, I will add the Bloodthirsty Butchers to my to-do list. Just to let you know, that list is hella long but I do try to get to everything eventually (however long that should be)."


I also added that I don't know all that much about Japanese bands. 

Bloodthirsty Butchers are a indie / punk band from Sapporo, Japan. They formed in 1986. Although well known in Japan, they are much less known in the West. 

I first heard them on the Periscope compilation from Pat Maley of Olympia, WA Yoyo Studios. I posted Periscope here.

They started off Side B of that album with "I Hate You". They had a song "Lost in Time" on the following Yoyo a Go Go comp.

Bloodthirsty Butchers was: Hideki Yoshimura - vocals & guitar; Hisako Tabuchi (ex-Number Girl) - additional guitar from 2003; Takeshi Imoriya - bass; & Masahiro Komatsu - drums.

 

Hideki Yoshimura died of acute cardiac failure May 27, 2013 & that was the end of the Butchers.

The band's earliest sound is free-form punk based around loose jams through long, meandering songs with shouted vocals. 1996s release Kocorono (their fourth) largely redefined the Butchers' sound into more conventional alternative rock with a more introspective style with wandering guitar & melodic bass. 2003s Kouya ni Okeru found the Bloodthirsty Butchers further evolving their sound with shorter, more accessible songs that had a brighter mood than much of their previous material. With the addition of Hisako Tabuchi, the band further evolved towards tighter song structures on Banging the Drum & Guitarist wo Korosanaide.

Let's start with their first demo cassette.

 

Bloodthirsty Butchers - 1st Demo Cassette, BTSC, 1987.
all decryption codes in comments


Swimming Eyes
ラリホ
Never Give Up
Low Life
目を覚ませと呼ぶ声が聞こえ 

 

 

Next, some live tracks prior to their first full-length (though not released until post-BB).

Bloodthirsty Butchers - Live 1986-1990, King Records KIZB-213, 2015

Run on the Road
I Don’t Wanna Be Alone Tonight
Blowin’ in the Wind
For You
Looking Outside
目を覚ませと呼ぶ声が聞こえ
Fight! You! Never Die!
Unknown
Let’s Start
Swimming Eyes
ラリホー
Never Give Up
Cowboy
Wake Up
ラ・ラ・ラ
More Than Fight! Marching On!
Ready Steady Go 
 
 

 
Now their first album.
 
Bloodthirsty Butchers - Bloodthirsty Butchers, B.S.P. Project BSP-005, 1990.

She's Break
I'm on Fire
Drop Out
I'm Blue 
Silencer
AM 6:00
Your Sad Story
Clash! Sky!

 
 
 
 
A split with Rocket from the Crypt.
 

RftC Side A -
Cut it Loose

RftC Side B -
On Living & Dying
Pressures On

BB Side A -
Water

BB Side B -
Alligator
Raven
 
 
 
 
Bloodthirsty Butchers - kocorono, Bellwood Records KICS 587, 1996.

February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
7:19 of dead air
tracks 13 - 74 (4 second sound bites)

bonus track – I assembled the 61 segments to hear the song uninterrupted
bonus bonus – Kocorono (from 2016 reissue)
 
 
 
 
Bloodthirsty Butchers - Banging the Drum, Columbia Music Entertainment COCP 50847, 2005.

序章
B2
サンザン
ゴキゲンイカガ
This is Music
YAMAHA-1
Maruzen House
プラス
マイナス
No. 6
Banging the Drum
 
 
 
 

& the last official BB release... 
 
 
Bloodthirsty Butchers – Youth(青春), King Records KICS-1967, 2013.

レクイエム
コリないメンメン
デストロイヤー
ディストーション
サイダー
Techno! Chidoriashi
Goth
ハレルヤ
Youth
アンニュイ

Enjoy,

1 comment:

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    Live 1986-1990
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    Self-titled
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