More from ETC Works 2

I'm not really sure why I didn't notice before, but MONGOL800 do a cover of the famous Nadasousou!

If you're curious, here is the original, sung by Rimi Natsukawa.

She is a famous Okinawan singer who I absolutely love. It is one of my many regrets not picking up one of her albums while I lived in Japan. If you're curious about her stuff, which is largely more traditional than Nadasousou, I went to the trouble of making you a short playlist of my favorites here.

This is MONGOL800's cover of the song, and as you can tell, they changed it pretty significantly.



Who are The Majestics that MONGOL800 are playing with? I have yet to find out. All I know is that I'm relatively sure it's not these guys.

Monpachi News

Hey! It's an article on Monpachi! Find it here.

The website it's posted on, the Ryuukyuu Shimpo, is a good source for local Okinawan news if your Japanese isn't ready yet for Japanese newspapers (which mine certainly isn't).

Chiisana Koi no Uta Round-up

This is going to be rather random post about Chiisana Koi no Uta.

1. I found some tabs for Chiisana Koi No Uta at http://lawi-chan.livejournal.com/36084.html

2. Someone uploaded the cut of Chiisana Koi no Uta from the Daniel DVD. I used to watch that DVD every morning before I went to work! Its so natsukashii!

3. I found a cover of the song by Yurika Ooyama, though I don't really care for it. It seems to lack a lot the emotional purity of MONGOL800, but that could just be me being hardheaded about new things.


Yurika Ooyama - Chiisana Koi no Uta by audrey707

Daimeiwaku

I thought this video was lost forever to the internets! Thank goodness that no one ever watches Dailymotion, or it may have been. No one checks dailymotion for copyright infringement, it seems!

MONGOL800 - 大迷惑 feat.奥田民生(our music) by ASHIKASAN

This is a cover of the very famous song by UNICORN, Daimeiwaku. In fact, this cover was my gateway drug to another one of my favorite singers, Okuda Tamio (the lead singer for UNICORN). You can actually see him playing the second guitar in the red hat on Kiyosaku's left.

MONGOL800's New Album!

I haven't been a very good Monpachi fan lately, which means I haven't checked the website in probably... oh... a year!

Oh dear!

Well, I've gone there now, and I can now tell you that there is good news! Monpachi is releasing a new album! HOORAY!

It'll come out on 5/18/2011, and it looks like it will follow along the same format of ETC works, though it does look like there are more songs that are wholly MONGOL800 this time around. It also looks like some of the proceeds will go to victims of the Tohoku earthquake. Cool.