Johnny Dee

Johnny Dee is a Japaneese group which is in love with all things guitary and poptastic about early 80's Britpop, and that's OK in my book. This LP starts with the instrumental Theme For Johnny Dee which is about as close a ripoff of the Monochrome Sets brilliant 405 Lines as you can get while staying different. It even displays the quirkyness of the Monochrome Set as there are "pauses" in the song where you can hear background talking and some says at one point "I married a hooker.." It's a fun song. Many of the songs on this LP copy styles of their idols I suppose, and songs are even dedicated to one of them, such as Why I Like Max Eider. In some of the songs there is little detection of accent, but in some there is. That is perhaps most prevalent and interesting on what is the most noteworthy track here, their cover of the brilliantly beautiful Go-Betweens masterpiece Bachelor Kisses. It's done slowish with great reverberating guitar chords and singer Hiroshi either makes no attempt to hide his accent or sings it deliberately that way