Beat Crusaders - Hit in the USA

Beat Crusaders - Hit in the USA BECR Trivia An interesting thing to note is that whenever BECR make promotional appearances, they all wear dot-matrix images for masks.

Beck

So I bought the starter boxset to Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad. The box is kind of cool because it's shaped like an Amp and it comes with stickers and a guitar pick, plus the first five episodes of this Japanese Anime.

Like most anime series, it is very slow to build. I can summarize the first five episodes by telling you that they form their band "Beck".... but I guess the early episodes are really an introduction to all the characters.

Our lead character, Yukio, is a bit naive, but it's okay because he's only fourteen, also (unknown to him) the singer in the show.

The DVD extras are a "music video" and a rather lively commentary by Taliesin Jaffe and Christopher Bevins.

So, I found out that the catchy theme song to Beck is called "Hit in the USA" by Beat Crusaders, aka BECR.

The song's influences seems to Ramones-style, but more power pop and with an Engrish chorus of: "I was made to hit in America".

I believe the correct lyrics should be "I was made to be a hit in America", but somehow that extra letter just doesn't fit too well with the melodies... And because they're Japanese, you just accept the broken English.

Apparently they have a new album coming out on June 4th, 2008. Since I can't read Japanese, I can't really tell you much about it. Go to www.beatcrusaders.net for more information.

 04/07/2008 08:09:56  vu my♥posts beatcrusaders.net