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So we got this email from Derek Buckham, about his band Tokyo Rose, “the Cover Girl of ROCK". What a statement! He asked us to check it out. And we did. And I felt it should be featured on 3Yen. Better than “Turning Japanese” by The Vapors, and Alphaville’s “Big In Japan", Tokyo Rose is everything you expect from the 80’s.
The site features mp3 files to download, but it is really the video that you must watch. Enjoy it here now! (The download is very slow but it is worth it, believe me. Up until the very last frame.)
Reveiw in 3 Yen.Com
A quarter of the century after the first bloom, the thorns are still as sharp.
It's a rare thing - to have your songs covered but to not cover others' material, in a studio or live. Ever. So this English band are unique. Which is great. What's not so great is the fact that the group, formed in 1980, never had a major record deal. But they're still here, with original members Derek Buckham and Val Ophield, and they have some great music to offer. You can visit www.tokyorose.biz to listen to the EP and see what the guys are up to now. You could call it post punk if "Tokyo Rose" the song didn't bear THE KINKS' jolly English imprint. It simply rocks and elegantly jives, though not as hard as "You'll Hang Jack". "Go For Gold" is contrastingly dramatic and, while the theme is the Olympic games, the real subject might read as TOKYO ROSE life philosophy. They're not THE JAM, but they deserve to be well-ers.
Reviewed by Dmitry M. Epstein. check out http://www.dmme.net/reviews/reviews30.html#tokyorose