Track Focus: TIME MACHINE ni Onegai

Title: TIME MACHINE ni Onegai
By: Sadistic Mika Band
Covers: Browny Circus
Length: 4:26
Available on: NARKISSOS (SMB), Kamikaze Girls OST (BC)

It seems to me that the J-Pop scene is often more about cults of personality than about the songs themselves; which is, no doubt, how some artists like it. But what are some of our favorite J-Pop/Rock tunes–that can even survive their creators to be given new life by another artist? One of my personal favorites is the mid-tempo rocker TIME MACHINE ni Onegai, originally penned by 70’s rock group Sadistic Mika Band.

A plea of escape from the modern age to a more fashionable time, this tune was clever and catchy in the original; but it didn’t really shine until it was given the squeaky-girl treatment by up-and-coming Browny Circus and used as the closing theme for the landmark film Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma Monagatari).

Sadistic Mika Band version (2006)

Browny Circus version

…a-and I’ve shattered your productivity for today, as I defy you to get this song out of your head

Recent release from Browny Circus

Sadistic Mika Band on Wikipedia