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"Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Sep-06-14 AT 08:35 PM (EDT)
 
AON x HTT:
The Art of Noise vs. Hōkago Tea Time
When Bands Collide

Recorded Live at the Councilman Sokka Memorial Amphitheatre, Republic Park
Republic City, United Republic of Nations, Dìqiú
Xinqiwu, Qiyue 23, 291 ASC
(Friday, July 23, 2410)

Tracks in blue performed by the Art of Noise
Tracks in red performed by Hōkago Tea Time
Tracks in purple are mixed jams

1. "Sakuragaoka Joshi Kōtō Gakkō Kōka (Rock Ver.)"
"Sakuragaoka Girls' High School Anthem (Rock Ver.)"
Hōkago Tea Time
Pure Pure Heart (2010)

2. "Don't Stop Believin'"
Journey
Revelation (2008)

3. "Cagayake! GIRLS (5nin Ver.)"
"Shine! Girls (5-Person Ver.)"
Hōkago Tea Time
K-On! Sakura Kō Keionbu Official Band Yarōyo!! (2009)

4. "Roll with the Changes"
REO Speedwagon
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish (1978)

5. "Savior of Song"
nano feat. MY FIRST STORY
Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova (2013)

6. "Listen!!"
Hōkago Tea Time
Listen!! (2010)

7. "More than a Feeling"*
Boston
Boston (1978)

8. "The Spirit of Radio"
Rush
Permanent Waves (1980)

9. "Pure Pure Heart"
Hōkago Tea Time
Pure Pure Heart (2010)

10. "Won't Get Fooled Again"
The Who
Live Aid (1985)

11. "U&I (Eiga K-On! Mix)"
Hōkago Tea Time
Hōkago Tea Time in Movie (2012)

12. Jam for World in Action
(authorship disputed)
World in Action (1980s British ITV current-affairs program)

13. "Peg o' My Heart"
Dropkick Murphys feat. Bruce Springsteen
Going Out in Style (2011)

14. "Gīta ni Kubittake"
"Head Over Heels for Gīta"
Hōkago Tea Time
K-On! Character Image Song Series Vol. 1: Yui (2009)

15. "House of the Rising Sun"
Eric Burdon & the Animals
The Animals (1964)

16. "Don't Say 'Lazy' (5nin Ver.)"
Hōkago Tea Time
K-On! Sakura Kō Keionbu Official Band Yarōyo!! (2009)

17. "Money for Nothing"
Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms (1985)

18. "Curry Nochi Rice"
"Curry, Then Rice"
Hōkago Tea Time
Hōkago Tea Time (2009)

19. "Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor"
Electric Light Orchestra
Flashback (2000)

20. "Wonderland"
Big Country
Come Up Screaming (2001)

21. "NO, Thank You!"
Hōkago Tea Time
NO, Thank You! (2010)

22. "Rockin' in the Free World"
Neil Young
Freedom (1989)

23. "Be Good to Yourself"
Journey
Revelation (2008)

24. "Fuwa Fuwa Time (Eiga K-On! Mix)"
"Fluffy Time (English† K-On! Mix)"
Hōkago Tea Time
Hōkago Tea Time in Movie (2012)

Personnel

The Art of Noise
Kaitlyn Hutchins
Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar
Azalynn dv'Ir Natashkan
Lead Guitar, Vocals
Miki Kaoru
Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Lead Vocal on "House of the Rising Sun"
The Hon. J. Maurice MacEchearn IV
Bass Guitar
R. Dorothy Wayneright
Drums, Vocals
Sergei
Shades

Hōkago Tea Time
Yui Hirasawa
Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
Mio Akiyama
Bass Guitar, Alternate Lead Vocals
Azusa Nakano
Rhythm Guitar
Ritsu Tainaka
Drums, Lead Vocal on "Money for Nothing"
Tsumugi Kotobuki
Keyboard, Vocals

Engineers
Anne Cross
Ui Hirasawa

Beautiful & Talented Road Crew
Wakaba Shinohara
Elisabeth Shustal
Nodoka Manabe
Jun Suzuki

Mixed and Mastered by Kaoru/Cross/Hirasawa at The Track Factory, Republic City


* Azalynn tried to start an all-hands rendition of "Hooked On a Feeling" by Blue Swede here instead, but was countermanded by everyone else on the stage except Ritchan, who was up for it; Mugi and Moose, who are up for anything; and Yui, who had never heard that song and so had no idea what she was doing with that "ooga chaka" business.

† It's called this even though it isn't in English, I guess because in the movie, they perform (in Japanese) in England.


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  RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT DaPatman89 Sep-06-14 3
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1. "Source Addendum"
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   Most of these tracks I feel no problems about leaving you to track down of your own devices (since I included the names of the albums and all), but "Jam for World in Action" is obscure enough that, well, here.

This version is one of Kate's standard "let's see what this keyboard's got, shall we?" exercises in music stores.

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2. "song of the day, 2014.09.04"
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   In the wake of the above show and the response it got (both from the listening public and the other band involved), Yui wrote this song. Upon first reading the lyrics, Ritsu summarized them as, "Cocky, cocky, cocky, cocky, cocky," punctuating each word with a vigorous shake of her bandmate, whom she had by the lapels. But they recorded it anyway. :)

(English lyrics from the K-On! wiki. No warranty is expressed or implied, etc.)



I tie my tie tight and now depart
While my heart is tied tight, too
A stage that's shown only to us
Let's go gathering our power
However many times I depart, it feels like the first time
Deciding one song is exciting and tense
But when we exchange looks, that easily
Changes mystery into happiness

We bask in the spotlight, light from around the world
We're just about gathered, always radiating

Because we're not incomplete, our motto is fun
Because we're serious
That riff just now was cool, it felt pro
Oh no, I'm already in high spirits
Could it be that we're geniuses?
Nobody says so, but we must be

There aren't any flashy accessories
Our sparkling sweat substitutes for jewels
We don't have makeup either, just unpainted faces
But to that extent, we're honest

Our smiles in full bloom, people around the world
If we can make them smile, it's amazing, touching

Because we want to sing, the atmosphere is love and peace
Because our dreams are huge
This harmony is perfect, knack instead of pitch
Oh no, I'm already nervous
We don't sit down, our feet on the ground
Making good use of the fluffiness, soaring, happy

We encountered it, we found it
The supreme bliss of playing, a sense of unity
Before knowing it, we won't go back to being lucky

So we're going to go forward, tea time is our energy
Because we love everybody
Extending the loop, an awesome outro, tension doesn't have a ceiling
Then let's go, let's go more
Come on, because we're not incomplete, our motto is fun
Because we're serious
That riff just now was cool, it felt pro
Oh no, I'm already in high spirits
Could it be that we're geniuses?
Nobody says so, but it's true

- Hōkago Tea Time
"Genius... !?"
Go! Go! Maniac! (2010)


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6. "song of the day, 2014.20.04"
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   LAST EDITED ON Sep-20-14 AT 03:52 PM (EDT)
 
Speaking of Bo Diddley riffs...



I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire
I have a cobra snake for a necktie
I have a brand new house upon the roadside
And it's made out of rattlesnake hide
I have a brand new chimney, baby, built on top
And it's made out of human skulls
Come on, take a little walk with me, baby
And tell me: Whom do you love?
Whom do you love?

Now, around the town, I use a rattlesnake whip
Take it easy, baby, don't give me any lip
Whom do you love?
Whom do you love?

I have a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind
I'm just twenty-two and I don't mind dying
Whom do you love?
Yeah, whom do you love?
Aw, whom do you love?

Now, Juri took me by my hand
She said, "Lonesome Kate, you don't understand"
Whom do you love?
The night was dark and the sky was blue
Down the alley a house wagon flew
It hit a bump and somebody screamed
You should've heard just what I've seen
Whom do you love?
Whom do you love?
Yeah, whom do you love?
Aw, whom do you love?

Yeah, I have a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind
I'm just twenty-two, honey, I don't mind dying
Snake-skin shoes, baby, put them on your feet
We've got the good-time music with the Bo Diddley beat
Yeah, whom do you love?
Woo! Whom do you love?

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire
I have a cobra snake for a necktie
I have brand new house upon the roadside
And it's made out of rattlesnake hide
I have a brand new chimney, mama, built on top
And it's made out of human skulls
Come on, take a little walk with me, child
Tell me: Whom do you love?
Yeah, whom do you love?
Ooh, whom do you love?

- The Art of Noise
"Whom Do You Love? (Grammatically Correct Ver.)"
It's Just as Easy to Get These Things Right EP (2408)

George Thorogood & the Destroyers
"Who Do You Love"
Move It On Over (1978)


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3. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >Sergei
>Shades

This amuses and pleases me in equal measure.

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There's more than one given angle to any one given scene.
So bear that in mind next time you try to intervene
On any one given angle on any one given scene."
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4. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   Agreed. The only thing higher on the wish-I-could-see-this scale would be a credit for "backing vocals".

After all, I'm sure he's smart enough to roar on cue... :)

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5. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >Agreed. The only thing higher on the wish-I-could-see-this scale would
>be a credit for "backing vocals".

On the Art's second live album, The Adventures of the Art of Noise Across the Eighth Dimension, he has a credit as "assistant guitarist", having operated Azalynn's wah pedal during an off-the-cuff cover of "Theme from Shaft".

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7. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >>Agreed. The only thing higher on the wish-I-could-see-this scale would
>>be a credit for "backing vocals".
>
>On the Art's second live album, The Adventures of the Art of Noise
>Across the Eighth Dimension
, he has a credit as "assistant
>guitarist", having operated Azalynn's wah pedal during an off-the-cuff
>cover of "Theme from Shaft".

and this is why i love this place. you just don't get this quality of show anywhere else these days...

-Z


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8. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   LAST EDITED ON Sep-25-14 AT 01:55 PM (EDT)
 
>4. "Roll With the Changes"
>REO Speedwagon
>You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish (1978)

NOTES: Listed as one of the "collaborative jam" tracks, but it's probably more accurate to say that it was performed by an "augmented" HTT (because it has two keyboard parts and, what the hell, we might as well add another guitarist). The four-part guitar solo is all one performance in the original, but it's clearly broken into four parts (they even overlap in ways that are frankly improbable for a single live guitarist, but then, the official YouTube version is a weird hybrid of a live performance and the studio recording anyway).

Personnel:
Kaitlyn Hutchins - Lead vocal, piano
Yui Hirasawa - Guitar 1, backing vocal
Azusa Nakano - Guitar 2
Azalynn dv'Ir Natashkan - Guitar 3
Tsumugi Kotobuki - Electric organ
Mio Akiyama - Bass, backing vocal
Ritsu Tainaka - Drums


As soon as you are able
Woman, I am willing
To make the break that we are on the brink of
My cup is on the table
My love is spilling
Waiting here for you to take and drink of

So if you're tired of the same old story
Oh, turn some pages
I'll be here when you are ready
To roll with the changes
Yeah

I knew it had to happen
Felt the tables turning
Got me through my darkest hour
I heard the thunder clappin'
Felt the desert burning
Until you poured on me like a sweet sun shower

So if you're tired of the same old story
Oh, turn some pages
I'll be here when you are ready
To roll with the changes
Ohhhhh yeah

solo - Guitar 1

So if you're tired of the same old story
Oh, turn some pages
I'll be here when you are ready
To roll with the changes
Oh you know you know you know you got to

Keep on rollin'
Oh yeah
Keep on rollin'
Oh, roll with the changes
Keep on rollin'
Keep on rollin'
Oh yeah
Keep on rollin'
Oh now roll with the changes
Oh babe
Keep on rollin'
Oh babe
Oh you got to learn to roll with the changes
Got to got to got to got to keep on rollin'
Keep on rollin'
Got to keep on
Keep on rollin'
Oh you got to learn to got to learn to got to learn to roll

on the Hammond B-3 organ, Miss Tsumugi Kotobuki

solo - Guitar 1

solo - Guitar 2

solo - Guitar 3

solo - Guitar 1

Keep on rollin'
Keep on rollin'
Ooh
Keep on rollin'
Keep on rollin'
Ooh
Keep on rollin'
Keep on rollin'
Ooh
Keep on rollin'
Keep on rollin'
Ooh -


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9. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   > "Don't Say 'Lazy' (5nin Ver.)"

This being the UF 'verse, I am not at all surprised to learn that there are actual ninja involved with the production of this track.

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10. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >> "Don't Say 'Lazy' (5nin Ver.)"
>
>This being the UF 'verse, I am not at all surprised to learn that
>there are actual ninja involved with the production of this
>track.

Heh. All the "revised" versions of songs from before Azusa joined the band, and which subsequently had her rhythm guitar part added to them, are labeled that way on the K-On! soundtracks. I don't think it actually has anything to do with ninja, but I suppose one never knows. :)

--G.
I think Nodoka might be one. She's always appearing at oddly opportune moments...
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11. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >>> "Don't Say 'Lazy' (5nin Ver.)"
>>
>>This being the UF 'verse, I am not at all surprised to learn that
>>there are actual ninja involved with the production of this
>>track.
>
>Heh. All the "revised" versions of songs from before Azusa joined the
>band, and which subsequently had her rhythm guitar part added to them,
>are labeled that way on the K-On! soundtracks. I don't think
>it actually has anything to do with ninja, but I suppose one never
>knows. :)

Upon reminding myself of actual Japanese grammer, I find it's pretty innocent.

It's actually a standard Japanese expression. Japanese uses several different suffixes to add to numbers when counting numbers of things, to indicate what's being counted. 人 ('nin') is the counter-suffix for 'people'.

So in 'normal' Japanese it would be written 五人, 'go-nin', '5-people'.

But, well, UF, so ninja!

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12. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >So in 'normal' Japanese it would be written 五人, 'go-nin',
>'5-people'.

Someone involved with the song production for K-On! likes playing with numbers; there are several songs with Arabic numerals in the titles, and one of the recurring "insert" songs HTT plays on screen several times over the course of the series, "Gohan wa Okazu", contains an untranslatable pun based on the number 5. The chorus involves repeated chanting of the line, "Ichi, ni, san, shi, go-ha-n," which is basically "one, two, three, four, five-and-also-the-first-syllable-of-rice". :)

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13. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >>So in 'normal' Japanese it would be written 五人, 'go-nin',
>>'5-people'.
>
>Someone involved with the song production for K-On! likes
>playing with numbers; there are several songs with Arabic numerals in
>the titles, and one of the recurring "insert" songs HTT plays on
>screen several times over the course of the series, "Gohan wa Okazu",
>contains an untranslatable pun based on the number 5. The chorus
>involves repeated chanting of the line, "Ichi, ni, san, shi, go-ha-n,"
>which is basically "one, two, three, four,
>five-and-also-the-first-syllable-of-rice". :)

Yeah, anime people do seem to be inveterate punsters. Consider the title of "My-HiME", which is a four-way cross-language pun all by itself.

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14. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >Yeah, anime people do seem to be inveterate punsters. Consider the
>title of "My-HiME", which is a four-way cross-language pun all by
>itself.

'Cause when I think "whimsical, light-hearted wordplay," I think of that show. :)

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15. "RE: Playlist/Mental Concert: AON x HTT"
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   >'Cause when I think "whimsical, light-hearted wordplay," I think of
>that show. :)

"I thought this was going to be a cute schoolyard romance with lots of moe(j, 'cuteness')!"

"Well, a lot of things did moeru...(j, 'to burn')"

Actually, Mai-HiME and Mai-Otome both have the same kind of mood-whiplash thing going on that Arpeggio does - both of them do sixteen episodes of charming comedy, take a hard swerve into Deep Serious in episode 17 (although Otome preserves more comic relief moments), and the roll through that territory for a while before blasting their way to a triumphant heroes-victorious conclusion.

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