Japanese rock
, sometimes abbreviated to , is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called Group Sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Folk rock band Happy ...
band
The Blue Hearts
was a Japanese punk rock band active from 1985 to 1995. They have been compared to such bands as the Sex Pistols, The Clash and the Ramones.Hiroto Kōmoto
is a Japanese rock singer who has fronted bands such as The Blue Hearts, The High-Lows and The Cro-Magnons.
Early life
Kōmoto was born in 1963 in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture and graduated from the junior high school attached to the School of E ...
, the band's lead vocalist, and was arranged by The Blue Hearts. The track reached #38 on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in ...
charts during its release year.
It remains one of the group's most popular songs and was included on many albums. It was rereleased as a single on February 6, 2002.
The B-side track on the single was "Boku wa Koko ni Tatteiru Yo" (僕はここに立っているよ ''I'm Standing Here''), which was written by
Masatoshi Mashima
is a guitarist who has performed with Japanese rock bands such as The Blue Hearts, The High-Lows and The Cro-Magnons.Linda Linda Linda'', which is about a high school girls' band which plays songs of The Blue Hearts.
The song was also recorded by American singer
Andrew W.K.
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), known professionally as Andrew W.K., is an American conceptual performance artist, rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his m ...
on his 2008 cover album, '' The Japan Covers''.
American punk rock cover band
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (often shortened to just Me First or the Gimmes) are a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in San Francisco in 1995. The band's lineup consists of Spike Slawson, Fat Mike, Joey Cape, and Dave Raun. C ...
included the song on their 2011 EP, '' Sing in Japanese''.
American punk rock band
MxPx
MxPx () is an American pop punk band from Bremerton, Washington, founded in 1992 as Magnified Plaid. As of 2016, current members include Mike Herrera on lead vocals and bass guitar, Yuri Ruley on drums and percussion, Tom Wisniewski on lead gu ...
recorded the song in English on their 2009 album ''
On The Cover II
''On the Cover II'' is the ninth studio album by American punk rock band MxPx.
Songs
The album is a sequel to the ''On the Cover'' (1995) EP and features covers of various 1980s songs. Craig Owens of Chiodos features on the cover of Poison's "F ...
''. They included a Japanese version as a bonus track on Japanese pressings of the CD.
The Minneapolis-based band The Outliers released a version of the song on their 2008 album ''It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time''.
It also made an appearance in the Nintendo DS rhythm games
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
or ''Ouendan'', is a rhythm video game developed by iNiS and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console in 2005, for release only in Japan. ''Ouendan'' stars a cheer squad rhythmically cheering for various troubled peopl ...
Nintendo Wii
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rhythm game Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Do Don to 2 Daime.
It was also released as the character song of Masaomi Kida from Durarara!! in the first DVD.
A cover of Linda Linda was featured in the anime series
The Rolling Girls
is a 2015 Japanese anime television series produced by Wit Studio. The logo of this title contains the text, "Rolling, Falling, Scrambling Girls. For others. For themselves. Even if they're destined to be a 'mob'".
Plot
Ten years after the ...
Latina
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* Latinas, a demographic group in the United States
* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America.
*Latin Americans
Latina and Latinas may also refer ...
punk rock band The Linda Lindas named their band after the song.
The song is featured in the original 2021
Netflix
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