"I like bands that are energetic and stupid. And with no sense of fashion. We hate fashionable bands whose music is no good."
Kaita Tanaka — singer, guitarist and main talker in Tokyo-based underground rock band Worst Taste — is trying to explain how he and his cohorts, bassist and keyboard player Naoto Kojima and drummer Mao Katou, came up with the dizzy mixture of catchy hooks and eccentric postpunk songwriting on their new album "Dance de Kimete!" ("Kill Your Dance!").
The band started in 2001, when Tanaka placed an ad in a Saitama guitar-shop window looking for bandmates who were into The Damned, The Clash and Guitar Wolf. Kojima, also a student at the time, responded and the pair immediately embarked on what sometimes seems like a quest to accumulate as many ex-drummers as possible.
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