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Hysteric Blue

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Hysteric Blue (ヒステリック・ブルー) was a well known Japanese rock band, formed in the 1997 under the label of Sony Music Japan; consisting of Tama, Naoki, and Takuya. This band was discovered by the producer of the punk-rock band JUDY AND MARY, which was an example for hysteric blue, from their similar sound, but the young band started to get a unique and catchy sound, their music style involved a fast and lively rock-pop in combination with punk, ska and metal. Three of their songs were used as theme songs in anime series, the first one was "Grow Up", used as the opening theme for Gakkou no Kaidan, the second one "Frustration Music" used as the opening theme for Vampiyan Kids and the last one "Cocktail" was used as the ending theme for Spiral Suiri no Kizuna. The band broke up in early 2004 after it was revealed that guitarist Naoki was on trial for rape and obscenity, then Tama started to have an active role in the rock band The Screaming Frogs with vocals.

Members

Information

Hysteric Blue was formed in July 1997 by one girl, Tama, and two boys, Takuya and Naoki, and have their origins in Osaka, like many others. They were still high school students at the time. They started having live performances on the streets around Osaka Castle and at small music halls. Then, the band started to make demo tapes and sent them to people who are concerned in the music world, one of the tapes was received by the famous music producer, Masahide Sakuma, known as a producer of great musicians and bands like GLAY and JUDY AND MARY; the tape captured Sakuma's heart, and their debut decided quickly. They made their debut with the first single "RUSH!" on October 31, 1998, only 3 months after they formed a band, but due they had signed with the label of Sony Music Entertaiment (SME) since their debut, and having Sakuma as the producer, same as JUDY AND MARY; it started to compare with them, but the band developed a unique and particular sound and music style.

But they had not too much relevancy until the next year, when the band released their second single "Haru ~spring~" on January 21 of 1999, the single was a big hit, and they became one of the most popular groups in Japan, after that, the teens made their official appearance in the NHK network, with a performance in a program for celebrations for end of year called "Kouhaku Utagassen". All this allowed them to release their first full lenght album "baby Blue" an album with fast, twisted and cacthy pop-rock songs with tracks like "Little Trip", " Candy", "Shiroi Inori", "Super Wing" and including their first singles "RUSH!" and "Haru ~spring~".

The same year, the band got more successful radio hits, with the songs "Naze..." and "Futari Bocchi", then in the 2000, they released their second full lenght album called "WALLABY", allowing them getting more hit singles like "Chokkan Paradise" and "Dear", the album, contained the early released hit singles "Naze..." and "Futari Bocchi", and this work had a more heavier sound, and deeper lyrics, compared with "baby Blue" , "WALLABY" had a more rocker sound.

To finals of the year, the hysteric teens, released one of their more successful singles: "Grow Up", wich one was used as the opening theme for an anime series produced by Pierrot Studios "Gakkou no Kaidan", a shonen anime about spirits, ghosts and demons, as its japanese name indicates , it was about ghosts histories. The song was incluided in the tirth full lenght album of the band, called "bleu-bleu-bleu", released in 2001, with an alternative rock wave, getting more success, with songs like the single "Daisuki".

Then, in that year the band kept on working, and released another successful single, "Reset me" a big hit in the same wave of "Grow Up". Time after that another new single released "Frustration Music" was the second song of the band used in an anime series, this one was used as the opening theme for the anime series "Vampiyan Kids". The next year, 2002, Hysteric Blue released their fourth full lenght album: "MILESTONE", containing "Reset me", and another rock singles like "Bayside Baby" and "Frustration Music", the album involved a catchy rock-pop-punk, with light-metal electric guitars solos, and different alternative rythms well combined in the songs.

In the same year, the band released their only one compilation album, "Historic Blue", containing all their hits so far in that time. The album also contained a few new songs like "Uwaki na Sport Car" and "Matsuri no Ato".

In 2002, another song of the group was used as the ending theme for the anime series Spiral Suiri no Kizuna, the song was "Cocktail", incluided in the cd single of their last hit in that time "Home Town".

Early in that year, the band released their fifth and last full lenght album "JUNCTION", wich one contained "Cocktail" and another song called "DOLCE ~Natsuiro Renbo~", the only single released of the album and the last one of the band. Then, time later in that year, the band was going through problems: the guitarrist, Naoki, was blamed of sexual abuses in his departament, but this situation was unclear and just preliminar, due this, the band decided to have a temporary break. Then, after many trials and interrogations the situation was proved: Naoki, guitarrist of Hysteric Blue, was found guilty of multiple rapes and abuses against nine teen girls, the justice punished with fourteen years in jail.

After the situation, the band broke up early in 2004, then Tama continued in a new band called The Screaming Frogs as vocalist, releasing their first album "frogs at beautiful sunset" in the same year, 2004.

Takuya continued his career as a drummer playing for other bands. Currently plays as a drummer in the band "Hearts Grow", but he is not as an official member of the band today.

However Hysteric Blue is recognized as one of the more famous and representative groups of the japanese rock.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Books

  • paper Blue

VHS/DVDs

  • babyClips 1
  • babyClips 2
  • babyClips 3
  • Historic Blue Films

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