1. Both had four members.
2. Both proved insanely influential.
3. Both were awesome.
4. Both put out their first album in 1970.
5. Both of their first albums were self-titled.
6. Both of their first albums had self-titled songs.
Actually I only meant to mention #6, but got carried away.
So here is Happy End, in which you'll hear (1) Takashi crafting the candid, conversational voice that would define Kazemachi Roman, (2) Ohtaki singing lead vocals even though Hosono wrote the music, which you would think was breaking their own Buffalo Springfieldian rules, except that the Springfield did the same thing on their debut, with Richie Furay — whom the band later met in Los Angeles!!! Poco was recording at the same studio — singing lead on three Neil Young songs, (3) Hosono writing his own version of Neil's Broken Arrow, (4) the band at their most solemn, and (5) the album's original closer; the actual album closer was an inspired Hosonian afterthought.
:::
People say
that if you could live forever
like Momotaro,
you'd be happy.
An ending as happy
as in some old legend
definitely does sound good.
Except, you know,
happiness doesn't come at the end of things,
it comes at the beginning.
People say
that if you drove a Benz
and kept a mistress,
you'd be happy.
Being as big a deal
as a company president
definitely does sound good.
Except, you know,
happiness is not about what you have,
it's about what you want.
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