Crazy Ken Band

Ken Yokoyama has been involved with a series of projects (including heading Pizza of Death Records), but one of the few to hold strongly was the Crazy Ken Band, a large contingent of musicians clustered around Yokoyama who perform something of a parody-based pop music. The music is at its core a bit retro, with elements of pre-J-Pop (and pre-J-Rock) standing as the main components of the group's output. There's sentimentality exposed in the lyrics as well, references to a less sanitized Japan of the past and to the vices attached to it (as well as to muscle cars, a particular ...