Kiss Shite Hoshii

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"Kiss Shite Hoshii"
Kiss Shite Hoshii cover.jpg
Single by The Blue Hearts
from the album Young and Pretty [1]
B-side "'Chain Gang'"
Released November 21, 1987
February 6, 2002 (rerelease)
Genre Punk rock
Length 9m17s
Label Meldac
Songwriter(s) Hiroto Kōmoto
Producer(s) The Blue Hearts
The Blue Hearts singles chronology
"'Linda Linda'"
(1987)
"Kiss Shite Hoshii"
(1987)
"'Blue Hearts Theme'"
(1988)

Linda Linda
(1987)
Kiss Shite Hoshii
(1987)
Blue Hearts Theme
(1988)

"Kiss Shite Hoshii"(キスしてほしい (トゥー・トゥー・トゥー),I Want a Kiss (Tou Tou Tou)) was the third single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. It was released on November 21, 1987, the same time that the band's second album, Young and Pretty, was released. Lyrics and music were written by Hiroto Kōmoto, the band's lead vocalist, and was arranged by The Blue Hearts. The single is 9m17s in length.

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The Blue Hearts were 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. In 2003, HMV Japan ranked them at number 19 on their list of 100 most important Japanese pop acts. In September 2007, Rolling Stone Japan rated their self-titled debut album number 3 on its list of the "100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time".

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The B-side of the single is "Chain Gang"(チェインギャング,Chein Gyangu), a blues rock song written and sung by Masatoshi Mashima, the band's guitarist.

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Original recording

The falsetto at the beginning of the song was done by Junnosuke Kawaguchi, the band's bassist. Though he generally speaks with a low voice, he sings in falsetto for a number of songs.

Junnosuke Kawaguchi is a Japanese musician, best known as bassist of The Blue Hearts. He is a music producer in Tokyo, and in 2009 became the deputy director of propaganda for the Happiness Realization Party. He was born Hiroyuki Kawaguchi in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo.

"Chain Gang" was originally planned to be on their debut album, but was shelved due to concern with the lyrics, particularly the line about killing Christ.

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The promotional video was an animated video. In the video, Kōmoto was a monkey, Mashima was a penguin, Kawaguchi was a pig and Tetsuya Kajiwara (the drummer) was a polar bear.

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References

  1. Young and Pretty Archived 2007-11-12 at the Wayback Machine.. bluehearts.com. Accessed February 22, 2008.