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Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Trivia

Puffy's cover to Nice (2003) is based on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace.

 

 

Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Puffy AmiYumi

Okay, so I've started this video page over at Stage6: W♥M. The quality is so much better than youtube. I've only uploaded a few videos, including T.Rex and Belle & Sebastian.

Anyway, today's video is for Christopher: it's both theme song and it's Jpop.

Since I was already a big fan of Marv Wolfman and George Perez's Teen Titans, so I was really excited for the cartoon series that they were developing in 2003. Because the show was deeply inspired by Japanese animation (or simply japanimation or anime), the show's creators sought after Puffy AmiYumi to do their theme song.

I remember reading an interview with one of the show's creator in a fanzine that he also based the music and song in the style of "Secret Agent Man". It's funny because Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man", which is the theme song to Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) also lifted the music from James Bond 007. (For a Spanish version of Secret Agent Man, see The Plugz - Hombre Secreto.)

Anyway, Puffy's relationship to Sam Register through Teen Titans, lead them to starring in their own television show called "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi". The show only lasted 39 episodes.

If you watch the video to the "Teen Titans Theme", you'll notice a surprise guest star: Guitar Wolf! He does what he does best, looking cool and stuff. When he turns his back to you, if you press pause, you can read the back of his jacket:

 

To Seiji,
You are a true rocker,

Love,
Joan Jett

Who knew Guitar Wolf was such a fanboy :).

 

See full-sized video at stage6.divx.com

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The Plugz - Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

 

 

 

The Plugz - Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

 

Anchor Bay's Limited Tin DVDs

Once a major DVD player, Anchor Bay Entertainment, seems to have lost many of their licenses to the major movie studios (it was more profitable for them to release the DVDs themselves). Lately, Anchor Bay have been releasing B-movies and direct-to-DVD movies. Although this is common and accepted for such places like Japan (where they even coined the term V-Cinema and OVA), in America, Direct-to-DVD is not good as it's generally ignored by the mass market.

So, anyway, for a time, Anchor Bay released some really cool tin collectible DVDs. The Repo Man tin came with the original MCA soundtrack, which is a nice bonus. The soundtrack has some old punk favorites like Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, Iggy Pop, and The Circle Jerks. The best songs are the Spanish songs by the Plugz.

These are long out of print, but you can always try and track these down on the secondary market. I did some random price checks, the most expensive ones are the smaller print run (obviously). The least desireable one is Evil Dead 2 on account that the film is available in many, many, many reissues. The two that I'm missing are in the high $60+ ranges.

ANCHOR BAY TIN DISCOGRAPHY (Title/Limited Number)

• Hellraiser I/II (not listed, probably 30,000)
• The Beyond (20,000)
• Evil Dead II (50,000)
• Halloween 4 (40,000)
• Halloween 5 (15,000)
• Maniac (5,000)
• Candy (16,000)*
• Heathers (15,000)
• Two Lane Blacktop (15,000)
• The Wicker Man (50,000)**
• Repo Man (30,000)

* Circular tin case, available in pink case and "pill" case
** The case is made from pine wood, instead of a tin case.

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