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Optikinetics Psychedelia

Bazuzu's version of a classic Jamaican pop song, originally conceived in the 1950's. The lyrics remain largely unchanged but the tempo is much lazier than the original. In the process the song has acquired a decidedly odd but remarkably hooky feel.

BAZUZU DOES NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO THIS SONG.

Learn more about the history of the song "Louie Louie".

A melancholy pop song embedded with celestial hooks

Shimmering & Spooky

'I brought my magic carpet with me just in case
I wanna say 'bye bye' to the human race'

"Once Bitten, Twice Shy"

Mutant reggae. 'I like my dreamworld a whole lot better than the real world' Well, I guess we can all relate to that sentiment.

'After all is said and done, tell me would you consider rejoining the human race?'

'Oo, but there is no occasion, hey,hey,hey, what a peculiar day'

An unashamed three minute throwaway pop song.
Rejected by Eurovision, "Song For Europe 2004" contest.

Oh, and incidentally, the girl in the picture is "not my girlfriend". Such is life. (Roj)

A weird & wonderful pop song with wicked hooks and layered guitars that tingle at the top end and throb at the bottom end. Minka hit the no.1 spot in the MP3.COM britpop charts once in October 2001 and again in May 2002

The lyrics for this song are currently unavailable.

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'Gazing at the sun setting over the bay.
Gazing at paradise fading away'

Burn rubber on that cosmic dancefloor.

Bazuzu are a britpop band based in Bournemouth, U.K. Their songs are written by the somewhat oddly named, Roj Agogo. The band line-up is, and probably always will be, somewhat unstable. Simon Jones, Peter Wallbridge, Al Palmer and Terry Cheesman have all supplied the bottom-heavy vibrations at some time or other. Ted Wallbridge has played drums at all gigs to date except for the Bournemouth Live Music Festival for 2003, when Bob Mace took his place. Larry Curtis has played lead guitar for every gig to date. Roger Stronell (AKA Roj Agogo) has insisted on playing rhythm guitar and singing right from the very conception of the band. This man is really the only constant factor in the band, for better or for worse. Since he was responsible for writing all the songs, I guess this is only to be expected. Anyway, just to make a confusing situation even more confusing, Bazuzu played their most recent gig at the Green Room on July 2nd using a new experimental line-up. Roj fronted the thing on vocals and guitar and Bob Mace and Al Palmer backed him up on drums and bass respectively. And the icing on the cake was the amazing Dr. Zodiac on percussion. It turned out to be a highly memorable event. Bob and Al together form an unstoppable rhythm section. You may have seen them as 2/3 of Carl Chamberlain's band Funhouse. In which case you know what I'm talking about.

Well, if the band line-up is confusing then the music that the band plays is even more confusing. It lies in a sort of
no-man's-land, somewhere twixt britpop, alternative pop, acid pop and reggae. In other words, it's totally uncategorizable !!! Nevertheless I guess obvious influences might be The Beatles, Oasis, The Kinks, Coldplay, early Pink Floyd and even Bob Marley.