Theory of Obscurity #7 (Patreon)

Theory Of Obscurity - Episode 7 (Kure Kure Takora / Style Trial)

Theory Of Obscurity - Episode 7 (Kure Kure Takora / Style Trial) The long awaited seventh episode of Theory Of Obscurity is here! In this edition we see the 1980s die on 1990's doorstep, as Janet Street Porter hurriedly looks up what this "acid house" thing is all about in a copy of The Face. Meanwhile twenty years earlier, an octopus kaiju teaches the children of Japan important moral lessons, like that octopi are terrified of vinegar and that sea cucumbers have their own theme music. TOO #7 brings you Applemask attempting to understand Kure Kure Takora, a Toho-produced children's show with a hint of the H.R. Puffenstuffs (albeit filtered through a knockabout Japanese lens), and Chriddof enduring the irritation of Style Trial, a one-series failure from BBC1 at the start of the 20th Century's final decade. As Kurt Cobain might have written in his diary while watching Italia '90, "Load up on pork buns and slag off your friends (chinos)"... The official Kure Kure Takora Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kNFdjdUaK7zwi1Iv84UGA KKT Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kure_Kure_Takora KKT Wikizilla entry (Kaiju fan wiki): https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Kure_Kure_Takora Style Trial: (highly low quality, also the picture's terrible) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4JpKA0FqI BBC Genome listings for Style Trial: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?q=style+trial&svc=9371541#search TOO on Soundcloud (playlist): https://soundcloud.com/chriddof/sets/theory-of-obscurity-on TOO on Podomatic: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/theoryofobscurity