NUMBER GIRL

・Overview & Author’s personal opinion

NUMBER GIRL is a Japanese alternative rock band formed in 1995.

The band’s frontman is of medium height, wears a button-down shirt and glasses, an appearance that is not exactly rock ‘n’ roll in Japan.

The roars and roaring guitars of the band attracted many kids at the time, and there is no end to the number of people who started their music career with NUMBER GIRL.

The lyrics, with their unique phrasing, are also very good.

Here are some spotify playlists and recommended Youtube videos of NUMBER GIRL and their English lyrics.

・Musical style

Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Post-Punk, Post-Hardcore

・MEMBER

SHUTOKU MUKAI – vocals, guitar
HISAKO TABUCHI – guitar
KENTARO NAKAO – bass guitar
AHITO INAZAWA – drums

・Official website

NUMBER GIRL official website

・Spotify

・Recommended YouTube videos and English translation of lyrics

透明少女(tohmei shojo) / Invisible girl

One, two, three, four

Autumn has arrived

Now it's in front of me

Friction accelerates into scenery, memories, fantasies

I realized it was somehow summer

the girl with the red hair smiles falsely as the man with the fast feet takes her by the hand

the wind shivered on the street

she laughed and said "it's tinny" and it was summer

I could see through it all

the crazy street corner is sparkling

I realized it was summer

the scenery fades into the city

The crazy sophisticated girls

sparkling in a peach-colored operation

On the streets, there's still a lot of friction today

Anyway, I realized it was summer!

I can see through it all

The crazy streets are sparkling

I found myself in summer

The scenery fades into the city

TATTOOあり(TATTOO ALI) / TATTOO available

right shoulder

tattoo

dawn

afterimage

When I took off my dark T-shirt, the sun was already setting. 

The light on the irezumi was a heart pattern, or was it?

Right shoulder

Tattoo

Dawn

afterimage

She said she was stabbed on her 20th birthday. 

I can't see her face, just the image of her memory.

Now only the pattern of that tattoo is going round and round in my head

I've been on a journey to find the memory

but soon it turns into a fantasy

the smell of the wind and the angle of the sun's rays, the images that appear just as they should

The ambiguous and clear images that spread out between the moments.

More than the rim of my face, more than the scent of my hair, more than my first and last name, now only the pattern of that tattoo is circling in my mind!

OMOIDE IN MY HEAD / Memories in my head

I don't sleep, the morning comes, and I wobble home

the morning sun turns the empty train into a daydream

Oh, girl in uniform

the crazy blue sky and the sunrise make you dazzling

I open my eyes thinly, close them, and open them again

reality and afterimage, and the next thing I know you're there

I'm a seventeen year old man with my hands in my pockets, parading down a sentimental street

In my head in my head In my head in my head

Omoide in my head Omoide in my head

Omoide in my head Omoide in my head

The morning sun is still white and bright and I'm still waiting for it to bring me back

The memories in my head are getting clearer and clearer, fading away

Now, open your eyes already

I'm sinking into a whirlpool of sentimentality

I'm being haunted by Maboroshi

Push me away

And then

Throw me away

In my head in my head In my head in my head

Omoide in my head

Omoide in my head

Omoide in my head Omoide in my head

In my head in my head In my in my in my in my head