Friday, February 11, 2011

The Highs and Lows of CoCo Stage Outfits

One of my Very Favorite CoCo Outfits: Budokan 1992
More Faves: The 1993 Deluxe Edition Concert
The other night Car was telling me about how much she disliked Kazunari Nino’s outfit during Ararshi’s performance of WISH on this past year’s MUSIC STATION SUPER LIVE, and of how despite this, she couldn’t stop watching it.

 I had to tell her that ugly oufits are about the biggest quirk I canNOT over look, and mentioned that there was a CoCo Live concert  where, during the last set,  I hated the girls’ outfits so much, I just couldn’t watch it. In fact, through the 15(!) years of Coco being one of my very favorite j-pop groups of all time, I probably haven’t watched that part of the concert more than 4 times.

The even MORE ironic thing is that  those outfits appeared during the last set of CoCo’s famed Budokan concert (Azusa’s Farewell show) and besides being my FAVORITE CONCERT from the girls, the first two sets that preceded the ugly ones are just about my FAVORITE outfits from them!
Fave Outfits: Set One of the Budokan Concert
Fave Outfits: Set Two of The Budokan Concert
Car said, you have GOT to upload those pictures so I can see your idea of a “good” outfit and a “bad” outfit. Remembering how much she hated most of Princess Princess’ stage costumes, I said, “Somehow, I think you’ll think even the GOOD outfits are crappy!” AHAHAHA But anyway, since I'd already screen-capped most of them, I figured it couldn't hurt!


So Here's the stuff...Here's an example of a GOOD Outfit, one of my faves from the Natsu 92 Concert:


 And right below, is the screencap of my LEAST favorite outfit of all time from the girls, one that dissuades me from EVER putting on side 3 of my CoCo Budokan Concert Laserdisc!
Drumroll, Please....
GAK! I don't know if you can see how awful those suits are in the last one. Looks like someone raided a Hotel Curtain closet for material. Sigh, It's too bad because they're singing the only live performance I have of "Tasogare Tsushin", a song I really like!!