1. toe (Japanese band) is … Read Full Bio ↴There are three groups with the name Toe:
1. toe (Japanese band) is a Japanese math-rock / post-rock / instrumental music group.
2. Toe (American band) is a Chicago post-rock music group.
3. Toe (English band) is a experimental/noise rock band from Ipswich.
japanese band : http://www.toe.st/
toe is a Japanese music group that formed in 2000. Although mentioned in many post-rock circles, their song structure and dynamics are similar to many popular math rock artists. The vast majority of the music is instrumental and features the swift and acute drumming of Takashi. The band has changed their sound over their musical tenure by incorporating acoustic guitars, Rhodes piano, and vibraphones in their most recent releases.
The band started performing live in July 2001, a few times a month at nightclubs. They began recording their debut EP "Songs, Ideas We Forgot" in February 2002, and released it two months later on April 17th of the same year. In July 2003 toe released a split CD EP with Pele through an independent label, Muziq, and the following September the band released a remix album Re:Designed.
In April 2004 toe contributed a song to the MOTOWN tribute CD, "ROCK MOTOWN" and the following June the Pele/toe split was released on vinyl through Polyvinyl Records. In April 2005 the band began recording their first album. Four months later on August 31st, toe's anticipated debut album "The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety" was released.
The members are:
☆ 山嵜廣和 / Yamazaki Hirokazu (Guitar)
☆ 美濃隆章 / Mino Takaaki (Guitar)
☆ 山根さとし / Yamane Satoshi (Bass)
☆ 柏倉隆史 / Kashikura Takashi (Drums)
柏倉隆史 is also 木村カエラ's support drummer.
About the American band: http://www.toechicago.com
See also Toe 2000
Personnel: David Pavkovic, Yoko Noge, Matt Schneider, Griffin Rodriguez, Jeff Parker, Doug McCombs, George Langford, Tim Kinsella.
Toe began in 1996 when leader David Pavkovic collaborated with Jeff Parker, Doug McCombs and Yoko Noge to make a record of odd pop music. Toe 2000, the first CD, on Truckstop Records, received international airplay, garnered gobs of shining reviews, and earned a spot for Toe on the Chicago 2018 compilation from German label Clearspot. Variant, the second Toe CD capitalized on Pavkovic's strengths as a composer, drummer, and programmer, and the sheer vocal prowess of Yoko Noge. Upon the release of Variant, Toe enlisted guitarist Matt Schneider and bassist George Langford to play live shows and to work on new material in anticipation of the third Toe CD. The current Toe lineup of David Pavkovic, Yoko Noge, Matt Schneider, and George Langford is presently in deep meditation following the completion of the 2003 European tour.
We have come to expect much of the so-called "uncategorizable" new music coming out of Chicago to be merely elusive or indirect. But indirectness is not something you can accuse Toe leader David Pavkovic of. Witness "Absolutism Two", the first track on the record, "Variant." The slamming, overlapping drums crashing in triple meter against Yoko Noge's sneering, Marianne Faithfull-of-the-Forbidden-Zone rant, is nothing if not pointed directly at you. This could be punk rock, this could be real-time jungle, this could be Japanese Taiko drums, so... what the hell is it?
Toe is a reminder from the old school of ENO and his ilk that the point of a song, no matter how avant, is in its emotional resonance, not how complicated the time signature is. For all its structural jumpcuts, Toe consistently makes melodic and even pop sense.
"Toe 2000’s Music has grown from the love of finely tuned musical compositions that transport the listener to another plane. More concerned with instrumentation than vocals, they reject the traditional verse and chorus structure and instead opt for a more orchestrated sound." -Impact Press
About the English band
Recieved 10/10 review in Terrorizer in 2007, supported the likes of Motorhead, Earth and Boris and about to embark on a tour of South America. Kerrang- "Undoubtedly, this is what the future sounds like. Everything before this is... well, obsolete!".
http://www.myspace.com/toeuk
Say It Ain't So
toe Lyrics
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Is it the one you can not present to him?
Go give it to him if you are gonna throw it away?
Is it the one you can not present to him?
Please give it to him if you are gonna throw it away?
Turu-tu-tu-tu.
It comes suddenly. (2x)
Na-na-na.
It comes suddenly.
Meet again at there someday... Humm.
We can see again at there someday... Humm.
It comes suddenly. (3x)
Na-na-na.
Meet again at there someday... Humm.
We can see again at there someday... Humm.
Let we see again at there someday... Humm.
The lyrics of Toe's song "Say It Ain't So" seem to be about the sudden end of a romantic relationship. The line "Is it the one you can not present to him? Go give it to him if you are gonna throw it away?" implies that the singer's partner may have someone else they are interested in but cannot bring themselves to end the current relationship. The repetition of "It comes suddenly" further emphasizes the suddenness of the situation, perhaps suggesting that the singer was blindsided by the breakup.
The lines "Meet again at there someday" and "We can see again at there someday" imply a sense of hope for the future, that maybe the relationship can be rekindled in the future. However, the final line "Let we see again at there someday" seems to acknowledge that the future is uncertain and the possibility of a reunion is not guaranteed.
Overall, the lyrics convey a sense of confusion and uncertainty in the aftermath of a sudden breakup, with a hint of optimism for the future.
Line by Line Meaning
It comes suddenly. (4x)
This feeling or event happens unexpectedly and suddenly.
Is it the one you can not present to him?
Are you hiding something that you cannot show or tell to someone close to you?
Go give it to him if you are gonna throw it away?
If you're just going to discard this hidden thing, why not just tell that person the truth?
Please give it to him if you are gonna throw it away?
I implore you to come forward and reveal the truth to the person you're keeping it from rather than throw it away and continue to suffer in solitude.
Turu-tu-tu-tu.
Sound effect, no meaning.
Remain and be remained.
Stay in the same position and keep things the way they are.
Na-na-na.
Sound effect, no meaning.
Meet again at there someday... Humm.
Perhaps at some point in the future, we will reunite again in that same place.
We can see again at there someday... Humm.
There's a possibility and hope that we can see each other again in that place someday.
Let we see again at there someday... Humm.
Let's hope and look forward to seeing each other again at that place someday.
Contributed by Lauren H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@TomyIneXtriCable
How can there not be a single comment here? This is one of the best songs I've heard in my life. Thanks,Toe.
@uhhuh5934
Tomy Inextricable Theres two now.
@ghufraniraanwar3047
Threeee
@RealBeatbox
I simply love this song. Is one of my favourite music in my whole life!
@bao5616
you guys should try Elephant Gym - Day Time, i think it is very similar
@thomascuriel7611
There's 16 comments at the moment of writing this.
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@jongcruz7182
speechless that's why
@timothywagner8798
toe. rocks. Very mesmerizing and organic.
@wikipediaintellectual7088
Your drug is a heart breaker
@azumanguy
it comes suddenly