Cartoon Sunday: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Recap With Stardust Crusaders Music References

{As of 2020, videos with the following music references have recently been updated. This blog was previously published in 2017.}

How's it going lurkers? If you read yesterday's Song Saturday blog, it was mostly about The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian." 

In that same blog, I mentioned that the Pop-Rock band's song was used as the ending theme song for its 2nd season, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

Toonami premiered the 1 hour season finale of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, 2 weeks ago. The finale did NOT  disappoint. There were so many twists. 

Watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's season finale felt like I was watching a Supernatural Soap Opera with namesake characters of legendary musicians.

This can especially be said about Lisa Lisa secretly being Joseph Joestar's biological mother. Cue the dramatic music!

Dramatic Music

As campy and uproarious as this Supernatural Action Anime can be, the last scenes of Battle Tendency were violent as well as intense. 

Sometimes there were times, when I was close to falling off my bed from laughter, after watching certain scenes.

For example, there was a scene of Kars strumming Lisa-Lisa's legs like he was playing a guitar right before stabbing her in front of her long lost son, Joseph!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency "Kars Simulates A Guitar Solo With Lisa Lisa's Legs" (2013)

 

That scene was definitely a WTF?! Moment. Because Kars was close to killing Lisa Lisa, Joseph had to rescue mummy. 

 

While continuing his battle with Kars, Joseph theorized how he could possibly destroy Kars with the planet.

Eventually, Joseph defeated Kars by using Super Aja, which caused an eruption. That same eruption knocked Kars off the planet Earth, sending him into space.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency "Kars Is Launched Into Space" (2013)

 

After Kars was sent into space, everyone automatically assumed Joseph was dead and held a funeral for him. I believe the funeral was the BEST scene of Battle Tendency's finale.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency "The Funeral Scene" (2013)

The funeral scene had me in STITCHES! 

 

Without Hirohiko Araki (the Mangaka of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) saying so, we the fans can tell that he favored his replacement protagonist, Joseph Joestar over Jonathan.

Joseph has a lot more personality than the original protagonist, Jonathan Joestar. Jonathan was too obsessed with becoming a "gentleman" and defeating his adopted brother, Dio Brando. Dio is supposed to be in the 2nd season, Stardust Crusaders.

Every time I watch MTV Classic and a classic music video from the late Ronnie James Dio plays on the network, I start snickering; Whenever I hear the late vocalist and his name, I NOW think about the supervillain of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dio Brando.

Dio Brando's depravity is off the charts. In the next season, there are more villains, who are this supervillain's flunkies. 

In fact, the next season and list of characters for Stardust Crusaders are much longer than both Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency combined, from what I can see.

During the last 2 minutes or so of Battle Tendency, there was a time skip to the 1980's. By that time, Joseph became an old man complaining about how much he hates Japanese people, while listening to a tape on a Sony Walkman.

For all those who didn't already know, Sony Walkmans were portable audiotape players made in Japan.

As I was saying, the end of Battle Tendency showed a 67-year-old Joseph Joestar. 

Then, it segues into a scene with his grandson, Jotaro Kujo, which shortly segues into the beginning of the next season, Stardust Crusaders.

We COULD have a few more months, until Adult Swim's Toonami block premieres Stardust Crusaders. 

Let's all hope that Stardust Crusaders premieres on Toonami with "Walk Like An Egyptian" playing as the ending theme song, after Attack On Titan ends.

Before I forget, here is the following link to the previous blog about characters' names from Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency, in case you missed it, 2 months ago.

Cartoon Sunday: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood & Battle Tendency Music References (2017)

Since I already mentioned 3 Stardust Crusaders namesakes, here is the list of the next set of namesake characters of talented musicians and music references for today's Cartoon Sunday.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Music References (2020)

Song Saturday: The Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptian

How's it going lurkers? Aside from a few complainers last Song Saturday, I am really glad that more of you enjoyed all the songs written and co-written by Prince and learned something new.

Here it is 1 year later and I am STILL reeling over the fact, that Prince wrote "Manic Monday," which he eventually gave to The Bangles. 

After re-listening to the lyrics for "Manic Monday," I began to realize that it DOES sound like a Prince song. There is no need to worry. This is NOT another Prince Tribute blog.

Because some felt the need to COMPLAIN about the latest Prince Tribute blog from last Saturday, they will probably complain again today mostly for the sake of complaining and because this song won't necessarily be from their favorite genre of music.

To ease the minds of some, I will try sharing some new Rock Music, next Saturday.

Speaking of The Bangles, they used to be 1 of my favorite Pop-Rock bands growing up in the 1980's. They are famous for songs such as "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like An Egyptian." 

Could you imagine if "Walk Like An Egyptian" released today?

Considering how "politically correct" everybody and everything must be in this era of crybabies, people would probably be outraged around social media and have a heart attack over the song being "racist" and "politically incorrect."

I loved "Walk Like An Egyptian" growing up. During the mid to late '80s, the music video was in heavy rotation on MTV. Over 30 years later, the song is still being played on traditional radio stations. 

The song and music video for "Walk Like An Egyptian" were so popular, that many people did the silly so-called, "Egyptian" dance moves. NOBODY COMPLAINED about it either! We simply had fun.

It's such a shame that we can't go back to a time like the '80s. More people learned how to enjoy and appreciate entertainment as oppose to being hypersensitive and wanting to be a political activist, that browbeats everyone with political correctness.

Amazingly, The Bangles' song, "Walk Like An Egyptian" is still very popular today and in Japan. In fact, this song is so popular it was used as the ending theme for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's 2nd season, Stardust Crusaders.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Ending Theme Song (2014)

 

After discovering that JoJo's Bizarre Adventure used "Walk Like An Egyptian" as the 2nd season's ending theme song, I was stunned. Then again, it makes sense. Given my hectic schedule on AND offline, I have yet to watch Stardust Crusaders. 

 

Hopefully after Adult Swim's Toonami block finishes premiering Attack On Titan, we the viewers will have a chance to watch Stardust Crusaders. 

 

I am especially curious to know, if Viz Media gained the rights to use "Walk Like An Egyptian" as the ending theme song for the English Dub of Part 3: Stardust Crusaders.

Since the 2nd season of this Seinen Supernatural Action Anime takes place during the late 1980's, contains '80s pop-culture music references, and has 9 Egyptian gods as characters, "Walk Like An Egyptian" seems appropriate for the ending theme song.

Even though I have yet to watch the 2nd season, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I watched another music reference video about the next set of characters. Tomorrow I will have a preview of the next set of characters for Stardust Crusaders.

Judging by the looks of this next season, it has more characters than both Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency combined. Anyway, here is The Bangles' music video for the song, "Walk Like An Egyptian."

The Bangles "Walk Like An Egyptian" Different Light (1986)

Song Saturday: Remembering Prince

How's it going lurkers? Looks like Prince and his friend, Charlie Murphy will have to roll their corpses over to make room for Cuba Gooding Sr. Yesterday Cuba Gooding Sr, who was the lead singer of The Main Ingredient and father of Cuba Gooding Jr, died at the age of 72.

Now, our so-called "Purpleness" and Cuba Gooding Sr. share April 21st as the day they both died. Here it is 1 year and 1 day later, since the death of Prince.

Can you BELIEVE it has been an entire year, already? I can't. This could be because of the media's incessant coverage about Prince's death, since last April 21st. 

Surprisingly, MTV Classic actually did a Prince Video Tribute Block yesterday. Also, fans from all over the world came to America, in order to visit Prince's Paisley Park in tribute to him. 

Even though 2016 had an outrageous death toll, Prince still remains in the media because he is ANOTHER dead music icon.

Because YouTube stripped and muted ALL his music videos, I more recently had to update my last Prince tribute blog. 

What was the point of muting Prince's music videos?

If YouTube did NOT  want anyone watching his music videos because of sudden copyright issues with Warner Bros, it would've been more logical to remove them.

Since the music videos I shared in my last Prince Tribute blog were muted, I went to another media player site and linked them in that same Song Saturday Tribute blog.

Speaking of last year, I watched ABC's 20/20 Special about Prince and discovered that he wrote a plethora of songs specifically for himself, which other singers eventually covered.

Meanwhile, some songs were written for other singers. That was unless those singers wanted Prince to co-write their lyrics with them. However, some of the songs he wrote were under pseudonyms.

To give some examples, Prince went under the pseudonyms "Jamie Starr" and "The Starr Company," when he wrote for other singers during 1981-1984. 

When writing songs for Sheena Easton and Kenny Rogers, he used "Joey Coco." Not only "Joey Coco," but also "Alexander Nevermind" for Sheena Easton's song "Sugar Walls."

In addition, Prince wrote "Manic Monday" under the pseudonym, "Christopher." 

I recently learned that "Christopher" originally wrote "Manic Monday" for Vanity's replacement, Apollonia and her trio Apollonia 6 in 1984. Thank God Apollonia 6 never used "Manic Monday." 

I heard their demo of the song and it SUCKS. Listening to Apollonia 6's demo of "Manic Monday" felt like I was listening to 3 abused kittens being punished to sing. That's probably why Prince held onto the song for 2 years.

Luckily, "Manic Monday" became The Bangles' song, 2 years later. Rumor has it that SOMEBODY from the Pop-Rock band had to sleep with Prince most specifically, The Bangles' rhythm guitarist, Susanna Hoffs, in order to acquire the song.

Tevin Campbell debuted with "Round and Round," which was another song written by Prince. I don't believe "The  Purple One" used a pseudonym for that song, since he was featured in the music video and already did the background vocals.

There have been so many songs "The Purple One" wrote, throughout the decades, that I could be here forever listing them. Rather than doing so, here are a few sources you can read about Prince and his many pseudonyms for songs he wrote and co-wrote.

Prince Rogers Nelson

The Definitive Ranking Of Prince’s Many Aliases

LA Times: The many names of Prince

The Grio: Prince’s many names (even more than you thought)

Everybody should keep in mind, this is another Prince Tribute blog. This is NOT an excuse for some (typically narrow-minded, Baby Boomer men) to be rude and nitpicky about something not being "THEIR genre(s) of music" much like the obnoxious Baby Boomers from Blogster. They are the main reason why some of my subscribers and I actually left. Anyway, here are some of the songs Prince wrote and co-wrote for today's Song Saturday.

1) Chaka Khan [Prince Cover] "I Feel For You" (1979); Chaka Khan (1984)

2) Alicia Keys "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" (1982) [Prince Cover] "How Come You Don’t Call Me" Songs In A Minor (2002)

 

3) Stevie Nicks [Prince] "Stand Back" The Wild Heart (1983)

4) Prince {"Jamie Starr and The Starr Company"} Morris Day And The Time "Jungle Love" Ice Cream Castle (1983)

5) Prince {"Christopher"} The Bangles "Manic Monday" Different Light (1984); (1986)

6) Prince And The Family [Prince & The Revolution] "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1984) 

7) Sinead O’Connor [Prince Cover] "Nothing Compares 2 U" I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1989)

8) Madonna [Featuring Prince] "Love Song" Like A Prayer (1989)