If I ran a game store I might play the song Mr. Tea
by Peelander-Z, it's iffy.
On paper, Peelander-Z looks like a band that
gamers should adore: they're a group of Japanese ex-pats who met and formed a
band in New York describing themselves as a "Japanese Action Comic Punk
band hailing from the Z area of Planet Peelander". Their whole act is
cosplay and music and whimsy. Their music is loud and brash with hard to
understand accents and sometimes the music itself isn't very good. Some of
their stuff is punk in a bad way. I don't think a game store can just belt out
a full Peelander-Z album. They have gems on each of their albums, though –
songs that a game store can play. The elements that make their music a challenge
are sometimes put aside, lessened, or heightened to create a song that has easier
appeal. Mr. Tea is one of those songs. It begins with dialogue between Captain
Yellow and a robot named Pichigo with the dialogue punctuated by spitting and yelling. Captain Yellow gets served a drink he abhors – coffee – and educates Pichigo that his real love is tea; he loves it so much that he's called "Mr. Tea". The entirety of the song is Captain
Yellow singing about his love of tea. The music is a nice rockabilly beat with
a punk vibe. It's a very listenable and catchy tune and the chorus of "hey, hey, I am Mr. Tea" can stick with you
longer than you'd expect.
Mr. Tea is from Peelander-Z's 2012 album, SpaceVacation. There is a second version of the song that does away with Pichigo and
Captain Yellow's preamble. They're both from the same album so it seems that the
source from where you stream the song makes the difference.
