"We're girls too nasty/We're girls too hot/We're punky girls so you can't stop us.'' Complete lyrics to Anadorei's 40-second-long "Girls Anthem"

"To have a great attachment and affection for . . . To have passionate desire, longings and feelings for . . ." My dictionary almost tears its spine out trying to pin down what "love" is. And how pathetically repetitive the definitions are. My take is: "Something that drives you crazy and causes you to act irrationally."

Six years in Tokyo and I'd fallen madly in love with just three Japanese bands: Melt-Banana, 54 Nude Honeys and Kubikarizoku. Now I add a fourth: Anadorei (who call themselves A**hole Slave in English). Let me get the gush out of the way first.