Strawberry Switchblade - Ecstasy (Apple Of My Eye)

Описание: Single released in Japan in September 1985.

In 1985 Strawberry Switchblade were hired to sing the song for a Japanese TV advert for the Subaru Rex Combi. The song was written by Daisuke Inoue and Rumiko Varnes. Strawberry Switchblade's Rose McDowall wrote some new lyrics for it and the track, Ecstasy (Apple of My Eye), was released as a single in Japan. The cover had a picture of a Subaru on it.

Despite being a throwaway song recorded for the money, it has had significant persistence. It was included on the 1985 Japanese compilation The 12" Album. Playlist of that album:    • Strawberry Switchblade - The 12" Album  

It was later included as a bonus track on the 1997 Japanese reissue of Strawberry Switchblade's eponymous album. Those tracks have become the standard track listing for global streaming services while far better tracks, such as By The Sea and Sunday morning, have languished in the vaults.

Rose: "With Ecstasy they actually sent us the lyrics, and asked us to write the music for it. I said I'm not singing those lyrics. So I rewrote the lyrics which were just silly, but whatever. We just made a few bad mistakes at the end of our career, basically... And when I saw the advert I just thought [incredulous wince]. It's got these Japanese girls sprawled over the car like in those horrible car magazines where they have a dolly bird. It was like, oh Jesus, another nail in the coffin."

Jill: "I didn't want to do it at all. She wrote the lyrics to it obviously, she'd started taking ecstasy. And I just thought it would be funny to put it on a Japanese advert, but it's a shit record. I so hated that song. I still hate it. It's nothing to do with us as far as I'm concerned. It's got nothing to do with me, I didn't even play on it, I didn't do anything on it. I didn't write the lyrics, I didn't like the lyrics, I hated the song, and it was done for a Japanese car advert - what's the point? Why not let us write something? Why give us a song which is THAT shit?"

See the commercial here:    • Strawberry Switchblade - Subaru Rex Combi ...  

For lots more about Strawberry Switchblade, check out the rest of this YouTube channel and the fansite too, which includes the rest of the interviews quoted: http://www.strawberryswitchblade.net