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Made In USA (CD)

By: Pizzicato Five (Artist)

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Pizzicato Five Artist Snapshot:

Together since 1984, this Japanese avant-pop outfit personified everything cool about indie music in the 1990s. Their satirical love of all things space-age and their impeccable visual taste provided the glossy sheen to an impressive musical ability. Writer/producer Konishi Yasuharu mastered a prodigious number of styles that appealed to the vinyl collectors in the audience--jazz-inflected pop, mod lounge, '70s disco, '60s soul, crisp garage-punk--and singer Nomiya Maki fronted the band with cutesy-chic aplomb. The band broke up in 2001, leaving as its legacy several acclaimed U.S. releases on Matador Records, even more international releases, and the kitschy blueprint of J-pop used by many acts to this day.

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DISC 1 for Made In USA (CD) Album By Pizzicato Five (Artist)
1   I
2   Sweet Soul Revue
3   Magic Carpet Ride
4   Readymade FM
5   Baby Love Child
6   Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy Vs. James Bond
7   This Year's Girl #2
8   I Wanna Be Like You
9   Go Go Dancer
10   Catchy
11   Peace Music
 

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Review

Spin (3/95, pp.95-96) - 7 - Recommended - "...demure, sophisticated, nattily clad, and utterly tuneful...the Pizzicatos' high-style, high-concept hijinks weds peppy schmaltz to disco beats and funky samples....not just club music for club people..."
Q (1/95, p.259) - 3 Stars - Good - "...mix hip hop, Stax soul and all manner of filmic lifts to make a highly attractive brand of bubblegum pop....ending up like a larger-than-life but kitscher-than-hell St. Etienne..."
Option (3-4/95, p.127) - "...the mix of mindlessly neurotic American optimism and cynically neurotic Japanese optimism is irresistible..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.108) - "...kitschy, disposable, bubblegum pop tunes have made [Pizzicato 5] megastars in their native Japan..."
NME (Magazine) (11/19/94, p.48) - 6 - Good - "...MADE IN USA is a melding of snappy beat music, old soul and disco, Bond movies and retro-hipster style mags..."

Title Note

MADE IN USA compiles tracks from several Pizzicato Five records released only in Japan.

Pizzicato Five: Maki Nomiya, Yasuharu Konishi, K-Taro Takanami.

For its first full-length U.S. release, dance-pop duo Pizzicato Five had a wealth of options, having released over a dozen albums in their native Japan over the previous seven years, not even counting remix EPs and compilations. However, nearly half of MADE IN USA comes from the Japanese BOSSA NOVA 2001 album, with the rest of the 11 songs taken from a handful of earlier releases. Some of the tracks are re-recordings in English, particularly the odd lengthy interview of singer Maki Nomiya called "This Year's Girl #2," while others feature Pizzicato Five's usual Japanese-English hybrid. The album's highlights are the slinky, Barry White-influenced "Magic Carpet Ride," the hyperkinetic "Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy Vs. James Bond" and the sultry thump of "Go-Go Dancer," but taken as a whole, MADE IN USA is a perfect introduction to the slyly ironic electro-dance world of Pizzicato Five.

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