any Pizzicato Five fans about?

[spamwangler]

Ive got no idea who these lot are or what theyre about, ive sort of slid into them sideways from listening to bits of japanese new wave stuff, and theyre boring a hole towards my heart,

Crazy post-taste naffness on steroids, dragging the music of the carpenters kicking and screaming into the 90s, tropicalia if its only reference was mowtown and the music from ceefax, a dum-dum bullet of pop perfection thats blowing my head off
this album in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-UNgpPYACA
that first track with its daft drummer is at the wrong gig style chaos, then on into chain cocktail bar jazz piano, earnest flute sections, thumping 60s bass, fatboy-slim esque cut and shut nugget meltdowns, its a shambles of awful things, greater than the sum of its parts, a precision assault of concentrated pop dynamite
or is it shit, garbage? please let me know by typing responses now thanks
Regards
Spamwangler

[Dr Rock]

Yup I like em. Haven't listened to them for ages though, but I played the stuff Matador put out to death.

[lazyhour]

They're ace. Need to go back to their whole back catalogue, but that Matador comp that started their western career is never far from the turntable.

[daf]

Couple of favourites from the second Matador Comp : The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five
Happy Sad
Strawberry Sleighride

Here's the 16 March 1995 Graveyard Shift Session containing Twiggy Twiggy, Baby Love Child and Magic Carpet Ride (with Mark Lamarr & Stuart Maconie joining in the fun) : https://we.tl/lK4MSshco1

Apologies for the rough sound - The 'loudness' is baked onto my original cassette recording thanks to using an old 70's machine with a dodgy VU meter (so at least it's good old fashioned 70 analogue distortion!)

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* (The '(s)' after each title is my CD labeling short-hand for 'session track')

[Neomod]

Yeah, love em. Saw em at Subterania in the mid 90's. They arrived on stage 45 minutes late as I recall but as it was their only uk date we didn't hold it against them.



You may also enjoy Capsule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwSbVM6E7k

and Tweedees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHyAGrKpzPQ

who plow a similar 60's pop furrow.

[Artemis]

Loved Happy Sad.

[daf]

Dust off your Go Go boots!

Sophisticated Catchy
Good

[Brundle-Fly]

Yeah, love em. Saw em at Subterania in the mid 90's. They arrived on stage 45 minutes late as I recall but as it was their only uk date we didn't hold it against them.

They actually came on stage on time with the guitarist doing all this Hendrixian posturing, stood on his monitor. blasting out earsplitting riffs. Suddenly, Maki bursts through a paper cyclorama in the centre of the stage, sings about two lines and then "BOOM" all their electrics went down, no lights, no sound, the group looking absolutely crestfallen. Then, we had to wait 45 minutes as all these Japanese techies frenziedly running around holding up pieces of loose cables.

This was one of my mid-90s Jap Club Pop favourites, an early mash-up of Stereolab/ Burt Bacharach. Still gives me goosepimples. God, I miss the nineties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8nRBvclrC8

[Neomod]

They actually came on stage on time with the guitarist doing all this Hendrixian posturing, stood on his monitor. blasting out earsplitting riffs. Suddenly, Maki bursts through a paper cyclorama in the centre of the stage, sings about two lines and then "BOOM" all their electrics went down, no lights, no sound, the group looking absolutely crestfallen. Then, we had to wait 45 minutes as all these Japanese techies frenziedly running around holding up pieces of loose cables.

Of course. I'd completely forgotten that. Place was rammed an all.

[Famous Mortimer]

I discovered them thanks to Beavis and Butthead, and same, loved the Matador stuff. Not thought about them in forever, so cheers.

[JesusAndYourBush]

I discovered them after hearing "The World's Spinning at 45rpm" in a Chris Morris radio show, and went out the next day and was surprised to be able to buy a CD of them (it also included that song, which was nice).  Then proceeded to download the shit out of them on Audiogalaxy during its' dying months.  They were my introduction to Jpop.

[MrSerious]

P5/Sparks collab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKi_I5rdhYM