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Post by lazybone712 on Nov 20, 2014 19:09:59 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Nov 21, 2014 3:38:33 GMT -5
Stylin' in that B-52s T and slick pullback!
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 1, 2014 8:18:19 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 8, 2014 23:20:07 GMT -5
When was this photo made, 'bone? Would you happen to know? Recently I've been wondering why so many JP musicians emulate Anglo-American styles of the early 1960s. OK, it's not *that* many... but it seems like there's more interest than here at home. Maybe it's because it was a good period for all, and now looks positively golden. Maybe Japan just has a great feel for usable styles. Or maybe, some people's hair just flips of its own accord.
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 9, 2014 8:20:03 GMT -5
Tangerinesun, This photo is from their excellent "Triste" video - probably my favorite video of all time! And perhaps my favorite Pizzicato 5 song as well! youtu.be/m0W_WgQl_8cI'm guessing this video was done around 1995. "Triste" was on P5's "Romantique 96" album which was released Sept 1995. When was this photo made, 'bone? Would you happen to know? Recently I've been wondering why so many JP musicians emulate Anglo-American styles of the early 1960s. OK, it's not *that* many... but it seems like there's more interest than here at home. Maybe it's because it was a good period for all, and now looks positively golden. Maybe Japan just has a great feel for usable styles. Or maybe, some people's hair just flips of its own accord.
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 9, 2014 13:22:59 GMT -5
Tangerinesun, This photo is from their excellent "Triste" video - probably my favorite video of all time! And perhaps my favorite Pizzicato 5 song as well! youtu.be/m0W_WgQl_8cI'm guessing this video was done around 1995. "Triste" was on P5's "Romantique 96" album which was released Sept 1995. Oh, thanks! I do not know P5 well at all. I have a history of not liking white soul music too much. But this is just awesome! LOL random costume changes and trumpet mime. Now I understand that they are doing French pop in English dress. Who can tell the Westerners apart anyway? I wish I knew who was the ringer playing bass on this track, that line is just too suave and fluent. What a sweetly depressing, chic, disaffected little désolé cheri, mais c’est la vie tune. The stylist guy settles my question about hair behavior.
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 9, 2014 16:59:04 GMT -5
The guy on the piano is Konishi Yasaharu, who also plays bass. I agree - his baselines are really great. If you like "Triste", you might like this one too - "Sweet Soul Revue" -Konishi really getting into his bass groove:) youtu.be/sPzp1_155aITangerinesun, This photo is from their excellent "Triste" video - probably my favorite video of all time! And perhaps my favorite Pizzicato 5 song as well! youtu.be/m0W_WgQl_8cI'm guessing this video was done around 1995. "Triste" was on P5's "Romantique 96" album which was released Sept 1995. Oh, thanks! I do not know P5 well at all. I have a history of not liking white soul music too much. But this is just awesome! LOL random costume changes and trumpet mime. Now I understand that they are doing French pop in English dress. Who can tell the Westerners apart anyway? I wish I knew who was the ringer playing bass on this track, that line is just too suave and fluent. What a sweetly depressing, chic, disaffected little désolé cheri, mais c’est la vie tune. The stylist guy settles my question about hair behavior.
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 10, 2014 3:58:39 GMT -5
The guy on the piano is Konishi Yasaharu, who also plays bass. I agree - his baselines are really great. If you like "Triste", you might like this one too - "Sweet Soul Revue" -Konishi really getting into his bass groove:) youtu.be/sPzp1_155aIYes, that is the real deal! So warm, so percolating. Jerry Jemmott could smile and say, I see y'all been listening. OMG Maki bopping around like a swinging Isadora Duncan.
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 10, 2014 18:35:11 GMT -5
Tangerinesun, If you like "Triste" and "Sweet Soul Revue", you might like this one - "Happy Sad"! Great song and video! youtu.be/AeZUZaLt0FwThe guy on the piano is Konishi Yasaharu, who also plays bass. I agree - his baselines are really great. If you like "Triste", you might like this one too - "Sweet Soul Revue" -Konishi really getting into his bass groove:) youtu.be/sPzp1_155aIYes, that is the real deal! So warm, so percolating. Jerry Jemmott could smile and say, I see y'all been listening. OMG Maki bopping around like a swinging Isadora Duncan.
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 11, 2014 3:00:11 GMT -5
Tangerinesun, If you like "Triste" and "Sweet Soul Revue", you might like this one - "Happy Sad"! Great song and video! youtu.be/AeZUZaLt0FwThe guided tour is so great, I hope others are also enjoying it. This is genius at work. "Oh, really? Why do you say that, Sun-tan? And what would yourself know about things such as genius?" It's genius when you see somebody doing something, and it's obvious they were born to it like fish are born to swim. P5 are so locked onto their feel and their style that they make it more understandable to me, an American who grew up with it. Suddenly... ghastly purple plaid car coats and garnet colored broad-brim fedoras... make sense. It is a brilliant video. And let's face it, the track completely cooks. Funnily, it was nostalgia when P5 were doing it the first time. And now it's nostalgia squared, but it's actually so nice looking back on what we had. We get to have it again, only this time we recognize it. That's how I feel, anyway. Maki N, with her mobile pelvis, and her ankle kicks, and her shuffle, and her shooby-dooby-dooby, she could attract a crowd just walking to the mailbox in sweatpants.
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 11, 2014 8:26:47 GMT -5
Tangerinesun, Great comments - agree 100%! If I could think of one song/video that best captures the sound/style/spirit of P5, it might be this one "Sunny Side of the Street". Not sure how a video of "just" Maki walking down a street in NYC does that, but here it is: youtu.be/6U2OxIbE_xk
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Post by Egg_Crisis on Dec 11, 2014 11:09:25 GMT -5
Just last week I was listening to some P5 for the first time in ages. P5 were the first JPop group I ever heard... (well not entirely true as in the 90's one of the satellite channels was showing Japanese music show "Hey! Hey! Hey!" and I saw little bits of that, although I had no idea what I was watching and it didn't make any impression)... but I digress, P5 were the first JPop group I heard... in 2001, when I heard their song "The World's Spinning at 45rpm" on the radio. Later that week I bought their album "Happy End Of The World" that had that song on it. I later discovered that they were just about the only Jpop group who's records were on sale in ordinary record shops in the UK, you'd have to find some sort of specialist shop to get a better selection. Just as well I chose the right group then or Id have been stopped in my tracks before I'd even begun. (But Napster and it's ilk made it possible to sample more P5 as well as other groups...)
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 12, 2014 5:13:01 GMT -5
If I could think of one song/video that best captures the sound/style/spirit of P5, it might be this one "Sunny Side of the Street". Not sure how a video of "just" Maki walking down a street in NYC does that, but here it is: Carefree and in love with life. With a syncopated heartbeat! New Yorkers mostly ignoring it. Just about perfect, thanks! I also knew Pizzicato Five by name without the slightest awareness of J-pop. I had no idea who they were or what they were about, I think I associated them with people who were fatally infected with Lounge.
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Post by lazybone712 on Dec 22, 2014 23:12:26 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 23, 2014 1:56:22 GMT -5
Looking French-er than a baguette!
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