Made in USA

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 14 February 2013 - 10:51pm

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Artist:

Pizzicato Five

album-ID:

a_24

Nationality:

Japan

Year:

1 994

Release-year:

0000

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Track-listing:

I*Sweet Soul Revue*Magic Carpet Ride*Readymade FM*Baby Love Child*Twiggy Twiggy [Twiggy Vs. James Bond]*This Year’s Girl #2*I Wanna Be Like You*Go Go Dancer*Catchy*Peace Music

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Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_11

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Spotify-URL:

7MZTd2agf3ZTifU364QPlk

Grooveshark-URL:

Made+In+USA/139163

Short-title:

madeInUSA

nominator-ID:

u_1

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

MusicBrainz-URL:

609faeab-1607-3175-902a-b8c2bb0898a1

Wikipedia-URL:

Made_in_USA_(Pizzicato_Five_album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Discogs-URL:

Pizzicato-Five-Made-In-USA/master/58301

Allmusic-URL:

made-in-usa-mw0000119173

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Neat, tuneful and varied Japanese pop, nice

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7

This has got that kind of quirky, slightly skewed re-interpretation of Western pop that we all find so charming, without it ever getting too silly. It’s sort of in Deee-lite territory but not as full-on dancey as that – it sounds very strong, lots of variety and ideas. Nice crisp production, you can hear all the instruments in the arrangements and there is quite a variety of sounds.

There are a couple of weaker tracks hidden away in the later stages but for the most part the standard of these pieces is very high.
76

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
65

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

3-6-9

Great fun and mostly original, this album has a decent spattering of hit pop songs interspersed with quirky fillers. Lots of variation in the music, instrumentation and tempo make this an enjoyable listen.

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