Japanese Sound

1. Hanky Panky

2. Hey! Mashed Potato, Hey!

3. Barracuda

4. Hishizora-No-Drive

5. Uptown Girl

6. Sutekina Dance

7. Road Race - Jackie & The Cedrics

8. Cedrics Theme - Jackie & The Cedrics

9. Hard Rock Jackie - Jackie & The Cedrics

10. Eight of Magic

11. Look Up the Sky

12. Three Hawks - Royal Fingers

13. Farmer John - The Neatbeats

14. Do the Global Twist - The Neatbeats

15. Three Colors

Japanese Sound,Various Artists,Spinout,Garage Rock Revival,Japan,Rock/Pop Collections

Average customer rating: One of the best video game soundtracks out there.

Dead Rizing Original Sound Track Game Music Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000Q6GVFQ Release Date: 2007-07-02

Tracks:

1. Blame It On The Cold One
2. Fly Routine
3. Slave
4. Heaven's Creepin' In
5. Bored Again
6. On A Mission
7. Justified
8. Dead Rising
9. Frank West
10. Zombie
11. Carlito
12. Adam
13. Cletus
14. Brad
15. Kick The Pedal
16. Kent
17. Paul
18. Army
19. Brock
20. Mall Music 1
21. Mall Music 2
22. Mall Music 3
23. Mall Music 4
24. Mall Music 5
25. Mall Music 6
26. Stuck In The Car
27. Entrance Plaza
28. Dr. Barnaby
29. Disquiet
30. Isabela 1
31. Cliff
32. Isabela 2
33. Sean
34. Police Officer
35. No Time To Lose
36. Santa Cabeza
37. Day 4
38. Escape
39. Method To Prevent Infection
40. Irritation
41. Undercover Scheme
42. What Was Solved?
43. Last Moment

Customer Reviews:

One of the best video game soundtracks out there........2007-07-02

This may be one of the best video game soundtracks out there. It even has the mall music from the game. Only thing I didn't get was that Gone Guru wasn't on this soundtrack. Every other song is but that one. Ah well. Good soundtrack anyway.

Average customer rating: I'm feelin' so happy sad good Pi 5 release Your friends will think you're weird... One of the best P-5 CD's Only for the P Fi collector

The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five Pizzicato Five Manufacturer: Matador Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie & Lo Fi | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Techno-House | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Happy End of You Viva! La Woman Combinaison Spaciale Stereo Type A The Two EPs ASIN: B00000581X Release Date: 1996-10-22

Tracks:

1. We Love Pizzicato Five
2. Rock N' Roll
3. The Night Is Still Young
4. Happy Sad
5. Groovy Is My Name
6. Sophisticated Catchy
7. Strawberry Sleighride
8. If I Were A Groupie
9. Sweet Thursday
10. CDJ
11. Fortune Cookie
12. Good
13. Number 5
14. Peace Music (St. Etienne Remix)
15. Airplane
16. Rock N' Roll

Amazon.com

Some look into the face of American popular culture and see the deep dark abyss of lowest-common-denominator commercialism. Tokyo duo Pizzicato Five, however, peer stateside and see the sparkling disco-ball inferno of souped-up drag-race hyper-enthusiasm, a kitschy retro-futurist youthquake, and a high-fashion, heavy-plastic glob of fun. The ever-changing group masterminded by Warhol-wannabe Yasuharu Konishi and fronted by Twiggy-disciple Maki Nomiya has borrowed, sampled, and stolen its way through an irresistible melange of Esquivel's bossa nova cocktail swing ("Rock and Roll"), Bacharach's jazz pop ("Fortune Cookie"), chewy psychedelic bubblegum ("Strawberry Sleighride"), cartoonish Jackson Five Motown ("Happy Sad"), and Dee-Lite's frenetic disco house music ("The Night Is Still Young"). --Roni Sarig

Customer Reviews:

I'm feelin' so happy sad.......2005-05-05

Never can it be said that Pizzicato Five doesn't have fun with their music. In "The Sound of Music," this Japanese band revels in glitzy sound and poppy melodies. Dancey, sparkly, plastic, sugary and enchantingly earnest, this is kitschy pop at its most entertaining.

After a brief intro with children singing about how they love "P. 5, oh yes we do," the band launches into the thoroughly danceable (and ill-named) "Rock'n'Roll," an infectious little song that would be maddening if it weren't so much fun, and so darn cute.

To judge from "Sound of Music," Pizzicato Five seem to be cheerfully cannibalizing various popular American music periods: There's a disco tune, a bit of bossa nova, bouncy funk, jazz, dance, and bubblegum pop that refuses to be serious about anything. A few -- like the conversation-filled "Groupie" -- are somewhat less charming, but it's hard not to be charmed by the repeated sentiment of "If I were a groupie..."

Pizzicato Five made music for years before "Sound of Music" started to capture American listeners. It's amazing that these guys didn't get attention before that. Rather than the wild experiments of Cornelius and Buffalo Daughter, Pizzicato Five are out to enjoy themselves (okay, they experiment once or twice). And they do so with great gusto -- the entire album sounds like a party where nobody cares what's cool, only what's fun.

Perhaps one of the most entertaining things about "Sound of Music" is that the band does absolutely nothing halfway. If the music is jazz, it drips jazz from every note. If it's dance, the tempo is mad. If they inject weird sound effects, it sounds like a haunted house. Synth, keyboard, wild drums and samples add to the fun, colorful maelstrom.

For anyone who doesn't speak Japanese: Most of the lyrics won't make any sense at all, despite the odd English word ("groovy!") thrown in. "Happy Sad" is one of the exceptions, with a the upbeat question "shoop-e-doop-e-doop/happy sad/are you feelin'/are you feelin' bad?/Happy sad..."

Pizzicato Five enchants in "The Sound of Music," a delightfully unpretentious album that tries out just about every variety of pop there is. The hills are alive!

good Pi 5 release.......2003-06-17

I like this album for listening in the car when I am driving. There are some slow parts on this one that I wish that weren't there ^mainly rock and roll^.

My favorites on here are The Night is Still Young; Happy Sad; CDJ; Peace Music (actually St. Etienne Remix); Strawberry Sleighride; and Airplace. The biggest problem that friends have with this CD is the fact that there are only a few English songs on here. I reccomend that you get Happy End of the World if you want an Pizzicato Five release with english on it. For those of you who do like to listen to Japanese music, this one is a good one for the collection. Although I won't say that it is a must have.

Your friends will think you're weird..........2002-07-27

...if they're anything like mine. Peer pressure notwithstanding, Pizzicato Five have a great sound, and some of these tracks really are excellent. Rock n' Roll and Strawberry Sleighride specifically, are some of the most pleasant and mellow tracks I've come across in a long time, and I listen to pretty much anything from Classical to Rock.
Twiggy Twiggy attracted me to the P-5, and this CD has made me a fan of the band. Their sound is both unique and classic mainstream at the same time (reminds me of USSR-era Russian pop music), that not everyone might like or understand. But then again, just because a band is widely accepted, doesn't mean they're worth their salt - just look at N-sync.

One of the best P-5 CD's.......2002-01-05

There are some songs that remind me of my dysfunctional self. I love it. Just remember that before you buy that the CD is mostly Japanese.

Only for the P Fi collector.......2001-11-05

I liked the album, don't get me wrong. But if this had been the first Pizzicato Five album I had heard, I would've never purchased more. All in all, not as good as 5th release or Happy End of the World (the only two I have for comparison).

Average customer rating: Be Warned one of the best albums ever Full Stop Amazing WOW.

Consume Red Ground Zero Manufacturer: Recommended Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001OT9 Release Date: 1996-05-28

Tracks:

1. Consume Red

Customer Reviews:

Be Warned.......2005-07-16

This is the most painfull listen I have ever experienced. I want anyone who may be thinking about buying this CD to know that the Korean Horn sample is played repeatedly for the entire duration of the track. This music reminds me of how I feel when my thought process is at it worst.

one of the best albums ever.......2005-06-21

I would put this in my top 10 (maybe my top 5?) albums of all time. Certainly, my favorite Otomo Yoshihide album. For half the album, you just hear this wailing flute-ish middle-eastern sounding sample that pulses between the two speakers. You fall into a trance. Then, at the halfway mark, all these instruments come in and it's like nothing you've ever heard. I once heard a story that I'm pretty sure is wrong:

After this performance the band decided to break up because they thought they could never play anything as good as that again.

This is probably not true, but you'd think it was from the music.

This is the first of his albums I've listened to, but still my favorite. If you like Miles Electric, NoWave/Noise, freejazz, I.D.M., experimental or other odd music, YOU WILL LIke this.

Ornette Coleman and Lightning Bolt got married, and this was their child.
-VoodooArtist

Full Stop.......2005-02-01

Can't think of a more sustained period of tension in any piece of music than the opening "duck call" samples. You know the storm's coming. There's the odd thunder-crack of turntable wreckage as the air thickens and thickens. Heaven and hell break loose. Staggering stuff.

Feels like drinking lava and mercury for 40 minutes. Through a straw.

Amazing.......2004-01-27

I would agree with the other reviewer that this is simply one of the greatest pieces of music ever. A review can really not justly describe the strange yet awe-inspiring piece of music that is Consume Red. Even if you do not usually delve into experimental music, this will convert you into the wonderful musical world of Otomo Yoshihide and others.

WOW........1998-06-17

The best album of the year, of the decade, of ever. The sample of Korean horn player Kim Suk Chul is awe-inspiring, and Ground Zero constucts an epic-length piece around this ear-shattering sound.

Average customer rating:

Perfect Blue: Original Sound Track Manufacturer: Ever Anime International Record Co. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000AV1EKY

Product Description

Soundtrack to Japanese OVA "Perfect Blue" with music composed by Masahiro Ikumi. 10 tracks.

Average customer rating: Beautiful stuff Dolphy with inner ear disturbance

Flutter Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005BAEM Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

1. Flutter (Modulation For High Tone)
2. Drift/Les
3. Serene
4. Spin
5. Night Lights/Density

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful stuff.......2001-06-24

This is as jazzy as I've heard Otomo Yoshihide get. Nevermind that a couple of the tracks are by Dolphy -- this reminds me more of Ornette Coleman circa 1968, passionate, dark, and challenging. Some other reviewer makes a glib remark to the effect of "What's that noise;" he's referring to Sachiko M. of Ground Zero, who provides a sine wave drone on a few of the compositions. Admittedly, the high pitched tones stand out a little too much on the first cut, seem more of a distraction than a compliment -- but I guess Otomo wasn't fully prepared to leave the realm of noise entirely behind him here. It's a great disc anyhow; fans of Ground-Zero will love it, but also fans of more "conventional" free jazz. Tsugami Kenta, on alto sax, and Kikuchi Naruyoshi, on tenor sax, are the predominant players here; Otomo's guitar and samplings are more a matter of background support. I assume this is the same Kikuchi who provides the big Ayleresque sounds on GROUND ZERO PLAYS STANDARDS -- which is essential stuff from Otomo, if you don't know it. FLUTTER will make any fans of avant jazz happy.

Dolphy with inner ear disturbance.......2001-05-31

Mingus and Dolphy arrangements, but...what's that noise? Is that the refrigerator? Did somebody forget to turn down their hearing aid? Assymetric jazz + piercing electronic jabber = ?

Average customer rating:

Cathode Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Anode Soup ASIN: B00001W09S Release Date: 1999-11-02

Tracks:

1. Modulation #2
2. Cathode #1
3. Cathode #2
4. Modulation #1

Average customer rating: Pretty Little Lily Can Dance No More We Got A Good Thing Going

Pretty Little Lily Can Dance No More 5.6.7.8's Manufacturer: Vivid Sound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Girl Groups | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The 5678's Pin Heel Stomp Golden Hits of the 5.6.7.8's Bomb the Twist Teenage Mojo Workout ASIN: B0000641MF Release Date: 2002-04-26

Tracks:

1. Pretty Little Lilly Can Dance No More
2. Oh Baby
3. Daddy Goes Out Jail
4. Space Rock, Pt. 1

Album Details

Female Japanese Garage Band. Includes a Cover of the Rolling Stones Tune '2120 South Michigan Avenue'

Customer Reviews:

Pretty Little Lily Can Dance No More.......2004-07-01

13 minutes of pure gold!

Sure, $30 does seem a little steep for such a short album (it is a single), but the songs are well worth it.

The song titles are as follows:

1. Pretty Little Lilly Can Dance No More - 2:20
2. Daddy Goes Out Jail - 3:18
3. Oh! Baby - 2:16
4. Space Rock-Part 1 - 5:27

The 5.6.7.8's have a great vintage rock and roll sound that incorporates adorable Japanese vocals. The musicianship is great, recreating catchy '50's style jukebox rock with fun to sing a long backing vocals.

The first track kind of reminded me of The Who in their earlier years, where "Daddy Goes Out Jail" is more of a boogie song that you'd kick your socks off and dance along to. The third song slows things down just a little bit while the singer croons out a love song. The last tune doesn't have any words, but some wicked organ playing.

The package design is beautiful and reads mostly in Japanese.

At first, I was dssappointed that it was such a short disc for what I paid, but it's one of those albums that you can just stick on repeat for over an hour and not want to listen to anything else.

Overall, I highly recommend these songs, but try to see if you can find them on a full length rather than dishing out the dough for this one.

We Got A Good Thing Going.......2003-10-31

Too many revues have likened the 5.6.7.8's to a cross between the Shags and, I dunno, some second-tier punk band. The 5.6.7.8's are better than that. What the they really sound like, in their song selection and delivery, is the old tapes of the pre-Beatlemania Beatles playing at Hamburg nightclubs.

Like everybody else in the U.S. I first came across the 5.6.7.8's in KILL BILL and thought they were fascinating. Their mastery of the English language is questionable and the drumming on this record is lightyears behind that in the film, but they know how to chug on this package of flat out rockers.

"Pretty Little Lily Can Dance No More" (pronounced on this version 'pwiddy canna danza nawmowa') barrels along like gangbusters, and "Daddy Goes Out Jail" has a nice Carl Perkins-like guitar solo. "Oh! Baby" tries to sound smooth but ends up kicking some tail and "Space Rock" is a flat-out ripoff of the old Stones instrumental "2120 South Michigan Avenue."

Good stuff which can only be played LOUD!

Average customer rating:

Night Before Death of Sampling Virus Otomo Yoshihide Manufacturer: Extreme Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000005R26 Release Date: 1993-10-19

Tracks:

1. Toyota
2. Akai
3. Matsushita
4. Aiwa
5. Nintendo
6. Mitsubishi
7. NTT
8. Fuji Film
9. Hitachi
10. Shimizu
11. Canon
12. Kashima
13. Teach
14. Nissan
15. Citizen
16. Sony
17. Olympus
18. Sansui
19. Nec
20. Honda
21. Seibu
22. Bridgestone
23. Yamaha
24. Matsuda
25. Toshiba
26. Sharp
27. Mitsui
28. Casio
29. Nihon Victor
30. Sega
31. Juki
32. Pioneer
33. Fostex
34. Sumitomo
35. Obayashi
36. Asahi Kasei
37. Kenwood
38. Toyo Engineering
39. Nakamichi
40. Nikon
41. Suzuki
42. Nisseki
43. Fujita
44. Isuzu
45. Daihatsu
46. Konica
47. Maxell
48. Contax
49. Roland
50. Fujitsu
51. Seiko
52. TDK
53. Sanyo
54. Ka
55. Shiseido
56. Marubeni
57. Sekisui
58. Kanebo
59. Jal
60. Fuji Jyuko
61. Crown
62. Uniden 21
63. Brother
64. Minolta
65. Komatsu
66. Ito Chu
67. Parco
68. Oki
69. Amano
70. Bandai
71. Renown
72. Sogo
73. Takeda
74. Kubota
75. Konami
76. Amada
77. Korg

Average customer rating:

Extraditional: New Pieces for the Shakuhachi Kojiro Umezaki Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Japan | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000J7N8 Release Date: 2000-04-01

Tracks:

1. TTF' '99 #1
2. Gestures, Tactile And Tethered
3. Shiraito
4. La 3ieme Langue
5. TTF '99 #3

Average customer rating:

Amazing Grace Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000B2WNV6 Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

1. Amazing Grace
2. Edelweis
3. Das Wandern Ist Des Muller Lust
4. Sakura, Folk Song 'Cherry Blossom'
5. Sur Le Point, D'avignon, Provencal Folk Song
6. Tiritomba, Sicilian Folk Song
7. Auld Lang Syne
8. Wien, De Stadt Meiner Traume ('Wien, Wien, Nur De Allein')
9. Santa Lucia For Voice & Orchestra
10. Kalinka (Little Snowfall)
11. Greensleeves
12. In Prater Bluh'n Wieder Die Baume
13. Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, Israeli Folk Song
14. Muss I Denn Zum Stadtelel Hinaus

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