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2013-05-25T04:56:46+01:00text/html2012-11-06T13:00:00+01:00Fenses Radio Show: November 2, 2012
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Brett and I met up a little before 9:30pm at KSVR , spent a few minutes catching up, then organized the selection of records we would play that night. It was a first for me - having a co-host - and it turned out to be a blast. Friday nights from 10pm to midnight can be lonely and I don't get many calls, so having someone else in the studio to talk to was definitely an enjoyable experience. For this evening, we chose a theme of the 90s, courtesy my [...]]]>text/html2012-09-17T07:41:00+01:00Picks Of The Week
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Because Of You- C2C feat. Pigeon John Happiness Pie- Death Lurks Raggedy Man- Haley Bonar Closer- Joshua Radin You Go To My Head- Judy Garland Photograph Smile- Julian Lennon Like I Love You- Justin Timberlake Dust In The Wind- Kansas Last Night's Letter- K-Ci & JoJo Conversation With God- Kim Taylor Phullon Empty- Knowdaverbs [...]]]>text/html2011-09-01T08:54:06+01:00Kimbra Cameo Lover (Music Video)
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From what I've seen and heard, New Zealander Kimbra is like a modern interpretation of Pizzicato Five . Her debut album Vows was released a few days ago. I fucks with it, yo. Related Posts: Clipse - Life Change (Feat. Pharrell and Kenna) (Music Video) N.E.R.D. - Nothing On You (.MP3) Die Antwoord - Rich Bitch (Video) Famlay [...]]]>text/html2011-06-16T02:18:00+01:00The Pan Galactic Summer Love Hit
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She had liked the young man's looks, and his short-sighted eyes, and his odd way of speaking, that was abrupt yet soft, just as his hands were sun-burnt and sinewy, yet with smooth nails like a woman's. His hair was sunburnt-looking too, or rather the colour of bracken after frost; his eyes grey, with the appealing look of the shortsighted, his smile shy yet confident, as if he knew lots of things she had never dreamed of, and yet wouldn't for the world have had her feel his superiority. But she did feel it, and liked the feeling; for it [...]]]>text/html2011-04-23T17:21:00+01:00Futurama Closing Song for Leelas Homeworld
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Click here to view the embedded video. In a recent Futurama DVR, I caught the fourth season's "Leela's Homework" episode for the second time. In the closing sequence, you find out that Leela's parents had been watching over her ever since she was a child, unbeknownst to her (she was put in an orphanage). Check out the scene in the clip above - it features the song "Baby Love Child" by Pizzicato Five. The first time I heard the song I was real humbled by how [...]]]>text/html2011-04-23T17:21:00+01:00Last Song in Futuramas Leelas Homeworld Episode
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Click here to view the embedded video. In a recent Futurama DVR, I caught the fourth season's "Leela's Homework" episode for the second time. In the closing sequence, you find out that Leela's parents had been watching over her ever since she was a child, unbeknownst to her (she was put in an orphanage). Check out the scene in the clip above - it features the song "Baby Love Child" by Pizzicato Five. The first time I heard the song I was real humbled by how [...]]]>text/html2011-03-13T06:49:00+01:00Pizzicato Five - Mon Amour Tokyo
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Pizzicato Five - Mon Amour Tokyo As most already know, the nation of Japan was hit hard with two natural disasters. Japan is a country I have visited a few times and it is a country that I fell in love with. Aside from having friends there, and as well as the extensive influences that are everyday parts of our lives, like food, art, music, films, cartoons, culture, fashion, tradition, technology and so much more that Japan has gifted upon the world, the people of Japan, at this [...]]]>text/html2010-11-19T23:39:00+01:00Os Mutantes Excelente
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Os Mutantes are one of few artists that are truly inter-generational. Even apart from their long-standing tenure, the influential Brazilian psychedelic-rockers play music that is received amiably by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. When I saw them live this past Saturday at Webster Hall, the somewhat obnoxious crowd there for opener Ariel Pink began [...]]]>text/html2010-08-20T13:46:00+01:00Flashback: Pizzicato Five
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Cuntas bandas existen o han existido que, a pesar de contar con una larga carrera y ser de hecho iniciadores de movimientos y estilos, nunca logran dejar el status de banda de culto. Uno de estos grupos es Pizzicato Five , banda surgida a mediados de los aos 80 en Japn y que a pesar de contar con el reconocimiento en su pas y haber sido grabados en los Estados Unidos por la famosa disquera Matador Records , nunca lograron hacerla en grande a nivel mundial. Tal vez sea el que, durante sus quince [...]]]>text/html2010-06-15T16:56:00+01:00Gimme 5
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Storytime. I was in an art show in Tokyo a few years back and was wandering drunk through Shibuya late one evening when a Japanese girl approached me. "Wuurorike Ahmassage Purease?" "Excuse me?" I replied courteously. " Watashi-wa speak only skoshi Japanese" making the international symbol for 'tiny' with my fingers. Again this time with a bit of smile and a mini head bow. "Worrie You Arike Ah Massage Purease?" "Oh! A 'massage'! Uh, hmm, yeah thanks but no." With a 'Hmm' , she [...]]]>text/html2010-05-29T02:30:15+01:00The Richard Cameron interview
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Sorry ladies...he's taken!(Cool ass suit cases!)By Conan the Destroyhhher!Richard Cameron may not know this........but I've been a huge fan of Arling and Cameron since they started dropping their singles and albums through the now late "Emperor Norton" Records imprint, which is where I found them in the first place.(If you've never heard of Arling and Cameron....you will most certainlyburn in]]>text/html2010-05-15T13:03:28+01:00Futurama and Pizzicato Five
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One of my favorite television shows ever is the Matt Groening cartoon comedy Futurama. Over several seasons and four direct-to-disc movies that followed the show's untimely cancellation, the writers conveyed incredible wit and an enormous amount of heart in their brief time with the characters. I greatly enjoyed the humor of the show, [...]]]>text/html2010-03-02T07:01:00+01:00The Seventh Week (February 22 to 28)
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I think weeks should always start with a post of a picture of a young Christopher Walken. Just because. Also, my daily lyrics have a universal theme to them....but it's mystery. Just like the mystery that surrounds the weird feeling that you get just by looking at this picture. Go figure. Here's the weekly lyric of the day recap - "No one knows what the future holds. If we just hold on maybe life could be sweet" [...]]]>text/html2009-11-25T17:32:00+01:00aSia aTTRaCTioN
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Une vire dans un monde plein de surprises. yamasuki -yama yama- pizzicato five -twiggy twiggy- funky shammy -my shammy six-]]>text/html2009-11-02T17:19:00+01:00Things I've Learnt Watching YouTube
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#1 - Twiggy had a pop career! Well, it was news to me anyway. Note how the Twigster cleverly utilises the skills she picked up sashaying along the catwalk in her modelling career as she, erm, sashays down the Top of the Pops set mocked-up to look like a catwalk, at the start of the first clip. This discotastic track was produced by David Essex, apparently. Owsaboutthatthen guys and gals? Rattle-rattle-jewellery-jewell ery etc. This one's good too, in a Reader's Digest Love Songs of the 70s 5-CD [...]]]>text/html2009-10-01T03:16:00+01:00Pop
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" Mid Week Pop Tranquilizer and Lounge " 01. Moby - The Rain Falls and the Sky Shudders Songs 1993-1998 (2000) 02. Moondog - fog on the hudson (425 west 57th street) On the Streets Of New York (Decca/Mars, 1953) 03. Biosphere - Tranquilizer Microgravity (1992) 04. Pizzicato Five - Catchy Made in USA (1994) 05. [...]]]>text/html2009-07-19T19:44:00+01:00Contact High
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Enjoy pot? Serge G. obviously did when he wrote the hypnotic touch-me anthem Contact in the late summer of 1966 for his soon-to-be-flame Brigitte Bardot a little warm-up for hotter things to come, and resulting in recording sessions that never took place on time. As Serge used to apologize: Every time I put my shirt back on, she takes it off again. Contact has been covered by dozens of artists, among them Japanese entrepreneurs Pizzicato Five with the divine Nomiya Maki doing a fine postmodern, if somewhat stiff disco version. But be here now: With their brand-new retro adaptation [...]]]>text/html2009-06-13T05:22:00+01:00Whatever happened to: Pizzicato Five?
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Somewhere during the '90s, Japanese musicians starting making strangely catchy throwback pop. One of the leaders of that sound was Pizzicato Five. Their song "Twiggy, Twiggy" is one of the hardest to shake from your brain.Anyway I know the band broke up in 2001, so whatever happened to them after that?]]>text/html2009-04-08T05:24:00+01:00A Walk
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Walking man courtesy of mag3737 Dearest Friends, Saturday afternoon I wasn't so fine in either mind or spirit or body. In fact, I was feeling rather crap. I was still emerging, thanks to some heap powerful antibiotics, from a bacterial infection that for two days had drained me of all energy and replaced it with a foul cocktail of chills, aches, and fevered dreams. That day I had also received some rather nasty e-correspondence from a Usual Suspect; it matters not what the content (which was [...]]]>text/html2009-04-03T17:00:00+01:00Plucking A Few Pizzicato Five Videos From The Archives [Videodrone Extra]
http://elbo.ws/post/1636216/plucking-a-few-pizzicato-five-videos-from-the-archives-videodrone/
I spent a few hours this week digging through the boxes of CDs that haven't quite made it to shelves since my move in January; from them I compiled aplaylist of music that I purchased in the late '90s, back when I probably should have been investing in tech stocks or something that I haven't really listened to since. At one point, I ran into a somewhat embarrassingly large collection of Pizzicato 5 discs. Somehow, owning Japan-only CD singles of rare Shibuya-kei tracks seems less useful now than it seemed then, but [...]]]>
Brett and I met up a little before 9:30pm at KSVR , spent a few minutes catching up, then organized the selection of records we would play that night. It was a first for me - having a co-host - and it turned out to be a blast. Friday nights from 10pm to midnight can be lonely and I don't get many calls, so having someone else in the studio to talk to was definitely an enjoyable experience. For this evening, we chose a theme of the 90s, courtesy my [...]]]>
She had liked the young man's looks, and his short-sighted eyes, and his odd way of speaking, that was abrupt yet soft, just as his hands were sun-burnt and sinewy, yet with smooth nails like a woman's. His hair was sunburnt-looking too, or rather the colour of bracken after frost; his eyes grey, with the appealing look of the shortsighted, his smile shy yet confident, as if he knew lots of things she had never dreamed of, and yet wouldn't for the world have had her feel his superiority. But she did feel it, and liked the feeling; for it [...]]]>
Click here to view the embedded video. In a recent Futurama DVR, I caught the fourth season's "Leela's Homework" episode for the second time. In the closing sequence, you find out that Leela's parents had been watching over her ever since she was a child, unbeknownst to her (she was put in an orphanage). Check out the scene in the clip above - it features the song "Baby Love Child" by Pizzicato Five. The first time I heard the song I was real humbled by how [...]]]>
Click here to view the embedded video. In a recent Futurama DVR, I caught the fourth season's "Leela's Homework" episode for the second time. In the closing sequence, you find out that Leela's parents had been watching over her ever since she was a child, unbeknownst to her (she was put in an orphanage). Check out the scene in the clip above - it features the song "Baby Love Child" by Pizzicato Five. The first time I heard the song I was real humbled by how [...]]]>
Cuntas bandas existen o han existido que, a pesar de contar con una larga carrera y ser de hecho iniciadores de movimientos y estilos, nunca logran dejar el status de banda de culto. Uno de estos grupos es Pizzicato Five , banda surgida a mediados de los aos 80 en Japn y que a pesar de contar con el reconocimiento en su pas y haber sido grabados en los Estados Unidos por la famosa disquera Matador Records , nunca lograron hacerla en grande a nivel mundial. Tal vez sea el que, durante sus quince [...]]]>
Storytime. I was in an art show in Tokyo a few years back and was wandering drunk through Shibuya late one evening when a Japanese girl approached me. "Wuurorike Ahmassage Purease?" "Excuse me?" I replied courteously. " Watashi-wa speak only skoshi Japanese" making the international symbol for 'tiny' with my fingers. Again this time with a bit of smile and a mini head bow. "Worrie You Arike Ah Massage Purease?" "Oh! A 'massage'! Uh, hmm, yeah thanks but no." With a 'Hmm' , she [...]]]>
I think weeks should always start with a post of a picture of a young Christopher Walken. Just because. Also, my daily lyrics have a universal theme to them....but it's mystery. Just like the mystery that surrounds the weird feeling that you get just by looking at this picture. Go figure. Here's the weekly lyric of the day recap - "No one knows what the future holds. If we just hold on maybe life could be sweet" [...]]]>
Une vire dans un monde plein de surprises. yamasuki -yama yama- pizzicato five -twiggy twiggy- funky shammy -my shammy six-]]>
" Mid Week Pop Tranquilizer and Lounge " 01. Moby - The Rain Falls and the Sky Shudders Songs 1993-1998 (2000) 02. Moondog - fog on the hudson (425 west 57th street) On the Streets Of New York (Decca/Mars, 1953) 03. Biosphere - Tranquilizer Microgravity (1992) 04. Pizzicato Five - Catchy Made in USA (1994) 05. [...]]]>
Enjoy pot? Serge G. obviously did when he wrote the hypnotic touch-me anthem Contact in the late summer of 1966 for his soon-to-be-flame Brigitte Bardot a little warm-up for hotter things to come, and resulting in recording sessions that never took place on time. As Serge used to apologize: Every time I put my shirt back on, she takes it off again. Contact has been covered by dozens of artists, among them Japanese entrepreneurs Pizzicato Five with the divine Nomiya Maki doing a fine postmodern, if somewhat stiff disco version. But be here now: With their brand-new retro adaptation [...]]]>
Walking man courtesy of mag3737 Dearest Friends, Saturday afternoon I wasn't so fine in either mind or spirit or body. In fact, I was feeling rather crap. I was still emerging, thanks to some heap powerful antibiotics, from a bacterial infection that for two days had drained me of all energy and replaced it with a foul cocktail of chills, aches, and fevered dreams. That day I had also received some rather nasty e-correspondence from a Usual Suspect; it matters not what the content (which was [...]]]>
I spent a few hours this week digging through the boxes of CDs that haven't quite made it to shelves since my move in January; from them I compiled aplaylist of music that I purchased in the late '90s, back when I probably should have been investing in tech stocks or something that I haven't really listened to since. At one point, I ran into a somewhat embarrassingly large collection of Pizzicato 5 discs. Somehow, owning Japan-only CD singles of rare Shibuya-kei tracks seems less useful now than it seemed then, but [...]]]>