#BABY LOVE CHILD PIZZICATO FIVE FULL#
Full of syrupy Bacharach-style arrangements and song titles like “Odd Couple and the Others” and “The Apartment,” Couples often sounds like the soundtrack to a very corny ’70s TV series, complete with tinkling bells, punchy brass and, of course, pizzicato strings. And you’d have to scour the globe to find anyone who can challenge the prolific group’s productivity, which has yielded nearly two dozen cleverly designed and packaged albums in the first half of the ’90s alone.įollowing two singles, “Audrey Hepburn Complex” and “In Action” (collected, along with other early tracks, on Non Standard Years) and an electro-pop album, Pizzicato Mania, the group made a surprisingly sophisticated major-label debut album. Unlike other contemporary Japanese bands that have achieved some notoriety in America (like Shonen Knife), Pizzicato Five are practically superstars at home. Its songs are rich nuggets of pop-art irony, created in the belief that mass-produced consumables have replaced art and, therefore, art can no longer be a serious pursuit. But the Tokyo group, which was formed in 1984 by Yasuharu Konishi, a Tokyo college student consumed with ’50s, ’60s and ’70s pop, soul and television theme music, is much more than the sum of its kitschy Western influences. At first listen, that may seem to be true of Pizzicato Five.
There is a persistent stereotype in America that Japanese bands simply attempt to replicate American and British pop, and that the charm of the music is in how they get it wrong or unwittingly fall into the culture gap. Combinaision Spaciale: Pizzicato Five in Dub EP (Japan.Unzipped EP (Triad/Matador/Atlantic) 1995.The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five (Triad/Matador/Atlantic) 1995.
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