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 | Title : Nice
Author : Puffy AmiYumi
Release Date : 20030812
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $16.98
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Editorial Reviews :
The cover art pays droll homage to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace, but the music inside is straight Paul McCartney. From the bubbling synthesizers and insistent disco rhythms of 'Tokyo Nights' to the shouty glam-rock swagger of the 'Teen Titans Theme,' this is exactly the kind of giddy Wings-influenced power-pop that producer Andy Sturmer once attempted to revive with his own band, Jellyfish. Never mind that the most of it is sung in Japanese. With ska beats percolating through 'K2G' and 12-string Rickenbackers chiming on 'Sayonara,' this serves as the ideal follow-up to Puffy AmiYumi's 2002 sampler, An Illustrated History. Now it's time to devour them. --Aidin Vaziri
Buyer Reviews :
Although this is the US release and has a few more songs sung in English it will more than likely be the same fun, beautiful and exciting Japanese release I've enjoyed since February of this year.
Puffy AmiYumi are two beautiful Japanese women who were thrown together after being discovered in a talent search. Their voices are so similiar it sound like they're double tracking the vocals, but it's just them singing in unison. They have a compilation out called 'An Illustrated History' that I highly recommend as it was the disc that turned me on to them. It also has a few songs sung in English, and they are written, as are all the song on 'Nice', by ex-Jellyfish lead singer/songwriter/drummer, Andy Sturmer, who produces and plays almost everthing on the record. This is the closest we'll get to a new Jellyfish album. The songs run the gamut of styles and genres as all the Puffy AmiYumi CD's do. The Beatles, The Who, the Buggles, ELO, Abba, Queen, Jellyfish, of course; a plethora of classic rock influnces that keep the record moving constantly. I know some will be jolted by stylistic changes, but all the songs are so well written and arranged it won't even matter- even if you can't understand what they're singing. I've learned to sing phoneticaly! The Japanese have done this with American music for years! Basically, this album smears the line between east and west pop/rock.
If music is the universal language
then Puffy AmiYumi speak volumes.
Enjoy!
(by jandjgiddings)
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