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The note at the top of the page says that the site layout is currently broken in firefox. It turns out that I royally screwed something up while trying to "Improve" Things around here. As a result, I'll have to recode the site structure and css from scratch. Until then, sorry firefox users. I commend you for your independent spirit, but for now you'll have to ...

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Stopped by Pizzicato Five's 1994 american debut, Made in USA this morning. it's a compilation of the better songs that had already been released in japan during the group's 8 year existence. In fact, combined with the excellent Five by Five ep (released around the same time), this is P5's first stab at greatness. Pizzicato Five is a group that can take a simple idea and ...

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Happy End of the World is the Pizzicato 5 album, above all others. Yeah, the five by five ep is of course excellent, but this record is among the definitive late-90s shibuya-kei records from the definitive shibuya-kei act. It's chock full of that uptempo cheerfulness that one would expect to come from the bright lights of Tokyo, but it's tempered with just the right amount of ...

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Every time I think i’m ready to ditch those poppy-japanese-rock-girls, I hear the songs that got me interested in the first place. So i explore their music and find myself intrigued, but underwelmed by much of their catalog. Then I start contemplating the removal of the less compelling songs from my library. entering “evaluation mode,” I listen to their songs and can’t help but find most ...

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