Polysics - Polysics or Die!!!!

Band: Polysics
Album: Polysics or Die!!!!
Country: Japan
Release Date: 2005

Polysics aren't cute, and they don't have their own cartoon show. (Although it might be interesting -- I'm thinking Ren & Stimpy, but weirder.) What they do have is a thoroughly original, bizzarely entertaining sound.
What do they sound like? A friend of mine suggested techno punk, but that description is too glib. Imagine the bastard child of Devo and a hardcore punk group, fronted by a guy who, umm, hasn't been keeping up with his meds, and you start to get the idea.
The music is braindead fun, spastic, and thoroughly addictive. Chief Polysic Hiroyuki Hayashi (once known only as Poly-1) mugs and wails off key over a bed of thrashing guitars, bleeping synthesizers, and the sugary sweet harmonies of keyboardist Kayo and bassist Fumi. The few non-Japanese songs are more Engrish than English, but it all fits somehow. This isn't brain surgery music.
Sure, Hayashi's over-the-top style can wear on you, and they do love their vocoders. Some songs don't work -- a "live in the studio" re-recording of the single "Black Out Fall Out" (found on Japan For Sale Vol 3, for the curious) introduces unnecessary elements and loosens the songs tight charm. But the sped up, vocoded cover of "My Sharona" deserves to be on everyone's list of alltime bizzare songs, and numbers like "Kaja Kaja Goo", "Lookin' Looin' Gaa" (with its childlike verse chants), "Peach Pie On The Beach" (just TRY not singing along -- pippikippippippi!) and "Code4" really do show off the band at its hyperactive, geeky finest.

1. Buggie Technica
2. Hot Stuff
3. New Wave Jacket
4. Plus Chicker
5. Kaja Kaja Goo
6. Black Out Fall Out
7. My Sharona
8. Making Sense
9. Lookin’ Lookin’ Gaa
10. Commodoll
11. For Young Electric Pop
12. XCT
13. Peach Pie on the Beach
14. Each Life Each End
15. Code 4
16. Modern
17. Urge On !!
18. ENO

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Supersnazz - Superstupid!

Band: Supersnazz
Album: Superstupid!
Country: Japan
Release Date: 1993
Label: Subpop

A great record by a cool japanese rock band. Japan didn't only produce the 5.6.7.8's !

Allmusic.com Review

On their 1993 Sub Pop debut, Superstupid!, Japanese rockers Supersnazz -- who borrow their name from an album by the Flamin' Groovies-- deliver an electric album of spiky, retro rock & roll. What they lack in technical prowess, they make up for with sheer spunkiness, showing fresh zeal for the simple pleasures of surf-tinged rock, without any of the jaded weariness of their American counterparts. With a joyous energy equaling that of fellow Japanese imports of the same era, Teengenerate and Guitar Wolf, these ladies approach their songs as if they were discovering the cool rebellion of rock & roll for the first time. They cruise through an album of simple high-energy songs, anchored by a rough garage-flavored guitar that launches into vigorous solos, and a direct, pummeling drum assault. Spike's frayed vocals slither, growl, and scream, and although the lyrics are often unintelligible through her thick accent, her tone clearly communicates a tough rock attitude. A noticeable standout, "Black Cat" opens with a low, menacing bassline and hovers at a cool mid-tempo beat, only losing its composure for a quick blast of adrenaline at the heart of the song. "Sometimes" is pure pop bubblegum, with the band members singing along together in a wave of innocent girlishness that makes for a sweet love song. Chock-full of odes to the golden era of '50s and '60s rock, including a cover of "Comanche" by Link Wray, which has a lo-fi muddy flavor, the album ends with a fantastic cover of "Papa Oom Mow Mow." Raw vocals explode into catcalls and screams before grinding down to a sultry beat and finishing off in a shower of giggles. Everything the genre should be -- tough, sexy, cool, and fun -- Supersnazz rocks.

1.	Breakout	2:21
2.	Johnny	3:01
3.	Black Cat	1:31
4.	Sometimes	2:39
5.	Middle of the Way	1:19
6.	Playing My Guitar	3:01
7.	Ungle Wiggly	2:48
8.	Hardcore	2:48
9.	Comanche	1:12
10.	Creeps	2:16
11.	First Time Is the Best time	1:37
12.	Papa Oom Mow Mow	2:47

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