Penalty Life

The Pillows | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 3, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
• ASIN: B00079I03S
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,979 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dead Stock Paradise

2. Lonesome Diamond

3. Freebee Honey

4. Terminal Heaven's Rock

5. The Sun That Will Not Rise

6. Phantom Pain

7. I Know You

8. Moon Marguerite

9. Super Trampoline School Kid [Instrumental]

10. Mole Town Prisoner

11. The Scar Whispers, Nobody Is in Paradise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They deserve to be big here way more than our pop musicians., February 23, 2004

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"guyver7" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Penalty Life (Audio CD)

This album has showed the pillows' sound turning more melodic while still keeping a firm grasp on their frantic and heavy but calculated sound.
For those who haven't heard these guys, they're obviously influenced by the modern/alt. rock of the '80s and '90s.
However, they're definitely not wannabes, they have a very distinctive and enjoyable sound which by all rights should be popular here in the U.S., as it's far superior to a lot of the trash that gets spilled on the public all the time over here.
The language barrier isn't even an excuse since many of their lyrics are in english and since when did lyrics matter much to the american public much anyway?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great CD!, March 5, 2004

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Nicole Maronn (Enfield, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Penalty Life (Audio CD)

The Pillows are best known here in the US by providing the soundtrack to the popular anime series Furi Kuri (or Fooly Cooly, to us Americans). While the first OST for the show has had an American release, if you want more music by The Pillows, then check this CD out.

More melodic than their pervious offers, you still get the hard crunching guitar and the catchy riffs that The Pillows presented in FLCL. Most of the songs have a Beetles-flavor to them, which will meake you reminise of the Fab Five in the early years. But let's not compare them to The Beetles. The Pillows have their own niche in a seemingly cookie-carved rock world that just begs to be shared!

Personaly, the language barrier is not a problem for me. While Puffy AmiYumi's recent album have an even mix of Japanese-only and English only tracks to please the masses, I love how that the Pillows only have a few lyrics in English and the majority in Japanese. I believe tampering with an artist's work is unnessesary and hinders the creativity of the work. If you where to temper with the Pillows' songs, they wouldn't have the same edge, nor orginality that they once possesed.

If you wanna get into a great J-Rock band, The Pillows are right up your ally!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To The Powers That be, May 21, 2005

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Little Buster I Am - See all my reviews

This review is from: Penalty Life (Audio CD)

Please, OH Please!!! Hear Me out. To anyone considering purchasing this album please do, this is an excellent album. If you are a Pillows fan and have acquired their music off the web, buy this album to show your support. I have and will buy thier other albums as they are released. I love this band and I am major fanboy and I want The Pillows to have all the respect and success they deserve.