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Pop Tatari

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Let me get this out of the way:this is a masterpiece.Yes.I said it.It will annoy all but 10 people in the world(and those 10 don't even listen to it anymore),but is an art punk masterpiece nonetheless.

This is the sound of ADD afflicted Japanese punks throwing all their favorite sounds(punk,world music,70's era R&B/funk,psycherock ,etc.)into a blender,grinding it up and trying to splice it back together while watching a Looney Tunes marathon from the comfort of their padded cells.

You either get this,or you dismiss it with a condescending sneer.Words do not do justice to the insanity on display here,this is like Jackson Pollock making love to Robert Williams.Yeah,it's art honey.Low brow,scum pop art.Once again a small group of Japanese sonic terrorizers churn out a dizzying array of colorful sounds played more truly,if trashy,then their Western peers.And once again,WITHOUT the stink of self importance that stifles so many.

Eveyone I know hates this album. Who can blame them? Some Japanese kids with _SEVERE_ ADD running around inside a studio doing pisstakes left, right & centre. I mean, these friends... some of them appreciate Fantomas, Mr. Bungle and other strange bands, but the Boredoms just crush them. Sure, Fantomas may not ever be able to play a riff for more than 10 seconds at once, the Melvins may drone on the same note for 6+ minutes, but THIS?!?!? Again, who can blame one for feeling that way?

Nevertheless I can listen to all 67 or so minutes of Pop Tatari and never be bored, never be annoyed, always engaged and entertained. Someone wrote that this is like a Manga comic for your ears and that really captures it perfectly. I can't imagine what the A&R rep at Reprise was thinking (this was on a major label?). They clearly took a chance and didn't reign in this band one bit and the results are spectacular.

For all the insanity and abrasiveness contatined within, this album is actually very soothing in some inexplicable way. It's the ultimate in stress relief, but not like listening to Minor Threat or Slayer which amps up the anger level, but rather like watching a hilarious movie. Great for road trips too, as long as there's no one along for the ride. This is what I use to de-compress from listening to god-awful AOR Top 40 bucolic radio garbage force-fed to me at work.

Just try singing along.

B.......... O............. R.............. E(e)(e)(e)(e)................. AYEYIEYIEYIEYIEYIEYIE YAKAKAKAKAK SPFLTHFTPDBVvvv... YUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNU (bliston) BLISTONNLANNNNNNNNNNN!!!

New robotic fish unveiled by Japanese scientists will allow long extinct species to be recreated. The robot models of modern fish are so lifelike that only closely inspecting the eye tells them apart from real fish. The project at Chateau Boredom cost $1 million and the company expect the technology will be used in virtual aquariums. They have already created a robotic replica of the rarely-seen coelacanth. They intend to recreate fish which died out millions of years ago and are known only from fossil. "If this technology disseminates well enough, the cost could go down and we might have them in the entrance hall. But, at this point, I cannot say that is happening," remarked Eye-san with a sly wink as he climbed into his submarine.

Yoshimi, on the other hand, believes there may be spin-offs for the band's main business: "The idea of this fish fin movement could be applied to realize the difficult technology of making guitars to feedback under the ocean. Starfish and sea-urchin and giant squid, all need noise-rock, too."

Boredom's expertise was stretched to the limit to develop the fish. Dozens of tiny sensors around the tank transmit messages to the fish, telling them where to swim, what to wear, who to turn to in times of great inner turmoil. The messages are sent from a computer inside Yoshimi's favorite cocktail drum. The robot sea bass is controlled from Eye-san's microphone.

The first robot, a sea bream, weighs 25kg and is 500cm long. Its top speed is 18 knots. The battery can keep it swimming for up to 30 minutes.

In comparison, the coelacanth robot is a metal monster, weighing in at 40kg and measuring 120cm long.

The first robotic fish, a tuna, swam in 1994 in Yamamotor's pool. The band members admired the energy-efficient swimming motion of the fish, honed over 160 million years of evolutionary change, as well as the rippling silver quality of its scales in the moonlight, reminding all present of the way Hawkwind had made them feel when they were teenagers, and bringing a tear to more than one eye. The band believe robot fish could swim far further than autonomous CDs, given the same amount of battery acid. The cyber-fish could then search huge areas of the ocean, looking for White Castle sliders and pasting up flyers for next Boredoms show.

In the late 60's and early 70's, Warner Bros. were very bold in the type of music they unleashed to the public. That returned in 1991 when The Boredoms were signed to Warner Bros. and released the masterpiece known as POP TATARI. It contained all of the Boredoms trademarks: screaming, loud distortion, weird electronics, screaming, chanting, screaming, sound effects, feedback, and believe it or not, some screaming. Inbetween this you might hear some folk, ska, grunge, and in "Cory & The Mandara Suicide Pyramid Action Or Gas Satori", some actual R&B interpreted by Eye Yamatsuka and friends.

Yes, what they create in the studio and on stage is insane, but this is why they are loved and admired. How this got on Warner Bros. I'll never now, but whoever came up with the idea was/is a genius.

Contrary to the name, the Boredoms are never boring. Their sound is fresh and even shocking. It is hard to find origional sounds these days, and the Boredoms are one of the best bands that has their own sound. Generally the average person does not like the boredoms, but if you dont mind music that tends to be largely random with moments of brilliance, all being held together by percussion, then buy this or any boredoms CD. There is not much else to say about them.

How do you spell music? B-O-R-E-D-O-M-S.

Quite simply, this is as good as music can get. Well, this and Chocolate Synthesizer, and Super are, and all the music from this legenrdary band. If you are like me you are very bored by the common sounds produced by most "musicians" and have long felt the betrayal of the rock/punk pioneers. That being the case, you should order every Boredoms cd right now. The sounds soar and dance and do all kinds of amazing things.

This is a good place to start, as, in my opinion, this is the easiest Boredoms record to listen to. It is enough to get you hooked and wanting more, at which time the incredibly addictive Chocolate Synthesizer will take over your life. But you'll enjoy it.

I got sent this for Xmas & put it on, being very perplexed by it. I had certainly heard of them before, almost buying Choc Synth @ the markets once until I saw some rare Sonic youth bootlegs. Anyway, there is very little in the way of comprehensibilty here but it is very original & outstanding. The title track uses the start of all the others for example. Before this I mainly knew drummer Yoshimi from being in the great FREE KITTEN.

Pop Tatari was the first Boredoms music i had ever been exposed to. my initial reaction was... "what the hell is going on here?" and thankfully, my reaction has not changed years later. this album still holds the unrestrained crazed sounds of pure insanity. but in a really fun and goofy way. the songs are sharp and full of ridiculous noisy musical ideas. and they are all pieced together with random outbursts of non -sensical conversations between the band members; which could only be described as "B*O*R*E*speak. most of those dialogue segments (although completely unintelligable) are hilarious. Pop Tatari stands out as a classic moment in Boredoms history where all the elements that make them so wild and crazy have a particular staying power in the way that the complete package is presented. it's not to say that these songs are poppy or catchy...quite the opposite (i'm not even sure that these tracks could even be considered "songs"); but there is a certain magnetism that draws the unsuspecting listener into this messy outlandish masterpiece and holds them down until their senses are thoroughly [...].

At first the kebab was revered in society. A religion was slowly created to worship and heap praise on this culinary delight. A secret organisation formed to deal with the religious duties involved. They were, in effect, the high priests of the kebab. Even a governing body was created to deal with any dilemas. It still exists to this day. The 'Council Of The Kebab' is the governing element of the 'Cult Of The Kebab'. The 'Council Of The Kebab' is made up 'Master's Of The Kebab' and "Lord Of The Kebabs'. These people are elected into office, and choose the laws and regulations which maintain the peace and whatnot. Once a law or idea has been formulated it is put for before all members (except 'Kebab Supplicants') to decide. However, over the years, the people forgot about their duties to the kebab and soon only the secret organisation carried on the memory of the kebab. For years they tried to spread the kebab religion around but to no avail. You see, it was a secret organization, so secret, that the common folk did not know that they existed and subsequently secret refused to secret listen secret secret. Time passed. Soon the kebab religion changed. The remaining members of the 'Cult Of The Kebab' no longer simply worshipped the kebab, they now sought to become one with the kebab and dance with it in the cosmos eventually becoming its master.

Great album... A lot more punk than there newer stuff but it's all intelligently put together... This band is not to be missed live - that's for sure... Great vocals - he he he...