Teeny Shiny

Melt Banana | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A-Zap Records
• ASIN: B00004Z3XD
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,594 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as "pop and nice," a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the band's mailing list have replied, "No pop!" and "Extreme, please!" This angular Pythagorean-core HC quartet supposes that the words "pop" and "nice" have slightly different nuances those outside their native Japan are failing to see; perhaps they mean "pop" not in the Celine Dion sense, but in the Andy Warhol sense, "nice" not as in smashing a bunch of garbage together and expecting fans to swallow it out of habit, but as in well-crafted, hairball mania. Even as the band acknowledges that Teeny Shiny is punk, noisy, screeching, and fast, they steadfastly maintain that it is pop and nice for them. Though a mad scientist from 2788 has given vocalist / lyricist Yako a heart the size of a lion's (engorged with futuristic steroids) and her voice goes spitting and whizzing above it all as 5,000 volts surge through her skinny torso; and given that the mad scientist has screwed with guitarist Agata's brain so that his guitar-playing resembles a synth and two turntables; and taking into account the Melt-Banana rhythm section's ability to keep up with a machine gun demonstration without breaking a sweat - conditions that all apply to Teeny Shiny, fictionalized or not - they're not backing down from the assertion that their new album is pop and nice. Sometimes you just gotta trust people. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where are you, October 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Teeny Shiny (Audio CD)

Melt Banana are one of those bands that I saw live once and was completely hooked. My jaw just dropped and I couldn't wait to line up and buy all their records. With "Teeny Shiny" they seem to be taking more a more pop driven direction. Although the pure speed and attack of their music stays the same they seem to have more structure and solid songwriting. One more thing: Agata is this generations Jimi Hendrix and should be widely acknoledged as such.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I love it, but you can't hear what Agata's doing too well, November 29, 2000

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This review is from: Teeny Shiny (Audio CD)

It was much better live. Agata is God. The little studio tricks make it worth buying, but they are the best live band ever. Planet Q was amazing live, I found it a bit more lo-fi and less sci-fi here.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars we will, we will rock you..., January 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Teeny Shiny (Audio CD)

so melt banana, noisy but polite, trashy but cute as little buttons. its unbelievable that the lovely yasuko (singist) can appear so demure offstage and so frightening onstage doing her convulsion/ATTACK!!!! thing. teeny shiny then, new (ish)album.If you don't know MB then don't start here. you'll probobly find it impenetrable, whatever angle you come at it from. those who do know them, probobly own this already. it has a really weird poppy quality to it, like you'll find little flashes of it coming to you when your not really thinking of anything. live is MBs home, and this is their least 'live' album. it may be just me, but theres less of the time changes that make you think are they making this all up as they go along, meaning it could fit in with a lot of 'straight' grindcore (think dillinger escape plan. which is a shame, as MB are far more exciting than that.
//so, if you know 'em, you own it. if you don't, pick up mxbx, and then tell everyone you know that they are one of the bestest bands in the whole wide world. and if they play in your town/city/country/neighbouring continent, sell your parents for a ticket.
Yes, that good.