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	Matador Records \| Pizzicato Five Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pizzicato Five, two men and one woman, all hailing from Tokyo, are like a hyper-active popcorn popper when it comes to ideas.
		Pizzicato Five are encompassing pop culture with an enthusiasm that Malcolm McLaren never could muster, even if he found himself in bed with Madonna, Trevor Horn and John Waters at the same time.
		Pizzicato Five are ultra-hipsters, they have truly gone beyond the valley of the hip, walked in the shadow of the valley of overkill, and come out smiling on the other side.
	www.matadorrecords.com /pizzicato_five/biography.html (1301 words)

	Metroactive Arts \| Pizzicato Five
		For the other Japanese pop-tart band, Pizzicato Five, a first visit to the states was met not with tearful screams but with wide smiles and sideways looks.
		Pizzicato Five's blend of lounge, disco, dance and bachelor-pad ambiance inspired even those too cool to dance to tap a toe or two.
		Pizzicato Five must have inoculated itself against the dreaded sophomore slump.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.09.95/pizzicato-9545.html (726 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Pizzicato Five
		At this point, developing into a multi-media performance group, Pizzicato Five began releasing videos, with Nomiya's flamboyant homemade outfits and Konishi's gift for film collages and slogans (like "very famous in Japan" and "beauty is only skin deep") contributing to giddy spectacles that blur the line between tribute and parody.
		For all that, Pizzicato Five was still all but unknown in the United States, but the Five by Five EP remedied that.
		In all but a few songs, Pizzicato Five shines with pop polish, particularly in the upbeat dance gem "Happy Sad" and "If I Were a Groupie," with its English and Japanese soundbites of conversations with groupies.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry_90s.php?a=pizzicato_five (1542 words)

	Pizzicato 5
		Pizzicato Five are a dynamic duo: Maki Nomiya, the arbiter of style, the face of Pizzicato Five, singer, songwriter, video game maniac, and gourmet cook.
		Since 1985, Pizzicato Five has defined the essence of style and substance in Shibuya, which is Tokyo's equivalent of a combination of Greenwich Village in its heyday and the new Silicon Valley in San Francisco, with a twisted Japanese sensibility.
		The packaging for "The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five" is too complex to be announced right now, but suffice it to say that it will live up to their deluxe multi-element, award-winning product packages.
	members.aol.com /essec/pizzi5.htm (767 words)

	Pizzicato Five
		Pizzicato Five's Konishi Yasuhara says he likes to tour in the United States because he sells more records that way.
		Pizzicato Five released their first album, Audry Hepburn Complex, in 1985 and has released over 25 albums since.
		Their music — a mix of '60s-style jazz, breezy lounge and '90s danceclub fare — is pop for pop's sake: their lyrics don't mean a thing, the band doesn't pretend to be original, and singer NomiyaMakieven admitted in print that the only artist she'd like to collaborate with is Jon Bon Jovi.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/091897/article051.shtml (278 words)

	Nippop \| Pizzicato Five \| Profile
		Luminaries of the much-hyped Shibuya-kei scene, the Pizzicato Five's music combines Burt Bacharach songcraft with go-go kitsch; chanteusy murmurings backed by an updated pastiche of everything that was fabulous about the 60s.
		Despite serving as a revolving door for vocalists and the departure of Kamamiya, the band enjoyed widespread and rapidly growing popularity in Japan, and was at the top of their game with the release of their 1990 single "Lovers Rock", featuring new vocalist Maki Nomiya.
		Pizzicato Five issued two more compilations in the United States before following up in 1997 with Happy End of the World, which saw simultaneous release in Japan and the United States.
	nippop.com /artist/artist_id-19/artist_name-pizzicato_five (573 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Fifth Release from Pizzicato Five ~ Pizzicato Five
		Tokyo duo Pizzicato Five, however, peer stateside and see the sparkling disco-ball inferno of souped-up drag-race hyper-enthusiasm, a kitschy retro-futurist youthquake, and a high-fashion, heavy-plastic glob of fun.
		To judge from "Sound of Music," Pizzicato Five seem to be cheerfully cannibalizing various popular American music periods: There's a disco tune, a bit of bossa nova, bouncy funk, jazz, dance, and bubblegum pop that refuses to be serious about anything.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000581X?v=glance (1374 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fifth Release from Pizzicato Five: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pizzicato 5 are at their very best when they sound new and fresh.
		I got my nephews hooked on Pizzicato Five three years ago after I discovered them myself, and whenever we travel together (which is a lot, as I babysit them often) they request this band's albums more than any other group besides The Beatles.
		Pizzicato Five is one of those rare musical acts who keep getting better and better with each album, who continue to persistently produce music that is nothing but outstanding, who are completely incapable of creating "filler" junk.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YX2F?v=glance (1000 words)

	GMAN: Pizzicato Five
		Pizzicato Five is has been my favorite band for the past 4 or 5 years since I first heard them on Live 105 when I was living in the San Fransisco Bay Area.
		Here is a link to their stuff (Pizzicato Five) They don't carry everything but they probably carry the most of any place in the US.
		I'm not sure of their entire history but I know that a couple of my earlier albums sound like they are by a completely different band.
	www.greggman.com /japan/pizzicato5.htm (728 words)

	Pizzicato five/Playboy Playgirl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The writer just finished writing the first capsule for Pizzicato Five when, suddenly, his text file is corrupted.
		Ironically, the album Playboy & Playgirl by Pizzicato Five, on Matador, is the opposite of computers.
		Pizzicato Five may have disco grooves, but they have trumpets, and human voices.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1999/060399/NA10.CEtherealP.html (320 words)

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		The mastermind of Pizzicato Five, Yasuharu Konishi, does, and seems to think that the world would be a better place if dance music were sillier.
		In Konishi's words, Pizzicato's latest album, Happy End of the World, is strictly "happy, cute and silly." It is clearly intended as an antithesis of all the self-important music that inundates us.
		Pizzicato Five are Konishi and songstress Maki Nomiya, whose courageous fashion statements accentuate her sensuous voice.
	ucsu.colorado.edu /~jheath/p53.html (504 words)

	Alternative Rock - Made in Usa - Pizzicato Five free mp3 full albums download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fans of the group, used to its sometimes unusual, often eclectic, style may not think this P5's best album, but it may be the best place to start.
		I had an odd introduction to Pizzicato Five, my first album of theirs being the 2001 import "In The Mix," a Yoshinori Sunahara live mix album.
		pizzicato five (P5, to those of you in the know) made a career (a career sadly that sadly ended a few years back) of making some of the catchiest, addictive pop songs you could ever hope to hear.
	www.playtunes.net /album/2465.html (598 words)

	Pizzicato Five : The International Playboy and Playgirl Record - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Pizzicato Five : The International Playboy and Playgirl Record
		Keyboard timbres run the gamut of the Pizzicato imagination from faux-harpsichord to spacy funk.
		Singer Nomiya Maki puts her unpretentious stamp over everything from Sgt. Pepper's pomp to '60s R&B horns to symphonic dancefloor beats to introspective pastorals.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,379010,00.html (272 words)

	Stylus Record Review: Pizzicato Five/The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Then somewhere in between their first record and their third one, they began to move towards speaking about meaningful subjects and becoming a politically-charged dance band.
		Then came Pizzicato Five, a threesome (now a duo) from Japan.
		They were wrong: Deee-light and Pizzicato Five share the same wardrobe, and that's about it.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1995/120795/piz.html (626 words)

	Pizzicato Five: The Fifth Release From Matador (2000): Reviews
		Once the chuckle factor (unavoidable with kitsch) wears off, Pizzicato Five are guilt-free--non-rockist, non-tech-head--perfect 2000-01 listening.
		When Pizzicato Five gets in this zone, which they do repeatedly here, all the world's a runway, and everyone's a size four and working it on pinpoint stilettos.
		What makes Fifth most unremarkable is the fact that it's nearly bereft of the great, catchy songwriting we've seen from Pizzicato Five in the past.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/pizzicato5/fifthrelease (285 words)

	Tower Records - Made In USA - Pizzicato Five
		MADE IN USA compiles tracks from several Pizzicato Five records released only in Japan.
		For its first full-length U.S. release, dance-pop duo Pizzicato Five had a wealth of options, having released over a dozen albums in their native Japan over the previous seven years, not even counting remix EPs and compilations.
		The album's highlights are the slinky, Barry White-influenced "Magic Carpet Ride," the hyperkinetic "Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy Vs. James Bond" and the sultry thump of "Go-Go Dancer," but taken as a whole, MADE IN USA is a perfect introduction to the slyly ironic electro-dance world of Pizzicato Five.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1046010 (366 words)

	ALBUM REVIEW: Pizzicato Five -- Japan’s best kept secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		One listen to Pizzicato Five’s new album, Playboy and Playgirl, quickly puts aside any possible doubts or prejudices and makes it obvious that P5 is more than just a novelty act.
		Pizzicato Five (made up of the music wonder Yasauharu Konishi and the irrepressible vocalist Maki Nomiya) has a unique sound that one can categorize as “retro” but which fails to convey the duo’s creativity and their incredibly catchy tunes.
		Although some may scoff at the comparisons, just as Stephen Sondheim’s stylized songs in Follies transcend mere pastiche and Erasure’s infectious tunes still manage to convey worlds of emotion, Pizzicato Five captures the flavor of a small period of music and run wild with it.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N27/Pizzicato_Five_.27a.html (346 words)

	CMT.com : Pizzicato Five : Biography
		Beginning with the 1990 single "Lovers Rock," Maki Nomiya was the new P5 vocalist; their popularity at home continued to soar, and in 1994 the American indie label Matador agreed to issue the compilation EP Five by Five.
		Takanami quit shortly after its release, however, reducing the group to a duo; after a pair of other US compilations, Made in USA and The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five, in 1997 they issued Happy End of the World, the first of their LPs to enjoy simultaneous Japanese and American release.
		The International Playboy and Playgirl Record followed two years later, and the group's last proper album of the millennium, Pizzicato Five (tm), appeared in November 1999.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/pizzicato_five/bio.jhtml (246 words)

	Pizzicato Five - The Fifth Release From Matador - almost cool music review
		Don't ever try to understand this group, because I think that they may be off living in their own candy-coated universe somewhere.
		While most people probably expected them to go the one (or two) hit wonder route of Shonen Knife, Pizzicato Five have changed their sound just enough to keep fresh.
		Like always, the album dips in all kinds of styles over the course of 14 tracks, whether it's squirrelly jazz or lounge or rumbling drum and bass numbers with orchestral touches or even surf-rock guitars.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/963 (492 words)

	Pizzicato Five: Happy End of the World: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I'm learning to speak Japanese, so not only is this disc an excellent tutor (the lyrics are almost entirely in Japanese with English translation in the liner notes), but it's also great listen.
		If their moderately successful modern rock hit "Twiggy Twiggy" was your introduction to Pizzicato Five like mine was, you're probably thinking, "Hmmm.
		If you're the type that likes a little kitsch with your cola, and you describe Beck's Odelay as "great, if it were just a little more diverse," you should get yourself a copy of Happy End of the World.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/p/pizzicato-five/happy-end-of-the-world.shtml (177 words)

	pizzicato on Encyclopedia.com
		Directions for playing pizzicato are found in early 17th-century music.
		Paganini introduced left-hand pizzicato, making it possible to play bowed tones and pizzicato tones simultaneously or in alternation.
		Three out of four stars for Pizzicato Five: "Happy End of the World," Matador Records
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/p1/pizzicat.asp (249 words)

	MusicMoz - Bands and Artists: P: Pizzicato Five: Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jose C.'s Pizzicato Five Pages - Includes liner notes from several albums, transcripts of reviews from various music magazines, and home to the Pizzicato Five Mailing List.
		Le Monde de Pizzicato 5 - The home to a French mailing list, it also includes album information, photos and reviews of several albums.
		New Music Machine - Home Of The Pizzicato Five Discography and the New Music Machine - a daily look at the latest in new and different music.
	musicmoz.org /Bands_and_Artists/P/Pizzicato_Five/Links (289 words)

	pizzicato
		pizzicato, in music, the technique of plucking the strings of an instrument that is usually bowed.
		Pizzicato 5 produces pop with campy flavor (University Wire)
		Three out of four stars for Pizzicato Five: "Happy End of the World," Matador Records (University Wire)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0839252.html (142 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Fifth Release from: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pizzicato Five's new album see's the group taking the pace down a peg from their last release on Matador "International Playboy and Playgirl".
		Originally released in Japan last year (under the title "tm"-trademark), it finally recieves an airing in Europe and the USA.
		With some big pop moments ("20th Century Girl" and "La Guerre Est Finie") to balance out the mellower moments, the Pizzicato five turn in a well-worth the wait album.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YX2F (349 words)

	Matador Records \| Pizzicato Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		07/05/00 — We are pleased and relieved to announce that the new Pizzicato Five album, imaginatively titled ‘The Fifth Release From Matador,’ will be released on November 14.
		05/28/99 — CNN Worldbeat will be featuring Pizzicato Five and portions from their "Playboy Playgirl" video during a show about Japanese pop on Saturday, June 12th.
		05/14/99 — Pizzicato Five has released a new CD5 maxi titled "Darlin' of Discotheque EP", available only in Japan.
	www.matadorrecords.com /pizzicato_five (195 words)

	Pitchforkmedia.com Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Wall of Sound states that, according to Japanese newspapers, electro-lounge-pop artists Pizzicato Five will be breaking up as of March 31st.
		Maki, on the other hand, is already well on the way to her non-musical project: taking care of her child, the birth of whom she took time off for in the mid-90's.
		No word as to when a domestic version of this package will be available, but the band's final proper album, currently available at a record store or swank urban apartment near you, was last year's The Fifth Release from Matador.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /news/01-03/27.shtml (991 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: P: Pizzicato Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Pizzicato Five Discography - Song by song index.
		The Pizzicato Five Lyrics Database - Includes lyrics to songs from over 30 albums.
		VH1: Pizzicato Five - Includes album reviews, music news, biography, discography, links and bulletin boards.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/P/Pizzicato_Five (190 words)

	Rolling Stone & Music Bank & Mitchell Painting With & Pizzicato Five The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pizzicato Five The Sound Of The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of
		A completely revised and updated source, featuring more than one hundred new entries, offers an authoritative and comprehensive look at the history of rock and roll music, giving a comprehensive picture of the rock scene and profiles of its artists and musicians.
		Number Five Peace Music - (St. Etienne mix) Airplane Rock `N` Roll Reprise Rock `N` Roll Night Is Still Young, The Happy Sad - (with Gemi Taylor) Groovy Is My Name Sophisticated Catchy Strawberry Sleigh Ride If I Were A Groupie Sweet Thursday We regret that we cannot provide refunds for returned CDs.
	www.fullblownrecords.com /Rock-Music/60.htm (152 words)

	Pizzicato Five - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Godfathers of the Shibuya-kei scene, Tokyo kitsch-pop deconstructionists Pizzicato Five originally began taking shape as far back as 1979, when university students Yasuharu Konishi and Keitaro Takanami first met at a local music society meeting.
		Agreeing to form a band, they soon recruited fellow society member Ryo Kamamiya; their search for a suitable vocalist proved frustrating,..
		Pizzicato Five R.I.P. Big Hits & Jet Lags: 1998-2000
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/card/0,,479906,00.html (167 words)

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