"Charlie"
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50
Remember those old turntables you had as a kid? Sometimes just for kicks youโd play records backwards or play an album at 45 speed. Thatโs the loopy, schizophrenic sound that comes to mind upon listening to the new Melt-Banana record.
50
The schizophrenic sound is stylistically similar to Atari Teenage Riot, the Boredoms, and Ruins, as they frantically assault music as we know it over the course of an album with no apparent purpose other than to excite pure adrenaline and the punk in all of us.
I LOVE MELT-BANANA
P.s I did not fucking know Mike Patton was in the track of "Area 877". He killed it!
Another stop on my 25 years anniversary trip, and I couldn't avoid this strange one. The Japanese band Melt Banana offers with "Charlie" more noise than music, at least for my listening habits. Fourteen crazed tracks (plus one hidden in the pregap) entertain (or annoy) you for fortunately thirty-five minutes. This kind of music is really not my cup of tea, nevertheless sixty-five points for guts and gumption.
Charlie isn't just music, it's an experience. It's explosive, unique, unstoppable, hasty, angry, calm and it's never been done before. You'll be bobbing your head and jumping around for hours.
more an exercise in style than a real LP, interesting ideas but the result is a bit fragmented, like a mixed bag. For the noise lovers it might be more compelling
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Fav Track: Introduction for Charlie
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Track List
| 1 | Introduction for Charlie 3:10 | 87 |
| 2 | Circle-Jack (Chase the Magic Words, Lego Lego) 2:39 | 90 |
| 3 | Spathic!! 2:29 | 96 |
| 4 | Tapir's Flown Away 2:36 | 93 |
| 5 | F.D.C. for Short 1:23 | 90 |
| 6 | Taen Taen Taen (?) 0:44 | 83 |
| 7 | Cannot 2:50 | 92 |
| 8 | Area 877 (Phoenix Mix) 1:41 | 91 |
| 9 | Giggle on the Stretcher 0:49 | 84 |
| 10 | Section Eight 3:49 | 93 |
| 11 | Drug Store 1:56 | 92 |
| 12 | Stimulus for Revolting Virus 2:00 | 88 |
| 13 | Excess 1:42 | 88 |
| 14 | Chipped Zoo on the Wall, Wastes in the Sky................ 7:48 | 95 |
Total Length: 35 minutes
Added on: April 22, 2015