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Weird and wonderful sounds from outsider to weird covers and occasionally painful stuff from the Golden Age Of Stupidity.

Monday 4 - 5pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting May 4, 2020: SHY #76- J-Pop My Way

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Me  Stop Hitting Yourself Intro   Favoriting Sheena's Jungle Room  Sheena's Jungle Room Records  Now  Vinyl   
Shizuo Kasagi  Rappa To Musume   Favoriting Japanese Retro Hits - The Post War Years  Musical Ark  2012  CD  0:01:53 (Pop-up)
The Peanuts  Chakkiri Cha Cha   Favoriting The Peanuts  King Records  1959  10"  0:04:51 (Pop-up)
Michiko Hamamura  Banana Boat (Day O)   Favoriting Japan's Teen Queen  RCA Victor  1959  7"  0:07:51 (Pop-up)
Teahouse  Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son (Japanese)   Favoriting         0:10:41 (Pop-up)
Keiko Mari  Tsukikage No Rendezvous   Favoriting Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1967-69  Big Beat  2013  CD  0:12:56 (Pop-up)
Pizzicato Five  Twiggy Twiggy   Favoriting Made In USA  Matador  1994  CD  0:15:55 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra 
Godzilla March Theme   Favoriting
 
 
 
 
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Hikashu  20 Seiki No Owari Ni (At The End of the 20th Century)   Favoriting Hikashu  Eastworld  1980  LP  0:23:31 (Pop-up)
Miharu Koshi  Pussy Cat   Favoriting Tutu  Yen Records  1983  LP  0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Plastics  Last Train To Clarksville   Favoriting Welcome Plastics  Invitation  1980  LP  0:30:22 (Pop-up)
Melon  I Will Call You   Favoriting Do You Like Japan?  Alfa  1982  LP  0:33:23 (Pop-up)
P-Model  Kamenari Pop   Favoriting In A Model Room  Warner Bros.  1979  LP  0:37:12 (Pop-up)
P-Model  The Great Brain   Favoriting In A Model Room  Warner Bros.  1979  LP  0:41:02 (Pop-up)
Polysics  The Great Brain   Favoriting We Ate The Machine & Karate House  Myspace Records  2013  2LP  0:42:58 (Pop-up)
Polysics  Each Life Each End   Favoriting Polysics or Die!!!  Tofu Records  2004  LP  0:44:55 (Pop-up)
Shonen Knife  Cherry Bomb   Favoriting Pretty Little Baka Guy  Subversive Records  1986  CD  0:48:06 (Pop-up)
Petty Booka  Material Girl   Favoriting Sweetheart of the Radio  Sister Records  1997  CD  0:50:19 (Pop-up)
The Feminine  Breathless   Favoriting Tsunami Attack!! Japanese Garage Rock 'N' Roll Vol.2  Vivid Sound  2010  CD  0:53:24 (Pop-up)
That's A No No!  Jack The Ripper   Favoriting Yes Or No?  Sazanami  2013  CD  0:55:37 (Pop-up)
The Let's Go's  Leather Boots   Favoriting Heibon Cherry  Label 222  2019  CD  0:57:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Gion Kouta 
Hummingbird Taishogoto Orchestra   Favoriting
 
Unreleased 
 
 
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Listener comments!

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DJ GeorgyGirl:

Hello! :-)
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Rich in Washington:

spacebrother!
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spacebrother:

Hey GG and Rich!
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StringOFperils:

Sounding good. Congrats on the new baby board.
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spacebrother:

Thanks SoP!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:04pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I just need to get a bowl of cereal - all those commercials got to me ;-)
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StringOFperils:

Hah !
  7:04pm
TheHipMen:

Hi spacebrother
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Rich in Washington:

This is that hopped up Western music those ungrateful kids were listening to in Tokyo Story (not really, but I can imagine).
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Cereal administered. proceed, Mr DJ :-)
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Rich in Washington:

Just post-War Japan fascinates me but other than cinema, I know next to nothing about it.
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spacebrother:

I was listeneing, GG, Just had to do my playlist and couldn't comment. I didn't know some of that stuff about the Monkees.
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Power Papi:

The Peanuts were the twin Fairies in the Gamera films.
  7:07pm
TheHipMen:

You know this early post-war J-pop sounds like music from around the same time as America in the 1940's, 50's and early 60's
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spacebrother:

PP - Yes. Mothra Actually.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
StringOFperils:

OOoooh. They were fascinating. The Peanuts....yeah, they summon Mothra.
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:07pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@Greg - wild about Don Kirschner getting The Archies because they couldn't answer back ;-)
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spacebrother:

@ HipMen - It was heavily influenced by the occupation.
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spacebrother:

@ GG - I also knew the man who wrote all the music for the Lance Link shows.
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:11pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

That Evolution Revolution track was incredible!
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spacebrother:

His name was Bob Ememnegger.
  7:13pm
TheHipMen:

So what year is this from?
Avatar 7:14pm
spacebrother:

The Teahouse track is in the last 10 years. I couldn't get any other info.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Power Papi:

oops, got my kaiju mixed up ;)
Avatar 7:15pm
spacebrother:

@ Power Pop - LOL
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

<3 Pizzicato Five <3
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spacebrother:

This runs sort of thematically, sort of chronologically
  7:17pm
TheHipMen:

This is like the music you hear on Sounds Spectacular with Ursula 1000
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:18pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Spacebrother and interplanetary creatures
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:18pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

P5 and Fantastic Plastic Machine back in the day :-) happy times :-)
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spacebrother:

@ HipMen - There is some overlap with all the DJs. We all love the music and each other!
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spacebrother:

@ coelacanth∅: Hey!!
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coelacanth∅:

this got heavy play on fmu when it came out, and one thing i ran right out and bought!
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Rich in Washington:

coelacanth∅!
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coelacanth∅:

hey Rich!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:20pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

My daughter was just saying about how back in the 90s Channel Four in the UK was pretty much wall to wall Pizzicato Five for background music :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:21pm
Rich in Washington:

We overlap all over each other. Don't tell! We don't wanna run afoul of the social distancing police.
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Rich in Washington:

Love the Gojira bed music, spacebrother!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:21pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

We even talk to each other! Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone ;-)
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spacebrother:

Thanks Rich!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:28pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

All of this music is fantastic :-)
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spacebrother:

And this is for GG!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Tome:

plastic fantastic even !<> ! hey !<>!
  7:31pm
TheHipMen:

Oh hey a cover of a Monkies song
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Rich in Washington:

Oh yeah, The Plastics!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
Aitch:

Love a japanese monkey, especially the cute ones that sit in the hot springs in winter
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@Tome - I see what you did there ;-)
  7:32pm
TheHipMen:

And they are singing the song in English, which sounds like early 80's Devo
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I am chair bopping as we speak! :-)
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:33pm
Aitch:

Loved that song since I was a bub.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:34pm
Tome:

this is not the one that Neil ? ,,, aww great dj GG ,, I'm bopping around all day finally in a chair but good to be here ,, although moving my head a bit so far !<> ... on not that was I'm a Believer - Neil Diamond I think !<>!
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spacebrother:

@ HipMen - Lots of influences there!
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spacebrother:

Hi Aitch! Hi Tome!
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Tome:

Hey Spacebro !<>! nice peppy and happy set enjoyable even just what I need right now and everyone else too I'm sure ty !<>!
  7:35pm
TheHipMen:

Is this band even Japenese? Because it sounds like a English New Wave band rather than a Japenese band?
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@TheHipMen - en.wikipedia.org...
  7:39pm
TheHipMen:

Wow, early J-sythm Pop before the 1980's
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spacebrother:

@ GG- Thank you for looking that up!
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Rich in Washington:

This is awesome, Greg! I've never heard of P-Model before. This is almost Magma-esque.
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StringOFperils:

HA ha ha. Japanese Magma. Interesting idea
  7:44pm
TheHipMen:

Polysics, yes, and it's cover of a P-Model
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Power Papi:

Polysics make me want to hit my head against he wall (in a good way)
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:45pm
Aitch:

Like a mad/bad night out in Shinjuku
  7:45pm
TheHipMen:

More Polysics
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:46pm
Aitch:

Loving Polysics, be looking that up later
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spacebrother:

The video for this is VERY DEVO.
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:47pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I need to find that then! :-)
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:47pm
Aitch:

Which has to be a good thing Spacebrother
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48pm
Rich in Washington:

Yeah, I really dig the Devo influence on Polysics. They're amazing.
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Power Papi:

just wait til you hear their cover of My Sharona...
  7:48pm
TheHipMen:

You know Polysics had a song featured on the Scrubs soundtrack
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48pm
Rich in Washington:

oh. I adore Shonen Knife!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:49pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch! :-)
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spacebrother:

@ Poer - I saw them perform that song live and even posted a video on YouTube.
  7:50pm
TheHipMen:

Shonen Knife another J-Pop band popular here in America
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spacebrother:

@power
  7:52pm
TheHipMen:

A cover of Madonna song done by a country J-Pop group...that's very weird.
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:52pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

It's the Sheena Way!
  7:53pm
TheHipMen:

7 minutes left
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Rich in Washington:

Fantastically smoking set, spacebrother!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

What bloody brilliant show! I've had a blast listening :-)
  7:57pm
TheHipMen:

Wow, a cover of a novelty song done by Lord Sutch and His Screaming Savages
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:57pm
Aitch:

A hoot! Thanks all concerned.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Greg!
tchau peeps
  7:58pm
TheHipMen:

And of course ending with a most recent J-pop song..classic
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:59pm
Rich in Washington:

Of course.
  8:01pm
TheHipMen:

You forgot to mention the shonen knife song
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks, spacebrother!
  8:03pm
TheHipMen:

Bye Spacebrother
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spacebrother:

Thanks all for listening! This was a very fun show. i was bopping all around.
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