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...still render postmodernism an enjoyably tasteful joy ride. They trip through safe and smiley TV-land in a jalopy heap slapped together from '60s and jap pop, hip hop beats, funk threads, classical samples, bossa nova riffs and exotica, running on smooth easy-listening gas. Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi blend and blush an all-Japanese soundtrack to the imaginary lifestyle of the international playboy/girl set. "Rolls Royce" is experimentally clever but strung on an annoying shrill that detracts from adorable bubbletunes like "La Dpression," "Playboy Playgirl" and "A New Song." More schnazzy than riding a carpeted, mirrored elevator...

Author: By By PHUA Mei pin, | Title: Album Review: The International Playboy and Playgirl Record by Pizzicato Five | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...still render postmodernism an enjoyably tasteful joy ride. They trip through safe and smiley TV-land in a jalopy heap slapped together from '60s and jap pop, hip hop beats, funk threads, classical samples, bossa nova riffs and exotica, running on smooth easy-listening gas. Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi blend and blush an all-Japanese soundtrack to the imaginary lifestyle of the international playboy/girl set. "Rolls Royce" is experimentally clever but strung on an annoying shrill that detracts from adorable bubbletunes like "La Depression," "Playboy Playgirl" and "A New Song." More schnazzy than riding a carpeted, mirrored elevator...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Pizzicato Five The International Playboy and Playgirl Record Matador | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...years ago, Yasuharu Kondo was overwhelmed with customers at his Toyota showroom in Tokyo. Sales were booming, and most shoppers looking for top-of- the-line models, the best their yen could buy. Those days are gone; today Kondo surveys a showroom full of sparkling new cars -- and not a customer in sight. "In my 30 years as a salesman," he says, "I have never seen it as bad as this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running On Empty | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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