Pizzicato Five – It’s a Beautiful Day
Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 @ 11:00 pm by harvey in About, Media, Music
I listened to Pizzicato Five CDs over, and over again while sitting at home in Iowa back in the mid 90s. I just put some on now, which gave me the idea to check YouTube to see what I could see. This was my first time seeing this video!
なつかしい〜〜〜〜〜
This particular song is on their Happy End of You
Back in the mid 90s I was taking Japanese in high school while also working a part time job at the local big blue and yellow media warehouse/store. I still remember the first day I came across a Pizzicato Five CD while stocking the shelves. At the time (I still am?) I was desperate to find anything Japanese to learn Japanese from so I took a long hard look. I was already into Anime, but I didn’t really have any Japanese music other than Anime soundtracks. So I tried one Pizzicato Five album, and I was hooked. I think I own like 7 or 8 Pizzicato Five albums now.
Old school. Upbeat. Quirky. Gotta love em.
The lead singer Nomiya Maki is still active in Japan and has a blog as well. I actually saw Nomiya Maki perform once live in Kyoto – I think in 2006, maybe 2007. It wasn’t Pizzicato Five at the time, she was with a new band, I forget the name… It was really cool actually seeing her. It made me feel like my “Japan journey” had come full circle.
Here’s some Baby Portable Rock for ya down below.
Fun stuff!
- Harvey
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Crew
Sep 7th, 2009
at 00:49
Are they popular in Japan? I thought they were but no one I’ve talked to has seem to have heard of them here!
harvey
Sep 7th, 2009
at 08:49
Actually Pizzicato 5 are not well known in Japan! Some people will know if you say Nomiya Maki, or Konishi, but the group itself is not so popular.
Clay
Sep 10th, 2009
at 09:07
I heard about them by their ad on the back of Mangajin issues. But upon arriving in Japan in 1998, like you said, people didn’t know who I was talking about.
MakoAoyama
Sep 17th, 2009
at 17:49
I was under the impression that they were a lot more popular than that. Maybe after the Shibuya-kei scene died everyone just forgot?
I thought the Shibuya-kei scene was fairly popular in the 90′s.