Puffy AmiYumi: C or D/S&D

classic for the track which rips "won't get fooled again", flips it inside out to reveal the sparkly dayglo lisa frank guts, and makes it 1000x better. if for nothing else.

(does anyone know the title of this one so i can re-download it?)

Search - Jet Album, Fever Fever, their Pa-pa-pa-pa-puffy variety TV show and their dance routines. Songs: "Tararan", "Puffy de Rumba", "Ai no Shirushi", "Cake is Love".

Destroy - the remix album, and I never quite got into their "Spike" album (which later became repackaged as the states release) even though it had titles like "Destruction Pancake" and "Boogie Woogie #5". It probably sounds much fresher without the experience of hearing their previous albums first.

Their nice for a change of pace. I'd hate to have to deal with them in anything more then small doseages. They're no Shoren Knife as far as Im concerned who are way more fun and r***ist.

Thank God they're no Shonen Knife; they're the Bangles of my dreams.

Ah, finally a ILM question after my own heart.

Jess: I think the title of the song you are referring to is "Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi" But what's up? Lay some $$ down to support these Japanese pop princesses. (Not that they need it...)

Anyway, Puffy is classic. More classic if you refer to as just Puffy as done in Japan. I recommend the Japanese import "The Very Best of Puffy Ami Yumi Jet Fever" which has all the great songs (except for the most recent which I don't know about anyway since I left Japan) and features the wonderful artwork of Rodney Greenblat (also responsible for set design on the Pa-Pa-Pa- Puffy TV show, airing every Wednesday night at 11 on a TV not near you.)

I caught these girls last month at Irving Plaza and a great time was had by all. Let me also give a plug to opening band Gaijin A Go Go. Hmm... bit of a dud rating to Ami though for marrying some loser pseudo glam J-rocker. Yumi's still available though, boys!

On another note, can anyone tell me about Puffy's "godfather" Andy Strummers, ex member of Jellyfish, writer of much of the Puffy material? He's playing a date in NY sometime soon. Shall I go?

Correction: I believe the Who-inflected song is "Jet Keisatsu". The other is very worthy as well though more of a Beatles number. For a swoon inflicting beautiful karaoke slow number, check the nonpareil "Dare ga sore o". Also the cd I mentioned contains two Puffy hits sung in Chinese at the end, owing to their success in Taiwan, a country with a love of all things Japanese.

Mary, Andy Sturmer was the lead singer and drummer in Jellyfish. He used to stand at the front of the stage with his kit! They released two great albums called Bellybutton and Spilt Milk and they have a 4cd box set of unreleased material coming out at the end of the month. Since then Andy hasn't really wanted to put himself out front so has been writing and producing for and with Puffy, Tamio Okuda, Merrymakers(from Sweden) and country artist Brady Seals amongst others. While in Jellyfish he also co-wrote a couple of tracks for a Ringo Starr album.

What I'm most interested in though is you saying he's playing a show soon - can you please give details. I can't go myself but I know a lot of people who would be desperate to see this.

Correction #2: Actually it is Andy Summers who will be performing in NYC in Sept. at Joe's Pub...

Darn, after Mark's words I was getting quite excited to see a rare performace of the elusive Andy Sturmer...