Where is the LOVE for Perfume?

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Irrespective of what you think about J-pop and Japanese popular culture in general Perfume are one bad-ass group and for some reason don't get anywhere close to the kind of appreciation that Morning Musume or Utada get outside Japan. "Electro World" is hands down one of the best pop songs I have heard all year and last year too.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

PS http://youtube.com/watch?v=qTC_oiPL-Ig

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

More like "Where is the LOVE for Yasutaka Nakata?" I've been repping for Capsule's last album for months and seeing as he's Perfume's sugar daddy, it's only fair that his band gets it first.

ie. Most of the songs on FRUITS CLiPPER > 'Electro World'.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

They are very cute.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh bullshit! Capsule writes the same (good) song over and over again! They just have more indie cachet because they dress mod and rock analog synths. Fruits Clipper wasn't bad but neither did it give me chills which Electro World TOTALLY DID.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

HAHAHAHAHAHA @ "chills" (and the idea that 'Electro World' is more freakier than, say, 'CrazEEEE Skyhopper').

'EW' is effectively 'Dreamin Dreamin' off FC with a drop-off in pop song skills and an upping of tempo and electro bass. Therefore, this is likely one of the few occasions I can agree with you on Nakata writing the same song twice (see also Capsule's 'Glider' > Perfume's 'Computer World'). Not something that bothers me in principle, since all the best alternative Japanese producers deliberately refer to their own sounds in later work, mind.

They just have more indie cachet because they dress mod and rock analog synths.

Which has what to do with anything?

― Badrock Example (Barima), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think this can be chalked up to nothing more complex than a difference in taste. I am more into the wide-eye tooth-decay rainbow type of j-pop than the, shall we say, more traditionally "cool" stuff. And I love Capsule and Perfume both.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

PS What I meant was that Capsule hews closer to the auteur model of pop music if that makes any sense, and have a focused aesthetic which Perfume, beyond "we three like each other quite a bit and enjoy singing together too," is sort of lacking. Capsule is much "cooler" than Perfume which is pretty much what inspired this thread in the first place. I hear about Capsule all the time with nary a mention of Perfume, and I don't know if I've ever read anything about Perfume that didn't mention Nakata. So... where is the love?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Well, Perfume are hardly Britney - they may have their own Max Martin, but no schoolgirl outfits or virginal mystique or anything beyond being the front. Therefore, the writer-producer gets the props. And the girls get comments like Joe's upthread.

PS. Capsule don't have an ILM thread.

PPS. It has nothing to do with Capsule being cooler (or "less pop") and everything to do with Nakata diluting his best ideas and giving them to Perfume.

PPPS. I'd do Perfume.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't even think it has to do with Capsule being less pop--just a different sort of pop. In fact last night I realized I probably like Capsule more than I like Perfume, but I still think that Perfume is underrated even among people who know and like that kind of stuff, of whom there don't seem to be many outside Japan (and, I guess, inside Japan too).

PS Srsly? I was going to make a Capsule thread and then I thought that there was one already and then I was listening to Perfume and I wanted to make a Perfume thread.

PPS STILL NOT LEGAL

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

I'm getting the 2009 album "Triangle" right now, but until then, enjoy this, my favorite song.

I wish 1:50 to 2:01 could loop forever. That'd get my sailors jumping!

― Captain Ahab, Sunday, 21 February 2010 20:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

also WOW I LOVE THESE GIRLS

― Captain Ahab, Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

screw the j-pop thread, i'm posting this here

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

i mean this is a year-old b-side but it's still massive and i'm glad they made a video for it

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

I'm all about Point at the moment, potentially my pop song of the year.

― direct references of (seandalai), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:00 (9 months ago) Permalink

I never saw this 2006 thread! ILX on top of it

sandbox detour for reference - http://sandbox.ilxor.com/sandbox/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=142&threadid=1671

The 'Fake It' clip in support of their new compilation for international markets - http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TKCA-73840 - which I was looking forward to being a true best-of but in turns out to be a rather odd cross-section from their albums / singles, so it's missing quite a few of the songs I was hoping to be able to have on a CD like 'One Room Disco', but it's got 'Polyrhythm'

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

More like "Where is the LOVE for Yasutaka Nakata?" is OTM. I've only recently started getting into Perfume and Meg, but I love Capsule and just about everything else the dude has had anything to do with. Copter4016882's 2D2D (which he had some level of involvement with and may have produced...?) is underrated even beyond the extent to which most of his stuff is underrated 'round here.

― This Whole Fridge Is Full Of (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

what are they up to now?

― pea hen (clouds), Saturday, 13 April 2013 15:48 (2 months ago) Permalink

:D http://www.songkick.com/concerts/16342874-perfume-at-o2-academy-islington

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 14 April 2013 20:15 (2 months ago) Permalink

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