P.O.P
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| Studio album by The Mad Capsule Markets | ||||
| Released | November 21, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | Winter, 1991 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
| Length | 26:51 | |||
| Label | Victor, Invitation CD: VICL-243 | |||
| Producer | The Mad Capsule Markets | |||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
Alternative artwork for P.O.P.
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P.O.P is the second album by The Mad Capsule Markets and their major label debut. It was a faster, thrashier effort than their debut album Humanity, and featured new guitarist Ai Ishigaki. Many lyrics were edited out for content (see below for information). The album was issued with two different covers.
From Gichi blogspot.
On the song "Gichi" (which featured a controversial and disturbing video with live footage, scenes of executions, scenes of dead soldiers/civilians, and clips from banned 40's cartoon Private Snafu) Kyono says "Sid", "Johnny", and "Jimmy", it was later revealed that these names refer to Sid Vicious, John Lydon and Jim Morrison. He also says "fuck, fuck Bush" which is a reference to George H. W. Bush, who was President of the U.S. at that time.
In Japanese the word kichigai means someone who is mentally not quite right (Ki means someone's spirit/mind/mental state and chigai means different/strange/wrong). In slang, this becomes kichi and apparently MAD further changed this to gichi. In Japanese, the character for Gi is the same as the one for Ki but with a double dash. If you look on the "Gichi" single cover, the double dash is in a different colour (red) and is so less noticeable, showing the original meaning. Kichi is a politically incorrect derogatory term that was essentially prohibited from Japanese media, so they used Gichi instead, which might mean a "head case" or something similar.
The original version of San Byoukan no Jisatsu (found on the Insect Noise release of Humanity) contains an extra line "Tobioriru no sa!" This line was xxxxxx-ed on P.O.P and has been totally silenced on the re-release of Humanity and on the Best of 1990-1996 CD. Also, on the insert for the re-release of Humanity the "Jisatsu" (suicide) on the track list has been scribbled out.
The original version of "Life Game" also contains extra lyrics that have been blanked out in the re-release version and xxxxxx-ed in the P.O.P version, these can be found when CraY (Takeshi) first sings and when Kyono sings partway into the song – The missing words from CraY's section are within the brackets – [Omae no atama ga] kurutte iku no o ore wa itsudemo matte iru no saa.
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