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Super Roots, Vol. 1

Boredoms

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Good but...

Short. REALLY short. It feels kind of like a ripoff of 10 bucks when you are realizing you are listening to Used CD. Although, some of these tracks are splendid, and somewhat...catchy?!?

This album is amazing

Super Roots (along with the Ween collaboration "Z-Rock Hawaii" and Yamantaka Eye's project "Puzzle Punks") is the last Boredoms album where they get out all of their goofy insanity before becoming the sonic instrumental band that they have become. If you read the synopsis above they are talking about the original bastardized American release of Super Roots. iTunes is thankfully selling the original album the way that it is produced in Japan. With the earlier Boredoms albums I have a hard time listening to the album from beginning to end. With Super Roots, I just want to hear more. This is zany silliness at it's best. It's what I love about the band.

Biography

Formed: 1986 in Osaka, Japan

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s

Of all the artists in Japan's thriving noise-music community, the Boredoms undoubtedly had the most fun. Although their maniacally extreme cacophony was by no means accessible listening, it was underpinned by a gleeful sense of humor that helped them find a limited (but still surprisingly wide) audience among alternative rockers. A typical Boredoms track might feature massively distorted guitars, squealing synths, any number of odd found-object noisemakers, or studio-manipulation effects; conventional...
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