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Pop Tatari
by The Boredoms
Product Group: Music
Studio: Reprise / Ada
ISBN: B000005JC5
EAN: 0093624541622
UPC: 093624541622
Audio CD
Original Release Date: 1993-10-26
Release Date: 1993-10-26
SKU: 07120020
Condition: Like New Like New
Comments: Audio CD in like new condition with no scratches. Very nice jewel case with like new labels and hole punched in UPC.
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Customer Reviews
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Raw Music Matter
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-04-06
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This album is deserving of five stars for one simple reason: It is pure unadulturated music and to give it a low review would basically mean you dislike music. This falls under the noise rock category all the time but you can't call it anything really. Music is the only way it can be described, because it never fits into a genre. To understand what the big deal about this album is, you have to be a fan of tons of types of music. This album is the best elements of funk, free jazz, noise, folk, metal, ambient, hip hop, electronica, punk, surf, psychedelic/classic rock, industrial, lounge music, and more condensed into about 60 minutes, run through a food processor then served to a dinner party made up of drug addicts and psychopaths who digest it and excrete it to make this masterpiece. This album is a real head trip, as it is very, very free-flowing and random, but that's what makes this album so great. The album is just packed with sound. The album has so much going on at any given time that each listen is never the same. To compare this to another band would be impossible, but I'm going to give it a shot. If members of Mr. Bungle (California era and Disco Volante era), Melt Banana, John Zorn, Funkadelic, The Germs, Acid Mothers Temple, Iannis Xenakis (Persopolis era), DJ Spooky, Kid 606,Bastard Noise,Carl Stalling, and Yoko Ono were committed to a mental hospital and forced to jam,you'd only be a quarter of the way there. This album's intense, bizarre, and funny with more textures and sounds than any other album I've heard in my life. If you truly love music of all types, from lounge music to grindcore to harsh noise and beyond, then you'll totally get a kick out of this.
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Old Tatari for 100% Pure-Ear
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-01
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Eveyone I know hates this album. Who can blame them? Some Japanese kids with _SEVERE_ ADD running around inside a studio doing pisstakes left, right & centre. I mean, these friends... some of them appreciate Fantomas, Mr. Bungle and other strange bands, but the Boredoms just crush them. Sure, Fantomas may not ever be able to play a riff for more than 10 seconds at once, the Melvins may drone on the same note for 6+ minutes, but THIS?!?!? Again, who can blame one for feeling that way?
Nevertheless I can listen to all 67 or so minutes of Pop Tatari and never be bored, never be annoyed, always engaged and entertained. Someone wrote that this is like a Manga comic for your ears and that really captures it perfectly. I can't imagine what the A&R rep at Reprise was thinking (this was on a major label?). They clearly took a chance and didn't reign in this band one bit and the results are spectacular.
For all the insanity and abrasiveness contatined within, this album is actually very soothing in some inexplicable way. It's the ultimate in stress relief, but not like listening to Minor Threat or Slayer which amps up the anger level, but rather like watching a hilarious movie. Great for road trips too, as long as there's no one along for the ride. This is what I use to de-compress from listening to god-awful AOR Top 40 bucolic radio garbage force-fed to me at work.
Just try singing along.
B.......... O............. R.............. E(e)(e)(e)(e)................. AYEYIEYIEYIEYIEYIEYIE YAKAKAKAKAK SPFLTHFTPDBVvvv... YUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNUNU (bliston) BLISTONNLANNNNNNNNNNN!!!
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Pervert your senses with Pop Tatari
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-01-10
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Pop Tatari was the first Boredoms music i had ever been exposed to. my initial reaction was... "what the hell is going on here?" and thankfully, my reaction has not changed years later. this album still holds the unrestrained crazed sounds of pure insanity. but in a really fun and goofy way. the songs are sharp and full of ridiculous noisy musical ideas. and they are all pieced together with random outbursts of non -sensical conversations between the band members; which could only be described as "B*O*R*E*speak. most of those dialogue segments (although completely unintelligable) are hilarious. Pop Tatari stands out as a classic moment in Boredoms history where all the elements that make them so wild and crazy have a particular staying power in the way that the complete package is presented. it's not to say that these songs are poppy or catchy...quite the opposite (i'm not even sure that these tracks could even be considered "songs"); but there is a certain magnetism that draws the unsuspecting listener into this messy outlandish masterpiece and holds them down until their senses are thoroughly [...].
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Cure for Boredom
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-11-18
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Contrary to the name, the Boredoms are never boring. Their sound is fresh and even shocking. It is hard to find origional sounds these days, and the Boredoms are one of the best bands that has their own sound. Generally the average person does not like the boredoms, but if you dont mind music that tends to be largely random with moments of brilliance, all being held together by percussion, then buy this or any boredoms CD. There is not much else to say about them.
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Possibly the best Boredoms out there...
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-10-01
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Great album... A lot more punk than there newer stuff but it's all intelligently put together... This band is not to be missed live - that's for sure... Great vocals - he he he...
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