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Left to right: Yoshiaki Manabe, Sawao Yamanaka, Shinichiro Sato.Background informationOrigin, JapanGenres,Years active1989–presentLabelsDelicious Label (2016-present), (1994-2007, 2016-present), Captain Records (1989-1991), (1991-1994), (2007-2016)Associated acts, Kenzi & The TripsWebsiteMembersShinichirou SatoPast membersThe Pillows (: ザ・ピロウズ,: Za Pirōzu, stylized as the pillows) are a Japanese band formed in 1989. The group has released 22 studio albums, several and compilations, and over 40 singles. Outside Japan, they are best known as the group responsible for the soundtrack to the series. Contents.History Formation and early years (1989–1994) In 1989, bassist for Kenzi & The Trips, left the band with former Kenzi's drummer and invited The Coin Locker Babies vocalist to form a new band. Since Yamanaka was not able to play the guitar well yet, the guitarist of the hair metal band Persia, joined them.
The Pillows were formed on September 16, 1989. Yamanaka performing in Seattle during the Delicious Bump Tour, 2008.In March 1995 The Pillows released their fourth album,. Their subsequent single, ', was used in the romance movie.In the following year, after the release of their fifth single 'Tiny Boat', The Pillows would release a series of singles such as ', ', and 'Trip Dancer' that were featured on their breakthrough and acclaimed album.In March of the same year, due to the success of Please Mr. Lostman The Pillows released one of the album's tracks, ' as a single. Later that year, two new singles were released, ' in June and ' in November, which became one of The Pillows' most recognizable songs, being largely featured on concert set lists.In January 1998, The Pillows released their twelfth single ' and their first concert DVD '.
The last three singles were featured on their sixth album, which came out in February and became one of their most well known and commercial records. Two more singles followed, 'Instant Music' and ' would both be used on their 1999 album.The year of 1999 started with the release of Runners High and to celebrate their 10th anniversary, The Pillows released their first video clips compilation DVD, ', followed by two new singles (' and '), both featured on the second studio album release of that year,. This record pays tribute to the in songs such as 'Back Seat Dog' and 'Kim Deal' and it is the first album to feature support bassist Jun Suzuki as a replacement for Kashima.In the same year, The Pillows were approached by the studio, which licensed The Pillows' three previous albums for the soundtrack of the.
The Pillows also composed two new songs for the show, 'Ride on Shooting Star' and 'I Think I Can', which were later included on their greatest hits compilation album.Due to their participation in FLCL's soundtrack, The Pillows enjoyed a popularity increase, making their western fan base grow. This allowed them to release their 'Ride on Shooting Star' single in the in 2000 and later tour that country.Early 2000s, 15th anniversary and US debut (2001–2006). The Pillows performing at Club Quattro in 2003.After their participation on FLCL's soundtrack, The Pillows released their first greatest-hits compilation album in 2001 and also a live DVD called and a new album,.In 2002, the FLCL anime became available in the United States, giving the band more notoriety outside of their native country.
The Pillows in 2005. From left to right: Manabe, Sato, Yamanaka.In January 2005 The Pillows released the live DVD 916 which features footage of their 15th anniversary concert of 2004.In March 2005, The Pillows played their first show in the United States at in, followed by concerts in.
In September, the band released a live DVD entitled Delicious Bump Tour in USA, featuring footage of their first tour in America with fellow band and also a new single, 'Non Fiction'.In November they released their second single of the year,'. Both singles were used on their subsequent 2006 album,.In February 2006 to help promote the My Foot tour, one track of the album, ' was released as the album's third single. The album was released in the United States in July 2006 by, with a growing international fan-base and growing domestic sales of their albums and singles over the past four years.In June, The Pillows returned to North America during their tour in support of the album My Foot, with several more dates in the U.S.
And a show in. Move to Avex Trax, 20th and 25th anniversaries (2007–2014) In 2007, The Pillows released their 25th single, ' which was used in the anime series, being included on their next album,. This album marks their first release on the label.In August, the band released one more single, ', which is being used as the theme song for the Japanese version of the children's animated series.In November, the band released a five-disc singles collection, featuring all the band's singles released under the label and 21 music videos on a DVD in the same collection. On the same day they also released their fifth live DVD, Lostman Go to America featuring footage of their 2006 American tour in support for the album My Foot. Buster-kunBuster- has been The Pillows' mascot since about 1998, when on a visit to, the band saw a doll of a 'grotesque and creepy-looking teddy bear' in a shop window. Since then it has been constantly used in promotional videos, album artwork and goods such as T-shirts and bracelets. Hickey, David.
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New York City in the 1970s was a bleak place.The Big Apple was in a major economic recession, and a wave of crime broke over the five boroughs. Murders, rapes and burglaries tripled, car thefts and felony assaults doubled. The middle class fled for the suburbs, while the city’s pissed-off, disaffected youths squatted downtown and formed punk bands, distilling their rebellious views in blasts of sound aimed at the establishment.But like Bruce Springsteen across the Hudson River, had a different, more working-class perspective of the crumbling metropolis during this down-and-out era.
Joel, a Bronx native, had moved to Los Angeles for several years seeking fame, but had returned to his hometown by ’76. The Stranger, his breakout fifth album 40 years old today (Sept. 29), is a homecoming of sorts, a snapshot of the city and its residents by one of its wistful native sons.By the mid-‘70s, Joel was four albums deep into an up-and-down career. He had an unexpected hit with 1973’s 'Piano Man,” but failed to sell many LPs, and his previous release, 1976’s Turnstiles, peaked at No. 122 on the Billboard 200.
He was on the verge of being dropped by his label, Columbia Records, and he knew it. So Joel recorded the best album of his life.Originally, Joel set out to work with the Beatles’ legendary producer George Martin. But the Fifth Beatle insisted Joel hire studio musicians, not use his touring band, and Joel hesitated. He continued searching for a new producer, not wanting to break up his newly-assembled, white hot group: drummer Liberty DeVitto, bassist Doug Stegmeyer, rhythm guitarist Russell Javors, lead guitarist David Brown and saxophonist Richie Cannata. It would prove a fateful choice.He ultimately chose producer Phil Ramone, a champion of Joel’s backing quartet, and hit the studio to capture their high-energy live performances to tape.
The album far surpassed the middling chart successes of his previous four LPs, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and surpassing Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water to become Columbia Records’ best-selling album to that date.
Ramone would go on to produce every Joel album through 1986’s The Bridge.Like the downtown punks, The Stranger has tones of disaffection: rejection of the American Dream, of upward mobility and the big job, the fancy car, the house in the ‘burbs. The LP opens with one of Joel’s most well-known tunes, “Movin' Out (Anthony’s Song),” a scathing rebuke of the aspirations of lower class New Yorkers who work their lives away and only receive a heart attack or a broken back for their efforts. We meet several downtown characters (Anthony, Mama Leone and Sergeant O'Leary, who bartenders down at Mr. Cacciatore’s down on Sullivan Street).
They’re all savin’ up their pennies to move on up, trading in their Chevy for a Cadillac and buying a house in Hackensack, New Jersey. “Is that what you get with your money / It seems such a waste of time,” Joel sings. “If that's what it's all about / Mama if that's movin' up / Then I'm movin' out.”“Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” is Joel’s “A Day in the Life,” an epic that bridges three different tunes in one: 'The Italian Restaurant Song,' 'Things Are Okay in Oyster Bay' and 'The Ballad of Brenda and Eddie.'
It recounts the saga of a Long Island couple whose romance is doomed. It opens with one of Joel’s most-famous lines: “A bottle of white, a bottle of red / Perhaps a bottle of rose instead,” he sings, inspired by a restaurant near Carnegie Hall that he and Ramone frequented during The Stranger sessions. Then we find the couple struggling: “They started to fight when the money got tight / They just didn’t count on the tears.”On the rock n’ roller “Only the Good Die Young,” Joel revisited an old high school crush, Virginia Callahan, a good Catholic girl from his days in Levittown, Long Island. “Come out Virginia, don’t let me wait / You Catholic girls start much too late,” Joel sang, much to the chagrin of the church. “Aw, but sooner or later it comes down to fate / I might as well be the one.”Elsewhere, Joel writes about characters closer to home. He penned the tender piano anthem “She’s Always a Woman to Me” for his wife and manager Elizabeth Weber, who had a steely business acumen some considered unfeminine. “She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes,” he croons.
“And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies / She only reveals what she wants you to see.” But she was always a woman to Joel. For the gospel anthem “Everybody Has a Dream,” he sings of attaining his dream life at home with his then wife (they would divorce in 1982). The airy mega ballad 'Just the Way You Are' was also written for Weber. At first, Joel didn’t want the saccharine tune on The Stranger; he knew it was destined for wedding dancefloors. But Ramone was insistent and invited Linda Ronstadt to the studio to help convince Joel to keep it.
The track would go on to win a pair of Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year - and, yes, soundtrack weddings across the world.For “Vienna,” Joel recounted an experience he had while visiting his estranged father, a classical pianist, in the central European capitol, where he watched an elderly woman sweeping the streets. It’s a meditation on growing old, wisdom and hitting the breaks in the fast lane: “Slow down, you’re doing fine / You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.” He nails the accordion solo, too.The cover of The Stranger finds Joel sitting on a bed, looking down at a mask resting on a pillow. He was fascinated by characters and stories - New York City is full of them, the streets bustling with millions of tales on the move. On the title track Joel sings, “We all have a face / That we hide away forever / And we take them out and show ourselves / When everyone has gone They're the faces of a stranger / But we'd love to try them on.”On The Stranger Joel tries on multiple faces, threading tales of New Yorkers as the city stood at a crossroads - and when his career was at a crossroads, Joel fully revealed himself and his talent to the world.