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Charlie
Release Date: 1998 10 27
Label: A-zap

For this Japanese underground rock unit, the approach to ensemble playing seems designed to mimic the noise of kids playing records backwards or 33-rpm records at a 45-rpm speed. The schizophrenic sound is stylistically similar to Atari Teenage Riot, the Boredoms, and Ruins, as they frantically assault music as we know it over the course of an album with no apparent purpose other than to excite pure adrenaline and the punk in all of us. Charlie features guests Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, William Winant, Gregg Turkington, and others making all-star cameos. Martin Walters, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Introduction for Charlie	Melt Banana, O.	3:10
2	Circle-Jack (Chase the Magic Words, Lego Lego)	Melt Banana, O.	2:39
3	Spathic!!	Melt Banana, O.	2:29
4	Tapir's Flown Away	Melt Banana, O.	2:36
5	F.D.C. for Short	Melt Banana, O.	1:23
6	Taen Taen Taen (?)	Melt Banana, O.	:44
7	Cannot	Melt Banana, O.	2:50
8	Area 877 [Phoenix Mix]	Melt Banana, O.	1:41
9	Giggle on the Stretcher	Melt Banana, O.	:49
10	Section Eight	Melt Banana, O.	3:49
11	Drug Store	Melt Banana	1:56
12	Stimulus for Revolting Virus	Melt Banana, O.	2:00
13	Excess	Melt Banana, O.	1:42
14	Chipped Zoo on the Wall, Wastes in the Sky...	Melt Banana, O.	7:48