Overdose (album)

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Field	Value
name	Overdose
type	studio
artist	Pizzicato Five
cover	Overdose Cover sleeve.jpg
caption	Outer sleeve cover
released
genre	Shibuya-kei
length
label	Triad
producer
prev_title	A Television's Workshop
prev_year	1994
next_title	TYO: Big Hits and Jet Lags 1991–1995
next_year	1995
misc	{{Singles
name	Overdose
type	studio
single1	The Night Is Still Young
single1date	December 1, 1993
single2	Happy Sad
single2date	April 21, 1994
single3	Superstar
single3date	July 21, 1994
single4	On the Sunny Side of the Street
single4date	October 21, 1994
header	CD case cover
type	studio
cover	Overdose Cover.jpg
header	Alternative cover
type	studio
cover	Overdose Reissue Cover.jpg
caption	2006 reissue
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Overdose is the eighth studio album by Japanese pop band Pizzicato Five. The album was released on October 1, 1994 by the Nippon Columbia imprint Triad. It is their first studio album not to feature founding member Keitarō Takanami, who departed the band earlier in the year. Overdose is the first of several Pizzicato Five albums to be themed around a famous city, in this case New York. The album pays tribute to soul music, and soul singer Stevie Wonder in particular, with several songs incorporating Wonder's signature instrument, the harmonica.

Four singles were released from Overdose: "The Night Is Still Young", "Happy Sad", "Superstar" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street". The song "Airplane" was later re-recorded for the band's 1996 EP Sister Freedom Tapes as "Airplane '96". Several tracks from the album appeared on the band's 1995 compilation The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five. Overdose was reissued by Readymade Records on September 30, 2000 and March 31, 2006.

Track listing

| all_lyrics = Yasuharu Konishi, except where noted | all_music = Konishi, except where noted | title1 = Overture | length1 = 0:17 | title2 = Airplane | note2 = | length2 = 5:21 | title3 = Statue of Liberty | note3 = | lyrics3 = | length3 = 4:49 | title4 = Readymade FM | note4 = | length4 = 1:23 | title5 = Happy Sad | note5 = | length5 = 5:10 | title6 = Superstar | note6 = | length6 = 5:23 | title7 = If I Were a Groupie | note7 = music by Konishi and Yukihiro Fukutomi | lyrics7 = | length7 = 5:00 | title8 = Shopping Bag | note8 = | length8 = 3:44 | title9 = The Night Is Still Young | note9 = | length9 = 10:59 | title10 = Hippie Day | note10 = | length10 = 3:49 | title11 = The Sweetest Girl | note11 = | length11 = 6:19 | title12 = Questions | note12 = | length12 = 5:27 | title13 = On the Sunny Side of the Street | note13 = | length13 = 6:31 | total_length = 64:12

Charts

::data[format=table] | Chart (1994) | Peak position | Japanese Albums (Oricon) | |---|---|---| | 9 | | | ::

References

References

1. "東京は夜の七時 {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].
2. "Happy Sad {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].
3. "Superstar {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].
4. "陽の当たる大通り {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].
5. Mills, Ted. "Overdose – Pizzicato Five". [[AllMusic]].
6. "overdose {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].
7. Mills, Ted. "Sister Freedom Tapes – Pizzicato Five". [[AllMusic]].
8. Mills, Ted. "The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five – Pizzicato Five". [[AllMusic]].
9. "overdose {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].
10. "overdose {{!}} ピチカート・ファイヴ". [[Oricon]].

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