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 Melt-Banana
great japanese trashpunk
Address
Melt-Banana
c/o A-Zap Records
2-11-13-102
Midorigaoka, Chofu
Tokyo 182-0001
Japan
E-Mail
Melt-Banana [mltbanan[AT]hotmail{DOT}com]
Members

Melt-Banana #1:
Yasuko: vocals
Agata: guitar
Rika Mm': bass
Toshiaki Sudoh: drums

Melt-Banana #2:
Yasuko: vocals
Agata: guitar
Rika Mm': bass
Kikuchi: drums

Melt-Banana #3:
Yasuko: vocals
Agata: guitar
Rika Mm': bass
Oshima: drums

Melt-Banana #4:
Jim O'Rourke: appears sometimes
K.K. Null: appears sometimes

History

Jim O'Rourke's musical history
K.K. Null's musical history
Kikuchi Melt-Banana's musical history
Oshima Melt-Banana's musical history

Discography
Singles
  1. Hedgehog 7" (Charnel Music, 1994, CHS-5)
      recorded and mixed by K.K. Null
    1. Stick Out
    2. So Untilial Rule
    3. Mind Thief
    4. Screw, Loose
    5. Scrubber
    6. Pierced Eye
  2. It's In The Pillcase 7" (Skin Graft Records, 1995, GR24)
      with comic book set
    1. It's In The Pilcase
    2. Rush & --» Warp
    3. Picnic In Panic
  3. $10 A Pile 7" (Gentle Giant Records, 1996, GG703)
    1. $10 A Pile (Ax Version)
    2. Disposable Weathercock (Helpful 80 Points Version)
  4. Eleventh 7" (Slap A Ham Records, 1997, #39)
    1. Wedge
    2. Seesaw Semiology
    3. Cough Coughed Coughing
    4. Q For Quinine
    5. Bird Like Monkey Part 2 (Calling On The Cliff)
    6. Least Clipper
    7. Baby Buggy Spitted
    8. Drill The Dentist
  5. Dead Spex 7" (H.G.Fact, 1998, HG-097)
    1. Dead Spex
    2. Sonic Brain Burst
    3. Ethar Twisted
    4. Shoot The Moon
  6. "606" 6" (Level Plane, 2002, LP37)
    1. Get The Head Back
    2. About
    3. Neck On B1
Splits
  1. split 7" (H.G.Fact, 1994, HG-024)
    1. Melt-Banana: Ketchup-Mess
    2. Melt-Banana: First Defy
    3. Melt-Banana: Iguana In Trouble
    4. God Is My Co-Pilot: Butch Flip
  2. split 7" (H.G.Fact, 1995, HG-042)
    1. Melt-Banana: Buddihism Core
    2. Melt-Banana: Hangnail (Let It Go)
    3. Melt-Banana: No One Wants Next One
    4. Melt-Banana: Sicklist On Fire
    5. Melt-Banana: One Dimentional
    6. Melt-Banana: Not D.But M, Also S
    7. Discordance Axis: Information Sniper
    8. Discordance Axis: Amphetimine Hollow Tip
    9. Discordance Axis: Tokyo
    10. Discordance Axis: So Unfilial Rule
    11. Discordance Axis: Junk Utopia
    12. Discordance Axis: Continuity
  3. split 7" (Anti-Music, 1995, cat.no.?)
    1. Melt-Banana: Mind Thief (live)
    2. Melt-Banana: P-Pop-Slop (live)
    3. Pencilneck: Plight Of The Transcribant
    4. Pencilneck: The High And Low Incline Toward Each Other
    5. Pencilneck: Intestinal Fortitude
  4. split 7" (Betley Welcome Careful Drivers/Destroy All Music, 1996, MZG 3253)
    1. Melt-Banana: Making Fuss, Fuss, Fuss
    2. Melt-Banana: Turtle Vs Bunny [Who Won?]
    3. Melt-Banana: Pig To Dog
    4. Melt-Banana: Bird-like Monkey In Cave, Singing In Drops
    5. Target Shoppers: Predecessor Of Me Numnumnum
    6. Target Shoppers: Dirty Magazines
    7. Target Shoppers: Thumb In Eye
    8. Target Shoppers: Dance Of The Kittens
  5. split 10" (Fire Inc./Something Wired, 1996, cat.no.?)
      Melt-Banana tracks recorded at TUFS in 1995-96 and engineered by Andy Roberts at Mellowout Studio in February 1996
    1. Melt-Banana: Bad Gut Missed Fist
    2. Melt-Banana: It's Not My Fault
    3. Melt-Banana: Neck On Me
    4. Melt-Banana: Stop The Cook-cu Test
    5. Melt-Banana: No Doubt
    6. Melt-Banana: Scooped Brain In A Cup
    7. Melt-Banana: Capital 1060
    8. Melt-Banana: How To Parlare
    9. Melt-Banana: I Say "Shoot!"
    10. Melt-Banana: Minus-Minus-To One
    11. Melt-Banana: Call Me Please-6824
    12. Melt-Banana: Popsy Teeth In Red
    13. Melt-Banana: Blackout Screen
    14. Melt-Banana: To Be Continued?
    15. Stilluppsteypa: Important Anti-Art Dances
  6. split 7" (Smelly Records, 1997, cat.no.?)
    1. Melt-Banana: Y-Axis
    2. Melt-Banana: Aquatic Bee
    3. Plainfield: tracks ?
  7. split 5" (Coat-Tail Records, 1998, cat.no.?)
    1. Melt-Banana: Last Finger Split
    2. Xerobot: track(s) ?
  8. split 7" (Kool.POP Recordings/Rodel Records, 1998, cat.no.?)
    1. Melt-Banana: Wrest The Fist (Just For Reflection)
    2. Killout Trash: I've Got Straight Edge (Minor Threat)
  9. split 8" (Passacaglia Records, 2001, cat.no.?)
    1. Melt-Banana: Who Did It? Who Dig It?
    2. Melt-Banana: Dog In Lost
    3. Melt-Banana: 2 Knees
    4. Melt-Banana: Puddle Float
    5. Melt-Banana: Quite Free
    6. Melt-Banana: And I ...
    7. Three Studies For A Crucifixion: Appalachian Folkhymn 3000
    8. Three Studies For A Crucifixion: Encased In Magma
  10. split 7" (Gold Standard Laboratories, 2002, G§L 48)
    1. Melt-Banana: track(s) ?
    2. The Locust: track(s) ?
Albums
  1. Speak Squeak Creak LP/CD (Charnel Music/Nux Organization, 1994, NUX-?)
      produced by Melt-Banana and K.K. Null
      engineered by Steve Albini
    1. Tail In Garbage (Tekepake)
    2. RRAGG
    3. In X Out = Bug
    4. Scrubber
    5. So Unfilial Rule
    6. Dust Head
    7. Teaspoon Of Salt, A
    8. Stick Out
    9. Mouse Is A Biscuit
    10. 55 Hands Need To Cut Down
    11. P-Pop-Slop
    12. Smell The Medicine
    13. Switch
    14. P.B.D.
    15. Mind Thief
    16. Chicken Headed Raccoon Dog
    17. Cry For More Fish
    18. Screw, Loose
    19. Cook Cool Kyan Kuru
    20. Scissor Quiz
    21. Too Many To Dispose
    22. Blandished Hatman
    23. Cut Off
    24. Pierced Eye
    25. (untitled) (hidden track)
  2. Speak Squeak Creak LP/CD (A-Zap Records, 2001, AZLP-004/AZCD-004)
      produced by Melt-Banana and K.K. Null
      engineered by Steve Albini
    1. Tail In Garbage (Tekepake)
    2. RRAGG
    3. In X Out = Bug
    4. Scrubber
    5. So Unfilial Rule
    6. Dust Head
    7. Teaspoon Of Salt, A
    8. Stick Out
    9. Mouse Is A Biscuit
    10. 55 Hands Need To Cut Down
    11. P-Pop-Slop
    12. Smell The Medicine
    13. Switch
    14. P.B.D.
    15. Mind Thief
    16. Chicken Headed Raccoon Dog
    17. Cry For More Fish
    18. Screw, Loose
    19. Cook Cool Kyan Kuru
    20. Scissor Quiz
    21. Too Many To Dispose
    22. Blandished Hatman
    23. Cut Off
    24. Pierced Eye
    25. (untitled) (hidden track)
  3. Cactuses Come In Flocks LP/CD (Chocolate Monk, 1994, cat.no.?)
      produced by Melt-Banana
      tracks ?
  4. Cactuses Come In Flocks LP/CD (A-Zap Records, 1999, AZLP-002/AZCD-002)
      produced by Melt-Banana
      tracks ?
  5. Scratch or Stitch LP/CD (Meldac, 1995, cat.no.?)
      engineered by Steve Albini
      mixed by Jim O'Rourke
    1. Plot In A Pot
    2. Scratch Or Stitch!
    3. Sick Zip Everywhere
    4. Disposable Weathercock
    5. Ten Dollars A Pile
    6. Ketchup-Mess
    7. Buzzer *P
    8. Rough Dogs Have Bumps
    9. Iguana In Trouble
    10. It's In The Pillcase
    11. Test: Ground 1
    12. Zoo, No Vacancy
    13. A Finger To Hackle
    14. Type B For Me
    15. His Name Is Mickey (At Last She Got Him...)
    16. Back To The Womb
    17. I Hate It!
    18. What Do You Slaughter Next?
    19. Eye-Q Trader
    20. Dig Out!
    21. Contortion Out Of Confusion
    22. Pigeons On My Eyes (Go To Bed!)
  6. Scratch or Stitch LP/CD (Nux Organization/Skin Graft Records, 1996, NUX-?/GR34)
      engineered by Steve Albini
      mixed by Jim O'Rourke
    1. Plot In A Pot
    2. Scratch Or Stitch!
    3. Sick Zip Everywhere
    4. Disposable Weathercock
    5. Ten Dollars A Pile
    6. Ketchup-Mess
    7. Buzzer *P
    8. Rough Dogs Have Bumps
    9. Iguana In Trouble
    10. It's In The Pillcase
    11. Test: Ground 1
    12. Zoo, No Vacancy
    13. A Finger To Hackle
    14. Type B For Me
    15. His Name Is Mickey (At Last She Got Him...)
    16. Back To The Womb
    17. I Hate It!
    18. What Do You Slaughter Next?
    19. Eye-Q Trader
    20. Dig Out!
    21. Contortion Out Of Confusion
    22. Pigeons On My Eyes (Go To Bed!)
  7. Charlie LP/CD (A-Zap Records, 1998, AZLP-001/AZCD-001)
      produced by Melt-Banana
      tracks ?
  8. MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles At Light Velocity CD (Tzadik, 1999, #7219)
      produced by John Zorn
      live album
    1. Scratch Or Stitch
    2. Rragg
    3. Wedge
    4. Seesaw Semiology
    5. Circle-Jack (Chase The Magic Words, Lego Lego)
    6. Sick Zip Everywhere
    7. Disposable Weathercock
    8. Mind Thief
    9. Blandished Hatman
    10. Iguana In Trouble
    11. Tapir's Flown Away
    12. His Name Is Mickey (At Last She Got Him...)
    13. We Love Choca-Pa
    14. Some Kind Of ID
    15. Stick Out
    16. Scrubber
    17. Screw, Loose
    18. First Defy
    19. So Unfilial Rule
    20. Spathic!
    21. Picnic In Panic
    22. It's In The Pillcase
    23. Surfin' USA (Beach Boys)
    24. Bad Gut Missed Fist
    25. Ketchup-Mess
    26. Plot In A Pot
    27. (untitled) (hidden track)
    28. (untitled) (hidden track)
  9. Teeny Shiny LP/CD (A-Zap Records, 2000, AZLP-003/AZCD-003)
      produced by Melt-Banana
      tracks ?
  10. "13 Hedgehogs (MxBx Singles 1994 - 1999)" CD (A-Zap Records, 2005, AZ-006)
    1. Stick Out
    2. So Untilial Rule
    3. Mind Thief
    4. Screw, Loose
    5. Scrubber
    6. Pierced Eye
    7. Ketchup-Mess
    8. First Defy
    9. Iguana In Trouble
    10. It's In The Pilcase
    11. Rush & --» Warp
    12. Picnic In Panic
    13. Buddihism Core
    14. Hangnail (Let It Go)
    15. No One Wants Next One
    16. Sicklist On Fire
    17. One Dimentional
    18. Not D.But M, Also S
    19. Mind Thief (live)
    20. P-Pop-Slop (live)
    21. Making Fuss, Fuss, Fuss
    22. Turtle Vs Bunny [Who Won?]
    23. Pig To Dog
    24. Bird-like Monkey In Cave, Singing In Drops
    25. Bad Gut Missed Fist
    26. It's Not My Fault
    27. Neck On Me
    28. Stop The Cook-cu Test
    29. No Doubt
    30. Scooped Brain In A Cup
    31. Capital 1060
    32. How To Parlare
    33. I Say "Shoot!"
    34. Minus-Minus-To One
    35. Call Me please-6824
    36. Popsy Teeth In Red
    37. Blackout Screen
    38. To Be Continued?
    39. $10 A Pile
    40. Disposable Weathercock (Helpful 80 Points Version)
    41. Y-Axis
    42. Aquatic Bee
    43. Wedge
    44. Seesaw Semiology
    45. Cough Coughed Coughing
    46. Q For Quinine
    47. Bird Like Monkey Part 2 (Calling On The Cliff)
    48. Least Clipper
    49. Baby Buggy Spitted
    50. Drill The Dentist
    51. Last Finger Split
    52. Wrest The Fist (Just For Reflection)
    53. Dead Spex
    54. Sonic Brain Burst
    55. Ethar Twisted
    56. Shoot The Moon
Compilations
  1. Lo-Fi - Electric Acoustic & Radical CD (Nippon Crown, 1995, cat.no.?)
    1. Sham Bazar
    2. Some Kind Of I.D.
    3. Crackhead Up Or Down
  2. Camp Skingraft 33 Hits! (!) Now Wave Volumes 1-3 CD (Skin Graft Records, 1997, GR50)
    1. Zoo, No Vacancy
  3. Knormalities 7" (Dephine Knormal Musik, 1998, DKM 03)
    1. Pluck!
  4. Direct V.A. Compilation Vol.01 CD (Bitwave Records, 2000, BWD-001)
      other bands ? their tracks ?
    1. Tapir's Flown Away
  5. Troubleman Mix-Tape 2xCD (Troubleman Unlimited, 2001, TMU-050)
    1. We Love Choco-Pa
  6. Erase Yer Head #9 7" (Pandemonium Records, year ?, Pan 036)
    1. Crack Up To Planet Q
  7. The Knave Pop Collective Sampler #4 CD (Knave Pop, year ?, 004)
    1. Stimulus For Revolting Virus
Various

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Links
  1. Melt-Banana official website
  2. Melt Banana fansite
  3. Melt-Banana @ southern records
  4. Charnel Music
  5. A-Zap Records official website
  6. H.G.Fact official website
  7. Tzadik official website
  8. Gentle Giant Records official website

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