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Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's fifth album, Casanova Snake, soon followed in Japan and due to the overwhelming impact of Gear Blues in America, Collection, a compilation of the band's best work, was released in 2001. Collection - Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Songs, Reviews. release, solidifying their now unique and idiosyncratic sound that they call 'Japanese Monster R&B.' Like Iggy Pop, and Chiba, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant combine melodic anthems with a truly hard wall of sonic distress. In 2000, the record became the band's first U.S. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's breakthrough album, Gear Blues, was released in Japan in 1998. In 1998, this Japanese rock & roll cult phenomenon went on their World Psycho Blues Tour and played to arenas all over Japan. The following summer, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant landed a spot playing to 50,000 fans at the Fuji Rock Festival in Tokyo, along with artists such as Primal Scream, Garbage, Sonic Youth, Ian Brown, and Beck.

The album smashed onto the Japanese charts at number 13, and the band immediately hit the road for a 21-date, sold-out tour across Japan.Ĭhicken Zombies, their third album, came out in 1997. Not a band to waste time, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant kicked out the jams on their second full-length, High Time, in November of 1996. They soon followed up with their debut album, Cult Grass Stars, recorded in London with Radiohead engineer Chris Brown and released in Japan in March of 1996. The band recorded their first EP, Wonder Style, in 1995. Initially, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's sound was derived from British punk and blues. Yusuke Chiba's mod, raspy vocals, alternately sung and screamed out mostly in Japanese, hold the whole thing together with a rough-as-rock-gets swagger. Futoshi Abe's thrashy guitar riffs propel the fast-paced, hard-hitting tunes over the driving rhythms of Kouji Ueno's thick bass grooves and Kazuyuki Kuhara's heavy backbeat. Though little-known in America prior to 2000, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant formed in Japan back in 1991 and began playing raucous garage rock & roll inspired by the Stooges, Thee Headcoats, the Who, and MC5.

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