This is the discography of Super Junky Monkey, a Japanese all-girl rock group who performed and merged various styles and genres of music, including hardcore punk, heavy metal, rap, jazz, noise, and funk. The band was formed in March 1991 by vocalist Mutsumi "623" Takahashi, guitarist Keiko Yamaiwa, bassist Shinobu Kawai and a drummer by the name of Matsudaaahh!!. They made their live debut at Meguro, Tokyo in September 1991. In 1993 the band won the CMJ Japan Battle of the Bands event which brought about a gig at the legendary CBGB club in New York. Four albums and several tours in Japan and the US followed in the next three years. The band broke up after the untimely death of Mutsumi in 1999. The remaining members came back together in 2009 for a gig at Tokyo’s Liquid Room, and they've recently started touring again as a trio.
Included are four albums, two maxi singles plus four extra tracks taken from compilation releases.
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"Formed in Japan in 1991, Super Junky Monkey was never as popular in their homeland as they were in the United States, where they focused most of their publicity and touring. Featuring the charismatic Mutsumi Takahashi on vocals, Keiko on guitar, Shinobu Kawai on bass, and the creatively named Matsudaaahh!! on drums, the band floated around the Japanese underground making a unique blend of metal, rap, and indie rock until they decided to record a live album, 1993's Cabbage. The album saw an American release, where it was enthusiastically praised in the press. Realizing the potential of an American audience, they focused on getting an American record deal, eventually signing with Sony. They managed to release four official albums until the surprising death of Takahashi in 1999. The band was crushed, and opted not to continue without their singer. A greatest-hits package entitled Songs Are Our Universe was released on Condor Records in 2001." - Allmusic.com biography
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"Super Junky Monkey were a gutsy innovative band of four young women, active between 1991 and 1999. Singer Mutsumi623 "623" Takahashi, guitarist Keiko, Shinobu Kawai, and drummer Matsudaaahh!!, released the first Super Junky Monkey album, the all live indie album Cabbage in 1993. The album showed their unique furious yet fun brand of jazz, funk and hip-hop spiced grunge rock, which some compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine. The band had serious chops as musicians, often played intricate and sometimes odd musical parts, and had a dynamic front person in Mutsumi623. The band continued with Sony for two more albums Parasitic People and Super Junky Alien, which were progressively weird and wild." - Nippop profile
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"A couple more exports like this and the image of Japanese women as the timid flowers of a repressively patriarchal garden will be gone forever. The young Tokyo quartet takes random elements of hip-hop, metal, thrash-funk, punk, dancehall and pure noise and loads them all into a blast furnace from which grilled guitar, thunderous rhythms, stop-start cheers and roaring vocals emanate in discontinuous blasts of loudly aggressive this'n'that. Super Junky Monkey bring the chops and enormous flexibility to their funhouse vision of modern music, but sometimes crazy shit is just crazy shit." - Trouser Press
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"Holy mother of metallic-thrash-funk-meatloaf! Rage Against the Machine meets Steve Vai at a Tokyo rap show. The group layers its choruses much like Quiet Riot used to, so a course in Berlitz isn't necessary to join in on the fray. Boredoms fans with a hip-hop itch will also take to Super Junky Monkey. The funk and metal is on point, lethal as ebola, scattered as a tear-gassed riot." - metroactive.com
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"A quick description of the band would be "Japanese all-girl Faith No More," or Primus, but, like most quick descriptions, it doesn't do them justice. Super Junky Monkey have the same mildly demented atmospherics, that funky bass, and those crazy vocalizations, but that's about it. For one thing, the band uses no synthesizers or children choirs, or even twin bass guitars, only a standard rock setup with a sound closer to hardcore than funk or alternative rock... inspired screaming and frantic drumming that sounds like it's bursting with energy even on the slow parts... But this is only the foundation of their sound, Super Junky Monkey romp through metal, psychedelia, hip-hop, King Crimson-esque interludes, and then back to raw crunchy punk rock and abrasive funk metal with the ease of, indeed, a monkey swinging between lianas. The best thing about it is, however, that the group never forgets they're here to rock -- almost every riff is a killer, though they're shrouded in a cloud of wackiness and soon discarded because the band has found something more shiny and doesn't care to repeat what they've played once anyway." - Alexey Eremenko/Allmusic.com
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: キャベツ [Kyabetsu]
type: album
label: Riot Label
release date: March 20, 1994
length: 47:50
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
Recorded live on December 16, 1993.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. Matador
2. Super Junky Monkeyのテーマ [Super Junky Monkey No Teema]
3. Revenge
4. Find Your Self
5. Shower
6. Faster
7. Popo Bar
8. You Are Not The One
9. Bed Side Session
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Screw Up
type: album
label: Sony Records
release date: October 21, 1994
length: 59:44
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (251-301kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. 宿直の長老は遅漏で候 [Shukuchoku No Choro Wa Chirou]
2. ざくろの骨 [Zakuro No Hone]
3. 記憶の捏造 [Kioku No Netsuzou]
4. Buckin' The Bolts
5. ばかばっか [Bakabatka]
6. 珠華（使用前） [Tamage]
7. 羽化登仙 [Ukatousen]
8. Popobar
9. Where're The Good Times
10. Revenge
11. Decide
12. Get Out
13. 珠華（使用後） [Tamage]
14. We're The Mother
15. Shower
16. 富士噴火寸前 [Fuji Funka Sunzen]
(the romanized titles are from the cd booklet)
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: あいえとう／A・I・E・T・O・H
type: maxi single
label: Sony Records
release date: April 21, 1995
length: 14:21
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (267-300kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
Paafekuto Manabu, Goritetsu, Sandaanori, PIGS Hide, Nang-Chang, Shige Wada, Tim Jensen - backing vocals (track 2)
tracklist:
1. あいえとう／A・I・E・T・O・H
2. Fuck That Noise
3. Time Is Culture
4. Blah, Blah, Blah
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Parasitic People
type: album
label: Sony Records
release date: April 21, 1996
length: 53:16
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (242-272kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
Lou Koller, Pete Koller - vocals (track 3)
Shaun - vocals (track 6)
Susumu Kohmoto - vocals (track 10)
Blue, France L., Jeanine Gallina - vocals (track 13)
tracklist:
1. Introduction
2. The Words
3. If
4. Parasitic People
5. 誤解 [Gokai]
6. Our Universe
7. 何 [Nani]
8. Telepathy
9. Start With Makin' A Fire
10. Burn System's Flag
11. 楽天 昇天 笑点 [Kappa]
12. The True Parasites
13. See Me, Feel Me
14. 原始の再来 [New Song]
15. 大陸の鼓動 [Tairiku No Kodoh]
(the romanized titles are from the tracklist of the US edition on the TriStar label)
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Super Junky Alien
type: album
label: Sony Records
release date: December 1, 1996
length: 33:18
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
codec: lame 3.97
This is a concept album where each track represents a stage in a video game. The bonus stage song is a cover of the MTV Top Of The Hour music by Jonathan Elias.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. Stage 1: S.J. Alien
2. Stage 2: R.P.G.
3. Stage 3: I Got The Third
4. Stage 4: Sky Surfer Go Go Go
5. Stage 5: Love & Peace Hardcore
6. Stage 666: (narration)
7. Stage 7: Seven
8. Bonus Stage: MTV Top Of The Hour Music / ターザン~藻尿王~うがい [Taazan ~ Mo Nyoo Oo ~ Ugai]
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: E•KISS•O
type: maxi single
label: Condor Records
release date: April 21, 2001
length: 20:09
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 160kbps
A posthumous release of previously unreleased material.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. Shaved Women
2. E•KISS•O
3. A.B.C.
4. やってまえ [Yattemae]
5. Towering Man
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The extra tracks folder contains tracks taken from several compilation releases:
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Skysurfer Strike Force, Tell Me Your All
type: compilation tracks
from album: Songs Are Our Universe
label: Condor Records
release date: July 20, 2001
length: 2:30
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
codec: lame 3.93
These two previously unreleased tracks were included on the double-cd "best of" -compilation Songs Are Our Universe.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: If (Take 2)
type: compilation track
from album: Japanese Homegrown, Vol. 2
label: Gianormous Records
release date: 1996
length: 3:00
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (194kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.92
This track is taken from a multi-artist sampler featuring several Japanese indie rock bands.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Another Mother
type: compilation track
from album: Spiritual Noise, Vol. 1
label: Condor Records
release date: 2003
length: 6:08
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (235kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.97
This is yet another previously unreleased track taken from a Condor Records sampler.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
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Included are four albums, two maxi singles plus four extra tracks taken from compilation releases.
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"Formed in Japan in 1991, Super Junky Monkey was never as popular in their homeland as they were in the United States, where they focused most of their publicity and touring. Featuring the charismatic Mutsumi Takahashi on vocals, Keiko on guitar, Shinobu Kawai on bass, and the creatively named Matsudaaahh!! on drums, the band floated around the Japanese underground making a unique blend of metal, rap, and indie rock until they decided to record a live album, 1993's Cabbage. The album saw an American release, where it was enthusiastically praised in the press. Realizing the potential of an American audience, they focused on getting an American record deal, eventually signing with Sony. They managed to release four official albums until the surprising death of Takahashi in 1999. The band was crushed, and opted not to continue without their singer. A greatest-hits package entitled Songs Are Our Universe was released on Condor Records in 2001." - Allmusic.com biography
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"Super Junky Monkey were a gutsy innovative band of four young women, active between 1991 and 1999. Singer Mutsumi623 "623" Takahashi, guitarist Keiko, Shinobu Kawai, and drummer Matsudaaahh!!, released the first Super Junky Monkey album, the all live indie album Cabbage in 1993. The album showed their unique furious yet fun brand of jazz, funk and hip-hop spiced grunge rock, which some compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine. The band had serious chops as musicians, often played intricate and sometimes odd musical parts, and had a dynamic front person in Mutsumi623. The band continued with Sony for two more albums Parasitic People and Super Junky Alien, which were progressively weird and wild." - Nippop profile
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"A couple more exports like this and the image of Japanese women as the timid flowers of a repressively patriarchal garden will be gone forever. The young Tokyo quartet takes random elements of hip-hop, metal, thrash-funk, punk, dancehall and pure noise and loads them all into a blast furnace from which grilled guitar, thunderous rhythms, stop-start cheers and roaring vocals emanate in discontinuous blasts of loudly aggressive this'n'that. Super Junky Monkey bring the chops and enormous flexibility to their funhouse vision of modern music, but sometimes crazy shit is just crazy shit." - Trouser Press
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"Holy mother of metallic-thrash-funk-meatloaf! Rage Against the Machine meets Steve Vai at a Tokyo rap show. The group layers its choruses much like Quiet Riot used to, so a course in Berlitz isn't necessary to join in on the fray. Boredoms fans with a hip-hop itch will also take to Super Junky Monkey. The funk and metal is on point, lethal as ebola, scattered as a tear-gassed riot." - metroactive.com
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"A quick description of the band would be "Japanese all-girl Faith No More," or Primus, but, like most quick descriptions, it doesn't do them justice. Super Junky Monkey have the same mildly demented atmospherics, that funky bass, and those crazy vocalizations, but that's about it. For one thing, the band uses no synthesizers or children choirs, or even twin bass guitars, only a standard rock setup with a sound closer to hardcore than funk or alternative rock... inspired screaming and frantic drumming that sounds like it's bursting with energy even on the slow parts... But this is only the foundation of their sound, Super Junky Monkey romp through metal, psychedelia, hip-hop, King Crimson-esque interludes, and then back to raw crunchy punk rock and abrasive funk metal with the ease of, indeed, a monkey swinging between lianas. The best thing about it is, however, that the group never forgets they're here to rock -- almost every riff is a killer, though they're shrouded in a cloud of wackiness and soon discarded because the band has found something more shiny and doesn't care to repeat what they've played once anyway." - Alexey Eremenko/Allmusic.com
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: キャベツ [Kyabetsu]
type: album
label: Riot Label
release date: March 20, 1994
length: 47:50
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
Recorded live on December 16, 1993.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. Matador
2. Super Junky Monkeyのテーマ [Super Junky Monkey No Teema]
3. Revenge
4. Find Your Self
5. Shower
6. Faster
7. Popo Bar
8. You Are Not The One
9. Bed Side Session
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Screw Up
type: album
label: Sony Records
release date: October 21, 1994
length: 59:44
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (251-301kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. 宿直の長老は遅漏で候 [Shukuchoku No Choro Wa Chirou]
2. ざくろの骨 [Zakuro No Hone]
3. 記憶の捏造 [Kioku No Netsuzou]
4. Buckin' The Bolts
5. ばかばっか [Bakabatka]
6. 珠華（使用前） [Tamage]
7. 羽化登仙 [Ukatousen]
8. Popobar
9. Where're The Good Times
10. Revenge
11. Decide
12. Get Out
13. 珠華（使用後） [Tamage]
14. We're The Mother
15. Shower
16. 富士噴火寸前 [Fuji Funka Sunzen]
(the romanized titles are from the cd booklet)
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: あいえとう／A・I・E・T・O・H
type: maxi single
label: Sony Records
release date: April 21, 1995
length: 14:21
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (267-300kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
Paafekuto Manabu, Goritetsu, Sandaanori, PIGS Hide, Nang-Chang, Shige Wada, Tim Jensen - backing vocals (track 2)
tracklist:
1. あいえとう／A・I・E・T・O・H
2. Fuck That Noise
3. Time Is Culture
4. Blah, Blah, Blah
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Parasitic People
type: album
label: Sony Records
release date: April 21, 1996
length: 53:16
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (242-272kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.98
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
Lou Koller, Pete Koller - vocals (track 3)
Shaun - vocals (track 6)
Susumu Kohmoto - vocals (track 10)
Blue, France L., Jeanine Gallina - vocals (track 13)
tracklist:
1. Introduction
2. The Words
3. If
4. Parasitic People
5. 誤解 [Gokai]
6. Our Universe
7. 何 [Nani]
8. Telepathy
9. Start With Makin' A Fire
10. Burn System's Flag
11. 楽天 昇天 笑点 [Kappa]
12. The True Parasites
13. See Me, Feel Me
14. 原始の再来 [New Song]
15. 大陸の鼓動 [Tairiku No Kodoh]
(the romanized titles are from the tracklist of the US edition on the TriStar label)
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Super Junky Alien
type: album
label: Sony Records
release date: December 1, 1996
length: 33:18
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
codec: lame 3.97
This is a concept album where each track represents a stage in a video game. The bonus stage song is a cover of the MTV Top Of The Hour music by Jonathan Elias.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. Stage 1: S.J. Alien
2. Stage 2: R.P.G.
3. Stage 3: I Got The Third
4. Stage 4: Sky Surfer Go Go Go
5. Stage 5: Love & Peace Hardcore
6. Stage 666: (narration)
7. Stage 7: Seven
8. Bonus Stage: MTV Top Of The Hour Music / ターザン~藻尿王~うがい [Taazan ~ Mo Nyoo Oo ~ Ugai]
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: E•KISS•O
type: maxi single
label: Condor Records
release date: April 21, 2001
length: 20:09
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 160kbps
A posthumous release of previously unreleased material.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
tracklist:
1. Shaved Women
2. E•KISS•O
3. A.B.C.
4. やってまえ [Yattemae]
5. Towering Man
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The extra tracks folder contains tracks taken from several compilation releases:
artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Skysurfer Strike Force, Tell Me Your All
type: compilation tracks
from album: Songs Are Our Universe
label: Condor Records
release date: July 20, 2001
length: 2:30
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: Japanese/English
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
codec: lame 3.93
These two previously unreleased tracks were included on the double-cd "best of" -compilation Songs Are Our Universe.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: If (Take 2)
type: compilation track
from album: Japanese Homegrown, Vol. 2
label: Gianormous Records
release date: 1996
length: 3:00
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (194kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.92
This track is taken from a multi-artist sampler featuring several Japanese indie rock bands.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums
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artist: Super Junky Monkey
title: Another Mother
type: compilation track
from album: Spiritual Noise, Vol. 1
label: Condor Records
release date: 2003
length: 6:08
genre: punk/metal/alternative rock
country: Japan
language: English
format: mp3
bitrate: vbr (235kbps avg)
codec: lame 3.97
This is yet another previously unreleased track taken from a Condor Records sampler.
credits:
Mutsumi623 - voice
Keiko - guitar
Shinobu Kawai - bass
Matsudaaahh!! - drums