"Foo?" (Stylized as foo?) is the second album by the Japanese
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Porno Graffitti
, also known as , are a Japanese Rock music, rock band from Onomichi, Hiroshima, Onomichi (formerly Innoshima, Hiroshima, Innoshima), Hiroshima Prefecture. The band got their name from the album ''Pornograffitti'' by the band Extreme (band), E ...
, it was released on February 28, 2001.
The album's title is a play on the words "Hi, Fu, Mi" (ひぃふぅみぃ/One, Two, Three) from the fact that it is their second album, and the English phrase "Who?". The cover photo is a pink square tile, and Akimitsu Honma revealed that the shadow on the tile is
Tama.
Release
Released almost a year after their last album, "
Romantist Egoist
''Romantist Egoist'' (Japanese:ロマンチスト・エゴイスト) is the debut album by the Japanese rock band Porno Graffitti, it was released on March 8, 2000.
It contains a total of 13 songs, including the debut single "Apollo
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", the album contains 12 tracks including three hit singles from 2000: "Music Hour", "Saudade" and "Saboten". "''Music Hour''" (ミュージック・アワー) was released on July 12, 2000, used in a promotion for
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. A cover of the song was performed by
Poppin'Party
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and released as part of the ''
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Cover Collection Vol. 4'' in 2020.
The second single, "''Saudade''" (サウダージ), was released on September 13, 2000. "
Saudade
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" means in
Portuguese such as "Nostalgia" , "Melancholy" , "Emotions Feeling Lost" , essentially the feeling of missing happy times or events that were frequent in the past. The third and final single, "''Saboten''" (サボテン) (English: ''Cactus''), was released on December 6, 2000.
Commercial performance
The album ranked #2 for weekly Oricon charts.
[Oricon source http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/157948/products/432779/1/]
Track listing
References
2001 albums
Porno Graffitti albums
2000s Japanese-language albums
Sony Music albums
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