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''Teeny Shiny'' is the fifth album by
Melt-Banana Melt-Banana is a Japanese noise rock band that is known for playing extremely fast noise rock and hardcore punk mixed with experimental, electronica and pop-based song structures. Since forming in 1992 the band has released ten albums and toure ...
, released in 2000. It contains reworkings of two older songs. "First Contact to Planet Q" was previously recorded as "Sham Bazar", and "Warp, Back Spin" was previously recorded as "Crackhead Up or Down". Both of the songs have the same lyrics but are musically different. They appeared on the Japanese compilation CD ''Lo-Fi ~Electric Acoustic & Radical~'', released in 1995. At the beginning of "Free the Bee" there is a sped-up sample from the 1984 film '' Repo Man''.


Critical reception

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'' deemed the album "reliably unhinged, old-school Japanese noise madness ... 11 collisions of electric-toothbrush guitars, police-siren solos, Gatling-gun drumming and kindergarten screeching." The ''
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'' wrote that the band "adds a (very) slight pop edge to their usual chaos."


Track listing


References

{{Authority control Melt-Banana albums 2000 albums