P.O.P

P.O.P is the second album by The Mad Capsule Markets and their major label debut. It was a faster, thrashier effort than their debut album Humanity, and featured new guitarist Ai Ishigaki. Many lyrics were edited out for content (see below for information). The album was issued with two different covers.

Track listing

1. "Human Protest" – 1:17
2. – 1:46
3. – 1:51
4. – 1:42
5. – 2:53
6. – 2:55
7. "Life Game" – 3:57
8. – 2:38
9. "Yourself Look!" – 3:29
10. "People is Destroy of Mind" – 1:50
11. "White Low Child" – 2:26

Info on song censorship

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• Gichi

on the song Gichi (which featured a controversial and disturbing video with live footage, scenes of executions, scenes of dead soldiers/civilians and clips from banned 40's cartoon Private SNAFU) Kyono says 'Sid', 'Johnny', and 'Jimmy' it is later explained he is making reference to Sid Vicious, John Lydon and Jim Morrison. He also says 'fuck fuck bush' which is a reference to George H. W. Bush, who was the president of the U.S. at the time. In Japanese there is a word Kichigai which means someone who is mentally not quite right ('Ki' means someone's spirit/mind/mental state and the 'chigai' means weird/different/strange), in slang this becomes "Kichi" and apparently MAD further changed this to gichi. In Japanese, the character for 'Gi' is the same as the one for 'Ki' but with a double dash on it. If you look on the Gichi single cover, the double dash is put in a different colour (red) and is so less noticeable, showing the original meaning. Apparently they couldn't have a song called 'Kichi' as that wasn't too politically correct so they 'Gichi'-afied it, so it would mean a "head case" or something similar.

• San Byoukan no Jisatsu (3 second suicide)

The original version of San Byoukan no Jisatsu (found on the Insect Noise release of Humanity) contains an extra line "Tobioriru no sa!" This line was xxxxxx-ed on P.O.P and has been totally silenced on the re-release of Humanity and on the Best of 1990-1996 CD.Also, on the insert for the re-release of Humanity the "Jisatsu" (suicide) on the tracklist has been scribbled out.

• Life Game

The original version of LIFE GAME also contains extra lyrics that have been blanked out in the re-release version and xxxxxx-ed in the POP version, these can be found when CraY (Takeshi)first sings and when Kyono sings partway into the song - The missing words from CraY's section are within the brackets:-[Omae no atama ga] kurutte iku no o ore wa itsudemo matte iru no saa.

The missing words from Kyono's section are within this second set of brackets (these do not seem to be missing from the POP release):-[Kurue kurue kurutte shimae!] Omae no koto nado shiranai kara (the lyrics outside the brackets change but the first part is still missing each time)

• MAD Chuudoku (Mad Poison)

On MAD chuudoku, the first time, (Kyono) sings "Yatsu kara mireba" then sings nothing for the xxxxxx bit on the P.O.P version. 2nd time, CraY sings "Yatsu kara mireba, [Seishinijyousha]". And the final time CraY sings "Ore kara mireba, [Seishinijyousha]" (parts within the brackets are the xxxxxx-ed parts)

• Harinezumi to XX (XX with a Hedgehog)

The xxx-ed lines on this song are "POLI" and "YES FUCK'IN POLICE". When performed live it is "Harinezumi to POLI" (which is sometimes followed by a SA SA SA, making it Police) and later on into the song the repeated lines "YES FUCK'IN POLICE" are xxxxxx-ed... (the Police part is xxxxxx-ed) along with some other lines in the song.

• People is DESTROY OF MIND

This song only contains one part of a line that was xxxxxx-ed, the line can be found around middle of the song:- the xxxxxx-ed parts are the words "Jiheishou no handoru"

History of the xxxxxx

after they were told to get rid of "tobioriru no sa" on the Humanity version of 3 Second Suicide, so they decided to make it blatantly censored instead of changing the lyric and added the infamous xxxxxx noise, they then decided to take it one step further and add xxxxxx to lyrics from other tracks.

Year	Album	Chart	Position
1990	P.O.P	Official Japanese Albums Chart	No. 100

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