"Melt Banana are one of those bands that I saw live once and was completely hooked. My jaw just dropped and I couldn't wait to line up and buy all their records. With "Teeny Shiny" they seem to be taking more a more pop driven direction. Although the pure speed and attack of their music stays the same they seem to have more structure and solid songwriting. One more thing: Agata is this generations Jimi Hendrix and should be widely acknoledged as such."
I love it, but you can't hear what Agata's doing too well
GZeus | 11/29/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"It was much better live. Agata is God. The little studio tricks make it worth buying, but they are the best live band ever. Planet Q was amazing live, I found it a bit more lo-fi and less sci-fi here."
Genius
GZeus | 02/12/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"at the moment i only have this and scratch n stich , both are excellnt. The musicainship on this is on another level , awesome , totally original. Agatas guitar is totally nuts!! tom morellos use of the whammy pedal seems tame compared to Agata!! yakos vocals are rad too.buy it!"
We will, we will rock you...
GZeus | 01/20/2002
(3 out of 5 stars)
"so melt banana, noisy but polite, trashy but cute as little buttons. its unbelievable that the lovely yasuko (singist) can appear so demure offstage and so frightening onstage doing her convulsion/ATTACK!!!! thing. teeny shiny then, new (ish)album.If you don't know MB then don't start here. you'll probobly find it impenetrable, whatever angle you come at it from. those who do know them, probobly own this already. it has a really weird poppy quality to it, like you'll find little flashes of it coming to you when your not really thinking of anything. live is MBs home, and this is their least 'live' album. it may be just me, but theres less of the time changes that make you think are they making this all up as they go along, meaning it could fit in with a lot of 'straight' grindcore (think dillinger escape plan. which is a shame, as MB are far more exciting than that.
//so, if you know 'em, you own it. if you don't, pick up mxbx, and then tell everyone you know that they are one of the bestest bands in the whole wide world. and if they play in your town/city/country/neighbouring continent, sell your parents for a ticket.
Yes, that good."