Nelories Explained

Nelories
Background:	group_or_band
Origin:	Japan
Genre:	Alternative rock, Indie rock
Years Active:	1991-1995
Label:	¡Por supuesto!/Suite supuesto (JP) Sugarfrost Records (GB) Hello Recording Club (US)
Past Members:	Jun Kurihara Kazmi Kubo

The Nelories were an independent Japanese alternative pop duo, active in the 1990s.^[1] The band consisted of Jun Kurihara on accordion and Kazmi Kubo on guitars. Their recordings were only released in Japan and England, with the exception of one EP released through John Flansburgh and Marjorie Galen's subscription-based Hello CD of the Month Club.^[2]

History

The Nelories formed while Kurihara and Kubo were in high school. Around this time, Kurihara also befriended Akiko of Sugarfrost Records, which would be responsible for releasing Nelories material in England.^[3] Kurihara and Kubo would sometimes refer to themselves as Jun and Kazmi "de Nelorie" ("of the Nelories"), in the spirit of the fraternal ties between the Ramones. Their first album, Mellow Yellow Fellow Nelories, was released while the duo was in college, and received praise in Japan.^[4]

Kurihara wrote all her lyrics in English, despite the fact that it was not her first language.^[5]

Both Kurihara and Kubo have continued their careers in music following the Nelories' disband. Kurihara was also involved with a band called The Music Lovers in the mid-2000s.^[6]

Discography

Over the course of their career, the Nelories released three full studio albums, six extended plays, and one single.

Albums

• Mellow Yellow Fellow Nelories (1992)

Label: ¡Por supuesto! (Japan)

Track listing:

1. Waiting

1. Banana

1. Plastic Sky

1. No Love Lost

1. Go Go Merry-Go-Round

1. Neutral Blue

1. Bubbly

1. Emerald

1. Trampoline

1. JPG

• Daisy (1993)

Label: Suite supuesto (Japan)

Track listing:

1. Daydreamers

1. Set Pure Ven

1. Desperate

1. A Girl in a Checkered Dress

1. Ringhanger

1. Indie Pop Car Baby

1. You Saved Me

1. Un Revolver A Six Coups

1. Garlic

1. Fireblade Sky

1. Daisy

1. Eyes & Shoes

1. Garlic

• Starboogie (1994)

Label: Suite supuesto (Japan)

Track listing:

1. Too Late Or Not Too Late

1. Popstars

1. Starboogie

1. So Anyway I Sing

1. I Like Your Hair

1. White Volkswagen

1. Service Area

1. Blue Flower

1. The Shooting Pictures

1. Don't Make Any Promise

1. Roseland

EPs

• Plasticky (1991)

Label: ¡Por supuesto! (Japan)

Track listing:

• The Chestnutfield Family

• Keith

• Plasticky

• Cadillac For Montevideo
• Banana (1992)

Label: Sugarfrost Records [FROSTY 04] (England); ¡Por supuesto! (Japan)

Track listing:

1. Banana

1. Emerald

1. Trampolene

1. Run Free [Japanese release]

• Nelories (1993)

Label: Hello Recording Club [hel-34] (US)

Track listing:

1. Waiting

1. Banana

1. Bubbly

1. Plastic Sky

• Indie Pop Car Baby (1993)

Label: Suite supuesto (Japan)

Track listing:

1. Indie Pop Car Baby

1. Your Smile

1. Hell Toupee

1. An Ordinary Miracle

1. Indie Pop Car Baby (demo)

• Popstars (1994)

Label: Suite supuesto (Japan)

Track listing:

1. Popstars

1. For A Friend

1. La Cerveza

• An Ordinary Miracle (1995)

Label: Suite supuesto (Japan)

Track listing:

1. An Ordinary Miracle (live)

1. An Ordinary Miracle (Pimlico mix)

1. Run Free (The Peel Sessions)

1. Garlic (The Peel Sessions)

Singles

• "Eyes And Shoes" (1994)

Label: Sugarfrost Records (England)

B-side

Fireblade Skies

References

1. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nelories-mn0002294289 Nelories overview
2. Kaplan, Matthew. Nelories. Trouser Press. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
3. http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=1337 Cloudberry interview
4. Flansburgh, John. "Partytime in the Summertime 1993". Hello Recording Club Newsletter. Archived here. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
5. Kaplan, Matthew. Nelories. Trouser Press. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
6. Edwards, Matthew. Interview by Todd Jones. October, 2004. Retrieved 2012-11-24.