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Potshot | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Tokyo, Japan |
Genres | Ska punk, Punk rock |
Years active | 1995–2005, 2015 |
Labels |
TV-FREAK Records Asian Man Records |
Website | www.ukproject.com/potshot |
Potshot was a Japanese J-ska music group from Japan. They released their records on their own label, TV Freak, in Japan. Their first five albums were re-released by Asian Man Records, an American label well known for signing Asian punk-pop bands. Their final album, Potshot Beat Goes On, was released in May 2005. Potshot disbanded in 2005, playing a final show in Tokyo. [1]
In reviewing their first album, Pots And Shots (1997), AllMusic wrote that Potshot "put the spurs to the largely kind-of-boring mid-'90s resurgence of ska music by revving up the tempos by at least 30 percent (seriously, anyone who tries dancing to a song like the breakneck "Since Yesterday" is at risk of a coronary) and dialing back all the cod-reggae Jamaican-isms that make so many of the frat-boy third wave ska bands so laughable. The drumbeat and a familiar-sounding horn section are Pots and Shots' only links to ska music, but they're enough to shred 90 percent of the post- No Doubt pretenders." [2]
Pots And Shots included cover versions of " The Tears of a Clown" and " Since Yesterday".
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