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Genre: Rock
Release Date: 06/22/2004

Label reps invite you, when listening to Potshot's fifth Asian Man album, to "imagine Screeching Weasel and the Specials doing a tango." Granted, it's a mental image that will help keep your mind off the band's hilariously atrocious English (sample couplet: "Many sad and tuff happened/It was very happy times"), but a more apt stylistic comparison might be the Mighty Mighty Bosstones with Eek-A-Mouse guesting on lead vocals. Great horn arrangements, solid punk-ska guitars, indelible melodic hooks, and a cute (if ultimately irritating) hiccupy vocal style combine to make Dance to the Potshot Record a great summertime party album. Awful as the lyrics are, they never intrude on your musical enjoyment because singer Ryoji is so completely incomprehensible; what matters on songs like "In Time Now" and "Victory or Lost" are the buzzsaw guitars and the cathartic horn lines, and the band's infectious, jubilant energy. Recommended. (Dance to the Potshot Record was originally released in Japan in 2002; the 2004 U.S. release adds two bonus tracks.)

~Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

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Mitchy - Trumpet
Mitchy - Group Member
Potshot - Main Performer
Satoshi - Guitar
Satoshi - Group Member
Chucky - Trombone
Chucky - Group Member
Katsuya - Bass
Katsuya - Group Member
Ryoji - Vocals
Ryoji - Group Member
Shigeo Kikuchi - Photography
Yoko Utsumi - Group Member

Losing Streak
    Less Than Jake / CD / 1996
Goldfinger
    Goldfinger / CD / 1996
Alone in a Crowd
    Catch 22 / CD / 2000
Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit
    Good Riddance / CD / 2001
Everything Goes Numb
    Streetlight Manifesto / CD / 2003
Live from Toronto: Songs in the Key of Eh
    The Mad Caddies / CD / 2004

Release Date: 06/22/2004
Genre: rock