This Year's Girl (album)

This Year's Girl is the fifth studio album by Japanese pop band Pizzicato Five. It was released on September 1, 1991 by the Nippon Columbia imprint Seven Gods,[2] serving as the band's first album for Nippon Columbia. This Year's Girl is the first Pizzicato Five album to feature Maki Nomiya as lead vocalist. On the album, the band augmented their Shibuya-kei sound with elements of alternative dance and began to more fully incorporate sampling into their music.[3]

This Year's Girl
Studio album by Pizzicato Five
Released	September 1, 1991 (1991-09-01)
Genre	Shibuya-kei
Length	61:06
Label	Seven Gods
Pizzicato Five chronology
Readymade Recordings (1991) This Year's Girl (1991) Sweet Pizzicato Five (1992)
Alternative cover
2006 reissue

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

This Year's Girl was reissued by Readymade Records on September 30, 2000 and March 31, 2006.[4][5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Japanese title	Length
1.	"This Year's Girl #4"	Yasuharu Konishi	女性上位時代#4	1:00
2.	"I"	Konishi	私のすべて	1:51
3.	"Ohayo"	Konishi	お早よう	5:07
4.	"Thank You"	Konishi	サンキュー	5:26
5.	"Let's Be Adult"	Konishi	大人になりましょう	3:36
6.	"This Year's Girl #5"	Konishi	女性上位時代#5	0:14
7.	"Baby Love Child"	Konishi Keitarō Takanami	ベイビィ・ラブ・チャイルド	3:42
8.	"Twiggy Twiggy"	Nanako Sato	トゥイギー・トゥイギー	2:49
9.	"Twiggy vs. James Bond"	Konishi	トゥイギー対ジェイムズ・ボンド	1:15
10.	"Gifted"	Takanami Maki Nomiya	神様がくれたもの	4:50
11.	"Party"	Haruomi Hosono Yasushi Nakayama Ryoko Suzuki	パーティー	4:32
12.	"Shiritori O Suru Koibito Tachi"	Nomiya Haruo Kubota	しりとりをする恋人たち	4:16
13.	"Marble Index"	Takanami	マーブル・インデックス	3:57
14.	"Y.O.U."	Konishi	きみになりたい	4:33
15.	"Xxxxxxxxxman"	Nomiya Takanami	むずかしい人	3:53
16.	"Tokyo's Coolest Sound"	Konishi Takanami	Tokyo's Coolest Sound	4:12
17.	"Birth of Cool"	Konishi	クールの誕生	3:47
18.	"This Year's Girl #6"	Konishi Kubota Nomiya	女性上位時代#6	2:06
Total length:				61:06

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6]	55

References

1. Mills, Ted. "This Year's Girl – Pizzicato Five". AllMusic. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
2. "女性上位時代 | ピチカート・ファイヴ" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
3. Rosean, Samuel (December 29, 2018). "A Beginner's Guide: Shibuya Kei". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
4. "女性上位時代 | ピチカート・ファイヴ" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
5. "女性上位時代 | ピチカート・ファイヴ" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
6. Okamoto, Satoshi (2006). Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Oricon. ISBN 978-4-87131-077-2.

External links

• This Year's Girl at Discogs (list of releases)