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词条 How Bizarre
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  1. Critical reception

  2. Track listing

  3. Personnel

  4. Charts and certifications

     Weekly charts  Certifications 

  5. References

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| name = How Bizarre
| type = Album
| artist = OMC
| cover = OMC-HowBizarre.jpg
| alt = The cover is in black and white, with the background being a wall of roots. A man with slick black hair and a leather jacket appears left of the cover. Opposite of him is both the group name and album title colored in white and red respectively.
| released = 27 September 1996
| recorded = 1995–1996
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
  • Electronic
  • rock
  • hip hop
  • pop

}}
| length = 50:29
| label = Huh! Records
PolyGram
Mercury Records
| producer = Alan Jansson[1]
| chronology = OMC
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title =
| next_year =
| misc = {{Singles
| name = How Bizarre
| type = studio
| single1 = How Bizarre
| single1date = December 15, 1995
| single2 = Right On
| single2date = 1996
| single3 = On the Run
| single3date = 1996
| single4 = Land of Plenty
| single4date = 1997
}}
}}

How Bizarre is the only album by the New Zealand musical group OMC, released in 1996. It was first released on 27 September under the Huh! recording label, issued by PolyGram New Zealand, and manufactured and marketed by Mercury Records on 25 February 1997 in the United States. The album garnered a mixed reception from critics. How Bizarre reached number 5 in its native New Zealand and number 40 on the Billboard 200, spawning four singles: the title track, "Right On", "On the Run" and "Land of Plenty". It was also certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting sales of over 500,000 copies in that country.

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}[2]
| rev2 = Christgau's Consumer Guide
| rev2score = {{rating-Christgau|cut}}[3]
| rev3 = Spin
| rev3score = 8/10[4]
}}Chuck Eddy, writing for Spin, praised the overall musicianship throughout the album, highlighting the update to Flying Nun's "angelic-melancholy-through-odd-instrumentation aesthetic" and Fuemana's vocal performance resembling that of Billy Ocean and R. B. Greaves, saying that he crafted a genre hybrid that mixes Beck from 1996, reggae from 1971 and recent pop music that "dour mid-'90s U.S. radio might not know what to do with it."[4] Thom Owens of AllMusic called the record "an intriguing fusion of worldbeat rhythms and urban soul that never manages to catch fire, despite several strong grooves and soulful fusions."[2] Robert Christgau cited the title track and "On the Run" as "choice cuts",[3] indicating good songs on "an album that isn't worth your time or money."[5]

Track listing

{{Track listing
| all_writing = Pauly Fuemana and Alan Jansson, except where noted
| title1 = On the Run
| length1 = 4:01
| title2 = How Bizarre
| length2 = 3:43
| title3 = Never Coming Back
| length3 = 4:02
| title4 = Breaking My Heart
| length4 = 5:18
| title5 = Angel in Disguise
| length5 = 3:54
| title6 = Lingo with the Gringo
| length6 = 5:51
| title7 = Land of Plenty
| length7 = 5:19
| title8 = Right On
| length8 = 4:50
| title9 = Pours Out Your Eyes
| length9 = 4:53
| title10 = She Loves Italian
| length10 = 4:31
| title11 = I Love L.A.
| note11 = Randy Newman
| length11 = 4:07
}}
  • Track 11 was only on the second release of this album, issued in February 1997.

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes.[6]

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OMC
  • Pauly Fuemana – vocals, guitar
  • Alan Jansson – engineering, keyboards, programming, guitar ("Right On")
Additional musicians
  • Sina Saipaia – backing vocals ("How Bizarre", "Right On")
  • Lee Baker – guitar ("How Bizarre", "Right On")
  • Hershal Herscher – accordion ("How Bizarre")
  • George Chisholm – trumpet ("How Bizarre", "Right On")
  • Glenn Campbell – pedal steel guitar ("Right On"), dobro guitar ("Breaking My Heart")
  • Geoffrey Heath – cello ("Pours Out Your Eyes")
  • Steve Robinson – piano ("Pours Out Your Eyes"), hammond organ ("Land of Plenty")
  • Steve Kellner – drums ("Pours Out Your Eyes", "She Loves Italian")
  • Mia Camilleri – french horn ("Pours Out Your Eyes", "Land of Plenty")
{{col-2}}
  • Walter Bianco – saxophone ("Breaking My Heart")
  • Harmon – tea chest bass ("Breaking My Heart")
  • Taisha – backing vocals ("Land of Plenty")
  • Christine Fuemana – backing vocals ("Land of Plenty")
  • James Gaylyn – drums ("Angel in Disguise")
  • Juliet Primrose – violin ("Angel in Disguise")
  • Manuel Bundy – scratching ("Lingo with the Gringo")
Production
  • Rick Huntington – additional mixing and engineering
Artwork
  • Deborah Smith – photography
  • Richard Kingsford – design
{{col-end}}

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

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Chart (1996)Peak
position

Certifications

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|title=How Bizarre|relyear=1997|relmonth=2|certyear=1997|certmonth=8}}{{Certification Table Bottom}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11500902|title=Pauly Fuemana: The whole Bizarre story |work=The New Zealand Herald |publisher=NZME |date=22 August 2015 |accessdate=26 June 2018}}
2. ^1 {{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000091993|pure_url=yes}}|title=How Bizarre - OMC|last=Owens|first=Thom|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=25 June 2011}}
3. ^1 {{cite book |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|chapter=OMC: How Bizarre|chapterurl=http://robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=10592 |date=15 October 2000 |publisher=Macmillan Publishing |isbn=9780312245603 |language=en |accessdate=17 May 2018}}
4. ^1 {{cite magazine |last=Eddy |first=Chuck |authorlink=Chuck Eddy|date=March 1997 |title=OMC: How Bizarre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HpC1D--hcoAC |magazine=Spin |pages=104-5|language=en |publisher=SPIN Media LLC |accessdate=17 May 2018}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php|title=Key to Icons|last=Christgau|first=Robert|publisher=RobertChristgau.com|accessdate=29 October 2018}}
6. ^{{cite AV media notes|title=How Bizarre|others=OMC|year=1996|publisher=Huh!. PolyGram|type=liner notes|id=314 533 435-2}}

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