Overdose is a 1994 album by Pizzicato Five

Pizzicato Five

Pizzicato Five was a Japanese pop group best known to audiences in the West in their later incarnation as a duo of Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi...

. It was their first full length album after departing with founding member K-Taro Takanami. Setting a trend that would exist in later Pizzicato Five albums, Overdose is themed around a famous city, in this case New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. Musically, the album delves in soul music

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, containing several references to Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

. Overdose produced three singles: "Happy Sad", "Superstar" and "On The Sunny Side Of The Street". The song "Airplane" was later redone on the 1996 EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Sister Freedom Tapes, titled as "Airplane 96". The majority of 1995 compilation album The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five

The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five

The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five was Pizzicato Five's third release in the United States under the label Matador Records.The album was Matador's second compilation of Pizzicato Five's previously released material, with an emphasis on their albums "Bossanova 2001" and "Overdose".-Track listing:#...

was made up of tracks from Overdose and Bossa Nova 2001.

Track listing

1. "Overture" - 0:17
2. "Airplane" - 5:21
3. "Statue of Liberty" - 4:49
4. "Readymade FM" - 1:23
5. "Happy Sad" - 5:10
6. "Superstar" - 5:23
7. "If I Were a Groupie" - 5:00
8. "Shopping Bag" - 3:44
9. "The Night is Still Young" - 10:59
10. "Hippie Day" - 3:49
11. "The Sweetest Girl" - 6:19
12. "Questions" - 5:27
13. "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" - 6:31