Potshot was a Japanese

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from

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. They released their records on their own label, TV Freak, in Japan. Their first five albums were re-released by

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, 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.

Main

Group members

* Ryoji Ariga - vocals * Yoshito Hirai - bass guitar * Yoshinobu Takegoshi - T-bone

''Pots and Shots''

In reviewing their first album, ''Pots And Shots'' (1997), ''

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'' wrote that Potshot "put the spurs to the largely kind-of-boring mid-'90s resurgence of

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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

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) and dialing back all the

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n-isms that make so many of the

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bands so laughable. The drumbeat and a familiar-sounding

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are Pots and Shots' only links to ska music, but they're enough to shred 90 percent of the post-

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pretenders." ''Pots And Shots'' included

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" and "

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Discography

* ''

Pots and Shots ''Pots and Shots'' is the debut album of J-ska band Potshot. The album was released in the United States by Asian Man Records in 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movi ...

'' (October 14, 1997 -

) * '' Rock ’n’ Roll'' (March 9, 1999 - Asian Man Records) * '' Til I Die'' (October 7, 2000 - Asian Man Records) * '' A Go Go'' (February 19, 2002 - Asian Man Records) * '' Potshot is My Everything: Singles 1996-2003'' (

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) * ''

Dance to the Potshot Record ''Dance to the Potshot Record'' is the fifth album of J-ska band Potshot. The album was released in the United States by Asian Man Records in 2004. This was the last album to come out in the USA. The album was released by Vivid Sound in Japan ...

'' (June 22, 2004 - Asian Man Records) * ''

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'' (October 8, 2003 - TV Freak) * '' Potshot Beat Goes On'' (May 16, 2005 - TV Freak) * '' Potshot Forever: Best and Rarities'' (August 24, 2005 - TV Freak) * ''

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(mini-album)'' (October 7, 2015 -

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)

Audio clips

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"Radio" by Potshot
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" Tears of a Clown" by Potshot

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Polysics Japanese pop punk groups Japanese ska groups Asian Man Records artists Musical groups from Tokyo