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The Make-Up were a band from Washington DC, consisting of Ian Svenonius on vocals, James Canty on guitar, Michelle Mae on bass and vocals and Steve Gamboa on drums.

The band formed in 1995, Svenonius, Canty and Gamboa having previously been in Nation of Ulysses and the short-lived Cupid Car Club. They combined garage rock, soul and self-styled ‘liberation theology’ to make a new genre they called Gospel Yeh-Yeh. They released three studio LPs, two live LPs and a compilation of singles and B-sides. They split in 2000.

Svenonius and Mae are now part of Weird War and Svenonius has released a solo album under the pseudonym David Candy.

“Make-Up” also refers to a Japanese hard rock band formed by Nobuo Yamada (vocals), Hiroaki Matsuzawa (guitar), Yougo Kouno (keyboards), Yasuyoshi Ikeda (bass) and Yoshihiro Toyokawa (drums). They’re popular for many songs which accompanied the Saint Seiya anime series (especially the opening, Pegasus Fantasy).

The band now is no longer together, Nobuo and Yougo archived major sucess playing with the JAM Project.

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3	Born On The Floor full track	46
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6	The Bells full track	30
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10	The Prophet full track	24
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puppetwoborders wrote:
yesterday morning

Ian Svenonius for head of the Department of Homeland Security.

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DJSadisto wrote:
Tuesday evening

Save Yourself

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homis wrote:
Saturday morning

Right, because anyone has even heard of the band you are talking about. And this band is called "The Make-Up", I wish last.fm would stop autocorrecting stuff incorrectly.

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Muka-chin wrote:
9 days ago

Wow, not again... Americans should come up with original names for their bands. And stop making the page for "Make-Up" autocorrect to this one, now I just can't scrobble the japanese band.

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TheMechatron wrote:
16 days ago

You're my Doctor Frankenstein...

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DeucesAreWild wrote:
17 days ago

pretty sure they were called The Make-Up not Make Up

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ashleyrobb wrote:
November 2009

Ian is such a dreamboat

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gabethevegan wrote:
November 2009

Most under rated Track of all time is"I Am Pentagon" love this,play it all the time..mind you "Do you like Gospel Music" is quite brilliant,but why only 29th in top played trax

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ToshiyaMorie wrote:
November 2009

Dornelas:: American Make Up was formed in 1995 and Japanese in 1984 so your theory is so “right”... Anyway, does anyone know how to stop automation correcting just for this two bands?

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XbaranoseidouX wrote:
October 2009

Americans are not the center of the universe,but Ill let you continue your daydreaming.And the correct tag for jband is Make-Up bot "make up" and not "ＭＡＫＥ－ＵＰ"

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Dornelas wrote:
October 2009

Always has a japanese band who called the same name of other american cool band. I think is a japanese conspiracy to try to dominate the world

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ForkTong wrote:
October 2009

Fans of the Japanese band should change their tags to read ＭＡＫＥ－ＵＰ

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Redredhair wrote:
October 2009

For the "Sassy Magazine" fans (and everyone else, of course), a look back at when Ian was "Sassiest Boy in America." I miss "Sassy Magazine." http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/i-heart-dc/dc-nostalgia-how-sassy-changed-ians-life/

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xxxkmilaxxx wrote:
September 2009

Umm Make up needs more attention

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yellininmyear10 wrote:
September 2009

Ian Svenonius for President of the World. [2]

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inphanta wrote:
August 2009

Love this band. Interesting Ian Svenonious seems to have a thing about babies and childbirth. It comes up in a lot of his lyrics...

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gabethevegan wrote:
August 2009

In Mass Mind was their Masterpiece and tho' every track on it is a marvel... "do you like Gospell music" just blows my pea size brain. Ian Svenonius for President of the World

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Kanchosensei wrote:
July 2009

Fun that they finally made the page for the japanese make-up but it's not as fun when the automatic name correcting thing takes the songs back to here

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bruisemine wrote:
July 2009

kind of post-punk....i likey. the guy does a perry-ferrell sort of thing with the audience in After Dark

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lspaceman3 wrote:
July 2009

First song I ever heard was the live version of "Blue is beautiful" from After Dark. Still my favorite song from them. Weird War own too!

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