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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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1	Save Yourself full track	64
2	I Am Pentagon full track	44
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5	They Live by Night	29
6	Every Baby Cries The Same full track	28
7	Walking On The Dune full track	27
8	The Bells full track	26
9	Pegasus Fantasy	25
9	Hey! Orpheus full track	25
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ashleyrobb wrote:
11 days ago

Ian is such a dreamboat

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gabethevegan wrote:
15 days ago

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:
15 days ago

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:
last month

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:
last month

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:
last month

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

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Redredhair wrote:
last month

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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loveinathens wrote:
June 2009

i have a copy of in mass mind, badass packaging.

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gabethevegan wrote:
June 2009

Even they were confused on the CDpackaging issued by Dishord of -In Mass Mind-the Spine says The Make-Up,on the front and inside it's Make-Up and on the CD it's Make-Up In Mass Mind is definately a thing of beauty,but they never put a foot wrong cant get I am Pentagon outta my mind.Love them to pieces,and look out for their cover of Hey Joe... awesome

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Gibbey wrote:
June 2009

WTF! Wiki & allmusic say it's 'The Make-Up', Dischord Records just say 'Make-Up' & lastfm says its 'Make Up' without the hyphen. I choose "The Make-Up"

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Afuera wrote:
May 2009

I love 'in mass mind' :)

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izolir wrote:
May 2009

yeah, mine too!

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hunnybunny21 wrote:
May 2009

new favorite band!

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