Shonen Knife - Brand New Knife
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Artist: Shonen KnifeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-05-09
Music Label: MSI:MCA
Soundtracks:
- Explosion
- Wind Your Spring
- The Perfect World
- ESP
- Loop Di Loop
- Wonder Wine
- Magic Joe
- Fruits And Vegetables
- Tower Of The Sun
- Keep On Rockin
- Frogphobia
- Buddhas Face
- One Week
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Music Review: pre-gimmick Knife at their height
Rating: 5 Stars
Though the non-artistic benefits of their brief popularity were probably worth their while, the sudden fascination with Shonen Knife when Happy Hour came out gave Shonen Knife more of a gimmick than a spotlight on their talents. They became more of a food band than a versatile pop trio, and the result was easy to predict--a quick fade of their limelight.
The shame is that at their best moments, Shonen Knife have an interest in almost everything, from food to sumo wrestling to frogs to roller coasters. And their wonderful naivete (or supposed innocence, however you want to look at it) is all over the place on this album. The guitar strumming is a little more indie-pop, the production a little lower in standard than their later, popular work, but this album is just full of gems...and if you weren't convinced yet that they were gems, they appear once again towards in end of the album in Japanese.
Great tracks on this disc: "Explosion!" whether in your native language or not; "Fruits & Vegetables," although I like it less when I think about how they later gimmicked themselves; their pseudo-serious, dark stab at songwriting, "Buddha's Face," which might make you think you've switched albums at first; and "One Week" is the most wonderful clunky Xanga entry put to song ever.
Forget The 5, 6, 7, 8's, forget Puffy Amiyumi, and maybe Melt-Banana is stepping into some more poppy shoes, but Shonen Knife is the bee's knees when it comes to Japanese girl-pop, and if you are going to start anywhere (or, if you've started to venture into Shonen province and haven't been duly impressed yet), this is the place to go. Who knows--you might even jiggle a bit while listening.
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Description of Brand New Knife
English language version of 1996 album with 13 tracks. MCA.Well, not exactly brand new; they still sound like Shonen Knife. There was a time when this all-femme trio from Japan was the hands-down queens of cute, but while their chops (and English) have improved with time, the rest of the world has climbed aboard their junk wagon. Heck, they may not even be the cutest band from Japan anymore! Here in the present, the marriage of bristling garage-rock with go-go girl vocals isn't exactly cause to stop the presses. Still, the cheeky charms that have served them well throughout their career are still intact, evidenced on shiny, irresistible trinkets like "The Perfect World" and "Frogphobia." No longer danger dolls playing muddy slop pop, Shonen Knife fairly flaunt their instrumental prowess. The snappy guitar solos on "Wonder Wine" or "Magic Joe" (a shaky "Hey Bulldog" rip) would have been out of the question ten years ago. "Fruits & Vegetables" is delightful, but they might want to shy away from food songs--that's Cibo Matto's turf. It's unfortunate that there are so many bands doing cute for cute's sake, because Shonen Knife have still got the beat. --John Chandler
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