Rock Animals Explained

Rock Animals
Type:	studio
Artist:	Shonen Knife
Cover:	Shonen-Knife-Rock-Animals-238988.jpg
Genre:	Indie rock, pop punk
Label:	MCA
Producer:	Shonen Knife, Paige Porazzo
Prev Title:	Let's Knife
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Brand New Knife
Next Year:	1996

Rock Animals is a studio album by Shonen Knife. It was released on September 8, 1993, in Japan. It peaked at number 59 on the Oricon Albums Chart, as well as number 39 on Billboards Heatseekers Albums chart.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes.

Shonen Knife

• Naoko Yamano – vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Michie Nakatani – vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
• Atsuko Yamano – vocals, drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Thurston Moore – guitar (on "Butterfly Boy")
• Millie-Willy – vocals (on "Catnip Dream")
• Motoi Semba – keyboards, computer programming

Production

• Shonen Knife – producer
• Paige Porazzo – producer, executive producer
• Ohji Hayashi – recording engineer
• Jim Waters – recording engineer
• Akio Tanabe – recording engineer, mixing (on "Another Day" and "Music Square")
• Don Fleming – mixing (on all tracks except "Another Day" and "Music Square")

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[1]	59
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[2]	39

Notes and References

1. Web site: 少年ナイフ. Oricon. https://web.archive.org/web/20110829140332/http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/219379/. August 29, 2011. October 24, 2017.
2. Shonen Knife - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums. Billboard. October 24, 2017.