Strawberry Sound Explained

Strawberry Sound
Type:	Album
Artist:	Shonen Knife
Cover:	strawberrysound.jpg
Released:	February 19, 2000
Genre:	Pop-punk
Label:	Universal Victor^[1]
Prev Title:	Happy Hour
Prev Year:	1998
Next Title:	Heavy Songs
Next Year:	2002

Strawberry Sound is an album by the female Japanese rock group Shonen Knife, released in 2000.^{[2] [3]} It was their first album without founding member Michie Nakatani. It was released only in Japan.^[4]

Rodney Greenblat (who is known for Parappa the Rapper) created the cover artwork.

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that the album "starts out in a familiarly lo-fi punk vein, with the buzzsaw guitars and cute, nonsensical lyrics of 'Buggy Bug' defiantly signaling business as usual for the Osaka pop-punk group."

Track listing

All songs written by Naoko Yamano, except "Mosquitoes" by Naoko Yamano/Atsuko Yamano.

1. "Side 1"
2. "Buggy Bug"
3. "Wild Life"
4. "Nya Nya"
5. "Gokiburu" (Cockroach Mannerism)
6. "Super Big Black Bass"
7. "CM Song" (Commercial Message Song)
8. "Side 2"
9. "Punk Rock Star"
10. "Sesame"
11. "Kaiki Game" (Mysterious Game)
12. "Chinese Disco"
13. "Mosquitoes"
14. "Mayonnaise Addiction"
15. "Synthesizer (Bubble Houkai)" (Bubble Collapse)
16. "untitled" ('Side ___' out-take)

Personnel

• Naoko Yamano - guitar, vocals
• Atsuko Yamano - bass, drums backing vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shonen Knife . Trouser Press . 13 May 2021.
2. Web site: Shonen Knife | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Book: Sullivan, Denise. Rip it Up!: Rock & Roll Rulebreakers. May 14, 2001. Hal Leonard Corporation. 9780879306359 . Google Books.
4. Web site: Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Shonen Knife makes its point with positive punk. archive.boston.com.