Strawberry Sound

Strawberry Sound
Studio album by Shonen Knife
Released	February 19, 2000
Genre	Pop-punk
Label	Universal Victor [1]
Shonen Knife chronology
Happy Hour (1998) Strawberry Sound (2000) Heavy Songs (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

Strawberry Sound is an album by the female Japanese rock group Shonen Knife, released in 2000. ^{[4] [5]} It was their first album without founding member Michie Nakatani. ^[3] It was released only in Japan. ^[6]

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." ^[2]

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

References

1. "Shonen Knife". Trouser Press. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
2. "Strawberry Sound - Shonen Knife | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 427.
4. "Shonen Knife | Biography & History". AllMusic.
5. Sullivan, Denise (May 14, 2001). Rip it Up!: Rock & Roll Rulebreakers. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780879306359 – via Google Books.
6. "Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Shonen Knife makes its point with positive punk". archive.boston.com.