By: DNye
happyroach: The one where A-Girl falls asleep on the train, gets sick and then dreams about meeting Shonen Knife? Or am I misremembering?
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I heard them way, way back. Probably before they toured with Nirvana. A friend gave me a mix tape of a bunch of punk (TSOL, SNFU, Crucifux, Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers) with one Shonen Knife song....
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Dance Hall Crashers put in a callout to Shonen Knife in "So Sue Us" in 1995 which may have been the first time I had heard of them. In fact, the lyric is I could probably dig up some old Shonen Knife...
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I first heard about Shonen knife in a girl-friendly indy comic anthology called Action Girl, in a story by Elizabeth Watasin. It made me curious enough to seek them out, and I ended up with about five...
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"Twist Barbie" was one of my oldest son's (now 21) favorite songs. I put it on a mix tape along with "Colonel Hathi's March" (The Jungle Book). He also used to shake his blonde locks and say "Kurt does...
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Next thing you'll tell me is The Boredoms are 30. Im so old. Tell me. Shonen Knife is not only old enough to to drink, but to have gotten married, had kids, divorced, and start to hang around the local...
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I was never totally crazy about them, but I still remember hearing Kurt Cobain squeeing about them on some radio show. And they, the Boredoms, and Pizzicato Five were the first 90s Japanese music that...
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The best part about Shonen Knife shows is the fact that I'm a foot taller than anyone else there.
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I interviewed them in Toronto for my university newspaper back in the day. They were really nice. They've got a pretty nice cottage industry going.
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They're great. I first heard them via their song "Space Christmas," which was included on a CD of alternative-rock Xmas music. Their cover of "Top of the World" is the best EVAR!
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30 years? Holy cow...remember the late '80s, when everyone was screaming at the Rolling Stones to hang it up? They'd only been together for 25 years or so at that point. Leaving aside for the moment...
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Pedant's corner, but that song about the PowerPuff Girls is actually a song about a PowerPuff Girl - Buttercup. It's part of a triptych on Heroes and Villains, a surprisingly good PowerPuff Girls...
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When I was in college radio and wet behind the ears, around about 1992, we had a vast vinyl library that people liked to write on the labels. So you had things like "This sucks goat penis" and the...
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See, even in the eighties, the hipsters were into things before things was cool. posted by ardgedee at 9:13 AM on January 12 [3 favorites +] [!] Hey - I was into Pink Lady before they got cool! Am I...
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I've never heard them, but I know of them. There was a popular windows web proxy called Proxomitron. It was distributed not as freeware, but as "Shonenware". If you liked the software and continued to...
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Crazy the drummer died on I-95 in Delaware, familiar ground. Maybe it should be tradition to listen to Shonen Knife passing through Delaware (last about 1 song).
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You don't need to be serious you don't need to be nervous you don't need to be the walrus you don't need to be the eggman.
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I saw them earlier this year in Vancouver, and frankly I kinda like some of their newer stuff despite how people tend to do the "their old stuff was so much better" thing. Giant Kitty, Perfect Freedom,...
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I remember buying my first Shonen Knife album because of a negative review dismissing them as "silly bubblegum punk pop", which sounded like I something I needed to hear.
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I discovered them in the early-'90s doing a college radio show, but I introduced them to everyone in the movie theater with me when I unintentionally shouted "Hey! Shonen Knife!" upon seeing the movie...
View ArticleBy: symbioid
I think "Rock Animals" is a better album than "Let's Knife" and speaking of that... Anyone wanna, umm... PM me here so I can, maybe find out how to get ahold of such an illgotten good? (my old cassette...
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Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them predates Nirvana's callout by a few years. It's not by Shonen Knife - it's a bunch of bands covering Shonen Knife. So don't hunt it down if you want a good...
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And not to jump all over your FPP, Marissa, but one of the things I like most about Shonen Knife is how they opened the door for bands like Supersnazz (who got signed to Subpop pretty much as a Knife...
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They continue to rock their one song... At least it's a pretty good song. I just can't imagine wanting more of their albums than Let's Knife.
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This year, Shonen Knife turns 30 years old. Despite their start in the early 80s, it wasn't until grunge acts such as Nirvana (who invited them to tour with them in 1991) that the band would gain...
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