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welcome to the rock club indeed,it's so fun. punk pop at it's finest never mind Green Day. these girls are are a joy to listen to. perhaps the best thing since the undertones.
Great album...Rockin' tunes with a good amount of cuteness and humor thrown in with some of the song lyrics!! I'd recommend this as being as good as anything released by them!!
Shonen Knife's latest album has been in release since early June of 2012. At this writing, their North American tour is well underway, and I saw their show in Portland, Maine on 07/25/12. SK puts on a killer rock show- the kind of show that is all too uncommon these days. If you get the chance to see them this summer, by all means do so...I'm betting that you won't regret it.
That said, POP TUNE is another fine release by this criminally underrated band. The current lineup of Naoko, Ritsuko and Emi rivals the original Shonen Knife in their 1990s heyday. They mean business as they tear through this selection of pop/punk songs in the signature SK fashion. As always, we get a mix of styles: hard rockers "Welcome To The Rock Club", "Pop Tune", "Osaka Rock City" and "Ghost Train"; pop confections "All You Can Eat", "Move On" and "Paper Clip" (Ritsuko's bass work is outstanding here); the very catchy and country-flavored "Mr. J."; and songs sung by Emi (the 1960s acid-rock tribute "Psychedelic Life") and Ritsuko (the very nice and almost Michie-like "Sunshine"). All songs were written by Naoko, and I'm at a loss to explain how she is able to write such consistently good songs album after album. Naoko is simply a wonderfully talented songwriter who knows rock music inside and out. Lest I forget: her buzzsaw guitar attack will get inside your head and never leave!
Shonen Knife of Osaka, Japan, have been flying under the radar for far too long. Please buy POP TUNE, and see their show, and perhaps we can get SK the attention they deserve.
This album finds the band in a more straight-forward, power pop mood. There are no “heavy” black sabbath or judas priest riffs on this one. There are also no songs about cats. Just straight up power/punk pop. “Pop Tune” and “Ghost Train” are instant smash hits. “All You Can Eat” is the food song on this album and it’s so much fun. “Psychedelic Life” might be the stand out track … the music is excellent and the lyrics are so funny! But really, the whole album is good from start to finish, and it’s essential to any Knife collection.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2012
Amazing that a band that's been around as long as Shonen Knife is still putting out material to rival their output during their prime! Any fans of Japanese pop culture, 3 chord punk rock or sunny, 60's pop like that of the Monkees should check them out if they haven't already. This is the band that Kurt Cobain once said "turned me into a screaming teenage girl at a Beatles concert" and this new album is as good as anything they've done!
been a while since I heard any Shonen Knife, forgot about them for a few years, but what a stunning poppy album, a big nod to the Ramones, but they make it their own , been stuck on repeat for a while now, not getting bored at all..
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