Shonen Knife : Strawberry Sound (2000)


Strawberry Sound Side 1, Buggy Bug, Wild Life, Nya Nya, Gokiburu, Super Big Black Bass, CM Song, Side 2, Punk Rock Star, Sesame, Kaiki Game, Chinese Disco, Mosquitoes, Mayonnaise Addiction, Synthesizer (Bubble Houkai), Side ?

=== konstruata ===

Side 1

Side One.

Buggy Bug

Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug

I killed a bug today  'cos it came in my room
I killed a bug today  'cos it was a harmful bug
I killed a bug today  'cos I hated the color of the bug
I killed a bug today   but I didn't wanna kill it at all

When I found a bug in my room
I got some tissue paper and smushed it
The sun was blazing down outside
Everything nearly melted like butter, ah

I killed a bug today  'cos it ate my chocolate bar
I killed a bug today  'cos it stung my body
I killed a bug today  'cos I hated the color of the bug
I killed a bug today   but I didn't wanna kill it at all

When I found a bug in my room
I got some tissue paper and smushed it
The sun was blazing down outside
Everything nearly melted like butter, ah

Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug

Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug
Piggy shaggy piggy shaggy buggy bug

Wild Life

...

It's my wild life  Wild life, my life
It's my wild life  Wild life, my life
It's my wild life  Wild life, my life
It's my wild life  Wild life, my life

...

It's my wild life  Wild life, my life
It's my wild life  Wild life, my life
It's my wild life  Wild life, my life
It's my wild life  Wild life, my life

Nya Nya

Gokiburu

Super Big Black Bass

CM Song

Side 2

Side Two.

Punk Rock Star

Sesame

Kaiki Game

Chinese Disco

Time trip to a 1970's disco
From the crazy 21st century
It's a glorious Friday night
People are dancing to the funky beat
Eating delicious Yamucha
Everybody feels all right, hey!

Chinese Disco in the groove
Chinese Disco through the night
Chinese Disco get together
It's all right, you enjoy yourself

The sound of a Chinese gong starts the magic show
A girl wearing red China dress gets into a black box
Stabbing the box with many knives
Open the box and she disappears
What a great magician!
People applaud the show, hey!

Chinese Disco in the groove
Chinese Disco through the night
Chinese Disco get together
It's all right if you enjoy yourself

Chinese Disco in the groove
Chinese Disco through the night
Chinese Disco get together
It's all right if you enjoy yourself

You've got your power and dancing forever
It's Friday night fever but you are just dreaming

Chinese Disco in the groove
Chinese Disco through the night
Chinese Disco get together
It's all right if you enjoy yourself

Time slip to a 1970's disco
From the crazy 21st century
It's a glorious Friday night
People are dancing to the funky beat
Eating delicious Yamucha
Everybody feels all right, hey!

Chinese Disco in the groove
Chinese Disco through the night
Chinese Disco get together
It's all right, you enjoy yourself

Chinese Disco in the groove
Chinese Disco through the night
Chinese Disco get together
It's all right if you enjoy yourself

Mosquitoes

I am the mosquito sacrifice

I hate mosquitoes 'cos they like to bite me
I hate mosquitoes 'cos they buzz terribly
I hate mosquitoes 'cos they like to bite me
I hate mosquitoes 'cos they buzz terribly

Here comes mosquitoes from a damp green Japanese garden
I resist them with an incense coil
Slap at mosquitoes Lash them It's my revenge
Inflict punishment upon them now!

I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes so much
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes so much
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes

I hate mosquitoes 'cos they like to bite me
I hate mosquitoes 'cos they buzz terribly
I hate mosquitoes 'cos they like to bite me
I hate mosquitoes 'cos they buzz terribly

Here comes mosquitoes from a damp green Japanese garden
I resist them with an incense coil
I am suffering from the itchy scratchy hell
They sniped at me before my nose

I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes so much
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes so much
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes

I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes so much
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes so much
I hate, I hate, I hate mosquitoes

Mayonnaise Addiction

Synthesizer (Bubble Houkai)

Side ?

Side...
Available at AMAZON. Took nine weeks for them to get it for me from Japan. First release without Michie. Put it on the player and listened... well okay but nothing special... expectations... comparisons, the old with the new... some apprehension that I might not like the new Shonen Knife... Nya Nya is good... Sesame is catchy... and then... Chinese Disco in the groove put that goofy Shonen Knife grin on my face and they had me again! And I went back and listened to Sesame again, and Nya Nya (and had three favorites), and Buggy Bug, and Wild Life (uh, four favorites), and Chinese Disco, and Mosquitoes (okay, five favorites, well, six), and then the rest, and then back to the beginning... My favorites of my favorites: Sesame in first place with Nya Nya and Chinese Disco battling for second.

Several Strawberry sounds have been compared to other songs and bands, in particular Mayonnaise Addiction with the Beatles' Rain. But after Mosquitoes ran through my head for a while I found that it had segued into Concrete Blonde's The Beast. I wonder whether Mosquitoes was influenced by the sound and theme of the Bloodletting album... vampires, leeches, and now... mosquitoes!

Naoko-san, Atsuko-san... arigatoo gozaimashita!


11 Junio 2000 modifita.