The 1986 Listening Post - Shonen Knife - Pretty Little Baka Boy

Shonen Knife - Pretty Little Baka Boy

#237/1382

June 15 1986

Shonen Knife

Pretty Little Baka Boy

3.25 out of 5

For my birthday one year the bass player in my band gifted me with a shonen Knife album and...I didn’t really get it. 

Here we are, 16 years later and...

I still don’t. 

This sounds like a what “supai da man” would if it was a record. A knock off that doesn’t really care or understand the original. 

Thing is: Supaida Man was actually sanctioned by Stan Lee, who worked on it so that, to me, gives even more credibility to my simile. 

There’s just a touch of cred in this and that’s enough to not make me hate it. But I can not love it. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/pretty-little-baka-guy/468550359

The 1983 Listening Post - Shonen Knife - Burning Farm

Shonen Knife - Burning Farm

#117
July 21 1983
Shonen Knife
Burning Farm
4 out of 5

Japanese reggae (“Parallel Woman”). I really don’t have much to say about it except that it exists and I’m sort of glad it does.
Low-fi surf pop (“Twist Barbie”)…I thought Shonen Knife would be a bit more aggressive. Here they sound like cheaper 5,6,7,8’s.
Shonen Knife is the closest on this list to my first band, “Yeast Infection”. By which I mean, can they even play the instruments? Does that even matter? Not when they are having as much fun as they seem to be on Animal Song.

Highlights:
Miracles
Animal Song
A Day at the Factory
Burning Farm