Millenium Edition (Best of)
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Artist: Shonen Knife
Label: Universal/Polygram
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988005286109
ASIN: B00005R0Z6
Release Date: 2001-12-05 |
Millenium Edition (Best of)
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Tracks:
- Wild Life
- Cookie Day
- E S P
- Its A New Find
- Fruits And Vegetables
- People Traps
- TV Commercial Song
- One Week
- Sushi Bar
- Punk Rock Stars
- Banana Chips
- Mysterious Drugstore
- Daydream Believer
- All I Want For Christmas
Album Description
Japanese compilation includes tracks from 'Happy Hour' (1998), 'Strawberry Sound' (2001), 'It's A New Find' (2000) & singles tracks. It features 14 of their best songs including the rare 'Mysterious Drugstore' & the Christmas single Naoko wrote with Thurs
Album Details
14 Track Best of Collection. English Version. Initial Copies Are Pressed in a Glitter Pink Slipcase for a Limited Time.
Customer Reviews:
A pink and glittering collection.......2004-07-20
"Shonen Knife - Millennium Edition" is a decent "Best of..." collection, featuring the hits of everyone's favorite Japanese bubblegum punk girls. All of the songs on here are tops, representing what makes Shonen Knife so unique and wonderful. No one else sings silly songs about food in quite the same way. "One Week" in particular is a fun song, detailing a week in the life of Shonen Knife.
The only drawback to this CD is that it contains only English-language songs, which may not be considered a drawback to everyone. However, some of Shonen Knife's best songs are in Japanese and any "Best of..." collection entirely in English is going to be incomplete.
Also, "All I Want For Christmas..." is a great tune, and I believe this CD is one of the few places you fan find it. The cover of The Monkey's "Daydream Believer" is also a lot of fun. Too bad they didn't include their Carpenter's cover as well.
Good compilation CD.......2003-05-18
Millenium Edition is a good over view of what the girls from Osaka have been up to for a few albums priror to bassist Michie Nakatani retiring from the band. It is a bit spendy for the avaerage person looking to get into Shonen Knife, but for Shonen Knife fans and completists we are used to paying a large chunk of cash for their cd's. As an FYI cd's in Japan are about 2-3 times as spendy as cd's in the states. Basically for the music companies to have the same profit margin in a market half the size they need to charge twice as much. Thnaks to my linguist friend Doug for giving me the Q-T on that.
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- The Collection: Slow Dancer/Silk Degrees/Down Two Then Left ~ Boz Scaggs
- A Special Tribute to Elvis ~ Swing Cats
- I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978 ~ Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
- Trapeziste
- 13 Acres ~ Brides of Destruction
- The Young Ones ~ Cliff Richard
- Instant Live: The Paradise - Boston, MA, 10/10/03 ~ The Sheila Divine
- The Best Of: Running Back Thru Canada ~ Guess Who
- Rockin' from the Grave ~ Various Artists
- Sense of Solitude ~ Stratford Mercenaries
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Edison's Lights ~ Harry Edison
Dial "S" for Sonny ~ Sonny Clark
Dexter Rides Again ~ Dexter Gordon
Finally
Ragtime Guitar ~ Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb
Cuban Counterpoint: History of the Son Montuno ~ Various Artists
I Love the Music of a German Beer Hall ~ Oktoberfest Singers & Orchestra
Live Mar del Plata 1982 ~ Atahualpa Yupanqui
Beauty Power Super Selection ~ Megumi Shiina
Area 51 ~ Vandder Lima