Shonen Knife covers
Don Leighty
original versions of all the songs Shonen Knife has covered so far.
There was a series of CDs released in Japan several years ago (on
P-Vine) that collected songs that had influenced a particular artist.
If my memory holds up here, I think there were individual volumes
devoted to Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Eric
Clapton, Led Zeppelin, and Ry Cooder (2 volumes for Ry!). I've made my
own anthologies, somewhat more comprehensive in scope, for The Beatles
and The Stones, and other artists (such as The Ventures) are in the
planning stages. This seems to provide yet another way of understanding
and enjoying an artist's music. A new 'window'.
I haven't heard all of SK's releases yet, so I might have missed
something. Here's what I've come up with so far:
1. Anyway You Want It (Angel)
2. Boys (The Shirelles/The Beatles -- favors The Beatles' version)
3. Cherry Bomb (The Runaways/Joan Jett -- favors the Runaways'
version???)
4. Daydream Believer (The Monkees)
5. Do the Bartman ("Bart Simpson")
6. Don't Hurt My Little Sister (The Beach Boys)
7. Flying Saucer Attack (The Rezillos)
8. Goose Step Mama (The Rutles)
9. I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
10. (Love Is Like a) Heatwave (Martha & The Vandellas)
11. The Luck of the Irish (John Lennon)
12. Paradise (The Shangri-Las/The Ronettes -- favors The Shangri-Las'
version)
13. Rain (The Beatles)
14. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (B. J. Thomas)
15. Suzy Is a Headbanger (The Ramones)
16. Till the End of the Day (The Kinks)
17. Top of the World (The Carpenters)
In addition, two possible covers come the from the "Pretty Little Baka
Guy" LP on Rockville (which I haven't heard):
18. Chains (The Cookies/The Beatles -- favors which version???)
19. I Wanna Be Your (Wo)man (is this a gender-switched Beatles song?)
All of the above songs appear to be currently in print, incidentally.
Finally, there are three other non-original songs, for which earlier
versions are hard to determine (or may not exist):
20. Bye Bye (written by Ichiya Nakamura - *for* Shonen Knife???)
21. Tetsuwan Atom (would this be based on an original animation theme
song???)
22. Hokey Pokey (traditional)
Have I missed any covers? I welcome additional info and opinions on the
songs and direction of this project!
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Best Wishes,
Don Leighty <cl...@a1usa.net>
"Turn me on, Redmond. Turn me on, Redmond."
simon_A
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>1. Anyway You Want It (Angel)
Shouldn't that be The Dave Clark Five? Or am I even more half-witted than I
thought (quarter-witted)?
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Simon
Jeff Gaskell
> Have I missed any covers? I welcome additional info and opinions on the
> songs and direction of this project!
Whata list. I think you got the covers covered!
Only thing I can think of is a song "Color Me Open" on the '97 Japanese
Knife Collectors cassette that sounds like a church hymn and SK sing with
english choir accents. I'm not sure about the origin of the song itself
though...
--Jeff
Don Leighty
That's what I had expected, before I actually heard the track (which is
on the wonderful "It's a New Find" maxi-single). But this song is by a
poppy, heavy metal group called Angel. This can be verified by going to
CDNow and doing a search for "Anyway You Want It", then clicking the
Angel "Anthology" listing, which has a downloadable sound clip for
"Anyway You Want...".
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Don Leighty
I remember reading an interview with Naoko, I think, in which she
described the band's writing techniques. As an example, she talked of
listening to some polyphonic vocal piece by a Renassaince (or Medieval?)
Italian composer, over and over, and then going off and writing
something that the music inspired. Could this have been the SK song, I
wonder?
--
Jeff Gaskell
unintelligible to me. It's probably Latin. That's gotta be the song Naoko
was talking about...
--Jeff
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simon_A
Punky Meadows, Frank Zappa wrote "Punky's Whips"? Connections within
connections...and tortured syntax, too. Thanks.
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Simon
Don Leighty wrote in message
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>Simon -
>
>That's what I had expected, before I actually heard the track (which is
>on the wonderful "It's a New Find" maxi-single). But this song is by a
>poppy, heavy metal group called Angel. This can be verified by going to
>CDNow and doing a search for "Anyway You Want It", then clicking the
>Angel "Anthology" listing, which has a downloadable sound clip for
>"Anyway You Want...".
>
>
>simon_A wrote:
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>> Don Leighty wrote in message
>> <38402272...@THE.PERFECT.WORLD.a1usa.net>...
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>> >1. Anyway You Want It (Angel)
>>
>> Shouldn't that be The Dave Clark Five? Or am I even more half-witted than
I
>> thought (quarter-witted)?
>> --
>> Simon
>