Rock Animals

Rock Animals is a studio album by Shonen Knife. It was released on September 8, 1993, in Japan.[3] It peaked at number 59 on the Oricon Albums Chart,[3] as well as number 39 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart.[4]

Rock Animals
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1993 (1993-09-08)
GenreIndie rock, pop punk
Length48:20
LabelMCA
ProducerShonen Knife, Paige Porazzo
Shonen Knife chronology
Let's Knife
(1992)
Rock Animals
(1993)
Brand New Knife
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Quavers"Naoko Yamano3:25
2."Concrete Animals"Yamano4:29
3."Butterfly Boy"Michie Nakatani4:59
4."Little Tree"Yamano3:55
5."Catnip Dream"Nakatani4:39
6."Tomato Head"Yamano5:21
7."Another Day"Nakatani4:36
8."Brown Mushrooms"Yamano4:36
9."Johnny, Johnny, Johnny"Nakatani2:48
10."Cobra Versus Mongoose"Yamano4:15
11."Music Square"Yamano4:56

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes.

Shonen Knife

Additional musicians

  • Thurston Moore – guitar (on "Butterfly Boy")
  • Millie-Willy – vocals (on "Catnip Dream")
  • Motoi Semba – keyboards, computer programming

Production

  • Shonen Knife – producer
  • Paige Porazzo – producer, executive producer
  • Ohji Hayashi – recording engineer
  • Jim Waters – recording engineer
  • Akio Tanabe – recording engineer, mixing (on "Another Day" and "Music Square")
  • Don Fleming – mixing (on all tracks except "Another Day" and "Music Square")

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[3] 59
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[4] 39

References

  1. Unterberger, Richie. "Rock Animals - Shonen Knife". AllMusic. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  2. Evans, Paul (March 10, 1994). "Shonen Knife: Rock Animals". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  3. "少年ナイフ". Oricon. Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  4. "Shonen Knife - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
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