Let’s Knife

Shonen Knife, “Let’s Knife” (Virgin, 1992)
This documents this beloved group at the height of their confidence and power, re-recording some of the greatest songs they wrote in their d.i.y. days of the mid-‘80s. The loss of a certain naïve, arresting singularity in the originals is compensated by a brightness and force that makes these versions kick like the Buzzcocks/Ramones bubblepunk nuggets that (partially) inspired them.
Try 1, 7, 11, 13, 14
8/23/12