Candy Rock
Encyclopedia
Candy Rock is a 2003 album by the Japan
ese rock
group Shonen Knife
. It is one of their few albums not to be released in the United States
. All of the songs are sung in Japanese.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
group Shonen Knife
Shonen Knife
Shonen Knife, written in Japanese characters as 少年ナイフ, which transliterates as Shōnen Naifu, literally "Boy Knife," is an all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, Japan, in 1981...
. It is one of their few albums not to be released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. All of the songs are sung in Japanese.
Track listing
All tracks by Naoko Yamano- "Mass Communication Breakdown"
- "Messy Room"
- "Wonder Land"
- "Walrus (Seiuchi)"
- "Virtual Reality"
- "Crossword"
- "Doubts" (or "Mystery") (Na Zo)
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Personnel
- Shingo Akiba – A&R, promotions director
- Phil Elverum – guitar
- Kyle Field – vocals
- Akiko Kato – art coordinator
- Kimisada Kato – executive producer
- Tetsuya Kotani – engineer, mastering engineer
- Yumiko Okada – art drection
- Mikito Sakuhana – assistant engineer
- Akihiko Sato – promotions director
- Atsushi Shibata – producer, management
- Shonen Knife – producer
- Koji Takahashi – promotions director
- Atsuko Yamano – bass guitar, drums, tambourine, vocals
- Naoko Yamano – guitar, vocals
- Satomi Yamasaki – promotions director
- Roman Yumeno – bass guitar, guitar