Playboy After Hours
March, 1990
Pao Pao to the PeoplePop-culture buffs say modern Japan turns the Western world inside out, and the recordings we've recently come across by the three-woman Osaka bubble-gum-punk band Shonen Knife go some distance toward confirming the notion. Naoko Yamano, Atsuko Yamano and Michie Nakatini (on guitar, drums and bass, respectively--they all sing and play keyboards) have what might be called two-track minds, which is to say they primarily enjoy harmonizing about food (I Wanna Eat Chocobars and Ic...
