Shonen Knife -- Wonder Wine

 

Continuing on with the 11th anniversary of "Kayo Kyoku Plus", I did mention in that GReeeeN article that the traditional gift on this occasion is steel, and therefore, cutlery is a popular thing to give. Now, what song or band do I know that has anything to do with cutlery?

It didn't take too long to come up with an answer. Cutlery 🠊 knives 🠊 Shonen Knife（少年ナイフ）!😀 Well, considering today's occasion, I would like to raise a glass of wine, and sure enough, the trio's debut single was "Wonder Wine" from 1996. Looking at the video above, it certainly feels like I was already hitting the wonder wine pretty hard. Vocalist Naoko Yamano（山野直子）, who wrote and composed the song, was probably feeling it, too. Plenty of pastel psychedelia for all!

"Wonder Wine" was also a track on the group's 1997 album "Brand New Knife". I read from one commenter on YouTube that there were three different versions of the song, and perhaps one version is Towa Tei's remix of "Wonder Wine" from Shonen Knife's "Ultra Mix" (1998). Instead of thrashy rock, we get some late 80s/early 90s electro dance mix. This very different version might be playing in your head the next day after a little too much of that wonder wine and you realize that you're half an hour late for the morning meeting at the office with all of the crazed tumult to follow.