''Osaka Ramones'' is Japanese

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group

Shonen Knife Shonen Knife is a Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka in 1981. Influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, the Beach Boys, and early punk rock bands such as the Ramones, the band crafts stripped-down songs with simple yet unconventional l ...

's 16th studio album. All of the songs on the album are

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of the punk group Ramones. The album's cover art takes its inspiration from the Ramones album '' Road to Ruin''. Five songs on the album were recorded in at

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in Buffalo, New York with Producer

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in late 2010 and it was intended to be a mini-album. Lead singer/guitarist/songwriter

Naoko Yamano is a Japanese musician, best known as a founding member, singer/guitarist, and primary songwriter for the pop-punk band Shonen Knife. She is the only member of the band to have remained throughout its entire history. After briefly working as a ...

later decided that ''Osaka Ramones'' would be a full-length album celebrating Shonen Knife's 30th anniversary. The rest of the album was later recorded in Osaka, Japan and mixed at

Track listing

Personnel

- guitar, vocals *

Ritsuko Taneda is a Japanese musician, best known as the bass guitarist and rhythm guitarist for the pop punk band Shonen Knife from 2006 to 2016. Before joining Shonen Knife, she was a guitarist and vocalist for the J-Pop groups Keihan Girl and Denki Candy. ...

- bass, backing vocals *Emi Morimoto - drums, backing vocals

References

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