Shōso Strip (勝訴ストリップ), also known as Winning Strip, is the second studio album by Japanese singer and songwriter Ringo Sheena, released on March 31, 2000, by Toshiba EMI. The limited edition version includes a special booklet and case. The album debuted at #1 and has sold over 2,332,000 copies. It was certified two million copies by the RIAJ.[1] In September 2007, Rolling Stone Japan rated the album at number 89 on its list of the "100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time".[2]
Background
Sheena began to record Shōso Strip from the summer of 1999.
Since she thought that the track list was almost the same as Muzai Moratorium, she started with a clean slate.
There were several songs which were not recorded because of her busy schedule,[clarification needed] but had been completed in her head.
She decided to record new songs and replaced some of those old songs for the album with them.
The recording was finished during that same summer.[clarification needed]
In 2012, the song "Tsuki ni Makeinu" was covered by Nanou on his album Unsung.
^The literal translation is "Underdog and the Moon", which parodied the title of Hiroshige Ando's ukiyo-e, "Wild Geese and the Moon (月に雁, Tsuki ni kari)".
^"Sakana" can potentially refer to two Japanese words which are homophones with different meanings; either "fish" (as referenced in the lyrics of the song) or "snacks paired with alcohol" (as referenced by the song's English title).