This is one twisted piece of work. It contains a bunch of fun rockabilly tunes. All of them are accented by lead singer Nobody’s Freddie Blassie-like wail. The songs are fast and extremely stripped down.
This release represents a revitalized MorA? after a string of average releases. Albini’s production makes the band sound a bit more strppied down and kinda like they’re playing in your living room. They are perhaps one of the most exciting and entertaining live bands around.
The JL’s worst album thusfar. Still it kix rox.
Jackie and the Cedrics are a surf revival band hailing from Japan. In addition to Jackie’s trademark hyperactive drumming, Rockin’ Jelly Bean’s pounding bass, and Enocky’s speedy guitar playing, the band has added a new organist for this recording, Tucker. The organ fits in great and the songs on this EP are as kinetic as anything they have put out in the past, and have a nice clear production quality.
This is a band lead by ex-Fink Chris Barfield. There a four neat instros on this single. They all have a Morricone feel to them because of the mix of acoustic and electric guitars. The record’s best song is their version of The Vice of Killing from For a Few Dollars More.
This is the bands first full length offering with their new drummer and it is their clearest sounding stuff to date. This is one band that isn’t helped by their past lo-fi sound. This pretty much follows the Henchmen’s formula here: organ driven frat-rock songs about cars and girls.
WOW!!! Neil provides the side-splitting fun on this awesome work of comedy genius. It includes his take on religion, birth, and the O.J. trial. Buy this record and send me any Neil Hamburger stuff you don’t want anymore!!!
Neil’s premiere long player is an instant classic. It’s much less off the wall (e.g. there’s no obvious laugh track) than his 7″ releases, and it works beautifully! The album’s highlights occur when he loses control of the crowd, his censored top ten list, the return of his zipper shtick, and the erotic hog dog vendor (a visual joke). What makes the album even more poignant is the fact that it was recorded during Neil’s difficult divorce, proving that laughter will cure all! NEEEEIIIILLLLL HAAAMMMBBUURRGGEEERRR!!!!!
Godspeed is, at last count, a ten piece outfit from Canada. This double CD plays like an epic soundtrack. The songs are rich in dynamics but are rhythmically quite trite. After about the first fifteen minutes or so, it’s pretty clear that (on this release at least) Godspeed is a one-trick pony. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a neat trick and, despite the fact that they come from the renegade U.S. province of Canada, I do recommend this album. Essentially, what they do is take four or five chords, repeat them endlessly, and gradually add more instruments until the song crescendos in a wall of sound, then begin removing sounds from the mix until they are back to quiet again. I have heard this band described as Phish for the punk rock set. I could picture a greasy-haired rocker with nerd glasses excitedly talking about how last night in Detroit they played a 40-minute version of the same song, but used a vibraphone instead of piano.
This debut full-lengther from Tucson’s the Drags clocks in at under 20 minutes. But this LP offers more in that scant amount of time than most big time rockers give us during their entire careers. Each song is a insane 3 chord punk blast. The bands best moments are “Who’s Got the Electricity” “Leopard Skin” and “Explosives” The song “Cannible” rocks so hard I’m willing to excuse their spelling of the word cannibal.