SOUNDTRACK: DANKO JONES-Never Too Loud [US edition bonus tracks] (2009).
I reviewed this disc a few posts ago. Since then the disc has finally been released in the States. And, naturally, since I bought the import version there are three bonus tracks added on this one. The three tracks are “My Problems (Are Your Problems Now);” “Sugar High”; “R.I.P. RFTC”
The tracks aren’t radically different from the rest of the disc. However, the first track is notable for having a lot of backing vocals (yeah yeahs and other things). It’s a bit weird. As is the fact that the song sounds less bass heavy than most of their other songs–it’s still loud, but it seems a bit tinny.
The second track “Sugar High” sounds like Danko for a kids show. In just about every other song I’ve ever heard that was about “sugar,” the sugar was a metaphor for sex. And yet, this song’s chorus quite proudly proclaims, “ice cream cakes and candy cars, I’m the kind of guy who likes a sugar high” and “cotton candy and caramel I’m that type of guy.” It’s almost too comical to be considered a real song, and yet it rocks really hard. Some cartoon absolutely needs to use this song in its soundtrack.
The final song is about Rocket From the Crypt, obviously. It’s also the first Danko song where I’ve had a hard time deciphering all of the lyrics. But, suffice it to say that it’s a blistering fast track about the sad news that RFTC broke up.
Just three more interesting reasons to track down the CD now that it’s available in the States.
[READ: November 6, 2009] The Apocalipstix
The premise of this graphic novel is that a nuclear explosion has hit the U.S. Our heroines are a kick-ass band comprised of three women (like Josie and the Pussy cats only really bad ass). And despite the global destruction, they are still going to play their gigs. Call it the “End of the World Tour.”
The main characters are: Mandy, a bad-ass black woman on guitar and vocals; Dot, a rather sweet (until she’s pushed) blonde bombshell on bass, and Megumi, a Japanese cowgirl (!) on drums who is mostly silent (she speaks Japanese) but who is very intense.
There are three short stories in this volume. (more…)
SOUNDTRACK: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN-The Good, The Bad & The Queen (2007).
Once upon a time, Damon Albarn was just the singer from Blur. This was long before he became a multi-band, genre-hopping, composing man about town. Blur were a fun, poppy band who wrote fun poppy hits and sort of bubbled under in the U.S. until they hit it big with “Song 2” or the Whoo Hoo Song, if you will. I think that “Boys and Girls” or is it “Girls and Boys” from one of their earlier albums was a minor hit here. At least that’s how I first heard of them.
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