yayhoos
gotta love this e-commerce shite. a week ago i pre-ordered the new yayhoos alb, put the hammer down. on tuesday, the _very day_ they said it was shipping (altho the website said it's not "officially released" until june 20th, by which time i'll prolly have worn all the li'l 1's and 0's offa my copy) it showed up in the mailbox at la casa.
these guys take their sweet-ass time in between releases (debut cd fear not the obvious was all the way back in 2001), but when they make a rekkid, they make a goodun. if you like rootsy rawk that sounds like what the exile on main st. stones and sloppy-drunk faces might have if they were real rednecks and not brit posers, with four, count 'em, _four_ top-flight lead singer-songwriters in the lineup (altho they're smart enough to give most of the lead voxxx this time out to dan baird, the epitome of the kind of south-of-the-mason-dixon 'meercun cat that britfops like dick dagger and yankee wannabes like steven tyler made all that money pretending to be), chances are better 'n good that you can't live without this.
lots to like here, from terry anderson (pride of bunn, north carolina)'s "all dressed up," a toon in the grand old style redolent of the spirits of ronnie lane and every picture tells a story; baird's "would it kill you," which recycles the signature riff from humble pie's version of "four day creep;" the high-fuckin'-larious band advert "anything / everything;" and the self-explanatory "gettin' drunk."
lots more acoustic stuff here than on the first alb, as well as poppy toons like producer-gtrist-bossman eric "roscoe" ambel's "hurtin' thing." most affecting moments are a coupla writing collaborations: anderson/baird's "right as rain" and "between you and me" by ambel/anderson/baird. among the covers, the o'jays' "love train" doesn't really work for me, but "roam" does in the same way as, uh, "dancing queen" did on the first alb (and cuts the b-52s' version to shreds imo, altho i'm highly biased -- i'll take gritty rawk over glossy pop most days). hopefully we won't have to wait until 2010 to hear bassist keith christopher's take on the lovin' spoonful chestnut "you didn't have to be so nice" on shiny silver disc.
these guys take their sweet-ass time in between releases (debut cd fear not the obvious was all the way back in 2001), but when they make a rekkid, they make a goodun. if you like rootsy rawk that sounds like what the exile on main st. stones and sloppy-drunk faces might have if they were real rednecks and not brit posers, with four, count 'em, _four_ top-flight lead singer-songwriters in the lineup (altho they're smart enough to give most of the lead voxxx this time out to dan baird, the epitome of the kind of south-of-the-mason-dixon 'meercun cat that britfops like dick dagger and yankee wannabes like steven tyler made all that money pretending to be), chances are better 'n good that you can't live without this.
lots to like here, from terry anderson (pride of bunn, north carolina)'s "all dressed up," a toon in the grand old style redolent of the spirits of ronnie lane and every picture tells a story; baird's "would it kill you," which recycles the signature riff from humble pie's version of "four day creep;" the high-fuckin'-larious band advert "anything / everything;" and the self-explanatory "gettin' drunk."
lots more acoustic stuff here than on the first alb, as well as poppy toons like producer-gtrist-bossman eric "roscoe" ambel's "hurtin' thing." most affecting moments are a coupla writing collaborations: anderson/baird's "right as rain" and "between you and me" by ambel/anderson/baird. among the covers, the o'jays' "love train" doesn't really work for me, but "roam" does in the same way as, uh, "dancing queen" did on the first alb (and cuts the b-52s' version to shreds imo, altho i'm highly biased -- i'll take gritty rawk over glossy pop most days). hopefully we won't have to wait until 2010 to hear bassist keith christopher's take on the lovin' spoonful chestnut "you didn't have to be so nice" on shiny silver disc.
posted by stashdauber at 8:20 PM
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right on right on!
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