Why Are You Dressed Like Gene Simmons?
by C-Manster
Think of this CD as a inside joke that you are in on, set to a funk rhythm. Some of the highlights for me are Chicken Stix, Can’t Lick It, Bucketman, Too Many Words, Blue Velvet Pig Mask and Lay Wid It. But every song on the disc exudes something like the Average White Band meets Weezer, meets Curtis Mayfield, meets a sledge hammer.
And when was the last time you heard a happy record? One where you find yourself smiling during every song? Either the groove is so amazingly cool you can’t stop your head from bobbing or because you listened to the lyrics are got the joke. Is it irony? Satire? Sarcasm? The juxtaposition of all three? I really don’t know, all I know is I like it. Give me more.
Yet, I can’t help but feel these songs are also written as a homage to funk masters of the 70’s, Parliament/Funkadelic, Ohio Players, James Brown. It’s almost as if the kid in the movie “the New Guy” grew up and found a record label. Somewhere in America there's an afro wig in a closet.
Still, there is the reflective. In Bucketman, the Drool Brothers remind us “All those things cost money, money we ain’t got. There’s more important things in life than trying to be what you’re not.” Kinda fits things today, don’t it?
Or in Too Many Words, “Conversation is a prison, when no one wants to listen. Too many words, not enough ears.” Yes. We all have two, but somehow there are not enough ears to go around.
Buy this CD if you like creativity, something completely different than the usual, if you’re ready to get funky, if your ready to smile. Be ready to ask yourself why doesn’t anyone else do stuff like this? Maybe they need to dress like Gene Simmons…. (wink)
