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Remember the summer of yesteryear? When
you were cruising around blaring "Counting Blue Cars"
with the windows down? Well, Scott Alexander (Bass/Vocals), Rodney
Browning-Cravens (Guitar/Vocals), George Pendergast (Drums/Vocals),
J.R. Richards (Vocals/Guitars/Keyboards), and Jim Wood (Keyboards/Vocals)
are back with their sophomore effort, "And You Think You
Know What Life's About." Laden with melancholy, poor, poor,
deep and beautiful me type lyrics, and Euro/Manchester acousta-rock
melodies, "Dishwalla" offers up one fairly solid tune.
Unfortunately they recycle the same riffs over and over again
throughout the record.
In fact, there are exactly two original
songs on this record: "Stay Awake," which seems to
be "Dishwalla's" pathetic attempt at a gruffer, more
"rock -n- roll" sound, and "Once In A While,"
the record's single, which is moderately catchy and even kinda
cool in a mediocre kind of way. From there the record takes a
nose dive.
"Bottom Of The Floor," Healing
Star," "Until I Wake Up," "Star Day,"
and so on, all the way through to the record's end, borrows.
. .no steals the riffs found in "Once In A While,"
as if to say "hey if you don't like this one for a single
there are 10 more just like it but with different lyrics. One
has to stick right? Right? Please?????"
I mean come on, are we to believe that
perhaps this is some kind of recurring theme the flows from one
movement to the next in the great classical piece that is "And
You Think You Know What Life's About?" I think not. I say
this is a pathetic effort to cash in on an already dead career.
Sure the radio kids will buy in and eat it up because the DJ's
will spoon feed it down their throats, but the fact remains,
I call a spade a spade and a bad record a bad record.
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