Cars Can Be Blue
"All The Stuff We Do" CD
Happy Happy Birthday To Me
Genre: indie pop
Omega Point
4707 N. Springfield, 2F
Chicago, IL 60625
USA
May 2006 |
Fresh from the Happy Happy Birthday To Me staple comes this cute but
daring pop band, responsible for this twenty-song, thirty-minute romp
that combines cheery music with some pretty raunchy lyrical fare.
Tullycraft and Boyracer come to mind as points of
comparison, with Cars Can Be Blue clearly putting melody and
silliness high on their list of priorities. The boy/girl dynamic (Nate
Mitchell and Becky Brooks) works well - both in terms of
musical fare and lovely harmonies - and the songs' simplicity is what
really makes All The Stuff We Do a charming release. The funny
"Dating Batman" is a particular favourite (infectious hooks back
clever lines like "met him last week at a superhero dance/he said I
can see myself in your pants/thought he'd have a better line than
this/but you can't say no to batman so I gave him a kiss"). Other
topics include the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (actually just
a cover of the theme song), unprotected sex ("well her figure just
keeps getting bigger/bigger every day/and i think maybe we gotta kill
that baby/before it gets in the way"), hippies, and even the mentally
ill. The words to the songs can be pretty damn offensive, but that
just helps make the zippy pop that extra bit more ironic. This is
ultimately pretty impressive music, and while it can often hit a few
sensitive spots (depending on your PC radar), it's all good fun if you
give your prejudices a toss out the door.
MP3s (from hhtbm.com):
Used To Think
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Fun Fact: The
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in a self-published
single-issue comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, who intended the
turtles to be a parody of comics New Mutants (about a group of
teenage mutants) and Daredevil (which was about ninja clans.)
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 20 tracks, distributed by
the label, released 2005] |