I know I'm in danger of inviting unkind comments from the Grateful Dead faction of the SPGB, but I just had to add this as the profile song to the Unofficial Socialist Standard MySpace page.
What's not to like? The vocal is reminiscent of that Joan Jett song which was used as the theme song to Freaks and Geeks, the guitars are crunchy*, the lyrics are suitably snotty and like all good garage-rock songs it bows out just under the two minute thirty second mark. Add in a few yelps - there aren't enough yelps in songs, IMHO - male backing vocals that sound like the O'Neill brothers in their Undertones heyday and you're laughing.
According to their MySpace page, the various members of the Saturday Night Things have been in 1001 bands before this one, operate out of Brooklyn, and that means I've probably passed the bass player on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope and secretly sneered at him for being a hipster.
But that is enough about my psychological shortcomings; check out 'Female Trouble', strike up a grin and the Deadheads amongst you can find the mute buttons on your computers.
*Yes, I know I have an annoying tendency to describe any and all guitar based songs that I like as "crunchy", but what do you fucking expect? I'm not the love child of Lester Bangs and Charles Shaar Murray for Chrissakes!
4 comments:
You probably meant Williamsburg, not Park Slope.
Nah,
there are also hipsters in Park Slope. You just have to keep an eye out for the Ruts T shirts in amongst the baby carriages.
Now that I think about it, I think the Saturday Night Things sound a lot like the Rondelles. Have you heard of them?
They were a three piece out of Albuquerque who released an album on Smells Like Records - Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley's record label - in the late nineties.
You should check them out. They were really good.
You think you're cute, don't you?
What did I say?
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