I have only ever listened to one MCR song
Before people Netflixed and Chilled, they Made Love and Listened to Death From Above...
Mind-bogglingly milquetoast guitar music with only the most vapid of lyrical pursuits. I do not know what you could get from this album that you couldn't get someplace else.
Superb. Cave has never bounced between the crass and sublime as fluidly and as well as he does here. I think it's the gospel.
So exciting, so groovy! I love this to bits. You can see the same incorporation of Latin-style rhythms that would become such a key feature of The Mars Volta in the future, too, which is great. Plus it seems like these songs are a riot to perform and to experience live.
Making an argument for this as one of the most overlooked albums in the great 'Indie Sleaze' pantheon. Datarock's first album was filled with silly innuendo-laden indie disco tunes which was charming enough but this takes the band's goofy wit and squares that with a newly-developed nose for great, succinct pop songwriting via some heavy influence from Talking Heads and Thomas Dolby amongst other 80s new-wave greats. Perhaps fans of their DIY debut may be turned away thanks ... read more
Man, it's just good. They say random shit. There's one lyric where he's like 'I was a sailor'. I really thought that was funny.