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So-called because of the two bonus tracks that surfaced on this reissue of Fat, specifically the two sides from the group's original single, "Ride the Wild"/"It's a Hectic World." Aukerman hadn't joined the group yet, while the music is actually gentle, surf-inspired power pop more than anything else. "Ride the Wild" is a classic enough lament over a lyin' girl with Navetta's semi-tremolo twang doing what it can, vocals left down in the mix. "It's a Hectic World," meanwhile, is even more explicitly surfy in ways, but with a nervous, flat new wave edge to it as well -- not quite Devo if they grew up on the coast, but there's something to that comparison. ~ Ned Raggett
Recording information: Music Lab, Hollywood, CA.
Personnel: Milo (vocals); Frank Navetta (guitar, background vocals); Tony Lombardo (bass); Bill Stevenson (drums, background vocals).
Personnel: Milo Aukerman (vocals); Frank Navetta (guitar); Bill Stevenson (drums).
Descendents Bonus Fat Songs Purchase Bonus Fat CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Descendents Milo Goes To College CD (1982)
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$11.89 With 15 tracks in 22 minutes, the Descendents ...
| | Descendents I Don't Want To Grow Up CD (1985)
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$13.65 What's to be expected given the title track, with a hilarious 'nyah nyah!' line on top of the chorus! Give a closer ear to the song, though -- where the reason not to grow up is that it might "mean being like you" -- and the band's core message of having fun and dealing with things as best one can in a stupid society is still there. When the four want to be straight up and perfectly poppy, they can and do with smashing success, with surprisingly mature, emotional lyrics and playing that doesn't rely on all-speed all the time. "Can't Go Back" is a great lost power-pop classic, with some of Aukerman's best singing, a wonderful chorus ...
| | Descendents Enjoy CD (1986)
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$12.29 Even as the band underwent changes in sound and membership, some great tunes that are central to the Descendents' pantheon were recorded. "Kids on Coffee" reiterated the loud-punks-on-caffeine jitteriness of the first album, and "Sour Grapes" is a story of the ever romantically frustrated geek as he tries to pick up ...
| | Head Automatica Popaganda CD (2006)
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$12.49
| | Say Anything In Defense Of The Genre CDs (2007)
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$11.29
| | Saves The Day Under The Boards CD (2007) With DVD
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$13.05
| | Cristy Lane One Day At A Time (EMI Special Markets) CD (1978)
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$5.25
| | Michael Zager Dance Collection CD (2006) (Import) Canada
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$18.35
| | Dexter Gordon Cute CD (2003)
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$16.05
| | Rand & Holland Tomorrow Will Be Like Today CD (2004) (Import) Germany
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$16.55
| | Scott Mckenzie Superhits CD (2005)
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$8.79
| | O A O T 'S Typical CD (2005)
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$10.69
| | Think Of One Trafico CD (2006) (Import) Digipak; Belgium
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$16.39 Finally, after seven albums beginning with 1998's Juggernaut, Flemish avant-world funksters and rhythm-aholics Think of One have an album distributed in the United States (thanks to Crammed and Rykodisc): 2006's Tráfico. For those unfamiliar with the band's wanderings, Think of One are apt to turn up recording with indigenous musicians practically anywhere on Earth, from the Equator to the Arctic. Chuva em Pó, released in 2004, was the first fruit of the band's sojourns to Recife, capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco and home to Afro-Brazilian musical and performance forms like maracatu and forro. The Belgians, led by guitarist/vocalist David Bovée and including saxophonist Eric Morel, bassist Tomas de Smet, trombonist/tubaist Tobe Wouters, and drummer Roel Poriau, were joined by vocalists and percussionists from the region, notably singers Dona Cila do Côco and Cris Nolasco, and the result was one of the band's finest records to date, combining the influences of Antwerp and Recife in a successful blend of rhythm, atmosphere, and sonic adventurousness. For Tráfico, Think of One returned to Recife and continued their collaboration with area musicians, including Cila do Côco and Nolasco. The disc is a worthy follow-up to Chuva em Pó, perhaps a bit more pop-influenced as Bovée -- balancing nonchalance and edginess rather like Kevin Ayers in the age of caffeine -- and the other vocalists sing of such topics as an uncomfortable barroom atmosphere, waiting on a terrace for a girlfriend who will never arrive, a sea goddess, selling items in a marketplace, and a man who falls into a shellfish tank (it helps if you can understand Portuguese, French, or the Flemish Dutch dialect).
It's sometimes a crazy mix of stuff, as when the horns kick out the theme to Bonanza over a churning rhythm during "Tahina," which also features call-and-response chanting vocals between Cila do Côco and the background singers before the energy level is ratcheted up to near punk levels fueled ...
| | Gabriel Lyon Rising From The Dead CD (2008)
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