Red Forty

Okay there is lazy.. Then there is me when I am not in school / not working too much. I can't even be bothered to log onto my blog once a week to post music. I'd rather just sit at eat bagels and read comicbooks.
But I guess today should be a blog update day since it's been awhile and we dropped the ball on doing best of 2010. I'm going to start forcing myself to update at least once a week again. I've still got a mass of things uploaded to give to you.

Today I rediscovered Red Forty. Ben Nichol's project before going onto Lucero fame.. His much less known former band which is fairly much a Jawbreaker worship band. So automatic like for me clearly. Nasally whiny vocals about girls not noticing or wanting him, songs about wanting to be a cool guy, and more nasally whiny vocals. All backed by a great poppunk band. These songs are shakers with an energetic fun feel to them--until you listen to the vocals. It's like hearing a broken hearted highschool student get punched in the face by a girl in front of the class--Everyone is laughing but him.

Honestly I love listening to this and playing "pick the Jawbreaker album that influenced this one!"

In the end.. I sound like I'm just ripping on this band. Maybe I'm just bitter that I didn't see Lucero a couple of weeks ago because I was broke and had to work?
But really. I love this album. There is not a single track that I find weak and it does not feel like the boring same-old-same-old track to track.

I'm bummed I missed Lucero when he was here last, but what can you do?

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