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What the heck was I doing in the 80s?
I have to ask the question after discovering that all the tracks on
this album are covers of songs from the late 70s and early 80s. And
I'll presume they were reasonably popular, even if I don't recall
hearing them either at the time or since. Okay,
I
Melt With You showed up in one of VH1's "let's snark at pop
music" shows, I think the one about one hit wonders. But the joke of
taking all these songs from
Depeche
Mode and
The
Clash and
Dead
Kennedys and giving them the Sergio Mendes
Fool
on the Hill treatment is lost on me.
So what's left are sweet waifish vocals and a sometimes Bossa Nova beat
to lyrics that don't always fit that gentle treatment. (Case in
point: their surf guitar version of the Kennedys'
Too
Drunk To Fuck.) Proving yet again that if you don't get the
joke, most likely you are the joke.
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