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Rode Hard and Put Away Wet

Diesel Boy

 

Catchy opening track, somewhere between the smoother edge of Punk and raspy Pop/Rock… definitely potential here-"Boxers or Briefs," hasn't that lyrical build up I was hoping to see where it derived from but a cool song nonetheless.

They're sound is every bit the Northern Californian variety, not in the Hard-Core sense but more in line with the NOFX types, blending cool melodic lines and edgy vocals with streamlined measures and simple beats-and they're not without that so important degree of humor, if the opening tune was any indication.

The album title's not quite what you might think… then again it might be. I know I've heard it before somewhere else where the expected sexual connotations did exist in fact but whomever did do it before must have made it pretty unmemorable.

I'd suggest Diesel Boy, here with their fourth release, might just go a little bit further from this point on.

Who's this "Honest Don" guy anyway-sounds like a square dealer anyway, this record doesn't sound even the least bit used!

Other tunes you'll wanna crack a smile and a whip at include "Emo Boy," "Dog on the Tuckerbox," (huh?) and "About a Girl Who Don't Want Me," for the commentary alone-at least following along this stage of apparent development within the song listing here, not exactly what they're saying but more like what they meant when the tune's were written-but then again, what do I know?

"Pocket Full of Stars" is another… oh, okay maybe they are doing the lyrics I see written after all. Who cares anyway, I'm digging the stuff-its very tight and very little audio modification seems to exist-it's pretty close cut, intense and damn near pretty in as much as we'll classify Punk music.

These guys are way out there-lookin' at their cover photo, they look like they hold second jobs at the local bowling alley when they're not writing intriguing, disturbing and wholly humoristic doses of personal reality that seemed from one time bore from beneath the big top… solid new release even if a little drippy at times.

Released by Honest Don's Hardly Used- Recordings

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]