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Funeral For A
Feeling
Kill Your Idols |
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Might this be the evil twin for "Hooked on a Feeling?" Not quite… but great title. The "funeral" for which they sing must be meant to pay respects to that last of a dying breed, something known as melody. And to you my friend I bid you farewell, at least for the next forty-five minutes! Not that Kill Your Idols can't be as musical as the rest of their peers-many of which might include the lesser-known but still viable Punk/Hard-Core variety, say of an H2O, Nerve Agents… C.O.C. in their youthful exuberance. And who do they think they're fooling with the open casket pic on the back cover anyway? So with seventeen tracks, expectations dictate each song should last for minute and a half bursts of bombastic shred and belligerent rants, which it in fact does… Not far-fetched either, as I reach again back to 1983 since I already kicked open the damned door anyway, but The Misfits, particularly in that rumbling, rhythmic repulsion sheathing off the guitar chords and those Hell-spawned backing vocs… These guys do things from the how I see the world perspective and from time to time raise the pitch to match the otherwise crushing volume level, but don't figure on feasting on blood and gore or anything of the gratuitously ugly extreme, these guys are strictly on the straight and narrow, with a few veer offs in between-"All The Difference," "This Is Not Goodbye… Just Goodnight," and their Poison Idea cover "Made To Be Broken" which for some odd reason features the lyrics, and cool song all the way around-catchy at first, then, like the rest of this high-speed wheel-spinning blur, it's all about makin' it out in one piece… Released by Side One Dummy Records Review by Vinnie Apicella
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