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In Too Deep Again The Spitfires |
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"Five years to prove myself but only one just to bring you down…" and so rages the chorus to "Something to Nothing," a self-help opening track for the criminally insane… "In Too Deep Again," words to completely avoid or live by depending on your warped sense of perspective. Wreck in perspective? Now how's that for a catchy title? The Spitfires are a throwback to Rock & Roll's stormy past, an anti-image crusade for bottle-poppers and stage-crawlers the world over. They've got guts, groove and about 101 proof flowing through the speaker cable! "Just My Luck" is the catchier follow up to the opener and with a little smoothing over might even be a viable radio hit… thankfully that's not gonna happen nor would ya expect 'em too… but it could've been in a music industry run by strapping young Devils in torn shirts and faded blues. Think back to what made groups like MC5 or The Stooges the influences they'd turn out to be and where Punk Rock first got its wings and haphazardly ruined the lives of corporate Rock raiders while fulfilling the wishes of individualist malcontents looking for their one true voice of dissent… These guys embody the underside of what Rock & Roll was always meant to be and why the term "Rock" fell out of favor for so many years. Ironically, now that it's made its way back to the faces of those who've worked so hard to avoid it, bands like this give it that extra nudge in furthering the hopes that one day mainstream music will take its rightful place buried somewhere deep in an Iowa cornfield where no one will ever again sing the praises of blue skies and boy band backsides. Now for those who really take pride in spitting, swearing and scathing about being a loser and how much high school sucks and simply love the deranged lyrical calling designed to do nothing more than raise the ire of those of the principled variety, get a load of "All Night Long," "One Last Time" and particularly "New Borns," and rejoice in the sleazy irrepressible and irresponsible voice primed to school the next generation of cut-offs, cut-outs and your basic everyday fuck-ups in general! Released by Junk Records Review by Vinnie Apicella
[va85@columbia.edu] |