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What’s up Sorry Skaters?
It’s my last week of my spring semester for welding school and we’ve been cleaning up the shop. I’ve been listening to more egg punk while grinding and cleaning the work tables and blocks and something about being in a shop at like 2:00am using power tools and hearing an ocean of loud industrial noises while blasting The Coneheads just fits, at least for me. So I’m going with LP1 aka 14 Year Old High School P.C.-Fascist Hype Lords Rip Off Devo For The Sake Of Extorting $$$ From Helpless Impressionable Midwestern Internet People Punks LP by The Coneheads for my staff pick this week.
The other day I was blasting this in my office at work and Usman walks in and stops by the door, maintaining a wide-eyed stare and a limp-like posture almost as if he was frozen in time. We begin the stare battle and he starts flicking the lights on and off to the rhythm of the fourth track called Hack Hack Hack. For a few brief moments we transcended time and space and entered the realm of the Coneheads. A place outside reality, existence, and even Twitter. I love me some egg punk, but the Coneheads are on their own plane. Here are the lyrics to Big City Baby. “I’mma big city baby & I gotta fade, When I lived in the suburbs I got all A’s, Now I’m in the city and I feign dumb when I wax intellectual ‘bout suburban scum, I got a big city baby she’s just like me, we both listen to the Smiths ain’t that interesting? Were two big city babies don’t believe in love, I’mma true post modern urban transplant scrub, I’mma big city baby.” I’m here for it.
With how chaotic the music sounds on the surface, the members actually show how musically knowledgeable they are with super catchy and original chorus parts and some really solid bass lines. They also do a lot of fun and abrupt rhythmic changes, but it never seems over the top cause that can get old quick.
There is a phone number on the lyric insert 1(708) 846-9494.
I haven’t tried it yet, but you should.
That’s all I got for y’all today, keep rockin’ and for heaven’s sake go listen to THE CONEHEADS!