Thursday, September 12, 1991
The Battalion
Page 11
^ Duckbills to play tonight
i n at AnNam Tea House
By Rob Newberry
The Battalion
ustin-based four-piece the
Duckbills perform tonight
ieswhoBt y.at AnNam Tea House. The
oup may lack a little on the mu-
-lebratfHical ability side, but their debut
[elease Remembering Spongecake
jhows that the band can make up
r it with truly hilarious humor.
Remembering Spongecake is very
uch a non-serious album. The
lopment cassette opens with the Prince-like
'd Cana "Obvious" (this has to be a take
tonear'ftff on "Kiss"), with singer Ben-
'arranza jamin McDonald crooning high-
iat isim : pitched vocals against a
' destraMlowed-down funk back-
of Mexi-fcound. Other songs on
[he album fall into the
The first time I listened to the
release, I paid little attention until
I hit the fifth song, "Pinchter."
Hearing this very low voice ex
plain his resort to childhood prac
tice cracks me up: "Then I caught
her stealing my cookies, so I
pinched her." The bass line on the
tune is perfect as well. After that,
I rewound the tape and listened a
little more closely.
The album is full of jokes and
wacky explanations, and the liner
notes as well, but the best songs
are saved for last. "Lil bit Girlish"
closes the album and pokes fun at
the slobs in front of the tube on
id entei- guitar-pop category, like
.m.. Pet'PHelen." But for the most
orieo dt part, McDonald's humor
id LaEs- (tarries the Duckbills' music well
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Anthrax combines rap,
heavy metal on latest
Continued from page 10
This Way", "I'm the Man" was
the first attempt for a complete
crossover between hard metal
and rap, recorded back in early
1987.
The new version updates
the song , bringing in the harder
drum and bass lines common in
today's hardline rap. It's good
to see that the song that gave
Anthrax respect in the rap com
munity is getting a much need
ed revamping.
After four years, the song
still holds as one of the best
white rap songs ever. Let's see
Vanilla Ice top this! "I'm the
Man" follows "Bring the Noise"
as one of the best cuts on the al
bum. The guys should really
think about releasing this as
their second single.
Back to some old material,
included here are two live
tracks from 1990s Persistence of
Time. Both "Keep It in the Fam
ily" and "Belly of the Beast"
benefit from the live treatment,
as anyone who's been to an An
thrax show can tell you. Need
less to say, these tracks rock,
and the live versions are a lot
rawer than the studio tracks.
These tracks, along with "Chro
matic Death" (a S.O.D. song,
and former theme to MTV's
Headbangers Ball) show that
the band has definitely not lost
their metal edge.
The two new songs on the
album, "Startin' Up a Posse"
and "N.F.B." are the funniest
and most cynical songs here.
"Posse" provides a tongue in
cheek acoustic ditty, using all
the words designed to get them
selves the coveted Parental Ad
visory sticker. As Steven Tyler
said, "It always guarantees a
few thousand extra sales."
"N.F.B." provides a typical
rock ballad. I'll let you figure
out the acronym. What's sur
prising here is that the song is
done with a fairly straight face.
Despite inane lyrics ("I never
meant to hurt you/ Or sleep
with all your friends.") the song
is exactly like the Poision-
slaughte-rnelson garbage that's
been giving metal a bad name.
And besides, don't we get
the same kind of lyrics by bands
doing this seriously? Apparent
ly the band wrote this song in
10-minutes to show how easy it
is, but the scary thing is that if
this was the next single it
would probably make the MTV
Top Ten.
In addition to these previ
ous tracks, cover songs ranging
from "Protest and Survive" by
early '80s hardcore band Dis
charge to "Parasite" on KISS'
"Hotter Than Hell " album and
you've got the key to this album
and Anthrax in general: variety.
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things...1 don't belch in public."
But the highlight of the album
is "Political," a song which should
close the band's perfor
mance tonight. After ex
plaining his crazy inspira
tion for a new message for
the masses, McDonald belts
out his visionary (ha!) phi-
'~ mm losophy: "I think apartheid
is bad...I think world peace is
good...I think starvation is real
the
the
bad..." To spew off the rest of the
lyrics would ruin the show, but it
definitely gets better.
The Duckbills have been in the
studio, hoping to release a follow
up in late October, and they plan
to play a showcase at the New
South Conference in Atlanta earli
er that month. Their humor has
won them a good-size audience in
Austin, and the show tonight
should be full of laughs.
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