TIGER UPPERCUT!

First: Great band name. Seemingly unrelated to NYC's Stupid Party. Potentially a Dead Milkmen reference; Probably not.

Second: I purchased this LP shortly before a DJ engagement with my friend Chris, who knows everything about music. I wound up playing a track off it, and he said "I was talking to (inaudible) about this record and he said it was terrible, but this is actually pretty good."

I couldn't hear who he was talking about because we'd both been drinking and the music drowned the name out. We ended up changing the subject. The song I was playing was the one that goes "I hate half of myself" over and over. It is, indeed, pretty good.



Third: I bet people who read a lot of Blender would compare it to the Faint or something like that. I'd guess I'd say something like Big Black or Suicide or even a less nu-metal Godflesh.

Fourth: I'm embarrassingly into the noisy, messy cover of "London" by the Smiths that closes out the record, but for both my sake (who wants to cop to liking a Smiths cover that much) and the band's (who wants to have a cover be the best song on the record), I'll call the "I hate half of myself" song the winner. The wackiness runs a little thick if you listen to the whole thing in one sitting, but I bet these guys are mostly in it for the free booze and getting a bunch of blacked-out people moving. They at least sound like they are.

Fifth: It was cool and oddly foreign to watch a video of this band playing live in Detroit and seeing people smoke in the club.

Bad Party on myspace. That song I like is called "1234" on there.