Boy Toys review Sinister Urge Blog by Tyrone Taylor:
This a review for The Boy Toy’s new 45 Girls Like You on Spin The Bottle Records.
Some of you may remember them as Ryan Pitts & the Boy Toy’s. No longer now just the Boy Toy’s. According to Pitts he had pissed off so many venues that he wanted to drop his name so people thought it was different band. They are a perfect sound if you are looking for a 60’s pop mixed with early power pop. Taking influences from the Undertones, Paul Collins Beat, Elton Monetello, Dictators, Kinks, Searchers, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Exploding Hearts, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Nobunny, etc………………
The side A tracks are Girl’s Like You and I Want You.
Girl’s Like You is a really catchy tune. It’s a anti love song. Talking about being with the wrong type of girls. It’s just a reminder of getting stuck with the wrong girls can happen over and over again.
I want you!!!!! This is a great a sing a long song a real crowd please live. This one is about finding the right one and really letting them know. It’s really good 50’s / 60’s dance groove. Kinda like a Gino Washington song if it was slowed down.
The B track is Black and Blue and Grey. This another great romantic song from the Boy’s. Starting out with great lyrics ” I could give you diamond rings but that’s not what you want. You want the other things” A song about trying to be changed by your significant other. Making you look a fool.
As you can see most of there songs are all about Life, Love, Heart Break.
The is a highly recommended 45.
My rating 10 out of 10 if you like Nobunny, Paul Collins Beat, Hunx and His Punx, Milk And Cookies, Sweet Sixteens,King Khan BBQ, Gino Washington, Kinks.
From Smashin' Transistors-
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009
the SWEET SIXTEENS "She Said Alright" 7inch EP
This is the now sound that all the teen's are going nuts too. The thing is though that it's a thrift store now sound and it's the teens of Mars that are bugging out to it.
"Sixteens Theme" blast off to the stars where DEVO uses the Nuggets boxset as a template but then a South City-like budget rock sound of yore comes and gum's up the works. Wobbly samples, b-movie space organ, snot nosed singing sounding like it's recorded in the middle of party where the snack bowls are filled with Shock Tarts. "She Said Alright" jumps all around in a Chuck Berry damaged Ramones working at the carnival where they found an organ player who only knows how to play thing on the BLARE setting.
The other side's "When The Sun Comes Up" is a much different change of pace from the other two blasts of outerspace RAH! RAH! RAH! Tick tocking rhythm, light strummed and hardly distorted guitar. The lyrics could actually be introspective but I doubt it because it drips with smart ass-isms. Young Marble Giants without Alison Stratton recorded an unreleased single for Rip-Off? Nah, maybe not that much but don't be surprised if the Sweet Sixteens actually toyed with the thought.
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LABELS: 7INCH, INDIANA, SPIN THE BOTTLE
SWEET SIXTEENS
Lafayette’s Sweet Sixteens have just released their debut 7″ on Toronto’s Spin the Bottle Records. Nobunny-esq ragers on the a-side (you know - Ramones riffs + drum machines + trashcan production) and a slow jam on the b-side. The party songs are awesome - “Sixteens Theme” featuring party-blowers, “She Said Alright” works on getting the blood going, though it is the lament - “When the Sun Comes Up” - which features the prominent use of the “March” rhythm on a Casio-SK1, is the highlight here. If you love Nobunny, Romanc Novels, Eric and the Happy Thoughts and Hunx, there is no reason why you wouldn’t love this too
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From Smashin' Transistors-
Not to be confused with the Georgia band with the cool haircuts of a similar name-this Austrian (not to be confused with Australian) d
uo make quite a no frills so turn it up as loud as it'll go rock-n-roll commotion.
'Taco Show' is full of unwashed guitar buzz anchored by a neck snapping beat while a raw throat shouts adulation for one of the things that is imperative to any trash rockers diet-tacos. The greasy and unhealthy the better-so these two pull off the lettuce, tomatoes and whatever other intruding vegetables that might be on them, throw them on the ground (Who needs to use a trash can bin anyway? All they do is cause more work for the rats that come out at night just looking for a meal...after all, rat's gotta eat too, right?) then go stand up the grease dumpster to gobble them down while the following tune, 'Washing Machine', in all it's Brides/Teengenerate ill-mannerism has gotta be the muddiest dirt blast around about getting something clean around.
'Get Out Of My Life' and 'Lock The Door' share the b-side and are of the same rock-n-roll scuzz the other two songs sounding like some of the high points of the long gone Crypt and SFTRI era with a mashing of the Spaceshits more 50's-ish smash-up's and the going off the rails engine block explosion of a lost Dirtys track.
http://www.myspace.com/beatbeat With the trash-rock aesthetic reaching it's peak of effectiveness in the late 90s, it's with great reluctance that the genre will ever cough up another stellar addition to its filthy annals, especially anyone from the already terribly trashy area of Los Angeles. So it is with much hesitance that the doors to the budget rock phenomenon are forced open just enough to allow
Der Submarine Racers access to the 5 karat gold-plated kingdom previously held up by the likes of the Rip Offs, Mummies, Spoiled Brats and Supercharger. This debut 7' by Der Submarine Racers (the hilarious polar opposite of Chicago's
Submarine Races) on the party-crashing
Spin The Bottle label came waltzing through our stained-glass office doors with the cocksure confidence of
Elka Zolot holding hands with
Shane White, and within seconds of the title track's speaker-crunching racket soaking into our soft-boiled brains, we deducted that it's back-to-basics lo-fi scree drizzled over a glowing hot plate of noisy repetition that will suck you in faster than a South City streetwalker with a nervous tic. 'Space Burrito' may be a metaphor that you're just not quite used to using yet, but once you incorporate it's mild retardation into your amateur comedy routine, it's all gravy from there. What exactly is a Space Burrito? It really doesn't matter unless it causes convulsions similar to Der Submarine Racers' shit-fi template of aural vomit, and after you hear it only once, just like 'The Macarena' and 'Pac -Man Fever' before it, the song will be stuck with you forever. As they wash away your sins with lavish layers of luxurious scuzz, Der Submarine Racers fill your head with visions of food-stained underwear tied around your head while trying to drive a car with a broken windshield in the rain, or more explicitly, the exuberant collision of fun and disaster. The b-side's 'Skatebored' continues the tradition yet doesn't stick to your ribs the way 'Space Burrito' does, but after that, what else could really matter? This is hopefully the first batch of lots more to come from these LA loozers, so don't dick around and pick up your copy right
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From TERMINAL BOREDOM..... Der Submarine Racers 'Space Burrito' 7'
I can't not use the word retarded in this review, so let's just get that out of the way. 'Space Burrito' takes the fun-loving and fidelity-hating ethos of the Boom Boom Records camp on a trip to the punk side of town. Awesome guitar crunch-punk that exhibits no garage tendencies. Recorded super raw and super loud. 'Skatebored' is not quite as catchy as the A-Side (how can it be catchier than a song called 'Space Burrito' though) but is a little meaner. Think Nix or Spits but even more balls-out and gonzo. Ham-fisted guitar hammering, vocal yammering, totally over-the-top nutzoid approach to music that can only result in something as ridiculous as this. I can't believe someone wrote a song called 'Space Burrito'. Fuck. You probably need to hear it to believe it. For morons and fans of morons (that's an endorsement, by the way).(RK)
(Spin the Bottle Records // myspace.com/spinthebottlerecords) From Art for Spastics:I remember the first time I heard 'Space Burrito' by Der Submarine Racers because it provoked such a fit of hilarity on my part; I'm pretty sure that was the last time that my drink came out through my nose. For all I know, this record and a Reed's Extra Ginger could do more harm to your mucus membranes than a sack of speed. It's been a year since that first listen on MySpace, but now the record's finally here, and the joke is still plenty funny. Just think if Darin had svengalied a budget-rock band led by Gilbert Gottfried instead of The Donnas..that's pretty close to Der Submariners' ballpark (I feel dangerously close to a Dan Quisenbury joke). Trashed-out, ultra-adenoidal, snotty, and fun. From TERMINAL BOREDOM..... The Horribly Wrong 'Bleeding for You' EP
Nice little five song blast from these Bloomington (right?) kids, played hard and fast in the trash-rock tradition of such other Midwestern 'here today, gone tomorrow' faves like the Problematics, Brides, Mighty John Waynes, and others. 'Do the Move', 'Blood Up to my Waist', and 'Aiming for You' are hits to be sure. Obscure and unheard shit that I'm glad to see get released. The most impressive thing here is that these guys sold 300 copies out in less than a week, which goes to show what you can do with a limited press single and a few well-placed message board posts. Looks and sounds great. More people should be doing this! Scum stats: 300 total, 100 on red wax with the 'Am I Bleeding?' sleeve, and 200 on black wax with the 'This reminds me of the Fun Things sleeve' sleeve. Nice hand-screened and hand-cut sleeves, with insert.(RK)
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Hollywood 'Big Mouth' 7'
This is actually Hollywood's first record, preceding the Big Neck 7' reviewed last time around. The sound on this one is totally shit-caked, far worse (meaning better) than on the other EP, and it works out for these Baltimore cats. It sounds as if the tape is just gonna disintegrate at any second. 'Big Mouth' is good and all, but only the second best cut here. It's as if these dudes took the best crunchy-burly parts of The Mistreaters and combined it with the best sleazy-trashy parts of The Candy Snatchers. It's a potent combination. But the real treat here is 'Human BBQ' on the B-Side. It's all balls. Total wall-of-noise at times, just sopping with static and feedback, heavy drum motivation, sick tricked-out vocals....double-tracked sometimes, sometimes delayed almost just a little too much, where it sounds like they're struggling to catch up for a neat effect...nothing too subtle though, just really brutish mash-and-crash that makes you wanna throw shit around. I love it. Their best song out of both records. Try some of this shit out, I think a lot of you will be surprised. Scum stats: 500 copies, black vinyl, with insert, two-color sleeve with more off-putting artwork. I think these guys are on to something here...(RK)
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Fashion Fashion and The Image Boys 'Pussy Stretcher' EPSecond-and-a-half single from the ugliest band in the US. This one is actually better than their debut platter on Florida's Dying. Their scuzzy Dwarvesian chainsaw punk attack is pretty well honed on this, and tunes like 'Scissors Jihad' and 'White Bitch' should get your adrenalin rising a little. If you like what the Brutal Knights are doing, there's no reason you shouldn't like this in some way. Don't hold the fact that Derek Lyn Plastic is in the band against them. Really exceptional sleeve design. (RK)
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