Teen Machine After School Special in flac - Covers are included
A1 Bitchin' Camaro A2 I'M Gonna Steal Your Girlfriend A3 Training Wheels A4 Sugarland A5 Pop Stars A6 Hot Mom B1 Demolition Girl B2 Sissies B3 Does Your Mother Know? B4 The Ballad Of Cosmica The Space Girl B5 Yummy Yummy Yummy B6 School's Over
The name of the band and the title of the album pretty much say all you need to know about this groovy Hollywood side project. For those who were born and grew up in the 1970s, watched Saturday morning cartoons religiously, sported feathered and blow-dried hairdos, wore tube tops or half-shirts, and swooned or danced to Shaun Cassidy records around the family hi-fi, After School Special is a fabulous flashback to a golden pop past. After School Special is certainly knowing and ironic, but it sounds much more like a loving tribute, a joyous celebration of everything that made and still makes the music of the 1970s so campy cool. Teen Machine makes no musical judgments. The band throws every '70s genre into the same pot, and treats it all with the same adoration. Glitter rock, bluesy boogie, bubblegum (a cover of the Ohio Express classic "Yummy Yummy Yummy" is included), power pop, and disco -- even the Laurel Canyon sheen of Fleetwood Mac from time to time -- all make appearances on the album, although the band leans most heavily on the shining guitars of power pop and the thick beats of glam. The songwriting duties are shared by Fuzzbubble main man Jim Bacchi (who is probably the band's pseudonymous lead guitarist El Diablo) and lead vocalist Cody Jarrett, and the co-ed septet also includes members of Dig and Felicity cast member Amanda Foreman, one of the trio of female background singers dubbed the cartoon-like Tube Tops. Their LP collections seem to all have the same records in common: Sweet, T. Rex, Kiss, Cheap Trick, the Partridge Family, the Brady Bunch, Leo Sayer, and Elton John. ~ Stanton Swihart
6 comments:
This is a great, great album. I spin this constantly.
"Hot Mom" should have been as big a hit as "Stacy's Mom" was...
Thank you very much Ratboy, fantastic post.
Very good power pop glam. Never heard before. Thank you very much RatBoy.
This is fun stuff, a swirling pastiche. Thanks.
Great album, but has been released in 2000 already (different cover).
Been looking for this album EVERYWHERE, I appreciate what you've done man. Thanks a lot, sincerely.
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