Shinola, to me, is an album that was intended to keep the fans, including me, somewhat happy until a new album is released. Putting out an album of unreleased material is somewhat strange in my opinion because I'm always thinking to myself, "It had to be 'unreleased material' for a reason". The album has a few skippers in it, including "Tastes Good On Th' Bun", "Big Fat Fuck" and "Israel". They're not necessarily bad songs but they have that novelty quality to them as many of their songs do; especially in the earlier albums.
There are some good songs on this album but nothing that blew me away. From the Beatles/Grateful Dead sound of "I Fell In Love Today" to the song that seems like they found in Prince's throwaways "Monique The Freak", the album is average. I would have given it a six out of ten if the band's name didn't happen to be "Ween". How's that for bias?
Highlights-I Fell In Love Today, How High Can You Fly
Low Points-Israel, Monique The Freak (I know Emily will disagree with this one)
By the way, just check out Paula Abdul on American Idol sometime and look at her eyes. I don't know if I recall seeing anyone look as high as she does.
1 comment:
It saddens me that you think so little of me that I would actually like that song. P.S. Why don't you blog anymore?
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