I Can't Eat This

Archive for April, 2010

Great Patti Smith cover here. Nice multicolored vinyl. Limited to 1,500 copies.

As I said in the last post: Not in the mood for writing.

This is the only Chemical People record I own. I never listened to one of their LPs. I just bought this piece because of the Patti Smith song.
After playing it four or five times, the first song on side 2 “Been Here” became my favourite one. It has such a simple, but nice’n'catchy poppy punky bassline, I really love that tune for!
I recommend to choose your favourite for yourself:

Ask The Angels
Been Here
Faust

This is the first Sloppy Seconds Record that was officially released in Germany. As the foldout cover says, it should have been a limited edition of 500 copies, but my copy isn’t numbered, so there will be some more out there.

I’m not really in the mood to write much at the moment. Maybe later.

I love Sloppy Seconds for their catchy melodies, this is poppunk as it should be.
If it comes to the lyrics…hm…let me call them “adolescent”.
Germany is just a “hate-my-ex-girlfriend” song,
The Men tells us that friends are better than girls (I think Mykel Board was it, who told us that beer is better than girls are, what should I believe?),
I Don’t Wanna… is about partying and
We Want Candy, which is my fave here, is in fact a cover of a Sammy Davis, jr. song called The Candyman. I think the lyrics of that song were not included in case of some copyright cases. But who cases…err….cares? Here they are anyway:

Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two…
The candyman, the candyman can,
The candyman can ’cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…

Who can take a rainbow,
Wrap it in a sigh?
Soak it in the sun and make the stra’bry lemon pie
The candyman? The candyman can…
The candyman can ’cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…

The Candyman makes
everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious.
Talk about your childhood wishes.
You can even eat the dishes!

Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream,
The candyman? The Candyman can, the candyman can…
The candyman can ’cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…
And the world tastes good
’cause the candyman thinks it should…

Here are the tracks:

Germany
The Men
I Don’t Wanna Take You Home
We Want Candy (a.k.a. The Candyman)