\nA Jackknife To A Swan<\/i> is pretty
\nun-ska<\/i>. They’re busy writing songs about Mafiosos, and the
\nwhole affair sounds more like anthemic chorus-metal to me. The
\nhorns do come up from a triangle in Bermuda to affect the choruses,
\nbut the band seems sick of all that silly skanking business. Good
\nfor them, but we’ve got this whole Bosstone legacy to put to bed,
\ndon’t we?<\/p>\n
The up-strokes on the guitars framing “Everybody’s Better” reach
\nartificial realms previously populated by Rancid whenever they dug
\nout riffs from their earliest incarnation. This is well done, but
\neven smelling salts won’t revive ska now. Save Ferris proved
\nthat.<\/p>\n
These guys have more in common with metal than ska — at least
\ntheir rhythm section does. Dicky sounds like he’s taking vocal
\nlessons from Lee Ving and David Lee Roth these days too. GG Allin
\npops by on the weekends to show him how to properly shit blood as
\nhe croons. “Chasing The Sun,” their most “traditional” song, still
\ndidn’t really get much further than The Bunker Hill Bandits, an
\nunknown garage band who admitted to stealing their best ideas from
\nbands like Operation Ivy and The Voodoo Glow Skulls.<\/p>\n
I remember when the Bosstones brought out that catchy track
\nabout never having to knock on wood. Great song. In fact, just
\nmentioning the thing brought it back on a loop in the jukebox
\nplugged into my skull. “\u2026but I know someone who has. Makes
\nme wonder if I could\u2026”<\/p>\n
I liked the dusty-alleyway-Tom Waits-isms of “Seven Ways” the
\nbest this time. They ended the affair with it, but I was just
\ngetting interested at that point (a budding new direction?). That
\nwasn’t ska either! Lose the ‘Mighty’ before your name, the
\nuber-ska, generic ‘Tones’ bit, and just let Dicky sing about
\ndefiling the nearest crucifix with those palm-muting guitars.<\/p>\n
To quote Emerson: “Keep it real, aight?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6871],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-37639","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-mighty-mighty-bosstones","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37639"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}