I like Ska. The problem with that statement, regrettably, is
\nthat I don’t really know much about the genre. I first heard
\nMustard Plug at a free concert when I was in high school (I’m from
\nthe greater metropolitan area of their hometown, Grand Rapids,
\nMichigan), and only (relatively) recently started listening to them
\nagain.<\/p>\n
There are a couple of problems with
\nBig Daddy Multitude<\/i>. For starters, it’s quite uneven. The
\nopening track, “Skank by Numbers,” is annoying at best and tedious
\nthe rest of the time. The standout tracks are clear at first listen
\n— “Too Stoopid,” “Murder in Tulip City,” “Mr. Smiley,” and my
\npersonal favorite track from the album, “Thigh-High Nylons.”<\/p>\n
The bass guitar is really the star of this album; the vocals are
\ndecent, the horns are alright but not amazing, and the guitar is
\npedestrian, but the bass guitar is mixed up loud and with a
\nbeautiful tone. Listen to “Thigh High Nylons” with headphones on
\nand see if you can tell me that you didn’t find that bass guitar
\nopening to be the greatest thing you’ve heard in a while. The thing
\nis, for all the beautiful bass lines, we’re still left with a jokes
\nthat don’t work and songs that fall flat.<\/p>\n
“Schoolboy,” “Ball Park Skank,” and “Average Guy” all try to be
\nfunny, but maybe the humor’s beyond me, because they didn’t impress
\nme musically or lyrically. “I Made Love to a Martian” – much like
\nthe rest of
\nBig Daddy Multitude<\/i> — is mediocre, not great.<\/p>\n
Overall, this is an album with a great deal of promise — the
\nproblem is, because it is so uneven and unfocused, it ends up being
\nnothing more than fodder for a greatest hits album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":26693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7017],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-37948","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mustard-plug","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37948","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37948"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}