Voted Dallas’ best new act of 1995 by the
\nDallas Observer<\/i>,
\nREO Speedealer<\/i> (the band changed their name to Speedealer)
\nis a blasting jolt of punk and trash rock. From the reviews of
\ntheir live shows, this is one of those bands where you either
\nimmerse yourself in the pits and get worked by a bunch of rabid
\nfans or you utilize your remaining brain cells and find a place to
\nsee the carnage all while nursing gin and tonics.<\/p>\n
But that’s live. And I can’t fight this feeling any more… this
\nalbum sucks. Sure they’re loud, and sure, I did get a chuckle out
\nof seeing some of the song titles. “Wow! They actually had one song
\nclearly marked on this album, ‘Double Clutchin’ Finger Fuckin’,” I
\nexclaimed to my roommate. But that novelty usually runs its course
\nafter a few minutes. Songs like “Crank Bait” and “Cocaine Dave”
\nbasically speak for themselves.<\/p>\n
True to the punk form, most of the songs on their self-titled
\nalbum run under three minutes. The songs are also fairly
\nindistinguishable. The songs may be high energy and may be a blast
\nto hear at one of the shows when you’re too trashed to care what
\nthey’re plaing as long as you can mosh into a couple of
\nunsuspecting victims. But an at home listening experience is
\nanother issue.<\/p>\n
When you’re listening to this at home, all you’re reminded of is
\nhow there’re so many other bands out there that do the same damn
\nthing as REO Speedealer. Most of the bands may be playing at your
\nlocal tavern right about now. So do yourself a favor, save the cash
\nand show some love to your local music scene.<\/p>\n
As for Speedealer, changing the name of the band may mean the
\nfirst stab at trying to establish yourself as a fairly legitimate
\nmusical talent. Maybe they’re taking the route to success as the
\nReplacements did (release a couple of unlistenable albums then get
\na rhythm going and write decent songs). But right now,
\nREO Speedealer<\/i> can be left on the shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7398],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-38977","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-speedealer","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38977","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38977"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38977"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}