Artist: Big Drill Car
Album: CD Type Thing
Release: 1989
Label: Cruz
Tracklist:
1. 16 Lines
2. Clamato #11
3. No Need
4. Brody
5. Green Fields
6. Diamond Earrings
7. Reform Before
8. Head On
9. Swanson
10. About Us
I post this record not just because it's been inexplicably out of print for ages, or just because I love it. Type Thing is a feel-good record of pop-punk songs about friends and girls and love that reeks of the sunny California the band called home, and now is the perfect time to jam it. Not just because I swan-dived into four days of death metal at Maryland Deathfest VIII, but because it's summer, dammit.
The band hung around with other groups in the early-90s-dreadlock/long hair-pop-punk crowd-- aka labelmates All and good buddies and ICDT faves the Doughboys. And like those bands, their exuberance and humor shines through almost effortlessly. BDC took the All formula of propulsive bass lines, catchy guitar riffs and a fairly nasal singer belting honest lyrics and added their own touches. Vocalist Frank Daly's pipes simply soar well beyond the abilities of Scott Reynolds or Chad Price, especially in tunes like the classic "In Green Fields." Bob Thomson's bass playing gives the songs plenty of bounce, and sometimes Mark Arnold likes to add in tasty lil' solos to add fun touches to the bite-sized (only one is over three minutes!) songs on the record.
Use this album to have some fun. I'm trying to...full-time job starts Monday. Yay real world!
Download Here
-Asa
Album: CD Type Thing
Release: 1989
Label: Cruz
Tracklist:
1. 16 Lines
2. Clamato #11
3. No Need
4. Brody
5. Green Fields
6. Diamond Earrings
7. Reform Before
8. Head On
9. Swanson
10. About Us
I post this record not just because it's been inexplicably out of print for ages, or just because I love it. Type Thing is a feel-good record of pop-punk songs about friends and girls and love that reeks of the sunny California the band called home, and now is the perfect time to jam it. Not just because I swan-dived into four days of death metal at Maryland Deathfest VIII, but because it's summer, dammit.
The band hung around with other groups in the early-90s-dreadlock/long hair-pop-punk crowd-- aka labelmates All and good buddies and ICDT faves the Doughboys. And like those bands, their exuberance and humor shines through almost effortlessly. BDC took the All formula of propulsive bass lines, catchy guitar riffs and a fairly nasal singer belting honest lyrics and added their own touches. Vocalist Frank Daly's pipes simply soar well beyond the abilities of Scott Reynolds or Chad Price, especially in tunes like the classic "In Green Fields." Bob Thomson's bass playing gives the songs plenty of bounce, and sometimes Mark Arnold likes to add in tasty lil' solos to add fun touches to the bite-sized (only one is over three minutes!) songs on the record.
Use this album to have some fun. I'm trying to...full-time job starts Monday. Yay real world!
Download Here
-Asa
6 comments:
"Sixteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiines!"
Love this shit. Guitar harmonics all over this!
Wore out my dubbed copy by 1993. Glad this is back.
It ain't winter this side of the globe but god knows I could do with something cheerful! Thanks.
I only liked two songs off this record when it came out (swanson and green fields) but i REALLY liked them. Used to see them and Down by Law and Chemical People in L.A. way back when...I only own LP Type Thing...so thanks for the MP3 Type Thing!
Thanks!
Any interest in this vinyl? My record player has been Gone for years, and although I LOVE this record, I am trying to gauge interest if I put it up on eBay....FYI thanks for the mp3s.
Scott - email us! Asa definitely wants a copy. Thanks for the heads up!
-Adam
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