The
only good bug is a dead bug. If I sound
cliché, then that’s too damn bad because it’s the truth. While I am fully aware that bugs serve
purposes such as being food for other living creatures (Frogs do eat flies), I
will never understand why some of them have to exist (How about more flies for
food and we do away with mosquitoes?) and basically they are just pests more
than anything else. So yes, I do
subscribe to the somewhat overused theory that the only good bug is a dead bug
(And that actually happens to be the name of an album by CurlUpandDie, but that’s
another story)
On “Of
a Feather”, which seems like a reference to birds more than bugs, Dead Bugs
comes off sounding like a variety of things that I don’t like or have simply
heard too much in the past and even recently, yet when all of the sounds are
squished together they make something that I do enjoy listening to with ease.
Although
it is not strictly, it does have a singer/songwriter vibe (Screw you, it’s
still a genre) and that brings out some of the better known names in that
category right down to the lesser known which go all the way across the board
from Ben Kweller, Bright Eyes, Homage to Catalonia, Daniel Johnston and even
The Get Up Kids in some twisted way.
These
songs also somehow throwback time to reflect an era when music was not as crazy
and we had guys going around playing songs like Bob Dylan and Neil Young. My dad grew up listening to Buddy Holly and
that era of music, but he truly feels after the folk and Americana styles of
Dylan and Young, rock n roll died in a lot of ways. Dead Bugs, though, seems like something
that would be well suited for him.
This
also has that sort of bedroom quality to it where I can only imagine that it
sounds just perfect on cassette.
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