Thursday, August 19, 2004

Can't Get It Out of My Head

BULLY by Sugarbomb

I never would have heard of this band except that Kelly and Jennifer, the bass player and his wife, are great friends of ours. Well, we're lucky on two counts because this is a great CD even without the friendship factor.

Bully is a great, hard-driving pop album with intelligent, tongue-in-cheek lyrics (that quality put me strongly in mind of Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth). You can pick out bits that sound like other bands (most notably the Beatles and Queen) but they are woven together to make Sugarbomb's own unique, infinitely listenable sound. The songs have great hooks and won't leave your head for days ... which must be why I have been listening to it at work, in the car, and, well, everywhere.

Sugarbomb never made another CD because the album release, which was poised to make them the darlings of the rock world including MTV features, was set for the day which we all know now as September 11. Needless to say, that threw a crimp in the works, and the band members went on to other projects.

As Rose said, "I'm glad that it didn't work out for the band because otherwise we wouldn't know Kelly and Jennifer but on the other hand ... I really wish they'd made another CD." Precisely.

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