THE KIND OF PERSONALITY TYPE THAT SAM MCPHEETERS HAS, HAD HE BEEN BORN 20 YEARS LATER, WOULD PROBABLY HAVE HIM AS AN ALT-RIGHT KIND OF GUY. THE KIND OF PERSON INTERESTED EQUALLY IN POLITICS AND PROVOCATION IN A GLEEFUL ABSURDIST SENSE. THE LEFT DOESN'T REALLY HAVE THAT THESE DAYS. THE LEFT HAS GUYS WHO DUNK. MCPHEETERS IS A SMART-ALEC ASSHOLE. THERE'S NO DENYING IT. EVEN NOW HE'S A NOVELIST HE CONVEYS THIS.
NOW THIS ISN'T A DISS. YOU NEED AN ASSHOLE OR TWO ON YOUR TEAM. SOMEONE TO LOUDLY SAY THE THING THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED OF THE REPRISALS. A GOOD QUALITY ASSHOLE CAN TURN THAT ASSHOLERY INTO ART WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. ENTER MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT.
I MEAN THESE DO NOT SEEM LIKE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TAKING THINGS
SERIOUSLY. AND YET THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT BASRA AND KHARTOUM AND
ZANZIBAR. THERE'S REFERENCES TO MOSSAD, THE SEPHARDIC PEOPLE, AND
TUNISIA.
I LIKE SAM'S NEXT BAND WRANGLER BRUTES QUITE A LOT AND HIS OLD BAND (FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THIS RECORD) BORN AGAINST ARE VENERATED IN THAT SCENE (NOT MY CUP OF TEA). THIS WAS AN ELECTRO-ROCK PERIOD BETWEEN THOSE TWO BASTIONS OF PUNK ROCK IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE.
THIS IS SURPRISINGLY LOW KEY AND DEMOCRATIC FEELING. MOODY AND SYNTH LED. GUITAR AS ACCENT. MOST MCPHEETERS BANDS ARE DOMINATED BY HIS BUG-EYED YOWLING. I DOUBT LOTS OF MONEY WAS SPENT ON THE INSTRUMENTS BUT THERE IS A STRANGE AND MOSTLY SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO CONVEY SOME ASPECT OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
INTERESTING THAT THIS CAME OUT IN 2000, BEFORE 9/11 AND AT A TIME WHEN IN THE MASS VIEW IRAQ WAS OVER AND DONE WITH. A GOOD USE OF ASSHOLERY.
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