posted 04-11-05 Spitalfield
- Stop Doing Bad Things
Oh, to be young and in a band. Doodling
band names and album cover art on the cover of your Trapper Keeper, and
rushing home from a long day of school to practice hitting power chords
and coordinating chunky skateboard shoes with your collection of thrift
store t-shirts. The Pop-Punk and Emo genres exist almost entirely for and
because of these kids, who throng the middle and high schools of our nation.
The music can be good or bad, the image is pretty rote, and a tub of margarine
is more �in your face� so it�s pretty safe for the parents as well.
The problem I have with this kind of music is that there is rarely anything
to bring me back, nothing that makes me want to spin the disc again.
The new release by Chicago�s Spitalfield is no exception. �Stop Doing Bad
Things� is a typical release of the genre, so much so, I doubt I could
pick it out of a police line up, but then, what are the chances these young
men are going to get into that kind of trouble?
Spitalfield doesn�t crank out bad music by any stretch, but I can�t call it Punk either in sound or ideology. Spitalfield hovers closer to Post-Punk work of bands out of DC and Chicago (who were probably influential), but lack the artistic adventurousness. It wasn�t for me, but if your parents threw away your new 50 Cent record, give it a go. It�s a kinder, gentler, sort of rebellion.
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